Thank you Viewcode for your kind word and thoughts. James Blish ITTL replacing James Blish OTL would never have occurred to me! I had vague recollections of him living in the UK in the 70s but he does make a perfect fit especially as he is a "proper" SF author recognised in the States.
An Alternate Trek
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Series 2
Triskelion Broadcast September 16th 1967
On Mission Date 1764.5 the Endeavour is investigating the mysterious loss of data coming from satellites left in the Triskelion VII system. On arriving in the system they immediately detect a large ship, which is identified as being Rhihannaun. Decker tries to send a signal to the Fleet but it is blocked. A game of cat and moue then ensues with the Rhihannaun ship with the Endeavour being the mouse as it is outgunned and out powered by the other ship.
Eventually the Endeavour’s maneuvers bring both the ships close to the second planet. A voice booms through the ship saying “ENOUGH”. Decker blacks out. When he awakens, he finds himself in an enclosed, circular area about half a mile across. Other than vegetation and blue sand, he sees in the distance only a dwarf with heavy brow ridge and intricately braided hair. “This is a Rhihannuan”, Decker assumes, ”it is a lot smaller than we thought!”
Then he hears the voice in his mind. It identifies itself as the end product of the evolution of an entire race. While traveling through various spaces and dimensions, it had come upon the battle. The evolved intelligence decided to intervene because both crews contain races that have the potential to one day evolve into beings like itself, but the upcoming war would utterly destroy one side and hurt the other so badly that it would not be able to fulfill its destiny. It therefore chose one individual from each species to fight in this small arena. The loser will doom its kind to eventual extinction.
Decker and his opponent discover, through trial and error, that there is an invisible barrier between them, and that living things cannot cross it, though inanimate objects can. Decker tries to communicate with the Rhihannaun, to see if a compromise is possible, but receives a message of unremitting invective and hatred.
He then observes his foe catch a small blue lizard, casually pull off its legs, and then throw the body unimpeded to his side. Thinking that the barrier is down, Decker charges and nearly knocks himself out when he is proved wrong. While he is on the ground recovering from the collision, Decker is seriously wounded in the leg by a rock thrown by the Rhihannaun.
Aware that his wound will eventually kill him, Decker searches desperately for a way to get to his enemy. When he finds that the blue lizard is still alive, he puts it out of its misery. Then realization hits him - the lizard passed through the barrier while it was alive but unconscious. Taking a risk born of ultimate desperation, he knocks himself out on a slope and rolls through to the other side. He regains consciousness but lies motionless in order to lure the faster, healthier Rhihannaun into range, then stuns it.
Tearing his tunic into strips Decker ties the Rhihannaun up and then shouts that he is NOT going to kill a being for anybody else’s entertainment whatever the cost.
The next instant, he finds himself back on the Endeavour. The Rhihannaun ship is pulling away. The voice then booms out again “YOU SHOWED MERCY TO ONE WHO WOULD NOT HAVE SHOWN ANY TO YOU. YOU ARE FREE TO GO”. Decker enquires if the Rhihannaun are doomed to extinction. “ALL SPECIES ARE DOOMED TO EXTINCTION. HOWEVER YOU HAVE NOT BROUGHT FORWARD THEIR EXTINCTION”. Decker wonders about this vague statement but orders the Endeavour to their next assignment.
Adapted from a story by Frederic Brown
On Mission Date 1764.5 the Endeavour is investigating the mysterious loss of data coming from satellites left in the Triskelion VII system. On arriving in the system they immediately detect a large ship, which is identified as being Rhihannaun. Decker tries to send a signal to the Fleet but it is blocked. A game of cat and moue then ensues with the Rhihannaun ship with the Endeavour being the mouse as it is outgunned and out powered by the other ship.
Eventually the Endeavour’s maneuvers bring both the ships close to the second planet. A voice booms through the ship saying “ENOUGH”. Decker blacks out. When he awakens, he finds himself in an enclosed, circular area about half a mile across. Other than vegetation and blue sand, he sees in the distance only a dwarf with heavy brow ridge and intricately braided hair. “This is a Rhihannuan”, Decker assumes, ”it is a lot smaller than we thought!”
Then he hears the voice in his mind. It identifies itself as the end product of the evolution of an entire race. While traveling through various spaces and dimensions, it had come upon the battle. The evolved intelligence decided to intervene because both crews contain races that have the potential to one day evolve into beings like itself, but the upcoming war would utterly destroy one side and hurt the other so badly that it would not be able to fulfill its destiny. It therefore chose one individual from each species to fight in this small arena. The loser will doom its kind to eventual extinction.
Decker and his opponent discover, through trial and error, that there is an invisible barrier between them, and that living things cannot cross it, though inanimate objects can. Decker tries to communicate with the Rhihannaun, to see if a compromise is possible, but receives a message of unremitting invective and hatred.
He then observes his foe catch a small blue lizard, casually pull off its legs, and then throw the body unimpeded to his side. Thinking that the barrier is down, Decker charges and nearly knocks himself out when he is proved wrong. While he is on the ground recovering from the collision, Decker is seriously wounded in the leg by a rock thrown by the Rhihannaun.
Aware that his wound will eventually kill him, Decker searches desperately for a way to get to his enemy. When he finds that the blue lizard is still alive, he puts it out of its misery. Then realization hits him - the lizard passed through the barrier while it was alive but unconscious. Taking a risk born of ultimate desperation, he knocks himself out on a slope and rolls through to the other side. He regains consciousness but lies motionless in order to lure the faster, healthier Rhihannaun into range, then stuns it.
Tearing his tunic into strips Decker ties the Rhihannaun up and then shouts that he is NOT going to kill a being for anybody else’s entertainment whatever the cost.
The next instant, he finds himself back on the Endeavour. The Rhihannaun ship is pulling away. The voice then booms out again “YOU SHOWED MERCY TO ONE WHO WOULD NOT HAVE SHOWN ANY TO YOU. YOU ARE FREE TO GO”. Decker enquires if the Rhihannaun are doomed to extinction. “ALL SPECIES ARE DOOMED TO EXTINCTION. HOWEVER YOU HAVE NOT BROUGHT FORWARD THEIR EXTINCTION”. Decker wonders about this vague statement but orders the Endeavour to their next assignment.
Adapted from a story by Frederic Brown
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Just found this thread and thought I should point out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_Is_Pigs and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_(novel)
The latter of which was actually read by DG but he claims to have forgotten about it until someone mentioned the similarities to The Trouble With Tribbles. So this timeline doesn't need to go without, you've two perfectly serviceable alt-inspirations...
The latter of which was actually read by DG but he claims to have forgotten about it until someone mentioned the similarities to The Trouble With Tribbles. So this timeline doesn't need to go without, you've two perfectly serviceable alt-inspirations...
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Thank you. Small, furry, purring, perpetually producing offspring, animals can still appear. Series 3 (last half of season 2 if American) awaits.
Series 2
Growing old is bad for you! Broadcast September 23rd 1967
On mission date 1647.2, the Endeavour, enters the Ramsey system in order to chart its jump points. As they go about doing this Colt picks up a distress signal from the third planet. Decker decides to investigate. On arriving at the planet they find that it is very earth like but seems to be in the middle of a glacial period and so it is a few degrees cooler than earth. Reynolds jokes that the Andorians would love this planet as a tropical paradise.
Further investigation finds the ruins of an industrial civilisation whose buildings seem remarkably similar to those of mid to late twentieth century America. A landing party consisting of Reynolds, Spock, Fynely, Stein, Rand and two security personnel, beams down to investigate. Upon their arrival, they find that the planet seems abandoned. As the team curiously inspects a tricycle, they are attacked by a ragged man, who seems deranged and also shows incredible strength. Reynolds strikes the man three times, the man has a seizure and dies. The security guards then spot another figure running into a building.
The team chases the figure down, discovering that it's a terrified girl, who appears physically normal. She identifies herself as Selli (guest star Jenny Agutter), and when asked why she ran away from them, she tells them because they are "grunpies" (a contraction of "grown ups"), and the grunpies killed and hurt the children before they died. When asked where her family are, Selli tells them that she is an "Vivor," and she and her friends are the "only survivors” left as all the adults are dead.
Soon the landing party starts to notice that their tempers are shortening and that they are becoming increasingly irrational; Spock however remains immune. Selli informs them that these are the first signs of the disease, and they will soon become like the other adults. The team searches an abandoned hospital for clues to the mysterious condition. They discover the disease infects those who have reached even the earliest stages of puberty. It is an accidental side-effect of an experiment to prolong life; the technique works on children, but when they reach puberty, they enter a short period of violent rage and then die. Shockingly, they learn that the children are over 100 years old, having aged only one week for every decade.
Spock also discovers that once the disease starts, they only have 7 days to live. Even though he seems immune to the disease, he believes he is still a carrier and could infect the Endeavour if he returns.
Meanwhile, the rest of the hiding children, who do not trust these new grunpies, decide to meddle with their plans. Their leader, a boy named Domnik (Peter Firth), steals the landing party's communicators, which renders Fynely’s and Stein’s search for a cure nearly impossible without assistance from the Endeavours computers. Selli however, doesn't agree with the other children's mischief and stays near Reynolds, on whom she appears to have a crush. However Sellii becomes jealous of Rand and runs away to scheme with her friends. The children devise a prank and kidnap Rand.
Reynolds confronts Selli, who tells her that she and the others will eventually contract the disease just like the grunpies if they don't help him find a cure. Sellii takes Reynolds to the schoolhouse where Rand is being held captive. He confronts the children and tries to get through to them that none of this is a game. At first the children don't listen and continue to harass him, encouraged by Domnik. They become increasingly menacing until Domnik finally beats Reynolds nearly senseless with a wrench. This action shocks the Vivors as Domnik is now acting like a grunpie. Domnik screams and runs away.
