Please note I have TWO named security officers, one of whom ,at least, is reknowned for getting his men back alive. I have no intention that being a security officer in TTL means that you have a big target painted on your chest and back. As to dedicated away teams surely that depends on what they're doing. You wouldn't need an excess of security personnel visiting Vulcanis but you would visiting Kh'Onnos.
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In real life of course they would. In a 60's tv show where you keep using your main stars- no way. Thats a nice side effect of the transporter it screens out anything little nasties etc.(the biofilters)
However if it uses the original pattern as a screen why doesn't it also repair injuries?
However if it uses the original pattern as a screen why doesn't it also repair injuries?
Except it doesn't, see Shades of Grey (TNG, S2.E22).
Because it's a finicky crap-shoot? Also, I'm pretty sure that the transporter should not be capable of producing duplicates (Riker again), unless it can create them out of raw matter, in which case they should have realised there was about 70 kg off mass missing from somewhere.
Umm or as a macro project? maybe including a Crossover with Perry Rhodan? that would be possible.
The problem would be budget..maybe as a full German and French production, or German and British one and later cross the pond? that would help, will be a little shorter that Star Trek but a hell of trip, Space Patrol was amazing even with theri brevety.
Maybe as Backstory when the human landed on Moon, the Vulcans or other greet that were able to reach the space and them help for the future? that would be interesting.
I'd forgotten about Perry Rhodan and Space Patrol.
Anyway back to British Trek,
1.Would the credits still include "Space the final frontier..."? I think that these were Roddenberry's idea and would therefore still be there. Any comments?
2. The uniforms, Sylvia Anderson is invoved
. Asuming she can be steered away from UFO type costumes, would a version of the Space 1999 uniform do? Blue instead of White but still having the sleeve denote branch (eg Science or Engineering)?
Anyway back to British Trek,
1.Would the credits still include "Space the final frontier..."? I think that these were Roddenberry's idea and would therefore still be there. Any comments?
2. The uniforms, Sylvia Anderson is invoved
. Asuming she can be steered away from UFO type costumes, would a version of the Space 1999 uniform do? Blue instead of White but still having the sleeve denote branch (eg Science or Engineering)?
Series 1
The Cage
The Cage aired at 7:30pm on Saturday 7th January 1967.
Actually the plot for this is basically as per OTL the Cage except Vina is played by Suzy Kendall. However the subtext that Pike is tired of Starship command is a present subtext through all Plummer's 9 episodes. The main difference is that you see Scotty, whilst the Endeavour is attempting to break free of the Talosians, coming up with ideas to boost the power to the engines and weapons (You didn't see much of the engineers in OTL the Cage). The reviews in the Sunday papers were mixed. Some dismissed it as more Sci fi tosh, yet others praised its production values , excitement and the fact that it wasn't afraid to make the audience think. When the viewing figures were released it had got 60% of the audience at that time in the evening.
The Cage aired at 7:30pm on Saturday 7th January 1967.
Actually the plot for this is basically as per OTL the Cage except Vina is played by Suzy Kendall. However the subtext that Pike is tired of Starship command is a present subtext through all Plummer's 9 episodes. The main difference is that you see Scotty, whilst the Endeavour is attempting to break free of the Talosians, coming up with ideas to boost the power to the engines and weapons (You didn't see much of the engineers in OTL the Cage). The reviews in the Sunday papers were mixed. Some dismissed it as more Sci fi tosh, yet others praised its production values , excitement and the fact that it wasn't afraid to make the audience think. When the viewing figures were released it had got 60% of the audience at that time in the evening.
ITV had run an extensive advertising campaign in the national press for the previous 6 weeks, including during the Christmas period. It had also heavily featured in the TV Times from the start of December. Star Trek also gave ITV something to premiere on the 7th Jan, the day when the BBC first aired the Forsyte Saga on BBC2. They were timed not to clash with each other which was probably just as well as the Forsyte Saga would probably have pummelled Star Trek into oblivion.
