Uhura and the Xeno-Psychologist
Starfleet Medical, in their infinite wisdom and against McCoy's vocal objections, assigned a xeno-psychologist to assess Spock's readiness to return to duty after the Admiral Marcus events where Spock witnessed Jim Kirk die.
Kirk did return from the dead but Starfleet wanted proof of Spock's space-worthiness.
McCoy contacted Spock's pediatrician Kofi M'Benga, pre-eminent Vulcan specialist and McCoy's former partner, to get help explaining to Starfleet's high-ranking idiots that no psychologist could possibly understand how Spock handled the telepathic loss of 6 billion Vulcans or the death of his best friend. McCoy contacted Dr. Benjamin Uhura, galaxy renowned xeno-psychiatrist and Uhura's father, in the hopes that his off-world contacts might put pressure on Starfleet Medical to back off.
In the end McCoy was reduced to a private meeting with Spock and Uhura in a local bar to warn them. To the best of his abilities, McCoy prepped them for the long list of intrusions on their privacy. Uhura suspected something worse when the cashier refused her credits; McCoy covered the tab - a man who'd been run off Earth by debt to four ex-wives. Confronted by Uhura's narrowed eyes, McCoy confessed his biggest failure: due to a shortage of licensed psychiatrists of any type at Starfleet Hospital, McCoy could not prevent Spock's case from being assigned to the worst xeno-psychologist on Earth, Patricia Midlin. Former patients often abbreviated her title from "psychologist" to "psycho".
Midlin, considered barely competent by many in the field and xeno-phobic by some of her former patients, caught the assignment because she was the only mental health expert available with any training on Vulcans (said training involving one week of a two year internship on Vulcan where she offended so many Vulcan Healers that Starfleet removed her from the Vulcan Medical star base). Despite this setback, Midlin considered herself an expert on Vulcans. She had plastic surgery on her ears to better "empathize with her patients' otherness". Her quarters were legendary for their clutter of Vulcan fakes and knock-offs that she posted pics of online. Midlin stalked a succession of Vulcan Federation delegates until Sarek quietly had her banned from the Embassy.
Few Vulcan marital prospects got within shooting range of her tender trap after the cataclysm. Population pressure forced her Vulcan dating victims to focus on creating full Vulcan babies. Except Spock, who would never produce full Vulcan children because he was half-human.
Midlin wanted Spock.
The relationship between Spock and Uhura had not been a true secret for some time. Their roles - particularly Spock's - in saving Earth twice and contributing to the miraculous resurrection of one James T. Kirk meant that Starfleet treaded lightly on censuring two heroes from their flagship. Barnett, head of Starfleet, made only one request: he asked Spock and Uhura to defer their Terran-style marriage until much further in the future. Their bond was a matter of legal and medical record and had been since their post-Nero medical leave.
Dr. Midlin could NOT have unintentionally avoided knowledge that Spock and Uhura were bonded. Dr. Midlin's mediocre medical skills might relate to her inability or unwillingness to actually read her patient's medical records. Midlin did not want to know about Spock's bond.
So McCoy informed them that this necessary evil had to be successfully addressed: Spock's return to the Enterprise depended directly and completely on convincing Dr. Midlin of his fitness for duty.