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Requiem for Methuselah | Flint's stunt double |
Desperate to find the cure for a plague that threatens to wipe out the Enterprise crew, Kirk rushes to Holberg 917G to find supplies of ryetalyn, a key ingredient of the cure. On beaming down the landing party are confronted by a Human who orders them to leave his planet. Kirk manages to convince him to help them, and the man, Flint, takes them to his nearby home. His beautiful ward, Rayna, is immediately attracted to Kirk and he to her, much to Flint's displeasure. Whilst waiting for McCoy to process the ryetalyn Kirk discovers that Rayna is in fact an android, one of many which Flint has been working on as he perfects the technology. Flint reveals that he is an immortal, born over 2,700 years ago. Over the course of his life he has used many aliases, including Brahms and da Vinci. Unwilling to watch his partners age and die, Flint has avoided relationships but has been terribly lonely as a result. He has embarked on the project to build Rayna so that he would have an equally immortal partner.
Kirk and Flint fight over Rayna, but their combat provokes her to emotions she is unused to and she is overwhelmed, destroying her mind. A devastated Flint releases Kirk and his officers with a plentiful supply of ryetalyn. With the plague cured, McCoy reveals that his tricorder readings of Flint show that he is ageing normally, apparently a result of his leaving Earth's environment. After he leaves, Spock mind melds with the sleeping Kirk and urges him to forget. |
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The Savage Curtain | Kirk's stunt double |
Abraham Lincoln appears flaoting in space before the Enterprise (!). Understandably surprised, Kirk accepts the former president aboard the ship and gives him a guided tour. Lincoln invites Kirk and Spock to beam down to Exo III, a planet utterly hostile to Human life except for an unexplanable "oasis" spot on the surface. The invitation is accepted, and the officers beam down. They are met by an Excalbian, a silicon being who informs them that his people wish to investigate the Human concepts of good and evil to discover which is stronger. The good are to be represented by Kirk and Spock, Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan; their evil opponents are Ghengis Khan, Kahless the Unforgettable, Zora and Colonel Green. The aliens threaten to destroy the Enterprise in a matter of hours unless Kirk wins the battle. The two groups skirmish on the surface, improvising weapons from whatever materials are to hand. Eventually Kirk and Spock manage to prevail, and the Excalbians release them and free the Enterprise to continue on its way. |
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