Reynolds and Rand round up the children and return to the hospital with the communicators, but finds that Spock has previously found that Fynely and Stein, unable to accurately test their experimental serum, has injected Stein with a dose and he had collapsed to the floor. Soon however, he revived showing no ill effects and when scanned by Fynely’s medical scanner was cured of the disease. The serum is found to be both safe and effective. After curing the landing party and the children, Decker informs the Fleet to send teachers and advisers, to help the children start their lives over again. He also comments that Humans seem to be far more widespread than they could ever have imagined and that there may be yet more of the “Lost” to be found.
On mission date 1647.2, the Endeavour, enters the Ramsey system in order to chart its jump points. As they go about doing this Colt picks up a distress signal from the third planet. Decker decides to investigate. On arriving at the planet they find that it is very earth like but seems to be in the middle of a glacial period and so it is a few degrees cooler than earth. Reynolds jokes that the Andorians would love this planet as a tropical paradise.
Further investigation finds the ruins of an industrial civilisation whose buildings seem remarkably similar to those of mid to late twentieth century America. A landing party consisting of Reynolds, Spock, Fynely, Stein, Rand and two security personnel, beams down to investigate. Upon their arrival, they find that the planet seems abandoned. As the team curiously inspects a tricycle, they are attacked by a ragged man, who seems deranged and also shows incredible strength. Reynolds strikes the man three times, the man has a seizure and dies. The security guards then spot another figure running into a building.
The team chases the figure down, discovering that it's a terrified girl, who appears physically normal. She identifies herself as Selli (guest star Jenny Agutter), and when asked why she ran away from them, she tells them because they are "grunpies" (a contraction of "grown ups"), and the grunpies killed and hurt the children before they died. When asked where her family are, Selli tells them that she is an "Vivor," and she and her friends are the "only survivors” left as all the adults are dead.
Soon the landing party starts to notice that their tempers are shortening and that they are becoming increasingly irrational; Spock however remains immune. Selli informs them that these are the first signs of the disease, and they will soon become like the other adults. The team searches an abandoned hospital for clues to the mysterious condition. They discover the disease infects those who have reached even the earliest stages of puberty. It is an accidental side-effect of an experiment to prolong life; the technique works on children, but when they reach puberty, they enter a short period of violent rage and then die. Shockingly, they learn that the children are over 100 years old, having aged only one week for every decade.
Spock also discovers that once the disease starts, they only have 7 days to live. Even though he seems immune to the disease, he believes he is still a carrier and could infect the Endeavour if he returns.
Meanwhile, the rest of the hiding children, who do not trust these new grunpies, decide to meddle with their plans. Their leader, a boy named Domnik (Peter Firth), steals the landing party's communicators, which renders Fynely’s and Stein’s search for a cure nearly impossible without assistance from the Endeavours computers. Selli however, doesn't agree with the other children's mischief and stays near Reynolds, on whom she appears to have a crush. However Sellii becomes jealous of Rand and runs away to scheme with her friends. The children devise a prank and kidnap Rand.
Reynolds confronts Selli, who tells her that she and the others will eventually contract the disease just like the grunpies if they don't help him find a cure. Sellii takes Reynolds to the schoolhouse where Rand is being held captive. He confronts the children and tries to get through to them that none of this is a game. At first the children don't listen and continue to harass him, encouraged by Domnik. They become increasingly menacing until Domnik finally beats Reynolds nearly senseless with a wrench. This action shocks the Vivors as Domnik is now acting like a grunpie. Domnik screams and runs away.
Reynolds and Rand round up the children and return to the hospital with the communicators, but finds that Spock has previously found that Fynely and Stein, unable to accurately test their experimental serum, has injected Stein with a dose and he had collapsed to the floor. Soon however, he revived showing no ill effects and when scanned by Fynely’s medical scanner was cured of the disease. The serum is found to be both safe and effective. After curing the landing party and the children, Decker informs the Fleet to send teachers and advisers, to help the children start their lives over again. He also comments that Humans seem to be far more widespread than they could ever have imagined and that there may be yet more of the “Lost” to be found.
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Series 2
The Dragon Broadcast September 30th 1967
On mission date 1924.7, the Endeavour enters the uncharted Byrne system. It appears an unremarkable solar system with 2 gas giants and 3 smaller planets plus an asteroid belt. Suddenly McKenzie clasps her ears and the bridge is filled with what sounds like multiple distress signals. D’Alembert points at the viewscreen there in the middle of the asteroid belt is a jumble of spaceships all of which appear to be docked with one another. Spock determines that they are indeed the source of all the distress signals including one which comes from the CSS Byrd which has been reported missing for 7 years.
Decker decides to investigate so he beams a landing party comprising of Stein, Summers and M’Beke onto the bridge of the Byrd. They report that there appear to be no survivors although the log entries towards the end are scrambled they have managed to download them and they beam back to the Endeavour. Stein and Spock piece together the fragments and show them to Decker, Reynolds and Scott.
At first there are just routine entries until the Byrd enters the system. Then they pick up the same mélange of distress signals and decide to investigate. Captain Sulu (special guest star Bert Kwouk) sends his First Officer and a security team over to investigate. After a while when they have no contact with the team and cannot get a fix on them to beam them back Sulu orders them to dock the Byrd to the ship on which they beamed the team.
The Byrd only has a small crew so Sulu leads a team to search for the others. Then there is just fragmented pictures until Sulu reappears disheveled and scared, shouting something about a monster that has devoured the rest of his crew. He goes on about tentacles and mouth. There is a blast of light and then there is no more.
Decker orders a thorough scan of the Byrd. There are no signs of anything living although there are some slightly anomalous readings from the engineering deck which Scott cannot explain. Reynolds, Summers, Blamire and a full security squad beam over to the engineering section of the Byrd. At first they find nothing out of place nor unusual. Then there is a blinding flash of light and a tentacled monstrosity with one large hypnotic eye and a furnace type mouth appears.
The team open fire but their phasers appear to have no effect and the monster works its way through the security officers. Finally Summers and Reynolds both grab emergency axes and attack the monster from two sides whilst Blamire stands his ground and keeps firing his phaser at the eye.
Both Reynolds and Summers land blows which eventually have an effect on the monster and it begins to back away. Summers sees an opening and lands a blow on the monster’s eye which kills it. The team then gathers the dead and beam back to the Endeavour.
Decker sends a signal to the fleet about the spaceships and the Byrd and is ordered to hold position until the CSS Aurora (which is on a shakedown cruise) can arrive to investigate the ships and bring the Byrd back to Fleet headquarters. When the Aurora arrives Decker bids farewell to its captain his former First Officer Katharina Braun and departs to continue his mission.
On mission date 1924.7, the Endeavour enters the uncharted Byrne system. It appears an unremarkable solar system with 2 gas giants and 3 smaller planets plus an asteroid belt. Suddenly McKenzie clasps her ears and the bridge is filled with what sounds like multiple distress signals. D’Alembert points at the viewscreen there in the middle of the asteroid belt is a jumble of spaceships all of which appear to be docked with one another. Spock determines that they are indeed the source of all the distress signals including one which comes from the CSS Byrd which has been reported missing for 7 years.
Decker decides to investigate so he beams a landing party comprising of Stein, Summers and M’Beke onto the bridge of the Byrd. They report that there appear to be no survivors although the log entries towards the end are scrambled they have managed to download them and they beam back to the Endeavour. Stein and Spock piece together the fragments and show them to Decker, Reynolds and Scott.
At first there are just routine entries until the Byrd enters the system. Then they pick up the same mélange of distress signals and decide to investigate. Captain Sulu (special guest star Bert Kwouk) sends his First Officer and a security team over to investigate. After a while when they have no contact with the team and cannot get a fix on them to beam them back Sulu orders them to dock the Byrd to the ship on which they beamed the team.
The Byrd only has a small crew so Sulu leads a team to search for the others. Then there is just fragmented pictures until Sulu reappears disheveled and scared, shouting something about a monster that has devoured the rest of his crew. He goes on about tentacles and mouth. There is a blast of light and then there is no more.
Decker orders a thorough scan of the Byrd. There are no signs of anything living although there are some slightly anomalous readings from the engineering deck which Scott cannot explain. Reynolds, Summers, Blamire and a full security squad beam over to the engineering section of the Byrd. At first they find nothing out of place nor unusual. Then there is a blinding flash of light and a tentacled monstrosity with one large hypnotic eye and a furnace type mouth appears.
The team open fire but their phasers appear to have no effect and the monster works its way through the security officers. Finally Summers and Reynolds both grab emergency axes and attack the monster from two sides whilst Blamire stands his ground and keeps firing his phaser at the eye.
Both Reynolds and Summers land blows which eventually have an effect on the monster and it begins to back away. Summers sees an opening and lands a blow on the monster’s eye which kills it. The team then gathers the dead and beam back to the Endeavour.
Decker sends a signal to the fleet about the spaceships and the Byrd and is ordered to hold position until the CSS Aurora (which is on a shakedown cruise) can arrive to investigate the ships and bring the Byrd back to Fleet headquarters. When the Aurora arrives Decker bids farewell to its captain his former First Officer Katharina Braun and departs to continue his mission.
Series 2
Gemini III Broadcast October 7th 1967
On mission date 2032.6 the Endeavour enters the Gemini system in order to map its jump points and to investigate its third planet. Long distance scans have indicated that this system is a twin to Earth’s solar system especially since the third planet is the same size as Earth and like Earth has an oversized satellite.
However preliminary scans of Gemini III show that the planet is shrouded in cloud and has an exceptionally high radiation reading. Holmes who is on duty comments that the readings are similar to what they would have been if some idiot had let off every one of Earth’s Hydrogen and Nuclear bombs in any of WWIII to WWV.
