Stardate 5906.4: Just as the Enterprise is going to leave the orbit of a seemingly uninhabited planet with a surface of molten lava, "President Lincoln" requests to be beamed aboard. An area with breathable atmosphere forms on the planet, and Kirk and Spock beam down with Lincoln. On the planet, an indigenous Excalbian stone creature declares that Kirk and Spock, together with the "good" Lincoln and Vulcan philosopher Surak, have to fight against the "evil", namely Genghis Khan, 21st century warlord Col. Green, the ruthless scientist Zora from Tiburon and the Klingon villain Kahless. Surak and Lincoln are killed, but Kirk and Spock manage to defeat the villains. The fight served the sole purpose to explain the concepts of good and evil that the Excalbians do not know, but they are disappointed that they saw no difference under the given circumstances.

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