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Science Fiction » alt.startrek » TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 4 of 4
TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 4 of 4 [message #189935] Fr, 23 Dezember 2005 18:14
Empok Nor  
ACT FOUR

The lithium cracking station on Delta Vega. "Captain's log, stardate
1313.3," Kirk voiceovers. "Note commendations on Lt. Kelso and the
engineering staff."

The mining station, as Kirk watches Kelso and the engineering staff at
work: "In orbit above us, the engines of the Enterprise are almost
fully regenerated." As the engineering staff all make for the door:
"Balance of the landing party is being transported back up." Kelso
seats himself on the console.

Mitchell is standing in his room. The hair on his temples has gone
gray: "Mitchell, whatever he's become, keeps changing, growing stronger
by the minute."

Dehner, Spock and Kirk stand outside the room. Spock still has the
phaser rifle, and looks like he wants to use it, now. Dehner has an
odd half-smile on her face. "He's been like that for hours now," she
says.

"Have Dr. Piper meet us in the control room with Kelso," Kirk tells
Spock. "We'll all transport up together."

"If he should try to stop us?" asks Spock.

"Kelso will be on the destruct button until the last minute," says
Kirk. "I think he knows that."

"I'm staying behind with him," Dehner announces suddenly.

As we look at Mitchell, Kelso in the control room dissolves into view.
Kelso is talking into a communicator: "Uh, fission chamber three checks
out. The station seems to be running fine."

"You're a talented thief, Kelso," Scott's voice replies. On the floor
behind the console, one of the cables rises up. Mitchell dissolves out
of view. "Everything you sent up seems to be fittin' in place." Cut
to a grinning Kelso as the cable rises into view behind him.

"I'm kinda proud of the job we've done," says Kelso. "Are we going to
be ready to transport u--" The cable slips over Kelso's head and wraps
itself around his neck. As his struggles grow weaker, we dissolve back
to Mitchell.

"You're leaving with the ship, doctor," Kirk informs Dehner.

"He is not evil!" insists Dehner, oddly echoing Default Vina's "They
don't mean to be evil" from the first pilot.

"I gave you an order, doctor," Kirk states.

Their dispute ends when Mitchell announces, "You should have killed me
while you could, James." In the reverby voice, he adds, "Command and
compassion is a fool's mixture." As Kirk steps closer, Mitchell does a
little twiddle thing with his fingers and Kirk gets hit with another
electrical shock. Spock levels the phaser rifle and gets hit as well.
Both men are out of action.

Dehner slowly turns to face Mitchell, who waves his hand and makes the
force field go away. He walks up to Dehner, brushes his hand against
her face, then guides her into the room. He shows her to a mirror, and
we can see that her eyes have become just like his.

We dissolve to a shot of Kirk and Spock lying on the floor outside
Mitchell's room. Piper rushes up and checks the two of them for
lifesigns. As Kirk starts to sit up, Piper gives him a pill. "It hit
me too, whatever it was," he tells Kirk. "Kelso is dead -- strangled.
At least Spock's alive."

"Dr. Dehner?" asks Kirk.

"She went with Mitchell."

Kirk stops Piper as he's about to revive Spock. "Don't give him a pill
until after I'm gone. My fault Mitchell got as far as he did." A
sigh, then, "Did you see their direction?"

"Why, yes. There was some morning light. They were headed across the
valley to the left of the pointed peaks. There's flat land beyond."

Struggling to his feet, Kirk tells him, "When Mr. Spock recovers you'll
both transport up immediately to the Enterprise." Ignoring Piper's
attempt to interrupt him, Kirk continues, "Where, if you have not
received a signal from me within twelve hours, you'll procede at
maximum warp to the nearest Earth base with my recommendation that this
entire planet be subjected to a lethal concentration of deutron
radiation." During this speech Kirk picks up the phaser rifle and
checks its power level. When Piper again attempts to speak, Kirk says,
"No protest on this, Mark. That's an order." Hefting the phaser
rifle, Kirk heads out.