ITC Star Trek Handbook
Some more from the scriptwriters' handbook
The Klingons
A warrior race dominated by their sense of honour. Everything is dealt with according to the Code of kh'Less. Breaking the code leads to ones entire family being exiled from the Klingon Empire.(please note that there hasn't actually been an Emperor for nearly 1000 years, the Empire has been run by the President of the High Council,think of an "elected" version of the Ruling Stewards of Gondor)
However the code does NOT necessarily apply to non Klingons. In the entire history of the Empire only two races have been awarded full status under the code(although individuals of many races have been so honoured). Both races fought the Klingons to a standstill. One race is the Andorians, awarded 1600 years ago, the other is the Humans. This was awarded 70 years ago after the Earth Navy defeated the Klingon Fleet at the Battles of Alpha Centuri.
There is a formal peace between the Empire and the Commonwealth which is honoured by the Klingons as both the Humans and Andorians are members. However there is constant warfare between the Klingons and the Rhihannaun,often continual border skirmishes rather than fleet engagements, who regard each other as lower than pond scum with no honour.
Klingons are very dark skinned (think a very dark blue black), with black straight hair with dark blue eyes. They wear a high tech lightweight version of chainmail paired with blood red leggings and knee high boots. Officers carry a ceremonial spear like a small assegai. This helps to denote their rank.
The Klingons
A warrior race dominated by their sense of honour. Everything is dealt with according to the Code of kh'Less. Breaking the code leads to ones entire family being exiled from the Klingon Empire.(please note that there hasn't actually been an Emperor for nearly 1000 years, the Empire has been run by the President of the High Council,think of an "elected" version of the Ruling Stewards of Gondor)
However the code does NOT necessarily apply to non Klingons. In the entire history of the Empire only two races have been awarded full status under the code(although individuals of many races have been so honoured). Both races fought the Klingons to a standstill. One race is the Andorians, awarded 1600 years ago, the other is the Humans. This was awarded 70 years ago after the Earth Navy defeated the Klingon Fleet at the Battles of Alpha Centuri.
There is a formal peace between the Empire and the Commonwealth which is honoured by the Klingons as both the Humans and Andorians are members. However there is constant warfare between the Klingons and the Rhihannaun,often continual border skirmishes rather than fleet engagements, who regard each other as lower than pond scum with no honour.
Klingons are very dark skinned (think a very dark blue black), with black straight hair with dark blue eyes. They wear a high tech lightweight version of chainmail paired with blood red leggings and knee high boots. Officers carry a ceremonial spear like a small assegai. This helps to denote their rank.
ITC Star Trek Handbook
The Human Conundrum
(Humans call it the Klingon Conundrum!)
During the Earth-Klingon War both sides analysed corpses of the slain and they came to the same conclusion. It was apparent that Humans and Klingons were no more different genetically from each other than Klingons from different regions of Kh'Onnos or Humans from different regions of Earth. This caused some ructions as it couldn't be explained. Earth had a fragmentary history for 6000 years with no evidence of space faring capability. Klingons had established records for this period of time and fragmentary history for the previous 2000 years with no records of anything more than extremely cursory planetary surveys of Earth (Klingons could live on it but it was in the Vulcanian sphere of influence so left alone). Added to which there was enough fossil evidence that they had evolved on their own planets!
(Humans call it the Klingon Conundrum!)
During the Earth-Klingon War both sides analysed corpses of the slain and they came to the same conclusion. It was apparent that Humans and Klingons were no more different genetically from each other than Klingons from different regions of Kh'Onnos or Humans from different regions of Earth. This caused some ructions as it couldn't be explained. Earth had a fragmentary history for 6000 years with no evidence of space faring capability. Klingons had established records for this period of time and fragmentary history for the previous 2000 years with no records of anything more than extremely cursory planetary surveys of Earth (Klingons could live on it but it was in the Vulcanian sphere of influence so left alone). Added to which there was enough fossil evidence that they had evolved on their own planets!
I'd forgotten about Perry Rhodan and Space Patrol.
Anyway back to British Trek,
1.Would the credits still include "Space the final frontier..."? I think that these were Roddenberry's idea and would therefore still be there. Any comments?
