Work

The Conscience of the King

James Blish · 1967short story

More like this

A touring Shakespearean troupe's star draws Kirk's suspicion: he may be Kodos the Executioner, the governor who ordered a starving colony's citizens culled twenty years earlier, and as surviving witnesses begin dying, Kirk must confirm the actor's identity before more blood is spilled.

Summary by Loreful, from public sources

Placement