***********************

Delta Vega, to the left of the pointed peaks. Mitchell and Dehner are
walking casually through a windstorm. With its jagged, rocky surface
and green-tinged cloudy sky, Delta Vega looks remarkably similar to
Talos IV.

"It would take almost a miracle to survive here," Dehner observes.

"Then I shall make one," says Mitchell in his Burning Bush reverb
voice. You know, it's never a good thing when a mutant superbeing
starts using the word "shall" in casual conversation. Or "behold".
"Behold," he says, and with a wave of his hand, a stretch of barren
ground acquires a pool of water, a bubbling fountain, and various
plants. The wind dies away.

Dehner looks astonished. She and Mitchell walk forward into his little
oasis. Mitchell flings his arms out wide and laughs. Another bad
sign. Dehner picks a flower, while Mitchell kneels down, cups some
water in his hand, and lets it trickle through. It occurs to me at
this point that Mitchell should have just let Kirk maroon him here.
Kelso would still be alive, and Kirk would have probably left Dehner
behind anyway as soon as her eyes turned all shiny.

"You'll soon share this feeling, Elizabeth," says Burning Bush
Mitchell. "To be like God, to have the power to make the world
anything you want it to be."

Back to Kirk, toting his phaser rifle through the howling desolate
emptiness of Delta Vega.

Back to Mitchell and Dehner as Burning Bush Boy looks up suddenly.
Standing up, Dehner asks, "What's wrong?"

"A visitor," says Mitchell. "A very foolish man." I've got to agree
with him on that one. The Enterprise should already be maximum warping
its way the hell out of there. Who knows what Mitchell will be capable
of twelve hours from now?

Back to Kirk, struggling his way through the pointed peaks. A nearby
rock suddenly decides to roll past him.

Back to Mitchell and Dehner. "You'll enjoy being a god, Elizabeth."
When she turns and looks at him, Mitchell sneers, "Blasphemy? No. Let
there be food." Gesturing with his hand, he says, "Kaferian apples,"
and a Kaferian apple tree (or maybe bush would be a better word, it's
pretty small) appears.

Back to Kirk, still making his way through the pointed peaks. He's
spooked, now, looking around for any more rolling rocks. Vengeance is
mine, saith Burning Bush Boy.

Back to Mitchell and Dehner, the former holding two halves of a
Kaferian apple. "Whenever we visited that planet, I always favored
these." He hands her half. Just like the last time, see, only this
time, it's the man giving the woman the apple.

Back to Kirk, as he peers over a rock.

Back to Mitchell and Dehner, munching on their Kaferian apples. "Can
you hear me, James?" reverbs Mitchell.

Kirk, toting his phaser rifle, can. "You cannot see me. I'm not
there. You follow the right path, James, you'll come to me soon."

Back to Mitchell and Dehner. A smiling Dehner says, "I can see him in
my mind too."

Taking the half-eaten apple from her (and what are the theological
implications of that, huh?), Mitchell says, "Go to him, Elizabeth.
Talk to him. Now that you're changing, I want you to see just how
unimportant they are."

Kirk moves forward, then comes across Elizabeth standing there. Well,
she looked at me, and I, I could see, that the way she looked was way
beyond compare. Now, how could I dance with another when I saw her
standing there? With her shiny silver eyes? "Yes, it just took a
little longer for it to happen to me," she tells him. She approaches
him, and he takes a step back.

After looking around for Mitchell, Kirk says, "You must help me, before
it goes too far."

"What he's doing is right, for him and me," Dehner informs him.

"And for humanity?" asks Kirk. "You're still human." Dehner starts to
contradict him, but Kirk insists, "At least partly, you are, or you
wouldn't be here talking to me." He's got a point there. The urge to
chatter on and on is definitely our most human trait.