On hearing that Decker orders a scan of the planet’s geography. All the bridge crew had felt that the approach to Gemini III had been too similar to the approach to Earth. However comparisons of maps seem to show no correlation. However there is an island isolated in a Northern Ocean which does not read as radioactive as the rest of the planet and which would not require radiation suits for short visits.
There appears to be a largely intact city near the north western coast of the island although there are no life readings. Decker, Holmes, M’Beke and a security team beam down. On arrival they are struck by how similar the buildings are to those of Earth in the World War period. Decker even comments “There but for the grace of god” as the similarities to Earth are mounting. They find an old library although there are few books left. However there are piles of ash as if people had been burning books to keep warm.
M’Beke finally points out that there are no bodies. If the ash from burning books is still present so there should be skeletons left even if the flesh had long gone. There are no life signs so scavengers could not have consumed all the remains. As their allotted time comes to an end the landing party begins to feel more and more anxious and scan nervously although they all accept that there is no rational reason for feeling that way.
They gather some books and a globe that they find in a side room and beam back to the Endeavour. They are put through decontamination and then are debriefed. Spock then shows them what they had found. The books were printed and of a quality equivalent to twentieth century Earth although the computer was still working on a translation as the language did not appear overly similar to any known from Human or Klingon history. The globe likewise gave little clue although it did match the geography produced by the Endeavour’s scans.
Spock left the most disquieting fact to last. He pulled up a map Of Gemini III and again pointed out that it did not resemble that of Earth. However if he reversed the magnetic field so south was now north and raised the sea level. There was a gasp in the room as the map now resembled Earth albeit with some slight differences.
Decker sent an emergency signal to Fleet headquarters and they waited for the reply.
Back in the city but deep underground we see a hand turn off a viewscreen as the Endeavour sends her signal. It flips another switch and says "We need to call an emergency session of the Assembly". The credits roll.
On mission date 2032.6 the Endeavour enters the Gemini system in order to map its jump points and to investigate its third planet. Long distance scans have indicated that this system is a twin to Earth’s solar system especially since the third planet is the same size as Earth and like Earth has an oversized satellite.
However preliminary scans of Gemini III show that the planet is shrouded in cloud and has an exceptionally high radiation reading. Holmes who is on duty comments that the readings are similar to what they would have been if some idiot had let off every one of Earth’s Hydrogen and Nuclear bombs in any of WWIII to WWV.
On hearing that Decker orders a scan of the planet’s geography. All the bridge crew had felt that the approach to Gemini III had been too similar to the approach to Earth. However comparisons of maps seem to show no correlation. However there is an island isolated in a Northern Ocean which does not read as radioactive as the rest of the planet and which would not require radiation suits for short visits.
There appears to be a largely intact city near the north western coast of the island although there are no life readings. Decker, Holmes, M’Beke and a security team beam down. On arrival they are struck by how similar the buildings are to those of Earth in the World War period. Decker even comments “There but for the grace of god” as the similarities to Earth are mounting. They find an old library although there are few books left. However there are piles of ash as if people had been burning books to keep warm.
M’Beke finally points out that there are no bodies. If the ash from burning books is still present so there should be skeletons left even if the flesh had long gone. There are no life signs so scavengers could not have consumed all the remains. As their allotted time comes to an end the landing party begins to feel more and more anxious and scan nervously although they all accept that there is no rational reason for feeling that way.
They gather some books and a globe that they find in a side room and beam back to the Endeavour. They are put through decontamination and then are debriefed. Spock then shows them what they had found. The books were printed and of a quality equivalent to twentieth century Earth although the computer was still working on a translation as the language did not appear overly similar to any known from Human or Klingon history. The globe likewise gave little clue although it did match the geography produced by the Endeavour’s scans.
Spock left the most disquieting fact to last. He pulled up a map Of Gemini III and again pointed out that it did not resemble that of Earth. However if he reversed the magnetic field so south was now north and raised the sea level. There was a gasp in the room as the map now resembled Earth albeit with some slight differences.
Decker sent an emergency signal to Fleet headquarters and they waited for the reply.
Back in the city but deep underground we see a hand turn off a viewscreen as the Endeavour sends her signal. It flips another switch and says "We need to call an emergency session of the Assembly". The credits roll.
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Series 2
The Map Broadcast October 14th 1967
Mission date 2053.2, the Endeavour is now one of 9 fleet ships surveying Gemini III. Command of the mission has been taken by Under Secretary of Science Leiter (special guest star Marius Goring) and he has taken up residence on the Endeavour much to the disquiet of the crew as although he is outwardly affable he accepts no excuses for any shortcomings. “A typical chair jockey” is Reynolds assessment “never flown anything other than a desk nor been much outside the Earth, Vulcanis, Andor triangle!”
The Endeavour had been assigned to scan the continent that was assumed to be the analogue of North America (given a reversal of Gemini III’s magnetic field). The compilation of all the scans taken so far had been disquieting. Gemini III’s geography closely matched Earth’s during the last Ice Age. However the scientists could not understand why the heat that would have been generated during the presumed nuclear exchange did not melt the ice caps.
What were assumed to be the remains of cities did not always match the position of Earth cities especially near the coasts but those inland did tend to match the locations of Earth Cities such as Moscow, Denver, Lhasa and Tehran. Leiter left the bridge asking only to be disturbed if it was a matter of life and death. ”Signal me using the prefix 71” he ordered.
The scans continued but after another 3 hours Spock gave a start. Decker immediately inquired as to the reason. Spock replied that he had found an underground habitat roughly in the position of Cheyenne Mountain on Earth. Decker signalled Leiter and they met in the Briefing Room.
“It makes sense” said Reynolds. ”Cheyenne Mountain was supposed to be safe on our Earth so it should have been here as well.” That’s as may be” said Decker “but what shall we do?” Leiter pondered then ordered that if scans still produced no life signs but that the area was safe then he would accompany a landing party to the site. “I may be a desk jockey but I am curious “, he told Reynolds.
Scans proved the area was safe with little radiation so a landing party of Reynolds, Spock, Leiter, Blamire and two other security guards beamed down. They found a brightly lit cavern that seemed to match Earth’s Cheyenne Mountain. They explored but found little until they found an area with a star map pinned to a wall. Various stars were coloured red, lots of green dots around those red stars and one star was coloured yellow, this one was at a distance from the others. Leiter looked closely at the map and then said “If we assume that it is centred on Gemini, then these green dots are the jump points then that red dot is where you would expect Earth!”
Back on board the Endeavour they matched the other red dots with Ramsey III, Organia, Adams III and the Klingon Homeworld and some of its longer established daughter worlds. “The Klingons have some explaining to do!” was Decker’s response on seeing the map. However Leiter gave him the order to leave Gemini III and investigate the star marked in yellow. Leiter beamed to the CSS Fram, and the Endeavour broke orbit.
Deep underground, in an undiscovered refuge a group of hooded figures sighed with relief. “They have taken the bait and left us” the figure at the head of the table intoned. “Yes, but their records show that they have been extremely lucky all of their recorded history” said another. “The records we lifted from their ships before they left show one lucky escape after another.” The head figure nodded in agreement “Yes, but we know what happens if you visit that star!” and he waved his arms around “this planet is evidence of that.”
Mission date 2053.2, the Endeavour is now one of 9 fleet ships surveying Gemini III. Command of the mission has been taken by Under Secretary of Science Leiter (special guest star Marius Goring) and he has taken up residence on the Endeavour much to the disquiet of the crew as although he is outwardly affable he accepts no excuses for any shortcomings. “A typical chair jockey” is Reynolds assessment “never flown anything other than a desk nor been much outside the Earth, Vulcanis, Andor triangle!”
The Endeavour had been assigned to scan the continent that was assumed to be the analogue of North America (given a reversal of Gemini III’s magnetic field). The compilation of all the scans taken so far had been disquieting. Gemini III’s geography closely matched Earth’s during the last Ice Age. However the scientists could not understand why the heat that would have been generated during the presumed nuclear exchange did not melt the ice caps.
What were assumed to be the remains of cities did not always match the position of Earth cities especially near the coasts but those inland did tend to match the locations of Earth Cities such as Moscow, Denver, Lhasa and Tehran. Leiter left the bridge asking only to be disturbed if it was a matter of life and death. ”Signal me using the prefix 71” he ordered.
The scans continued but after another 3 hours Spock gave a start. Decker immediately inquired as to the reason. Spock replied that he had found an underground habitat roughly in the position of Cheyenne Mountain on Earth. Decker signalled Leiter and they met in the Briefing Room.
“It makes sense” said Reynolds. ”Cheyenne Mountain was supposed to be safe on our Earth so it should have been here as well.” That’s as may be” said Decker “but what shall we do?” Leiter pondered then ordered that if scans still produced no life signs but that the area was safe then he would accompany a landing party to the site. “I may be a desk jockey but I am curious “, he told Reynolds.
Scans proved the area was safe with little radiation so a landing party of Reynolds, Spock, Leiter, Blamire and two other security guards beamed down. They found a brightly lit cavern that seemed to match Earth’s Cheyenne Mountain. They explored but found little until they found an area with a star map pinned to a wall. Various stars were coloured red, lots of green dots around those red stars and one star was coloured yellow, this one was at a distance from the others. Leiter looked closely at the map and then said “If we assume that it is centred on Gemini, then these green dots are the jump points then that red dot is where you would expect Earth!”
Back on board the Endeavour they matched the other red dots with Ramsey III, Organia, Adams III and the Klingon Homeworld and some of its longer established daughter worlds. “The Klingons have some explaining to do!” was Decker’s response on seeing the map. However Leiter gave him the order to leave Gemini III and investigate the star marked in yellow. Leiter beamed to the CSS Fram, and the Endeavour broke orbit.