2. The uniforms, Sylvia Anderson is invoved
OK, uniforms. If we assume Sylvia Anderson is in charge of the design, then some obvious solutions pop out immediately. IOTL, the "Captain Scarlet" uniforms were a direct steal from Pierre Cardin's 1966 "Cosmos" (sometimes called "Cosmonaut" or "Cosmonaute") collection. He used coloured tunics over black longsleeved tops, black trousers and boots. It's a very strong look and can be easily customised to a colour-coded Starfleet-analogue and will take into account that many British actors of the period will be too skinny/fat.
As for hair: UFO's wigs were a function of Sylvia's conviction that hair would be included in uniform dress codes and wigs were the best way to do that. Given the time period of your British Star Trek, another obvious solution presents itself: geometric Vidal Sassoon cuts (see Mary Quant for an example). These aren't wigs, but they're hair that looks like wigs and Sylvia would jump at it.
If you combine these two looks: geometric hair with coloured tunics over black longsleeved tops, trousers and boots, you will have one of the best designed science-fiction series ever, and it'll be entirely plausible.
(PS please don't have the little headgear. They're ridiculous...
)Links
- http://www.tipsimages.it/Photo/Show...cl_c=c&cl_bw=bw&chrm=start&chrf=start&chcr=cr
- http://www.cathoderaytube.co.uk/2009/12/designing-who-2-swinging-time-part-2.html
- http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/pierre-cardin/
- http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2006AV/2006AV6272_jpg_o.jpg
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18017636
- http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/09/showbiz/vidal-sassoon-obit
- Pierre Cardin
- Andre Courreges
- Paco Rabanne
I'd forgotten about Perry Rhodan and Space Patrol.
Anyway back to British Trek,
1.Would the credits still include "Space the final frontier..."? I think that these were Roddenberry's idea and would therefore still be there. Any comments?
2. The uniforms, Sylvia Anderson is invoved
As for the title sequence speech...um, probably not, thinking about it.
ITC productions of the day were heavily visual and speech-lite (makes it easier to export). So for example "Stingray" "Anything can happen in the next 90 minutes!", then about a minute of heavily edited rapid-fire summary of the show/show's premise. For a US example of this, see the "Mission Impossible" title sequences. ITC didn't go the expository introduction route until arguably the infamous "Space 1999" second series.
Even so, what was the first UK show to do the "I'm going to spend a minute telling you about the show's premise using words"? "Sapphire and Steele"? If so that's over a decade ITTL's future.
I assume your British Star Trek's titles would be a brief two sentences, followed by a collage illustrating the show's premise, shots of the three leads rotating towards the camera (see Thunderbirds, Space 1999 or Babylon 5), then straight in to the show.
ITC Star Trek Handbook
Uniform
Thanks viewcode!
Commonwealth Fleet Uniform.
Charcoal turtle necked long sleeved jacket.
Charcoal trousers
Black boots
Tunic as per Captain Scarlet(OTL) EXCEPT the zip is hidden rather than on view.
Command:Black
Ship board Security:Red
(landing party security have combat fatigues as per RN Commandos)
Engineering:Yellow
Operations:Green
Science:Blue (OK complete lack of imagination there on my part!)
Fleet logo on front of Tunic pocket
Officer rank insignia by collar of charcoal jacket
Non Coms insignia on upper sleeves
(Rank insignia shows obvious descent from USN insignia)
Commonwealth Navy Uniform
As above EXCEPT all tunics are British Navy Blue and the Rank insignia are much more obvious.
Thanks viewcode!
Commonwealth Fleet Uniform.
Charcoal turtle necked long sleeved jacket.
Charcoal trousers
Black boots
Tunic as per Captain Scarlet(OTL) EXCEPT the zip is hidden rather than on view.
Command:Black
Ship board Security:Red
(landing party security have combat fatigues as per RN Commandos)
Engineering:Yellow
Operations:Green
Science:Blue (OK complete lack of imagination there on my part!)
