"That Which Survives" (season three, episode seventeen; production code: 069; 24 January 1969): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: "That Which Survives" is an O.K. episode, though Captain Kirk & company complain repeatedly about the impossibility of the small planet they are visiting—it's too young to have the atmosphere & vegatation that it does—but it takes them far too long even to speculate that it might be a constructed planet, which it turns out to be. Both Kirk & Spock are incongruously short-tempered & sharo-tongued throughout, & Spock once again demonstrates his unsuitability for command, despite his towering intellect.
Doctor M'Benga returns, another physician aboard the Enterprise, having debuted in "A Private Little War" (season two, episode nineteen). M'Benga also mentions a Doctor Sanchez, who is conducting an autopsy on a slain crewman. It is unclear is Sanchez is specifically the ship's pathologist.
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