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<TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="4" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'The Mark of Gideon'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">by George F. Slavin<BR>and Stanley Adams</TD>
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The <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> is despatched to the planet Gideon, in the hope that its inhabitants can be persuaded to join the United Federation of Planets. Gideon appears to be a utopia: its totally germ-free environment means that the people are healthy and no one ever dies. The Gideon council reluctantly agrees to allow Captain Kirk to beam down to their council chamber for talks; but when Kirk fails to arrive, the council refuses to allow any more of the ship's crew down to the surface, not even a search party. Meanwhile, Kirk finds himself aboard a completely deserted <I>Enterprise</I>, but can find no explanation for the mysterious disappearance of his crew. After encountering a beautiful woman named Odona, Kirk looks out of one of the ship's portholes, and is astonished to see countless faces pressed up against the ship. Kirk realises that the <I>Enterprise</I> he is currently aboard is a fake, constructed on the surface of Gideon. When Odona then becomes ill, she reveals the Gideon council's plan: using Kirk's blood, she has been infected with Vegan Choriomeningitis, a disease which the captain once contracted but was able to recover from. However, the infection is now fatal, and the Gideons hope to spread it across their overcrowded world to reduce the massive population...

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William Shatner (<B>Captain James Tiberius Kirk</B>), Leonard Nimoy (<B>First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock</B>), DeForest Kelley (<B>Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy</B>), James Doohan (<B>Chief Engineer Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott</B>), Nichelle Nichols (<B>Lieutenant Nyota Uhura</B>), George Takei (<B>Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu</B>), Walter Koenig (<B>Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov</B>), Sharon Acker (<B>Odona</B>), David Hurst (<B>Hodin</B>), Gene Dynarski (<B>Krodak</B>), Richard Derr (<B>Admiral Fitzgerald</B>)

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<BR>17th January, 1969

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<BR>*Featuring Captain James Tiberius Kirk, First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock, Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu and Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov

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