Free!

LeClerc made as if to sit up, but McCoy reached across and placed a restraining hand on her shoulder. "Take it easy for the next hour or so, Ensign," he said.

"Ensign, what can you tell us about your... parasite?" Spock asked.

"Not a lot really, Mr Spock. Over the last week or so, it began to influence my thinking more and more, until it reached the point when it was totally in control. I felt that I was trapped in the back of my mind, a helpless observer."

"Doctor McCoy, now that you've seen that what the women are carrying are not in fact foetuses in any normal sense of the word, but rather are maggot-like parasites, do you any longer have any scruples about killing the creatures?"

"No, Spock, I don't. But how can we kill them without harming the women?"

"That is something that I hope to find out from:

1. "Examining the creature that you removed from Ensign LeClerc."
2. "Talking further to the Ensign."
3. "Carrying out that mindmeld with Nurse Chapel."

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