Deep underground, in an undiscovered refuge a group of hooded figures sighed with relief. “They have taken the bait and left us” the figure at the head of the table intoned. “Yes, but their records show that they have been extremely lucky all of their recorded history” said another. “The records we lifted from their ships before they left show one lucky escape after another.” The head figure nodded in agreement “Yes, but we know what happens if you visit that star!” and he waved his arms around “this planet is evidence of that.”
Series 2
Whom the Gods Destroy Broadcast October 21st 1967
On mission date 2071.3, the Endeavour, is about to make the final jump to the star marked in yellow on the map found on Gemini III. In his personal log, Decker admits to feeling anxious but he can’t give a reason. A message is sent to Fleet and navy headquarters and they make the jump.
On arrival in the target star system nothing seems untoward. An initial survey shows a habitable planet but no signs of industry or space flight. Suddenly, a huge energy field in the shape of a giant wooden vice appears and grabs the Endeavour; halting its movement. Decker tries to wriggle the ship free of the vice by using the ship's impulse engines, but to no avail.
A humanoid apparition, carrying a hammer, appears on the bridge view screen and addresses the ship's crew as his "fellow travelers." The words of the figure boom with a godlike presence, and he seems very interested in the ship and its crew. Decker demands that the ship be set free, but the being responds by tightening the grip, threatening to crush the ship. Decker backs off, and then the apparition invites them down to the planet.
Decker leads a landing party that also includes Fynely, Scott, Spock, and D’Alembert. (The team arrives in what appears to be an ancient workshop. They soon encounter a short bearded being dressed in a short chiton with what appears to be a workman’s apron. The humanoid identifies himself as Bel (special guest star Peter Barkworth). He informs the party that he will not allow them to leave, and renders the team's communicators and the transporter rooms on Endeavour unable to work. Bel sits down and appears to think.
On the ship Reynolds is alarmed when Holmes announces that the computers have been scanned and read. Also that all the weapon’s systems have been disarmed and the jump engines taken off line! Reynolds contacts O’Gorman in Engineering only to be brusquely told that he’s aware of the problem and working on it! On the planet Bel appears drained, but thoughtful, which leads Decker to the idea that he needs time to recuperate. Fynely scans Bel, discovering that though appearing essentially normal he has an extra organ in his chest, which Fynely cannot identify, though he guesses it has something to do with the alien's powers.
Bel then shakes himself and tells them than Mannannon would be proud of them. However it was just as well that he had intercepted them not his sister Sulis who had grown angered with the last visitors and had destroyed them and their planet. However he was intrigued because the last visitors had had a far more advanced ship which hadn’t had jump engines just warp engines that powered them between stars. Scott and Spock perked up at this saying that in theory it could be done but it required a far more powerful energy source than had been discovered so far. However Decker then pointed out that Gemini III had had a civilisation at mid-20th century levels they couldn’t have developed that level of warp drive.
Bel on hearing this is horrified because although his sister is quick to anger she does not kill innocents. He withdraws warning them not to leave the room. A short while later Bel returns with an attractive woman whom he introduces as Sulis (special guest star Julie Christie). She looks absolutely furious and demands that Decker repeats all that he had told Bel. Decker does so and Sulis snarls in frustration. She accepts that they are telling the truth but wants vengeance both for the people of Gemini III and for herself on the people who tricked her “They used me” she howls at the heavens. Suddenly she stops, looks at Decker and asks him how they found this planet.
After a moment’s thought Decker swears and says “we were set up as well!” and describes how they found the star map. Sulis smiles and says that they will be seeing her later and disappears. Meanwhile Scotty suddenly exclaims “You can’t be!” Bel looks at him and says “Can’t we?” Decker looks at Scott who explains that Bel and Sulis were two of the Celtic Deities. Bel was God of Fire so by extension also of metalworking and he assumes engineering. Sulis was Goddess of Wisdom and also vengeance. “So you do remember!” beams Bel. Then Sulis returns but she is very weak.
“I found them” she whispers “they won’t do that again”. She recovers slightly and tells Decker that the Fleet vessels still at Gemini III will now make some very interesting discoveries. Sulis is visibly ageing as she speaks. Fynely scans her but can’t find anything wrong except the rapid ageing. Decker asks if there is anything that they can do. Sulis and Bel smile sadly and reply that their civilisation is beyond that which will instantly cure Sulis but that their concern at least stopped the problem. Now only time will bring back her energy levels but not her youth. Fyenly scanning Sulis confirms that the ageing has stopped.
Bel lets the landing party go but warns Decker that they can never return as he will alter the jump points but if their civilisation survives their descendants might meet Bel and Sulis again. “Just like the Organians!” grumbles Fynely. “Oh of course! You’ve met them” Bel exclaims “Flighty bunch but well meaning.” Suddenly the landing party finds itself back on the Endeavour and at the last jump point. Bel’s face reappears on the view screen “Remember do not even attempt to return! But may the winds be ever at your backs.” Decker sighs and orders them back to Gemini III.
On mission date 2071.3, the Endeavour, is about to make the final jump to the star marked in yellow on the map found on Gemini III. In his personal log, Decker admits to feeling anxious but he can’t give a reason. A message is sent to Fleet and navy headquarters and they make the jump.
On arrival in the target star system nothing seems untoward. An initial survey shows a habitable planet but no signs of industry or space flight. Suddenly, a huge energy field in the shape of a giant wooden vice appears and grabs the Endeavour; halting its movement. Decker tries to wriggle the ship free of the vice by using the ship's impulse engines, but to no avail.
A humanoid apparition, carrying a hammer, appears on the bridge view screen and addresses the ship's crew as his "fellow travelers." The words of the figure boom with a godlike presence, and he seems very interested in the ship and its crew. Decker demands that the ship be set free, but the being responds by tightening the grip, threatening to crush the ship. Decker backs off, and then the apparition invites them down to the planet.
Decker leads a landing party that also includes Fynely, Scott, Spock, and D’Alembert. (The team arrives in what appears to be an ancient workshop. They soon encounter a short bearded being dressed in a short chiton with what appears to be a workman’s apron. The humanoid identifies himself as Bel (special guest star Peter Barkworth). He informs the party that he will not allow them to leave, and renders the team's communicators and the transporter rooms on Endeavour unable to work. Bel sits down and appears to think.
On the ship Reynolds is alarmed when Holmes announces that the computers have been scanned and read. Also that all the weapon’s systems have been disarmed and the jump engines taken off line! Reynolds contacts O’Gorman in Engineering only to be brusquely told that he’s aware of the problem and working on it! On the planet Bel appears drained, but thoughtful, which leads Decker to the idea that he needs time to recuperate. Fynely scans Bel, discovering that though appearing essentially normal he has an extra organ in his chest, which Fynely cannot identify, though he guesses it has something to do with the alien's powers.
Bel then shakes himself and tells them than Mannannon would be proud of them. However it was just as well that he had intercepted them not his sister Sulis who had grown angered with the last visitors and had destroyed them and their planet. However he was intrigued because the last visitors had had a far more advanced ship which hadn’t had jump engines just warp engines that powered them between stars. Scott and Spock perked up at this saying that in theory it could be done but it required a far more powerful energy source than had been discovered so far. However Decker then pointed out that Gemini III had had a civilisation at mid-20th century levels they couldn’t have developed that level of warp drive.
Bel on hearing this is horrified because although his sister is quick to anger she does not kill innocents. He withdraws warning them not to leave the room. A short while later Bel returns with an attractive woman whom he introduces as Sulis (special guest star Julie Christie). She looks absolutely furious and demands that Decker repeats all that he had told Bel. Decker does so and Sulis snarls in frustration. She accepts that they are telling the truth but wants vengeance both for the people of Gemini III and for herself on the people who tricked her “They used me” she howls at the heavens. Suddenly she stops, looks at Decker and asks him how they found this planet.
After a moment’s thought Decker swears and says “we were set up as well!” and describes how they found the star map. Sulis smiles and says that they will be seeing her later and disappears. Meanwhile Scotty suddenly exclaims “You can’t be!” Bel looks at him and says “Can’t we?” Decker looks at Scott who explains that Bel and Sulis were two of the Celtic Deities. Bel was God of Fire so by extension also of metalworking and he assumes engineering. Sulis was Goddess of Wisdom and also vengeance. “So you do remember!” beams Bel. Then Sulis returns but she is very weak.
“I found them” she whispers “they won’t do that again”. She recovers slightly and tells Decker that the Fleet vessels still at Gemini III will now make some very interesting discoveries. Sulis is visibly ageing as she speaks. Fynely scans her but can’t find anything wrong except the rapid ageing. Decker asks if there is anything that they can do. Sulis and Bel smile sadly and reply that their civilisation is beyond that which will instantly cure Sulis but that their concern at least stopped the problem. Now only time will bring back her energy levels but not her youth. Fyenly scanning Sulis confirms that the ageing has stopped.
Bel lets the landing party go but warns Decker that they can never return as he will alter the jump points but if their civilisation survives their descendants might meet Bel and Sulis again. “Just like the Organians!” grumbles Fynely. “Oh of course! You’ve met them” Bel exclaims “Flighty bunch but well meaning.” Suddenly the landing party finds itself back on the Endeavour and at the last jump point. Bel’s face reappears on the view screen “Remember do not even attempt to return! But may the winds be ever at your backs.” Decker sighs and orders them back to Gemini III.
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Series 2
The Return of Harry Mudd Broadcast October 28th 1967
On mission date 2078.5, the Endeavour, is cruising between 2 jump points on its way back to GeminiIII. Spock at the science station is scanning the system when he finds debris of a small commonwealth vessel on the surface of a small but habitable satellite orbiting a gas giant. Decker diverts the Endeavour to investigate.
