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''Spock Must Die!'' is a novel based on the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: The Original Series''. It was published in 1970 by Bantam Books, and was the first original novel for adults based on the series. The only previous works had been comic books, short-story adaptations of the television episodes and the children's book ''Mission to Horatius''. The novel details the creation of a tachyon copy of Spock to investigate the destruction of the Organians; without the intervention of the Organians, war erupts between the Klingons and the Federation. Confusion about the two Spocks allows the new Spock to defect to the Klingons. With the war going badly for Starfleet, the ''Enterprise'' travels to Organia to investigate. The novel was written by James Blish, who had written the adaptations of the television episodes. Blish wanted to kill off the popular Spock character to surprise readers. It was the only original novel for adults based on the franchise until 1976's ''Spock, Messiah!'', and was reprinted numerous times with different covers. It was included in 1978's ''The Star Trek Reader IV''. Critics reviewing the novel shortly after its release praised the book as a good example of character duplication in science fiction, but later reviews were mixed. Criticism was directed at the character viewpoints presented in the novel, and later reviewers were less enthusiastic about the work overall.〔〔 ==Plot== Doctor Leonard McCoy and Engineer Montgomery Scott discuss McCoy's fear of the transporter. McCoy posits that an original person is killed upon dematerialization and a duplicate is created at the destination. Scotty explains that the technology converts matter into energy, transmits it and reassembles it into the same original object, but McCoy is not convinced and he wonders what happens to the soul in a transporter beam. The conversation is interrupted by the news that the Organians appear to have been destroyed by the Klingon Empire. The Organians had been enforcing a peace treaty between the Klingons and the Federation. The ''Enterprise'' is currently a long way from Federation space. As they journey towards the Klingon neutral zone, Scotty tinkers with the transporter. He develops a method to make a temporary tachyon copy of a crewman that could be transported a much greater distance than the standard range of a transporter beam, enabling the ''Enterprise'' to place an agent on Organia long before the ship could reach the planet. Spock is chosen, but a permanent duplicate is created unexpectedly upon transportation—something at Organia has functioned as a perfect, impenetrable mirror for the tachyons. When the duplicate returns, the crew is confused by the two Spocks. The two Spocks are psychically linked, and the original determines that the copy is acting as an agent for the Klingons. After faking a mental breakdown and barricading himself in sick bay, the copy escapes on a shuttlecraft. (The copy had needed time and facilities to manufacture chirality-reversed amino acids. He had undergone a total left-to-right inversion, down to the atomic scale; to survive, he had to include the inverse forms of amino acids in his diet.) The ''Enterprise'' receives communiqués indicating that the war is going badly for the Federation. Arriving at Organia, the crew are affected by a powerful mental disturbance centered on the planet; the effects are worse for Kirk, Scotty, and Spock when they transport down to the planet surface. Kirk identifies this Spock as the duplicate. Realizing their danger via the psychic link, the real Spock arrives on the planet and saves Kirk and Scotty by killing the duplicate. They discover that the Organians are not dead, but imprisoned; however, the Organians report that a thought-screen device, deployed there by the Klingons to block the Organians' powerful mental abilities, would ultimately destroy their race. Scotty disables the Klingon device, freeing the Organians and disabling the thought screen around the planet. In retaliation, the Organians imprison the Klingon race on their homeworld for a thousand years. The ''Enterprise'' departs and continues on its five-year mission of exploration. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spock Must Die!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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