"Earth is really unimportant," Dehner casually tells him as he prowls
around. "Before long, we'll be where it would have taken mankind
millions of years of learning to reach."

Kirk dramatically rushes up to Dehner's side. "And what will Mitchell
learn in getting there? Will he know what to do with his power? Will
he acquire the wisdom?"

"Please go back while you still can," Dehner warns him. Perhaps she's
worried that he's starting to make sense.

"Did you hear him joke about compassion?" Kirk calls out to Mitchell,
"Above all else, a god needs compassion! Mitchell!" When Mitchell
doesn't answer, Kirk turns back to Dehner. "Elizabeth --"

"What do you know about gods?" Dehner demands.

"Then let's talk about humans," Kirk responds, "about our frailties.
As powerful as he gets, he'll still have all that inside him."

Kirk is starting to make too much sense again, so Dehner tells him, "Go
back." She turns to leave, but he grabs her arm. The fact that she
doesn't just zap him then and there tells us that he's starting to get
through to her.

"You were a psychiatrist once," he reminds her. "You know the ugly,
savage things we all keep buried, that none of us dare expose. But
he'll dare! Who's to stop him? He doesn't need to care." Kirk is
practically pleading now. "Be a psychiatrist for one minute longer.
What do you see happening to him? What's your prognosis, doctor?"

"He's coming," Dehner tells him, giving no sign that she's heard a word
he's said. Kirk quickly lets go of Dehner's arm and brings up the
barrel of the phaser rifle.

"Then watch him," Kirk tells her. "Hang on to being a human for one
minute longer."

"I'm disappointed in you, Elizabeth," says Reverb Boy. Kirk goes into
a diving roll and comes up pointing the phaser rifle at Mitchell. He
fires. The effect (in both senses of the word) is just like the laser
cannon Number One fired at the rocky knoll in the first pilot: splashes
of animated backblast, and none. Mitchell just stands there smiling at
Kirk until Kirk stops firing. Then, with a wave of his hand, Mitchell
tears the phaser rifle out of Kirk's hands and sends it flying, leaving
Kirk kneeling on the ground. Still with that little smile, he says,
"I've been contemplating the death of an old friend." He turns to look
at a rock face to his left, focusing his attention on a big ol' slab of
basalt. "He deserves a decent burial, at least." A wave of his hand,
and there's an open grave in the ground. Another gesture, and a
tombstone appears with the words JAMES R KIRK c1277.1 to 1313.7.
(Since Mitchell was born on stardate 1087.7 and Dehner was born on
1089.5, that must make Kirk about five years old.)

Mitchell looks back up at the slab of basalt in the wall, gestures, and
the slab detaches itself from the rock face and leans over the grave.
Dehner, who apparently has indeed been watching Mitchell toying with
Kirk with a critical eye, says "Stop it, Gary."

Now, if Mitchell was really smart, he'd say, "You know, Elizabeth,
you've got a point. James, just to show there are no hard feelings
about your attempt to kill me just now, I'll let you call the ship and
beam up. I'll even throw in a bushel of Kaferian apples, just to show
I'm willing to let bygones be bygones. You go on your merry way, and
I'll stay marooned here on Delta Vega for the rest of my unnatural
existence just like you wanted. Deal?" Instead, he just responds with
an imperious "Morals are for men, not gods." Under the circumstances,
not the wisest thing he could have said. Which also kind of proves
Kirk's point.

Kirk stands up and says, "A god, but still driven by human frailty."
He looks over at Dehner and says, "Do you like what you see?"

Proving he still doesn't get it, Mitchell says, "Time to pray, Captain.
Pray to me." A gesture, and Kirk is forced forward.

"To you?" Kirk sneers. "Not to both of you?"

"Pray that you die easily," Mitchell tells him, and with another
gesture sends Kirk down on his knees. A second gesture brings Kirk's
head up.

