"So what is it, McCoy?" Mitchell asked, the Vulcan alongside.
"My initial examination had nothin'." McCoy started.
"Nothing?" Mitchell raised an eyebrow.
"And then I did the autopsy," McCoy said. "The chemical one, first, before the internal and external autospy. Turns out he has lost all his salt."
"Fascinating." Spock said.
". . . Salt?" Mitchell said, looking over to the doctor with a raised eyebrow. "I do not understand."
"Salt is very vital to the human body," Spock said. "In fact, its needs to constantly replace it when the human body excretes it in the form of sweat and makes up approximately 0.4 percent of the bodys weight."
Mitchell's face turned into realization.
"He could be perfectly fine pullin' the worst trick on the book and walk right out here if he had salt in him," McCoy gestured over to Darnell's body. "It is like a octopus wrapped itself around his head and left the marks of their suction cups behind. I can't explain away the strange markin's on the body," The doctor looked over toward the Vulcan. "If you have any suggestions, Mr Spock."
"A octopus would be the logical culprit but that is illogical and it cannot withstand being outside of the water for long periods of time." Spock said.
"So there is a living,humanoid version of a octopus walking the sands of M-113." Mitchell said.
"Well, yes," McCoy said, going with it. "A sea creature."
"I like mysteries but this one does not start to make sense!" Mitchell said.
"Perhaps it does not have to make sense," Spock said. "Six days, four hours,thirty-two minutes, and three seconds ago come across a species calling themselves centaurs on The Galavant planet with the bodies of a horse and the torso of a human in the place of a horse head. Two days, four hours, thirty minutes,and four seconds later we met a species called the Galezeloritians being a hybrid of human and spiders strikingly similar to the Galavantarians."
Mitchell rubbed his chin.
"Perhaps . . ." Mitchell said. "Mr Spock, you have the bridge, Doctor McCoy and I will go down to retrieve the Craters. There is a threat down there and whether they like it or not, they cannot be on the planet surface."