Fleet logo on front of Tunic pocket
Officer rank insignia by collar of charcoal jacket
Non Coms insignia on upper sleeves
(Rank insignia shows obvious descent from USN insignia)
Commonwealth Navy Uniform
As above EXCEPT all tunics are British Navy Blue and the Rank insignia are much more obvious.
Didn't mean to accuse - I thought you were being subtle.
You see this a lot in fiction. There's an Australian writer who named a French-Canadian character "Dupont" because it's such a common French name...except that it isn't in Quebec. Not only is it a rare surname, when it is found it's associated with wealth and privilege because of the American DuPont family.
ITC Star Trek Handbook
Timekeeping
A lot of thought was put into how time was measured. It was accepted that all planets would have their own dating systems. It was asumed that spacefaing civilisations like the Klingons and the Vulcanians would have come up with some system of timekeeping that allowed for the movements of the planets and the relatavistic effects caused by FTL travel. By May 1966 everybody had massive headaches thinking about this. Several Astronomers and Physicists were consulted. In the end it was a throw away comment by Patrick Moore that generated a solution.His comment was that it would be a lot easier if travel between stars was instantaneous. It was then that Gerry Anderson had a Eureka moment and Gene Roddenberry leapt at it. Travel between stars was instantaneous as long as you were at the right point, it was intra system travel that took the time. Jump engines would power ships between the stars, warp drive would work within star systems (as they still needed a way to make intra system journeys last at most days not months or years). They then decided that if you measured how far the centre of the milky way appeared to move in a period of time then that could be the basic time unit and it could be standard for a section of space such as the Commonwealth as that would be very small compared to the distance to the centre of the milky way. Roughly 1 Commonwealth unit of time was 1.5 Earth Years. It was explained in the series that The Commonwealth had adopted the Vulcanian system but set Commonwealth Standard Time 0 as being 15th February 2185 (Earth time) as that was when the Commonwealth of Planets came into existence. This way travel within the Commonwealth was OK it was the exploration ships that would have problems. They would maintain their time units on their homeplanet but Mission Date was calculated in shifts from the start of the mission (Earth crewed ships used a shift of 8 hours). So Endeavour Mission Date 2345 would be the 782nd day of the mission (in the 3rd Year).
There was then an argument that when Decker took over from Pike the mission date would be reset to 0. However the PR and Sales people argued that it would be confusing to have a Plummer episode with mission date 542 and a Bradford episode with mission date 097. It would make sense to a regular follower of the show but not casual viewers. It was decided that a change of captain within a mission would not reset the mission date.
A lot of thought was put into how time was measured. It was accepted that all planets would have their own dating systems. It was asumed that spacefaing civilisations like the Klingons and the Vulcanians would have come up with some system of timekeeping that allowed for the movements of the planets and the relatavistic effects caused by FTL travel. By May 1966 everybody had massive headaches thinking about this. Several Astronomers and Physicists were consulted. In the end it was a throw away comment by Patrick Moore that generated a solution.His comment was that it would be a lot easier if travel between stars was instantaneous. It was then that Gerry Anderson had a Eureka moment and Gene Roddenberry leapt at it. Travel between stars was instantaneous as long as you were at the right point, it was intra system travel that took the time. Jump engines would power ships between the stars, warp drive would work within star systems (as they still needed a way to make intra system journeys last at most days not months or years). They then decided that if you measured how far the centre of the milky way appeared to move in a period of time then that could be the basic time unit and it could be standard for a section of space such as the Commonwealth as that would be very small compared to the distance to the centre of the milky way. Roughly 1 Commonwealth unit of time was 1.5 Earth Years. It was explained in the series that The Commonwealth had adopted the Vulcanian system but set Commonwealth Standard Time 0 as being 15th February 2185 (Earth time) as that was when the Commonwealth of Planets came into existence. This way travel within the Commonwealth was OK it was the exploration ships that would have problems. They would maintain their time units on their homeplanet but Mission Date was calculated in shifts from the start of the mission (Earth crewed ships used a shift of 8 hours). So Endeavour Mission Date 2345 would be the 782nd day of the mission (in the 3rd Year).