"There'll only be one of you in the end," Kirk says. Another gesture
from Mitchell brings Kirk's hands together palm to palm, a final one
twists his face into an expression of adoration. "One jealous god,"
Kirk gasps out, "if all this makes a god. Or is it making you
something else?"

"Your last chance, Kirk," says Mitchell.

Mitchell has Kirk's eyes fixed on him, but Kirk is speaking to Dehner.
"Do you like what you see? Absolute power corrupting absolutely."

Convinced, Dehner slowly raises her hand and send a lightning bolt at
Mitchell, then a second. Mitchell responds with several of his own,
and the two trade lightning strikes back and forth. By the time
they're done, both are on the ground, and Mitchell's eyes are back to
normal. "Hurry," Dehner says, "you haven't much time."

Kirk belts Mitchell in the chops, and follows up with a left to the
breadbasket and a double-handed club to the back of the head. Mitchell
stumbles forward, turns, gets another left to the gut, one to the
torso, and a karate chop to the neck. Kirk follows up the chop by
throwing Mitchell over his shoulder. A roundhouse to the jaw sends
Mitchell flying over a boulder, and Kirk dives over the boulder to
bring Mitchell to the ground, tearing his tunic in the process to
expose his left shoulder and some manly torso. Mitchell recovers
enough to give Kirk a left to the jaw, then a right as Kirk starts to
rise. Kirk recovers and charges Mitchell, buring his face in
Mitchell's chest. Kirk's stunt double (Paul Baxley) slams Mitchell's
stunt double (Hal Needham) with a powerhouse right to the kisser, leaps
onto the prone Mitchell's stunt double, then grabs a nice big rock and
lifts it over his head.

A shot of Kirk, scrapes on his right temple and right cheek, holding
the rock above his head. "Gary, forgive me."

A shot of Mitchell, as his eyes go silver again. His hands shoot up
and he arrests the fall of the rock. "For a moment, James," he says in
his reverb voice, "but your moment is fading." He pushes.

A shot of Kirk's stunt double being thrown off of Mitchell's stunt
double.

Kirk and Mitchell face each other across a prone Dehner. Kirk moves
back and to the right until he comes up against the rock face. He aims
a punch at Mitchell, which is intercepted. Mitchell sends Kirk
spinning through the air to a hard landing. Mitchell picks up a much
bigger rock, pauses (or poses) with the rock held over his head, then
throws it. Kirk ducks under the rock, grabs Mitchell, and pulls him
into the grave. Then he jumps out again, runs and grabs the phaser
rifle, points it up at the basalt slab which is still hanging suspended
over the grave, and shoots it. The ground shakes, pitching Mitchell
back into the grave. The tombstone falls over onto him, followed by
the basalt slab.

As the dust settles, Kirk crouches down by Dehner, the phaser rifle
still cradled in his right arm. He sets the rifle down when he sees
that she can't move anything below her neck. "I'm sorry," she says.
"You . . . can't know what it's like to . . . be almost a . . . god."
Sure he can, he's a starship captain, isn't he? At any rate, these are
Dehner's last words before she closes her eyes and dies.

Kirk brushes a hand against her sleeve, then picks up the phaser rifle
and stands up. He pulls out his communicator (which looks just like
the ones Captain Pike's crew used), flips it open, and says,
"Enterprise, from Captain Kirk. Come in."

***********************

THE TAG

Dissolve to a shot of Enterprise leaving Delta Vega.

Cut to a shot of the bridge, angle on the captain's chair. Yeoman
Smith is standing nearby, while Scott mans the navigation console.
Kirk, his right hand bandaged, adjusts the monitor on the gooseneck
mount to face him. "Captain's log, stardate 1313.8. Add to official
losses Dr. Elizabeth Dehner. Be it noted she gave her life in
performance of her duty." As Spock joins Kirk, he adds, "Lieutenant
Commander Gary Mitchell, same notation." He switches off the monitor.
Kirk looks at Spock and says, "I want his service record to end that
way. He didn't ask for what happened to him."