When the ship arrives at the planet, Spock discovers a single human life sign but also evidence of massive energy consumption. Reynolds, Summers, Spock and M’Beke beam down to near where the human life sign has been detected. They are greeted by a beaming human who greets them all warmly but especially Spock whom he addresses as “Spocko, my boy!” Spock informs the others that this is Harold Fenton Mudd (guest star George Cole), a not particularly successful career criminal whom the Endeavour has encountered previously. Mudd’s face fell as Spock used this description and rebuked him for saying that he was unsuccessful. Spock then regales him with a list of offences for which he has been tried and convicted! Mudd then explains that he crashed his (stolen) spaceship on the planet, and the inhabitants who are androids took him in. He says that they are very accommodating, but refuse to let him go. During his stay on the world, Mudd has acquired thousands of android women as servants (in groups of 500 identical units), and an android version of his wife Stella (guest star Dandy Nicholls), although the robot Stella does not constantly nag him, and shuts up when she is told.
The androids tell Reynolds they were built by a people from the Andromeda Galaxy, but their creators were destroyed by a supernova, and the robots were left to fend for themselves. They have also been studying Mr. Mudd for an unrevealed purpose. Spock makes inquiries and discovers there are over 200,000 of these androids, and that they may be controlled by some as yet unseen central operator.
The androids reveal their plan. They tell the Endeavour crew that they believe humans are too destructive and should be kept under control. The androids plan to leave their planet by means of the Endeavour, and will expand outward and take over the galaxy. Not only will they police mankind forever, but will also be loyal servants who will take care of their masters' every need. How they intended to deal with the various neighbouring intelligent species was unrevealed.
M’Beke manage to tranquilize Mudd, who plays along with the escape plan, and explain to the androids that they must return to the Endeavour in order to revive him. The androids authorize the request and they all beam up. Once they are on board Decker orders Blamire to seize all the landing party plus Mudd and throw them in the brig. There are loud protests but Decker tells them that it was too easy to leave and he orders Fynely to scan them all. Summers and M’Beke do not register as anything let alone human!
The Android Summers and M’Beke seem shocked at being discovered and say that the originals are still on the planet and are being well treated. Decker signals the planet and it is the Stella Android that answers. She does not threaten nor bluster and the real Summers and M’beke are swapped for the Android versions. Still suspicious Decker has all equipment that was taken down to the surface beamed into space and dispersed and has Fynely subject all the returnees subjected to the most thorough medical examinations.
They find several passive probes and signalling devices implanted in all of them (most, not surprisingly, found in Harry Mudd). When these are destroyed an impenetrable force field springs into place about the Android Base. Decker leaves a warning beacon at the jump point and returns to Gemini III.
Back at the Android Base we see a hooded set of figures in urgent discussion. The figure at the head of the table raises their hand and the frantic whispers stop. “We have lost all contact with our bases on the planet they call Gemini III. We have to assume the worst and accept that this Commonwealth has discovered them and the information that they contained. We are now at Condition Alpha! We will have to hope that our agents already placed are more successful” The figure pushes back its hood and we see Spock!
On mission date 2078.5, the Endeavour, is cruising between 2 jump points on its way back to GeminiIII. Spock at the science station is scanning the system when he finds debris of a small commonwealth vessel on the surface of a small but habitable satellite orbiting a gas giant. Decker diverts the Endeavour to investigate.
When the ship arrives at the planet, Spock discovers a single human life sign but also evidence of massive energy consumption. Reynolds, Summers, Spock and M’Beke beam down to near where the human life sign has been detected. They are greeted by a beaming human who greets them all warmly but especially Spock whom he addresses as “Spocko, my boy!” Spock informs the others that this is Harold Fenton Mudd (guest star George Cole), a not particularly successful career criminal whom the Endeavour has encountered previously. Mudd’s face fell as Spock used this description and rebuked him for saying that he was unsuccessful. Spock then regales him with a list of offences for which he has been tried and convicted! Mudd then explains that he crashed his (stolen) spaceship on the planet, and the inhabitants who are androids took him in. He says that they are very accommodating, but refuse to let him go. During his stay on the world, Mudd has acquired thousands of android women as servants (in groups of 500 identical units), and an android version of his wife Stella (guest star Dandy Nicholls), although the robot Stella does not constantly nag him, and shuts up when she is told.
The androids tell Reynolds they were built by a people from the Andromeda Galaxy, but their creators were destroyed by a supernova, and the robots were left to fend for themselves. They have also been studying Mr. Mudd for an unrevealed purpose. Spock makes inquiries and discovers there are over 200,000 of these androids, and that they may be controlled by some as yet unseen central operator.
The androids reveal their plan. They tell the Endeavour crew that they believe humans are too destructive and should be kept under control. The androids plan to leave their planet by means of the Endeavour, and will expand outward and take over the galaxy. Not only will they police mankind forever, but will also be loyal servants who will take care of their masters' every need. How they intended to deal with the various neighbouring intelligent species was unrevealed.
M’Beke manage to tranquilize Mudd, who plays along with the escape plan, and explain to the androids that they must return to the Endeavour in order to revive him. The androids authorize the request and they all beam up. Once they are on board Decker orders Blamire to seize all the landing party plus Mudd and throw them in the brig. There are loud protests but Decker tells them that it was too easy to leave and he orders Fynely to scan them all. Summers and M’Beke do not register as anything let alone human!
The Android Summers and M’Beke seem shocked at being discovered and say that the originals are still on the planet and are being well treated. Decker signals the planet and it is the Stella Android that answers. She does not threaten nor bluster and the real Summers and M’beke are swapped for the Android versions. Still suspicious Decker has all equipment that was taken down to the surface beamed into space and dispersed and has Fynely subject all the returnees subjected to the most thorough medical examinations.
They find several passive probes and signalling devices implanted in all of them (most, not surprisingly, found in Harry Mudd). When these are destroyed an impenetrable force field springs into place about the Android Base. Decker leaves a warning beacon at the jump point and returns to Gemini III.
Back at the Android Base we see a hooded set of figures in urgent discussion. The figure at the head of the table raises their hand and the frantic whispers stop. “We have lost all contact with our bases on the planet they call Gemini III. We have to assume the worst and accept that this Commonwealth has discovered them and the information that they contained. We are now at Condition Alpha! We will have to hope that our agents already placed are more successful” The figure pushes back its hood and we see Spock!
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Series 2
A Day in the Life Broadcast November 4th 1967
Two friends, Ensigns Danny Dare (Martin Shaw) and Lucy Pole (guest star Joanna Lumley) are waiting for the results of their latest evaluations. Joined by their pal Ben (guest star Rodney Bewes), a crewman who works as a waiter, they learn that promotions seem to be already decided on for their other two friends, Nurse Simpson (guest star April Walker) and a young Andorian engineer Tohrryk (guest star Richard O’Sullivan).
Spock detects an escape pod inside Rhihannaun space, which is off limits to the Endeavour, and Scott and Tohrryk work to transport the passenger on board amidst a cloak of secrecy.
Simpson seems to be doing nicely in the evaluations as Nurse Chapel has nothing but praise for her abilities and accomplishments. She orders Simpson not to reveal what she is about to see in Sickbay, and Chapel takes her to where an injured Klingon has been brought on board.
Meanwhile, Reynolds and Spock differ on whether Dare and Pole should be promoted. Captain Decker chastises Pole for her role in a Fleet Academy scandal (involving an attempt to cover up an attempt to cheat on a training simulation). She leaves the meeting exasperated, as Decker seems to have left her without having had the opportunity to defend herself.
After teaching a class, Spock tells Pole to stay and that he wants to test her. He blindfolds her and engages her in a timed test. Pole is unable to answer Spocks's questions in the time allotted, adding insult to her already bruised self-esteem, but she finally stands up to him, saying it's an unfair test. Spock admits that getting her to stand up for herself when she is being judged unfairly is what he intended all along. She uses this newfound confidence to confront Decker about his earlier interrogation of her. Decker, to Pole's surprise, admits that the purpose of his earlier treatment of her was to assess her personal growth but still reprimands her for the way in which she has tackled him about the topic.
Dare is then selected then to pilot the Klingon back to his listening post in Rhihannaun space to bring back valuable data. The Klingon will remain at the listening post and Dare will have to try and bring the pod and data safely back to the Endeavour. It is obvious that Decker is VERY unhappy at having to take part in what he considers to be a Navy operation but the Endeavour was in the wrong place at the wrong time! Dare and the Klingon set off and the Endeavour settles down to wait.
After 48 hours and there is still being no sign of the pod, the remaining friends meet at meal time and discuss worriedly what could have happened. On the bridge Decker orders a probe sent into Rhihannaun space (Reynolds agrees with the decision but is careful to ensure that the log shows that he pointed out the repercussions if the probe is discovered by the Rhihannaun (once bitten twice shy he murmurs)). The probe discovers the pod wrecked on a comet. It has been heavily damaged by weapons fire. There are two bodies still in the pod which both register as human. Analysis of the computer records show that the pod was discovered soon after reentering Rhihannaun space by an unexpected patrol. Dare had evaded the pursuit by hiding the pod in the comet but a seemingly random shot had overloaded the systems and the pod had crashed into the nucleus of the comet.
As the comet will soon pass into Commonwealth space the Endeavour waits the extra day and then recovers the pod. Then Decker announces Lieutenant Dare’s death over the ships system and a memorial service is held in Danny’s honour.
( No mission dates for this one deliberately so that it can be shown anywhere in series 2 or 3 (season 2). Dare died as the character was not being used a lot and no one except us Brits got the humour about his name! Martin Shaw wanted to expand his wings so to speak but it was felt appropriate to give him a good send off as he had been a recurring character since the start of the programme.)
