Stardate 2712.4: The Enterprise receives a message from the famous archeologist Dr. Korby, who happens to be Nurse Chapel's fiancé and who was believed to have died on Exo III. After they have beamed down, two security officers are killed by a tall android called Ruk, while Korby and his assistants Brown and Andrea capture Kirk and Chapel. Korby uses abandoned alien technology to create androids to populate the galaxy with the goal to create a better society, beginning with Kirk whom he tries to replace with an android. Eventually the man who calls himself Korby turns out to be an android himself. But the Korby android has to recognize that his mission has failed, and that he is not superior to human beings. He kills himself and his assistant Andrea.

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