"I felt for him too," Spock states.

Still looking at Spock, Kirk says, "I believe there's some hope for you
after all, Mr. Spock."

The two exchange a look, then resume watching the main viewscreen.

Cut to the main viewscreen, showing stars moving past.

Cut to a shot of the Enterprise moving off into the starry distance.
The words DIRECTED BY JAMES GOLDSTONE appear, followed by WRITTEN BY
SAMUEL A. PEEPLES, then CREATED AND PRODUCED BY GENE RODDENBERRY.

************************

CLOSING CREDITS

Shot of the Enterprise caught in the Galactic Barrier.

STAR TREK

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ROBERT H. JUSTMAN

Shot of Damsel Vina approaching Captain Pike on Rigel VII.

MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER COURAGE

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ERNEST HALLER, A.C.S.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER WALTER M. JEFFERIES

Shot of Mitchell and Dehner looking out from the mirror.

GUEST STAR GARY LOCKWOOD

GUEST STAR SALLY KELLERMAN

Shot of the laser cannon shooting at the rocky knoll on Talos IV.

FEATURING
GEORGE TAKEI AS SULU
JAMES DOOHAN AS SCOTT
LLOYD HAYNES AS ALDEN
ANDREA DROMM AS YEOMAN SMITH

AND
PAUL CARR AS LT. LEE KELSO
PAUL FIX AS DOCTOR PIPER

Shot of the frozen engineer on PSI 2000.

ART DIRECTOR ROLLAND M. BROOKS
FILM EDITOR JOHN FOLEY, A.C.E.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ROBERT H. JUSTMAN
SET DECORATOR ROSS DOWD
COSTUMES CREATED BY WILLIAM THEISS
SOUND MIXER CAM McCULLOUGH

POST PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE BILL HEATH
MUSIC EDITOR JACK HUNSAKER
SOUND EDITOR JOSEPH G. SOROKIN
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR JAMES PAISLEY
WARDROBE PAUL McCARDLE
SPECIAL EFFECTS BOB OVERBECK

MUSIC CONSULTANT WILBUR HATCH
MUSIC COORDINATOR JULIAN DAVIDSON
MAKEUP ROBERT DAWN
HAIR STYLES HAZEL KEATS
PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFECTS HOWARD ANDERSON CO.

Shot of Glistening Green Vina dancing.

A DESILU PRODUCTION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH NORWAY CORPORATION

EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION HERBERT F. SOLOW

**********************

EPILOGUE

It took a long time, days, before Mitchell was strong enough to escape
from beneath the basalt slab. By then, the Enterprise was light-years
away, well beyond his reach. As he stood in the clearing, pondering
his options, there was a flash of light, and a man was standing in
front of him. The man had short, dark hair and wore a Starfleet
Captain's uniform. "Jim was right, you know, Gary," the man told him.
"You were corrupted by your power. Absolutely."

"Who are you?" Mitchell wondered.

"I'm a member of an extremely advanced noncorporeal race that inhabits
a realm we call the Q continuum. You can call me Q."

"Are you here to rescue me?"

"No, Gary. I'm here to imprison you for eternity."

With a gesture, Mitchell directed a bolt of energy at Q's body. Q
vanished in another flash of light, then reappeared again. "That
wasn't very friendly, Gary," Q observed. Q gestured in his own turn,
and Mitchell found himself encased in a glass box. He smashed his fist
into it, but it didn't break. He sent a bolt of energy into it, and it
still didn't break. He threw his body against it, and it still didn't
break.

Q sighed, then gestured. There was a momentary flash of light all
around him, then Mitchell found that he was no longer on the surface of
Delta Vega. Instead, he was somewhere in outer space. He was still
inside the glass box, though, and the force of gravity was the same as
it had been on Delta Vega. Spread out before him was a spiral galaxy,
which he recognized immediately as the Milky Way Galaxy. There was an
image of it on one of the walls of the transporter room, back on the
Enterprise.

