A variation on this story was the plot of the very first Star Trek novel: Spock Must Die! (I think there is a beaten up copy buried in my old closet at my moth

A variation on this story was the plot of the very first Star Trek novel: Spock Must Die! (I think there is a beaten up copy buried in my old closet at my mother's house, from when I was a boy.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die!