Two friends, Ensigns Danny Dare (Martin Shaw) and Lucy Pole (guest star Joanna Lumley) are waiting for the results of their latest evaluations. Joined by their pal Ben (guest star Rodney Bewes), a crewman who works as a waiter, they learn that promotions seem to be already decided on for their other two friends, Nurse Simpson (guest star April Walker) and a young Andorian engineer Tohrryk (guest star Richard O’Sullivan).
Spock detects an escape pod inside Rhihannaun space, which is off limits to the Endeavour, and Scott and Tohrryk work to transport the passenger on board amidst a cloak of secrecy.
Simpson seems to be doing nicely in the evaluations as Nurse Chapel has nothing but praise for her abilities and accomplishments. She orders Simpson not to reveal what she is about to see in Sickbay, and Chapel takes her to where an injured Klingon has been brought on board.
Meanwhile, Reynolds and Spock differ on whether Dare and Pole should be promoted. Captain Decker chastises Pole for her role in a Fleet Academy scandal (involving an attempt to cover up an attempt to cheat on a training simulation). She leaves the meeting exasperated, as Decker seems to have left her without having had the opportunity to defend herself.
After teaching a class, Spock tells Pole to stay and that he wants to test her. He blindfolds her and engages her in a timed test. Pole is unable to answer Spocks's questions in the time allotted, adding insult to her already bruised self-esteem, but she finally stands up to him, saying it's an unfair test. Spock admits that getting her to stand up for herself when she is being judged unfairly is what he intended all along. She uses this newfound confidence to confront Decker about his earlier interrogation of her. Decker, to Pole's surprise, admits that the purpose of his earlier treatment of her was to assess her personal growth but still reprimands her for the way in which she has tackled him about the topic.
Dare is then selected then to pilot the Klingon back to his listening post in Rhihannaun space to bring back valuable data. The Klingon will remain at the listening post and Dare will have to try and bring the pod and data safely back to the Endeavour. It is obvious that Decker is VERY unhappy at having to take part in what he considers to be a Navy operation but the Endeavour was in the wrong place at the wrong time! Dare and the Klingon set off and the Endeavour settles down to wait.
After 48 hours and there is still being no sign of the pod, the remaining friends meet at meal time and discuss worriedly what could have happened. On the bridge Decker orders a probe sent into Rhihannaun space (Reynolds agrees with the decision but is careful to ensure that the log shows that he pointed out the repercussions if the probe is discovered by the Rhihannaun (once bitten twice shy he murmurs)). The probe discovers the pod wrecked on a comet. It has been heavily damaged by weapons fire. There are two bodies still in the pod which both register as human. Analysis of the computer records show that the pod was discovered soon after reentering Rhihannaun space by an unexpected patrol. Dare had evaded the pursuit by hiding the pod in the comet but a seemingly random shot had overloaded the systems and the pod had crashed into the nucleus of the comet.
As the comet will soon pass into Commonwealth space the Endeavour waits the extra day and then recovers the pod. Then Decker announces Lieutenant Dare’s death over the ships system and a memorial service is held in Danny’s honour.
( No mission dates for this one deliberately so that it can be shown anywhere in series 2 or 3 (season 2). Dare died as the character was not being used a lot and no one except us Brits got the humour about his name! Martin Shaw wanted to expand his wings so to speak but it was felt appropriate to give him a good send off as he had been a recurring character since the start of the programme.)
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It might be!
Whilst not my favourite episode of TNG "Lower Decks" at least showed that there was more to a ship than its bridge and/or being a redshirt with a target painted on chest and back!
Actually that's why it's one of my favourites. Even though she pretty much had to die at the end, I think Sito made an interesting character overcoming the predudice from the academy episode. She was a lot more interesting that arse licking canuck anyway.
Series 2
Omega IV Broadcast November 11th 1967
On mission date 2198.6, the Endeavour finds her sister ship, the CSS Endurance, in orbit around the planet Omega IV. Concerned over the Endurance being where it was reported six months earlier and over a lack of communication, Decker forms a boarding party with Spock, Dr. M’Beke and Summers, and beams over to find the other ship deserted, save for scattered crew uniforms with a crystalline substance scattered in and around them — the total chemicals in the human body when all water is removed. The team learns from the ship's logs that the Endurance's landing party contracted a strange disease on the planet and spread it back to the ship. The latest log, from the ship's surgeon (guest star Richard Wattis), warn that they have now been exposed and will die unless they go down to the planet; returning to their own ship would only expose their own ship's crew to the disease.
Decker's party beams to the last coordinates of the Endurance's landing party and find themselves in what resembles an African village, where two fur-clad prisoners, a man and woman, are being prepared for a beheading by warriors who look amazingly like Early Empire Klingons (according to Spock). Leading the warriors is Endurance Captain Conrad Turner (guest star Jeremy Wilkin) who stands down the execution and greets Decker. Turner explains he was stranded when his crew succumbed to a disease, and only remaining on the planet confers immunity. He assures the landing party they will be safe, but only if they stay on the planet. Tracey then explains the prisoners are from a group of savages called the "Nons" who wage war with the villagers called the "Zhai".
Soon, the Nons attack the village and Summers is injured. M’Beke takes him into a hut for treatment while Spock investigates a pile of Non bodies. He finds drained phaser power packs, clear evidence that Turner helped in a previous battle in a blatant violation of Commonwealth policy. Decker tries to contact the Endeavour, but Turner suddenly interrupts him and forcibly takes his communicator. When wounded Summers reaches for his phaser, Turner stuns him. He defends his actions, saying the planet offers valuable medical benefits — not only are the people immune to the disease, but they also have incredibly long life spans. He presents a villager who claims to be 462 years old with a father who is over a thousand.
Turner orders M’Beke and Spock to get to work on solving the secrets of their longevity and has Decker taken away. Decker is put into a cell with the two Non prisoners. After some initial distrust Decker gets their help in loosening the window bars and they make good their escape. Reuniting with McCoy and Spock, they work at modifying some medical equipment into a makeshift communicator. M’Beke believes the natives' immunity to disease and longevity was simply the result of natural selection; the inhabitants developed disease-resistant, hardy physiologies as a result of a cataclysmic war. As such, there is no isolated agent to find and any infected visitor naturally acquires an immunity in a short period of time on the planet.
Suddenly, a maddened Turner bursts in and destroys the new communications device with his phaser. He demands that Decker order down a supply of phasers from the Endeavour to help fight off another wave of Non forces. M’Beke and Decker try to explain that there is no Fountain of Youth, adding that the natives live such long lives because it's natural for them to. Decker declares that Turner's interference with the war between the natives has been for nothing. Turner's mind snaps at this invalidation of all his efforts. He forces Decker outside and demands that he order down the weapons. Decker calls Reynolds; however, Reynolds insists on finding out the captain's situation before complying with the unusual order, asking Decker if he should have a security team beam down. Decker refuses to explain why the arms are needed and tells Reynolds that the security team is not needed. Turner is about to disintegrate Decker, but he discovers his phaser is out of power.
The two fight over a nearby axe when Non warriors suddenly arrive and take everyone back to their village, which appears as ruins of an ancient building. Their leader, turns out to be one of the prisoners who was in the cell with Decker. The Nons decide that Decker and his companions will be executed, but Turner tries to save himself by claiming that Decker and the others are evil. Turner tries to convince the Nons that Decker and his party were cast out of Heaven, by building upon Decker's vague description of his place of origin as "up there,” To further bolster his claim against the Endeavour crew, Turner informs the Non leader that Spock "has no heart," knowing that he is unaware of Vulcanian physiology and doesn't realize the Vulcan's heart is not located in the same position as it is in Nons. Despite M’Beke's and Decker's attempts to convince them that the Vulcanian is no devil, but just physiologically different the Nons are not convinced. Spock notices a communicator on a table. As they are led out to be executed he manages to knock it off the table and setoff the emergency distress signal. Reynolds, Blamire and a security team beam down and secure the situation.
The Nons now bow to Decker as a deity, but he orders them to stand and face him. He tells them to live in peace with the Zhai and they agree. Leaving Reynolds and the security team to build up their immunity Decker and the original landing party (plus Turner) beam back to the Endeavour. Decker signals Quos in the Klingon High Command and lets them know of the Klingons on Omega IV.
On mission date 2198.6, the Endeavour finds her sister ship, the CSS Endurance, in orbit around the planet Omega IV. Concerned over the Endurance being where it was reported six months earlier and over a lack of communication, Decker forms a boarding party with Spock, Dr. M’Beke and Summers, and beams over to find the other ship deserted, save for scattered crew uniforms with a crystalline substance scattered in and around them — the total chemicals in the human body when all water is removed. The team learns from the ship's logs that the Endurance's landing party contracted a strange disease on the planet and spread it back to the ship. The latest log, from the ship's surgeon (guest star Richard Wattis), warn that they have now been exposed and will die unless they go down to the planet; returning to their own ship would only expose their own ship's crew to the disease.
Decker's party beams to the last coordinates of the Endurance's landing party and find themselves in what resembles an African village, where two fur-clad prisoners, a man and woman, are being prepared for a beheading by warriors who look amazingly like Early Empire Klingons (according to Spock). Leading the warriors is Endurance Captain Conrad Turner (guest star Jeremy Wilkin) who stands down the execution and greets Decker. Turner explains he was stranded when his crew succumbed to a disease, and only remaining on the planet confers immunity. He assures the landing party they will be safe, but only if they stay on the planet. Tracey then explains the prisoners are from a group of savages called the "Nons" who wage war with the villagers called the "Zhai".