Q was still with him, a few feet away from the glass box, standing
nonchalantly on empty space. Mitchell asked him, "Is this where you're
going to imprison me? Inside this box, hanging here in intergalactic
space?"

"Oh, no," Q assured him. "I'm afraid intergalactic space isn't nearly
secure enough. I'm sure the Kelvans or somebody will come blundering
along in a few centuries and set you free, and we certainly don't want
that. No, I've just brought us here to get our bearings, so to speak.
We were there," he pointed down towards the fringe of the galaxy, "on
Delta Vega. Our destination is there," he pointed across to the center
of the galaxy, "in the center of the galaxy."

"There's supposed to be a black hole at the center of the galaxy,"
Mitchell pointed out. "Are you just going to throw me into it, then?
Won't that kill me?"

"Oh, that's not a black hole," Q assured him. "It might look that way
to limited beings such as humanity, but it's not. It's actually a
barrier. I like to call it the Great Barrier." Q gestured again, and
the two of them were once again standing on the surface of a planet.
Mitchell was still in the glass box. The surface of the planet was
barren, rather like that of Delta Vega. The sky was clear, and held
shifting blue curtains of light like an aurora borealis.

"Well, this is it," said Q. "Take your time, look around, get to know
it. You're going to be staying here for the rest of your life.
However long that is." With a final gesture, Q disappeared in another
flash of light, and the glass box was gone.

Mitchell was free. And he was alone, on a desolate planet that was
walled off from the rest of the universe. Come on, he told himself,
think. You're God, aren't you? You can come up with a way out of this
place.

Mitchell stood and pondered, for a long time.

**************************

Elizabeth Dehner opened her eyes, and saw a man standing over her prone
form. He had dark hair, and wore the uniform of a Starfleet Captain.
"Hello, Liz," he said.

"I prefer Elizabeth," she said automatically. "And why aren't I dead?"

"You aren't dead because you've been exposed to the energy of the
Galactic Barrier," the man told him. "You cannot die."

"Are you from Earth? Where is Captain Kirk?"

"Earth? Hardly," the man said with distaste. "And Captain Kirk beamed
back up to his vessel. He's convinced that you and Gary are both dead.
As for me, I'm a member of an extremely advanced noncorporeal race
that inhabits a realm we call the Q continuum. You can call me Q. I
was observing your little drama with Gary and Jim, and I must tell you
I was quite impressed with your actions. I'm here to invite you to
join me in the Q continuum. You'll like it there. A much healthier
place for you than among these mortals you've been living with." He
reached down with a hand, and helped her to her feet.

"What about Gary? Will he be coming to this . . . Q continuum with
us?"

"I'm afraid I wasn't nearly as impressed with Gary's behavior," Q
confided. "Gary will be spending his days in . . . another place."

Dehner sighed. "I'm afraid he always was kind of an asshole. Very
well, Q. Show me the way."

And he did.

**********************

Per the Okudas, filming on "Where No Man Has Gone Before" wrapped on
Wednesday, July 28, 1965, with the fight scene between Kirk and
Mitchell. Whitfield notes that this was one day more than had been
originally planned. On Friday the 23rd, a heretofore unknown nest of
wasps made its presence known on the soundstage, stinging Sally
Kellerman in the back (according to Whitfield; Robert H. Justman
implies that she was actually stung on her ass) and William Shatner on
the eyelid. Fortunately, when filming resumed on Monday the 26th the
swelling had gone down enough for Shatner to resume shooting.

GR was initially unable to devote much attention to postproduction work
on "Where No Man Has Gone Before". He spent much of August 1965
producing a second pilot for Desilu called "Police Story" (no relation
to the anthology series of the same name that eventually ran on NBC
from 1973 to 1977), and much of September producing a third called "The
Long Hunt of April Savage". It was not until October that GR could
devote his full attention to the second pilot. In addition, the Star
Trek production team had an enormous amount of difficulty finishing the
pilot's optical effects. What with one thing and another, it wasn't
until the end of January 1966 that he managed to ship the second pilot
off to the suits at NBC, after having taken ten months and $330,000
(Solow says $354,974) to produce it. In the middle of February, Herb
Solow returned to Desilu with news that NBC had decided to buy the
series.

