The Starship Enterprise arrives at the Planet Deneva where Captain James T. Kirk is looking forward to a little personal time with his brother Sam and Sam's wife and son. But it turns out the planet and its people are under attack by some strange collective parasite intelligence which attachs itself to people and forces them to their will under duress of great pain if they don't.
William Shatner's brother died from it and his sister-in-law and nephew are still in its grip. Also Leonard Nimoy is attacked by one of the parasites himself and functions under great pain.
It's a medical problem that DeForest Kelley diagnoses. But surgery is too complex and to have a whole planet undergo it is time consuming and not terribly efficient.
Nimoy proves a useful guinea pig for an experiment that Kelley conducts as to the cure which I won't reveal. But the risk might be genocide on a planetary scale and Kirk is truly reluctant to take that on as a responsibility.
Another episode involving the strain of command and the choices a commander might have to make. These parasites apparently have been making their way through space and it's a question of preventing this from spreading to places like Vulcan and Earth.
Shatner handles it well and Kelley is a good doctor.
William Shatner's brother died from it and his sister-in-law and nephew are still in its grip. Also Leonard Nimoy is attacked by one of the parasites himself and functions under great pain.
It's a medical problem that DeForest Kelley diagnoses. But surgery is too complex and to have a whole planet undergo it is time consuming and not terribly efficient.
Nimoy proves a useful guinea pig for an experiment that Kelley conducts as to the cure which I won't reveal. But the risk might be genocide on a planetary scale and Kirk is truly reluctant to take that on as a responsibility.
Another episode involving the strain of command and the choices a commander might have to make. These parasites apparently have been making their way through space and it's a question of preventing this from spreading to places like Vulcan and Earth.
Shatner handles it well and Kelley is a good doctor.