There was then an argument that when Decker took over from Pike the mission date would be reset to 0. However the PR and Sales people argued that it would be confusing to have a Plummer episode with mission date 542 and a Bradford episode with mission date 097. It would make sense to a regular follower of the show but not casual viewers. It was decided that a change of captain within a mission would not reset the mission date.
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Series 1
Episode 2 Inhibitions broadcast Jan 14th 1967
On missiondate 204.2, the Commonwealth starship CSS Endeavour, arrives in orbit around the dying planet I187 , in order to observe and document the planet's break up. A landing team is also beamed down to the research station based on the planet in order to discover what has happened to the team of scientists who were stationed there, but who have not been heard from for months. The team is confused to find that all six of the scientists have died for no readily apparent reason. They are found in a number of bizarre positions - one man apparently in the middle of taking a shower fully clothed, and another having seemingly just sat at his desk until freezing to death - and all life support systems have been shut down and the controls frozen solid.
One of the Endeavour crewmen, Alan Stein, removes his glove while examining the station, and is contaminated by a strange red liquid. When Lt. Stein and Science Officer Spock return to the ship they are given a clean bill of health by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Noyce, but Stein notices a strange itch on his hands, and begins to act irrationally. After yelling that human space exploration is actually doing more harm than good, he threatens Lieutenant Chekov and CPO O’Gorman with a knife, then attempts to turn it on himself. He suffers a minor wound, but is stopped and escorted to the Medical Centre Dr. Noyce is then left bewildered when Stein inexplicably lapses into catatonia.
Soon, Stein’s affliction begins to affect other crew members and quickly spreads throughout the ship. They each begin to display both comical and horrific exaggerations of character, revealing things about themselves which they would have usually kept secret.
As the affliction spreads, Chekov abandons his post on the bridge and begins acting like an 18th-century sword-fighter, running around the ship and challenging everyone to a duel. Ship's Engineer CPO Aedh O’Gorman, who believes himself to be descended from Irish royalty, wanders down to Engineering where he tricks the staff into leaving and takes over control of the ship, declaring himself the Captain of the Endeavour, before giving orders and warbling inane songs repeatedly over the public address system. The Endeavour starts to drift out of control and slowly falls out of orbit, pulled down by the erratic gravity of I187.
Noyce and Spock manage to avoid the affliction and find that the water on I187 has a complex chain of molecules, which, once in the bloodstream, affects people in a similar way to alcohol, depressing the centers of judgment and self-control. They find that eventually the molecules break down with no residual effects worse than a mild headache.
Chekov charges into the ship's bridge and threatens Pike and Braun's lives but he is finally stripped of his sword and rendered unconscious by Pike. Meanwhile, O’Gorman is stopped and control of Engineering is regained. However, O’Gorman has turned the engines off and Chief Engineer Scott tells Pike that there is not enough time to get them started again before the Endeavour is dragged down by I187's break up.
To avoid crashing into the planet, Captain Pike orders a highly dangerous attempt at a full-power restart, using the Jump Engines to start the ship's warp engines by creating a "controlled implosion". Spock warns that this is possible in theory but that it has never been tested before.
The warp engines start and the Endeavour reaches the Jump point. However the effect of using the Jump Engines to start the warp engines and the gravitational effects of the break up of the planet cause a malfunction in the Jump Engines. When they arrive at Earth, they receive a signal that is announcing the “I have a dream” speech of Martin Luther King.
On missiondate 204.2, the Commonwealth starship CSS Endeavour, arrives in orbit around the dying planet I187 , in order to observe and document the planet's break up. A landing team is also beamed down to the research station based on the planet in order to discover what has happened to the team of scientists who were stationed there, but who have not been heard from for months. The team is confused to find that all six of the scientists have died for no readily apparent reason. They are found in a number of bizarre positions - one man apparently in the middle of taking a shower fully clothed, and another having seemingly just sat at his desk until freezing to death - and all life support systems have been shut down and the controls frozen solid.
