| abstract | - Dr. McCoy interrupts a fencing practice between Kirk and Sulu, nearly getting struck in the head when the foil flies out of Kirk's hand. McCoy tells them he's worried about Scotty, who hasn't been himself since picking up a package on Space Station K-12. Kirk and McCoy go to Scotty's quarters and find a drunken chief engineer clutching half of a pendant in the shape of a broken heart. Scotty tells them he has received word of a death in the family: his wife's. Kirk, shocked because he never knew Scotty was married, asks when they married and when Scotty's wife died. Scotty opens a box containing a medal with a cluster of ribbons, an Enterprise pin, and a holophoto of his wife, Glynnis Campbell, as a young woman. He places both halves of the broken heart pendant inside, telling Kirk and McCoy that he and Glynnis were married about five years before the Enterprise's second encounter with Khan, and that Glynnis died in a shuttlecraft accident while Kirk's senior staff was in exile on Vulcan. Kirk remembers meeting Glynnis fifteen years earlier on a visit to Beta Nirobi II. Scotty says Glynnis left everything to her sister except for the pendant. Scotty lies down, and Kirk and McCoy leave him alone with his thoughts. Weeping, Scotty gets up and opens the box again. Holding the halves of the pendant together, he thinks, "Ah'll love ye ferever, Glynnis Campbell. Ferever."
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