Quite a bit of lore has grown up around "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
The second half of Margaret Wander Bonanno's 1987 novel Strangers from
the Sky is a prequel to the second pilot in which Kirk, Spock,
Mitchell, Dehner and Kelso travel back to the 21st century. The first
novel in David Mack's "Vanguard" series, Harbinger (2005), which takes
place shortly after the second pilot, has the Enterprise arriving at a
newly-built Federation starbase after leaving Delta Vega. Michael Jan
Friedman's "My Brother's Keeper" trilogy (1999) follows the
Enterprise's return to Earth after the events of the second pilot,
though most of the trilogy consists of flashbacks showing Kirk's
fifteen year friendship with Mitchell. (The third novel in the
trilogy, Enterprise, begins its flashback with the Enterprise preparing
to leave Dimorus and Mitchell still flat on his back in sickbay from
the aftereffects of the poisoned dart.) As noted above, Friedman also
related the story of the S.S. Valiant in his 2000 TNG novel of that
name.

GR and Peeples were clearly trying to give their fictional universe a
sense of historical depth, such as having the Enterprise come across a
200-year-old warning beacon, Tarbolde's 1996-vintage love sonnet, Kirk
and Mitchell's history at "the academy" and Dimorus and Deneb IV.
Nevertheless, to someone steeped in Star Trek lore, the stage on which
the second pilot is played is a bare one. No United Federation of
Planets, no Starfleet, no starbases, not even any food synthesizers or
red and yellow alerts. We still don't know anything about Mr. Spock's
background except for the fact that one of his ancestors married a
"human female". The name "Vulcan" has yet to be mentioned. All we
really have are the ship and its crew, and a handful of names: the
Aldebaran colony, Delta Vega, Deneb IV, Canopus, Dimorus.

In 1965, Samuel A. Peeples was a 48-year-old writer with nine years'
experience writing for television, mostly episodes of Western
television series. He would go on to write an episode of the animated
Star Trek series called "Beyond the Farthest Star", and contribute to
the story for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He died on August 27,
1997.

Internal chronology: Per Memory Alpha, it is now generally accepted
that "Where No Man Has Gone Before" takes place in the year 2265,
placing it one year before the first regular season episode, "The
Corbomite Maneuver", and eleven years after the first pilot, "The Cage".
Re: TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 4 of 4 [message #189939 ] Fr, 23 Dezember 2005 22:52
Kweeg  
"Empok Nor" <tkalino [at] localnet.com> wrote in message
news:1135358045.617202.77710 [at] g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

<snip very well done recap, keep 'em coming>
Like your Epilogue (if only Trek writers would make 'canon') very cool.
Reminds me of one of the few Trek books I've read "Q-Squared"

--

Qapla'
Kweeg
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Re: TOS Recap: Where No Man Has Gone Before, part 4 of 4 [message #189960 ] Sa, 24 Dezember 2005 16:56
Wouter Valentijn  
Kweeg wrote:
> "Empok Nor" <tkalino [at] localnet.com> wrote in message
> news:1135358045.617202.77710 [at] g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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> <snip very well done recap, keep 'em coming>
> Like your Epilogue (if only Trek writers would make 'canon') very
> cool. Reminds me of one of the few Trek books I've read "Q-Squared"

Indeed!
If Gary would become the god of ST V....
LOL !!

There is also a Marvel comic with a cross-over between Star Trek and the
X-Men that pits both groups against Mitchell again and if I recall the
mutant Proteus.

BTW, reading this makes me realise again that WNMHGB is one of the most
powerful Star Trek stories ever.

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