One of the Endeavour crewmen, Alan Stein, removes his glove while examining the station, and is contaminated by a strange red liquid. When Lt. Stein and Science Officer Spock return to the ship they are given a clean bill of health by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Noyce, but Stein notices a strange itch on his hands, and begins to act irrationally. After yelling that human space exploration is actually doing more harm than good, he threatens Lieutenant Chekov and CPO O’Gorman with a knife, then attempts to turn it on himself. He suffers a minor wound, but is stopped and escorted to the Medical Centre Dr. Noyce is then left bewildered when Stein inexplicably lapses into catatonia.
Soon, Stein’s affliction begins to affect other crew members and quickly spreads throughout the ship. They each begin to display both comical and horrific exaggerations of character, revealing things about themselves which they would have usually kept secret.
As the affliction spreads, Chekov abandons his post on the bridge and begins acting like an 18th-century sword-fighter, running around the ship and challenging everyone to a duel. Ship's Engineer CPO Aedh O’Gorman, who believes himself to be descended from Irish royalty, wanders down to Engineering where he tricks the staff into leaving and takes over control of the ship, declaring himself the Captain of the Endeavour, before giving orders and warbling inane songs repeatedly over the public address system. The Endeavour starts to drift out of control and slowly falls out of orbit, pulled down by the erratic gravity of I187.
Noyce and Spock manage to avoid the affliction and find that the water on I187 has a complex chain of molecules, which, once in the bloodstream, affects people in a similar way to alcohol, depressing the centers of judgment and self-control. They find that eventually the molecules break down with no residual effects worse than a mild headache.
Chekov charges into the ship's bridge and threatens Pike and Braun's lives but he is finally stripped of his sword and rendered unconscious by Pike. Meanwhile, O’Gorman is stopped and control of Engineering is regained. However, O’Gorman has turned the engines off and Chief Engineer Scott tells Pike that there is not enough time to get them started again before the Endeavour is dragged down by I187's break up.
To avoid crashing into the planet, Captain Pike orders a highly dangerous attempt at a full-power restart, using the Jump Engines to start the ship's warp engines by creating a "controlled implosion". Spock warns that this is possible in theory but that it has never been tested before.
The warp engines start and the Endeavour reaches the Jump point. However the effect of using the Jump Engines to start the warp engines and the gravitational effects of the break up of the planet cause a malfunction in the Jump Engines. When they arrive at Earth, they receive a signal that is announcing the “I have a dream” speech of Martin Luther King.
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Series 1
Episode 3 Yesterday is Tomorrow Broadcast Jan 21st 1967
On mission date 208.5, the Commonwealth starship CSS Endeavour is thrown back in time to Earth in the year 1964 by the effects of the Jump Engine malfunction at the end of Inhibitions. The Endeavour ends up in Earth's upper atmosphere due to an inability to slow down sufficiently quickly, and is picked up as a UFO on military radar
An RAF English Electric Lightning piloted by Squadron Leader John Cochrane (guest star Tony Booth), is scrambled to identify the craft. The pilot, surprised to see the strange craft above him, is ordered to stop the Endeavour from escaping. Captain Pike uses a tractor beam on the jet, which accidentally tears the plane apart. Pike orders the pilot to be beamed aboard the Enterprise to save him.
The man is at first confused by his new surroundings, then amazed by what the future holds, and impressed and awed when he discovers that Endeavour is one of 7 such starships under the authority of a combined service.
Fearing Cochrane could disrupt the timeline if returned to Earth after glimpsing the future, Pike decides Cochrane must stay with the Endeavour. After Science Officer Spock later discovers that the pilot is the great great grandfather of Christopher Cochrane, Pike realizes he must return Cochrane to Earth without any knowledge of Endeavour or other future events.
After learning of the existence of film taken of Endeavour by Cochranes's wing-cameras, Science Officer Holmes and Lt.Commander Stiles beam down to the RAF base to recover it. Upon obtaining the sensitive computer-tapes, Holmes and Stiles evade capture by the Military Police (John Thaw is one of them). When Spock attempts to contact Stiles, via communicator, Stiles and Holmes are rediscovered. They manage to beam out but one of the military Policemen (Thaw)is beamed aboard with them.
