- On a planet of intelligent plantlike creatures, the clone of a human scientist clones Mr. Spock for use in a galactic peace mission.
- On the unexplored planet Phylos, Kirk's landing party discovers as entirely plant-based civilization. The Phylosians claim to be peaceful, and readily cure Sulu of an accidentally received fatal sting, yet they ruthlessly abduct Spock as part of a plan by their adopted leader, a human giant from the eugenics wars. Spock will die without intervention, with all galactic civilizations falling under threat of domination to soon follow.—statmanjeff
- On the unexplored planet Phylos (a new planet at the periphery of the galaxy), Kirk's landing party discovers as entirely plant-based civilization. The life readings on the planet are confusing and one particular building has a majority of the energy activity. The building is designed to defend and protect the city.
The Phylosians claim to be peaceful (led by Agmar), and readily cure Sulu of an accidentally received fatal sting (from a native mobile Retlaw plant who was following Sulu ever since he landed). They are botanical beings, intelligent plant life. They are technologically very advanced. The beings use 70% of their brain and have a fear of aliens. The being tells of a humanoid who came to their planet and brought disease which wiped out their ancestors, so that only a few survived.
They ruthlessly abduct Spock (through flying plant based dinosaur type creatures) as part of a plan by their adopted leader, a human giant from the eugenics wars. Stavos Keniclius 5 orders Kirk to return to his ship without Spock, which Kirk does in view of the tactical situation. On the ship Uhura figures that Stavos was a scientist on Earth, who wanted to clone a perfect specimen and use that introduce a dominant DNA strain in the population to develop a master race. His plans were deemed inhuman and he was evicted from society. Kirk reckons he has been cloning himself for the last 250 yrs (which explains why he called himself a 5). Now, Spock is that specimen.
Kirk tests his weapons by firing his phasers at the planet, but they are ineffective. He asks Scott to create a special equipment to disburse plant killing weed spray. Spock will die without intervention, with all galactic civilizations falling under threat of domination to soon follow. Kirk, Sulu and McCoy beam down and Scott takes the Enterprise out of orbit to give the impression that the humans have given up. Kirk investigates and finds that the Phylosians were an advanced race and had built space ships before Stavos arrived. The Phylosians were planning to launch their space craft and invade the galaxy before the disease decimated them
Kirk abducts Agmar, who reveals that he is the last of his kind, and there will no more as their spores have been destroyed. His species is counting on Spock to carry on their work. Agmar takes Kirk, Sulu and McCoy to an underground cavern where Stavos has cloned Spock (a giant Spock 2) and is putting Spock's consciousness into it. Kirk attacks with a weed spray to kill the plant based guards protecting Stavos's lab. They pull the original Spock, but his mind has been drained by Stavos's machine, so that it too can be duplicated into the clones.
Kirk challenges the clone Spock to discuss the logic of killing the original. Meanwhile Uhura calls on the communication and informs Kirk (And Spock 2) that in the later yrs Stavos wanted to create the perfect specimen (an army of duplicate Spock's) to achieve peace in the galaxy. Kirk tells Stavos that there has been peace for over 100 yrs. He asks Stavos to reverse the effects of his machine and revert Spock's consciousness into the original. The duplicate Spock is convinced and uses the mind meld to transfer his consciousness back into the original Spock. The Original Spock suggests that Stavos 5 and Spock 2 remain Phylos to figure out a way to regenerate the Phylosian race.
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