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| • | "This Side of Paradise" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It was first broadcast on March 2, 1967 and was repeated on August 10, 1967. The episode was written by D.C. Fontana and Nathan Butler, and directed by Ralph Senensky.
Quick Overview: The Enterprise visits a planet, where the inhabitants are kept in check by some strange plant life.
On stardate 3417.3, the Enterprise arrives at Omicron Ceti III, where a Federation colony has been in place for several years. The planet however, is known to have been showered by Berthold Rays, a deadly form of radiation which causes severe tissue damage within a few weeks of exposure. To make matters worse, there has been no communication with the colony for quite a while. The Enterprise's sad mission is to retrieve the colonist's remains and their equipment.
Captain Kirk, along with Dr. McCoy, Mr. Spock, an a few other crewmen, beam down to the planet's surface and make the startling discovery that the colonists are still very much alive. The crew is greeted warmly by Elias Sandoval, a farmer who assures them that there have been no problems other than a faulty communications system. They encounter another colonist, Leila Kalomi, who was a love interest of Mr. Spock's six years earlier back on Earth. At a loss to explain why these people are still alive, Dr. McCoy arranges to do medical exams on a number of the colonists while other crew members search the vicinity for answers.
The puzzle deepens as McCoy finds all colonists in flawless, textbook perfect health, and although medical records indicate that Sandoval had his appendix removed, it is discovered he now has a fully functional appendix. Another discovery is that there is no animal life present, no livestock, no birds and no insects. Sandoval explains simply, "We're vegetarians."
As Spock is searching the surrounding area for clues, the lovely Leila meets up with him and agrees to show him how the colonists have survived. She takes him to a place where there are strange flowers that shoot a puff of spores at him.
Being, half Vulcan, Spock doesn't normally express his emotions, but moments after expos
Source: [wikipedia: this side of paradise (tos episode)]
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