After they return to the ship, Scott and O’Gorman(who still can’t believe that he acted as drunk as he did in the previous episode after not drinking anything!) inform Pike of a possible escape method by slingshotting around the Sun using a combination of Warp and Jump Engines to break away and return to their time. The maneuver is risky, since even a small miscalculation could destroy the ship, or make them miss their own era.
Pike okays the maneuver, and time on board the Endeavour moves backwards. Squadron Leader Cochrane is beamed back to his fighter jet at the instant he first encountered Endeavour, preventing, as far as Pike knows, any evidence of the ship being produced, and the sighting is written off as just another UFO. The Military Policeman is also returned to his own time, just moments before he stumbles upon Stiles and Holmes. Endeavour then successfully returns to the 23rd Century, in the right time.
On mission date 208.5, the Commonwealth starship CSS Endeavour is thrown back in time to Earth in the year 1964 by the effects of the Jump Engine malfunction at the end of Inhibitions. The Endeavour ends up in Earth's upper atmosphere due to an inability to slow down sufficiently quickly, and is picked up as a UFO on military radar
An RAF English Electric Lightning piloted by Squadron Leader John Cochrane (guest star Tony Booth), is scrambled to identify the craft. The pilot, surprised to see the strange craft above him, is ordered to stop the Endeavour from escaping. Captain Pike uses a tractor beam on the jet, which accidentally tears the plane apart. Pike orders the pilot to be beamed aboard the Enterprise to save him.
The man is at first confused by his new surroundings, then amazed by what the future holds, and impressed and awed when he discovers that Endeavour is one of 7 such starships under the authority of a combined service.
Fearing Cochrane could disrupt the timeline if returned to Earth after glimpsing the future, Pike decides Cochrane must stay with the Endeavour. After Science Officer Spock later discovers that the pilot is the great great grandfather of Christopher Cochrane, Pike realizes he must return Cochrane to Earth without any knowledge of Endeavour or other future events.
After learning of the existence of film taken of Endeavour by Cochranes's wing-cameras, Science Officer Holmes and Lt.Commander Stiles beam down to the RAF base to recover it. Upon obtaining the sensitive computer-tapes, Holmes and Stiles evade capture by the Military Police (John Thaw is one of them). When Spock attempts to contact Stiles, via communicator, Stiles and Holmes are rediscovered. They manage to beam out but one of the military Policemen (Thaw)is beamed aboard with them.
After they return to the ship, Scott and O’Gorman(who still can’t believe that he acted as drunk as he did in the previous episode after not drinking anything!) inform Pike of a possible escape method by slingshotting around the Sun using a combination of Warp and Jump Engines to break away and return to their time. The maneuver is risky, since even a small miscalculation could destroy the ship, or make them miss their own era.
Pike okays the maneuver, and time on board the Endeavour moves backwards. Squadron Leader Cochrane is beamed back to his fighter jet at the instant he first encountered Endeavour, preventing, as far as Pike knows, any evidence of the ship being produced, and the sighting is written off as just another UFO. The Military Policeman is also returned to his own time, just moments before he stumbles upon Stiles and Holmes. Endeavour then successfully returns to the 23rd Century, in the right time.
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Interlude
(Mainly as I have a book to read-thanks Astrodragon!)
The Endeavour returns to Earth at about the right time (2 days early!). This causes problems as it should be at I187! There is a board of enquiry to investigate any ramifications. British records are patchy due to WWIV and WWV but there are references to blips on radar screens and a strange happening at RAF Scampton. The board exonorates Pike and the Endeavour. However the DTI is formed as a direct result of this incident(yes it exists here as well!)
(Mainly as I have a book to read-thanks Astrodragon!)
The Endeavour returns to Earth at about the right time (2 days early!). This causes problems as it should be at I187! There is a board of enquiry to investigate any ramifications. British records are patchy due to WWIV and WWV but there are references to blips on radar screens and a strange happening at RAF Scampton. The board exonorates Pike and the Endeavour. However the DTI is formed as a direct result of this incident(yes it exists here as well!)
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