Soon, the Nons attack the village and Summers is injured. M’Beke takes him into a hut for treatment while Spock investigates a pile of Non bodies. He finds drained phaser power packs, clear evidence that Turner helped in a previous battle in a blatant violation of Commonwealth policy. Decker tries to contact the Endeavour, but Turner suddenly interrupts him and forcibly takes his communicator. When wounded Summers reaches for his phaser, Turner stuns him. He defends his actions, saying the planet offers valuable medical benefits — not only are the people immune to the disease, but they also have incredibly long life spans. He presents a villager who claims to be 462 years old with a father who is over a thousand.
Turner orders M’Beke and Spock to get to work on solving the secrets of their longevity and has Decker taken away. Decker is put into a cell with the two Non prisoners. After some initial distrust Decker gets their help in loosening the window bars and they make good their escape. Reuniting with McCoy and Spock, they work at modifying some medical equipment into a makeshift communicator. M’Beke believes the natives' immunity to disease and longevity was simply the result of natural selection; the inhabitants developed disease-resistant, hardy physiologies as a result of a cataclysmic war. As such, there is no isolated agent to find and any infected visitor naturally acquires an immunity in a short period of time on the planet.
Suddenly, a maddened Turner bursts in and destroys the new communications device with his phaser. He demands that Decker order down a supply of phasers from the Endeavour to help fight off another wave of Non forces. M’Beke and Decker try to explain that there is no Fountain of Youth, adding that the natives live such long lives because it's natural for them to. Decker declares that Turner's interference with the war between the natives has been for nothing. Turner's mind snaps at this invalidation of all his efforts. He forces Decker outside and demands that he order down the weapons. Decker calls Reynolds; however, Reynolds insists on finding out the captain's situation before complying with the unusual order, asking Decker if he should have a security team beam down. Decker refuses to explain why the arms are needed and tells Reynolds that the security team is not needed. Turner is about to disintegrate Decker, but he discovers his phaser is out of power.
The two fight over a nearby axe when Non warriors suddenly arrive and take everyone back to their village, which appears as ruins of an ancient building. Their leader, turns out to be one of the prisoners who was in the cell with Decker. The Nons decide that Decker and his companions will be executed, but Turner tries to save himself by claiming that Decker and the others are evil. Turner tries to convince the Nons that Decker and his party were cast out of Heaven, by building upon Decker's vague description of his place of origin as "up there,” To further bolster his claim against the Endeavour crew, Turner informs the Non leader that Spock "has no heart," knowing that he is unaware of Vulcanian physiology and doesn't realize the Vulcan's heart is not located in the same position as it is in Nons. Despite M’Beke's and Decker's attempts to convince them that the Vulcanian is no devil, but just physiologically different the Nons are not convinced. Spock notices a communicator on a table. As they are led out to be executed he manages to knock it off the table and setoff the emergency distress signal. Reynolds, Blamire and a security team beam down and secure the situation.
The Nons now bow to Decker as a deity, but he orders them to stand and face him. He tells them to live in peace with the Zhai and they agree. Leaving Reynolds and the security team to build up their immunity Decker and the original landing party (plus Turner) beam back to the Endeavour. Decker signals Quos in the Klingon High Command and lets them know of the Klingons on Omega IV.
Series 2
Treat both the Same Broadcast November 18th 1967
On mission date 2265.9, the CSS Endeavour is at star base CSS Lenin to resupply. Whilst there the starship that normally resupplies the mental asylum on Bedlam breaks down and Decker agrees to ferry the badly needed supplies. The Endeavour arrives at Bedlam, an inhospitable world known for its very poisonous atmosphere and underground asylum for the few remaining Federation citizens that are criminally insane.
Reynolds is distinctly on edge with this extra assignment but Decker assures him that he will not have to visit or see him. Decker and Spock beam down to the facility with the shipment of drugs and meet with the facility director, Duncan Corwin (guest star John Gregson), who oversees the treatment of fifteen of the most dangerous mental patients in Federation custody. Along the way, one of the inmates, Martha (guest star Fenella Fielding), a mentally unstable woman, warns Decker and Spock that their host, Dr. Corwin, is not who they think he is.
They soon discover the real Corwin is imprisoned in a cell, put there by the impostor, who is none other than Admiral Paul Metcalfe (guest star Francis Matthews), a famous Navy officer. The crew of Metcalfe's ship had mutinied against him when he had gone insane, the result of injuries in a rescue mission. The inhabitants of the planet Mysstt tried to teach Metcalfe just enough shape shifting abilities to heal these injuries; he taught himself complete shifting. Metcalfe tried to attack Mysstt before his crew mutinied.
Metcalfe imprisons Decker and Spock and tries to beam himself to the Endeavour masquerading as Decker. He plans to use it to track down his mutinous crew. When Reynolds does not receive a certain countersign passcode from "Decker", he refuses the beam up order. Metcalfe accuses Reynolds of still being a traitorous dog and activates a force field that prevents Reynolds from attempting a rescue.
Metcalfe later invites Decker and Spock to a dinner where they hear Martha recite Kipling which she claims she wrote herself. She then performs a strange "exotic dance" that Spock compares to a dance performed by Vulcanian schoolchildren. In the meantime, Metcalfe boasts about his incredible career as a starship captain, bragging that he has led more missions than any other man in history. He fishes for Decker's pass phrase, but Decker doesn't fall for it.
Decker is thrown into a cell again. The crew on the Endeavour learn they cannot break through the shield without killing many innocents. In the Briefing Room Reynolds tells Scott about Metcalfe’s mission to Mysstt, the rescue mission that led to his injuries and that it had been him, as the ship’s captain, that had led the mutiny against Metcalfe and after the hearings had left the Navy to join the Fleet (he had been exonerated but a mutiny is a mutiny!).
Meanwhile Metcalfe puts on a coronation ceremony, declaring himself "Master of the Universe"; the other inmates are delighted. He kills Martha, whom he has named consort, to demonstrate the power of an explosive he has created. Spock disables his guard, acquires a phaser and finds two Deckers in the control room.
The two Deckers begin to fight, but eventually one of them tells Spock to stun them both — to ensure the safety of the Endeavour. Knowing that only the real Decker would make a demand like that (putting the safety of the ship ahead of his own), Spock stuns the other Decker, who is revealed to be Metcalfe.
With the matter resolved and Metcalfe back in custody, control of the station is given back to Dr. Corwin.
On mission date 2265.9, the CSS Endeavour is at star base CSS Lenin to resupply. Whilst there the starship that normally resupplies the mental asylum on Bedlam breaks down and Decker agrees to ferry the badly needed supplies. The Endeavour arrives at Bedlam, an inhospitable world known for its very poisonous atmosphere and underground asylum for the few remaining Federation citizens that are criminally insane.
Reynolds is distinctly on edge with this extra assignment but Decker assures him that he will not have to visit or see him. Decker and Spock beam down to the facility with the shipment of drugs and meet with the facility director, Duncan Corwin (guest star John Gregson), who oversees the treatment of fifteen of the most dangerous mental patients in Federation custody. Along the way, one of the inmates, Martha (guest star Fenella Fielding), a mentally unstable woman, warns Decker and Spock that their host, Dr. Corwin, is not who they think he is.
They soon discover the real Corwin is imprisoned in a cell, put there by the impostor, who is none other than Admiral Paul Metcalfe (guest star Francis Matthews), a famous Navy officer. The crew of Metcalfe's ship had mutinied against him when he had gone insane, the result of injuries in a rescue mission. The inhabitants of the planet Mysstt tried to teach Metcalfe just enough shape shifting abilities to heal these injuries; he taught himself complete shifting. Metcalfe tried to attack Mysstt before his crew mutinied.
Metcalfe imprisons Decker and Spock and tries to beam himself to the Endeavour masquerading as Decker. He plans to use it to track down his mutinous crew. When Reynolds does not receive a certain countersign passcode from "Decker", he refuses the beam up order. Metcalfe accuses Reynolds of still being a traitorous dog and activates a force field that prevents Reynolds from attempting a rescue.
Metcalfe later invites Decker and Spock to a dinner where they hear Martha recite Kipling which she claims she wrote herself. She then performs a strange "exotic dance" that Spock compares to a dance performed by Vulcanian schoolchildren. In the meantime, Metcalfe boasts about his incredible career as a starship captain, bragging that he has led more missions than any other man in history. He fishes for Decker's pass phrase, but Decker doesn't fall for it.
Decker is thrown into a cell again. The crew on the Endeavour learn they cannot break through the shield without killing many innocents. In the Briefing Room Reynolds tells Scott about Metcalfe’s mission to Mysstt, the rescue mission that led to his injuries and that it had been him, as the ship’s captain, that had led the mutiny against Metcalfe and after the hearings had left the Navy to join the Fleet (he had been exonerated but a mutiny is a mutiny!).
Meanwhile Metcalfe puts on a coronation ceremony, declaring himself "Master of the Universe"; the other inmates are delighted. He kills Martha, whom he has named consort, to demonstrate the power of an explosive he has created. Spock disables his guard, acquires a phaser and finds two Deckers in the control room.
The two Deckers begin to fight, but eventually one of them tells Spock to stun them both — to ensure the safety of the Endeavour. Knowing that only the real Decker would make a demand like that (putting the safety of the ship ahead of his own), Spock stuns the other Decker, who is revealed to be Metcalfe.
With the matter resolved and Metcalfe back in custody, control of the station is given back to Dr. Corwin.
Series 2
Checkmate Broadcast November 25th 1967
Mission date 2341.7 and the Endeavour is mapping the PQ 17 system when its sensors are drowned out by multiple distress signals. After a few moments the signals disappear. A couple of hours later Decker receives a priority one signal from Admiral Pike of the DTI (guest star Christopher Plummer). It appears that the entire Commonwealth heard those signals as did the Klingon Empire. So far nothing seems untoward but the signals did seem to emanate from a system on the edge of Klingon and Commonwealth space. Decker is ordered to investigate.
The Endeavour jumps to the designated system and is immediately hailed by a Klingon ship the IKS M'ouk. Its Commander is Quos (guest star Earl Cameron) a Klingon that the Endeavour has dealt with many times before and with whom there is a great deal of mutual respect. They confer and agree that the signals seemed to have emanated from a particular point in the system. As they approach they discover a temporal instability at those coordinates. The signals reoccur but are much clearer and seem to be distress signals from both Commonwealth and Klingon ships who are battling a common foe.
Spock analyses the signals and the Command crews of both ships hold a meeting. Both Spock and the Klingon Science Officer M'htoq (special guest star Bill Cosby)agree that the signals seem to be coming from a spread of time. The earliest signals seem to be concurrent or nearly so with the current date and the last from about 70 years in the future. Not much can be made from the signals except that the enemy seems to be called the Tahlurhians and that their ships are even bigger and more powerful than the Rhihannaun.
All the Klingons look worried as the Tahlurhians are the bogey men of ancient Klingon legends that pre date the original founding of the first Klingon Empire on Kh'Onnos. Decker and Quos send their conclusions to their respective commands and wait to see if any more signals are produced. Soon more do arrive but analysis does not provide any further information.
Suddenly a really battered Rhihannaun ship appears at the jump point. It is extensively damaged. Seconds later it is followed by two other ships that dwarf even the massive Rhihannaun ship. They blast and destroy it. They then turn and fire on both the Endeavour and the M'ouk causing extensive damage to both and destroying the Endeavour's jump engines.
Decker quickly reaches a decision he beams all the crew that can be spared from the Endeavour to the M'ouk and informs Quos that he will cover the M'ouk to the other jump point in the system. Quos argues but Decker points out forcibly that the M'ouk has functioning Jump engines which the Endeavour does not and that the information about these ships MUST be got out.
The M'ouk sets course for the other jump point and the Endeavour fires on and distracts the two ships. Just as the M'ouk reaches the jump point they see on their view screen that the Endeavour is hit by a massive fusuillade of powerful blasts and torpedoes. There is a blinding flash and the Endeavour is nowhere to be seen. The M'ouk jumps and Quos sends a signal to both the Klingon and Commonwealth High Commands that the Endeavour has been destroyed by the unknown ships.
Mission date 2341.7 and the Endeavour is mapping the PQ 17 system when its sensors are drowned out by multiple distress signals. After a few moments the signals disappear. A couple of hours later Decker receives a priority one signal from Admiral Pike of the DTI (guest star Christopher Plummer). It appears that the entire Commonwealth heard those signals as did the Klingon Empire. So far nothing seems untoward but the signals did seem to emanate from a system on the edge of Klingon and Commonwealth space. Decker is ordered to investigate.
The Endeavour jumps to the designated system and is immediately hailed by a Klingon ship the IKS M'ouk. Its Commander is Quos (guest star Earl Cameron) a Klingon that the Endeavour has dealt with many times before and with whom there is a great deal of mutual respect. They confer and agree that the signals seemed to have emanated from a particular point in the system. As they approach they discover a temporal instability at those coordinates. The signals reoccur but are much clearer and seem to be distress signals from both Commonwealth and Klingon ships who are battling a common foe.
Spock analyses the signals and the Command crews of both ships hold a meeting. Both Spock and the Klingon Science Officer M'htoq (special guest star Bill Cosby)agree that the signals seem to be coming from a spread of time. The earliest signals seem to be concurrent or nearly so with the current date and the last from about 70 years in the future. Not much can be made from the signals except that the enemy seems to be called the Tahlurhians and that their ships are even bigger and more powerful than the Rhihannaun.
All the Klingons look worried as the Tahlurhians are the bogey men of ancient Klingon legends that pre date the original founding of the first Klingon Empire on Kh'Onnos. Decker and Quos send their conclusions to their respective commands and wait to see if any more signals are produced. Soon more do arrive but analysis does not provide any further information.
Suddenly a really battered Rhihannaun ship appears at the jump point. It is extensively damaged. Seconds later it is followed by two other ships that dwarf even the massive Rhihannaun ship. They blast and destroy it. They then turn and fire on both the Endeavour and the M'ouk causing extensive damage to both and destroying the Endeavour's jump engines.
Decker quickly reaches a decision he beams all the crew that can be spared from the Endeavour to the M'ouk and informs Quos that he will cover the M'ouk to the other jump point in the system. Quos argues but Decker points out forcibly that the M'ouk has functioning Jump engines which the Endeavour does not and that the information about these ships MUST be got out.
The M'ouk sets course for the other jump point and the Endeavour fires on and distracts the two ships. Just as the M'ouk reaches the jump point they see on their view screen that the Endeavour is hit by a massive fusuillade of powerful blasts and torpedoes. There is a blinding flash and the Endeavour is nowhere to be seen. The M'ouk jumps and Quos sends a signal to both the Klingon and Commonwealth High Commands that the Endeavour has been destroyed by the unknown ships.
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Star Trek will resume in January 1968.
Once again Star Trek trounced anything that the BBC put up against it.
Interestingly viewing figures were actually slightly down on the first series. Lew Grade had this investigated and the findings were not to his liking. The changes that he had introduced to try to make the programme more saleable to a US network actually proved to be a slight turn off for the British viewers. "It's too American, too many Americans, too much fighting and not enough thinking" were the major complaints from those few who had stopped watching the programme.
This was galling as NBC ,who had finally bought the show and had promptly shown season 1 in the graveyard shift on a Friday evening, had a list of proposed changes which were the polar opposite! Even so it still picked up respectable viewing figures for a non American production even in that time slot.
Series 3 was already "in the can" so any changes would have to be in UK series 4 and 5 (US season 3). However the changes in ITV made as a result of Lord Hill's report were due to come into effect on July 28th 1968 and negotiations would have to be held with all the ITV Companies. This was to prove very problematic with 2 of the new companies, Yorkshire Television and London Weekend Television.
Once again Star Trek trounced anything that the BBC put up against it.
Interestingly viewing figures were actually slightly down on the first series. Lew Grade had this investigated and the findings were not to his liking. The changes that he had introduced to try to make the programme more saleable to a US network actually proved to be a slight turn off for the British viewers. "It's too American, too many Americans, too much fighting and not enough thinking" were the major complaints from those few who had stopped watching the programme.
This was galling as NBC ,who had finally bought the show and had promptly shown season 1 in the graveyard shift on a Friday evening, had a list of proposed changes which were the polar opposite! Even so it still picked up respectable viewing figures for a non American production even in that time slot.
Series 3 was already "in the can" so any changes would have to be in UK series 4 and 5 (US season 3). However the changes in ITV made as a result of Lord Hill's report were due to come into effect on July 28th 1968 and negotiations would have to be held with all the ITV Companies. This was to prove very problematic with 2 of the new companies, Yorkshire Television and London Weekend Television.
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Yorkshire Television proved relatively easy to solve, they themselves came round to the idea and changed their putative scheduling accordingly including at 7pm Weekend Calender which showed brief appropriate sports highlights for the season (don't worry Danny Blanchflower will still be doing the football commentary on the Sunday Highlights show (yes he was that bad unfortunately))
London Weekend proved to be far more resistant and only promised to look at the situation AFTER the series being shown January to March 1968. They really wanted to establish their own brand identity (they were planning on showing the Ron Ely Tarzan series at 7:30pm!!!! fine in its way when not clashing with Dr Who but still!).
(yes he was that bad unfortunately))London Weekend proved to be far more resistant and only promised to look at the situation AFTER the series being shown January to March 1968. They really wanted to establish their own brand identity (they were planning on showing the Ron Ely Tarzan series at 7:30pm!!!! fine in its way when not clashing with Dr Who but still!).
Series 2
Series 2?
Here are the programmes of series 2. However it should be noted that unofficially the 9 Plummer episodes of series 1 were being referred to as series 1 and the 17 Bradford episodes as series 2 ( that was how a lot of countries were showing them). Which of course makes this series 3!
Anyway:
1. Return of the Forgotten 2/9/67
2. The Ultimate Weapon 9/9/67
3. Triskelion 16/9/67
4. Growing Old is Bad for You 23/9/67
5. The Dragon 30/9/67
6. Gemini III 7/10/67
7. The Map 14/10/67
8. Whom the Gods Destroy 21/10/67
9. The Return of Harry Mudd 28/10/67
10. A Day in the Life 4/11/67
11. Omega IV 11/11/67
12. Treat both the same 18/11/67
13. Checkmate 25/11/67
I must admit that I'm beginning to run out of ideas for programmes despite plundering Captain Scarlet, Space 1999 and of course OTL Star Trek for ideas. The next series should be OK but the one after that!!!
Here are the programmes of series 2. However it should be noted that unofficially the 9 Plummer episodes of series 1 were being referred to as series 1 and the 17 Bradford episodes as series 2 ( that was how a lot of countries were showing them). Which of course makes this series 3!
Anyway:
1. Return of the Forgotten 2/9/67
2. The Ultimate Weapon 9/9/67
3. Triskelion 16/9/67
4. Growing Old is Bad for You 23/9/67
5. The Dragon 30/9/67
6. Gemini III 7/10/67
7. The Map 14/10/67
8. Whom the Gods Destroy 21/10/67
9. The Return of Harry Mudd 28/10/67
10. A Day in the Life 4/11/67
11. Omega IV 11/11/67
12. Treat both the same 18/11/67
13. Checkmate 25/11/67
I must admit that I'm beginning to run out of ideas for programmes despite plundering Captain Scarlet, Space 1999 and of course OTL Star Trek for ideas. The next series should be OK but the one after that!!!