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Название: The Unauthorized History of Trek
Автор: James Hise van
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Кинематограф, театр
isbn: 9780008240257
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“Metamorphosis” introduces Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive, who was believed to have died a century before at the age of eighty-seven. It seems that he met a nebulous space creature who has kept him alive ever since; it has diverted the Galileo shuttlecraft to his location in order to provide him with human companionship. Cochrane begins to fall in love with the terminally ill Nancy Hedford, a Federation functionary who was being taken to the Enterprise. Kirk uses a translator to communicate with the alien companion and discovers that it is in love with Cochrane. Cochrane is initially repulsed by this, but accepts it when the immortal being merges with the dying woman, who stays with the scientist as the Enterprise resumes its course.
“Journey to Babel” finally introduces Spock’s parents. the Vulcan Sarek (Mark Lenard) and his human wife Amanda (Jane Wyatt). The occasion is a diplomatic mission. A ship is following the Enterprise; the Tellarite ambassador is murdered and Sarek is the prime suspect. Sarek needs a blood transfusion for a heart operation, but Spock must act as captain after an Andorian stabs Kirk. Kirk fakes his recovery so Spock can give blood. A battle with the ship results in its destruction. Kirk’s attacker kills himself after revealing that he killed the Tellarite ambassador, and Spock and his father achieve a rapprochement after nearly twenty years of estrangement.
In December 1967, another letter campaign came to the rescue of the again-beleaguered series. This one, orchestrated by fan Bjo Trimble and her husband, John, was even more successful than the first. Inspired by NBC’s decision to cancel the show, it generated an unprecedented number of letters, and would prove instrumental in clearing the way for the show’s third season.
New Year’s Day, 1968, saw the Star Trek season’s continuation with a perhaps unintentional Christmas touch: an episode wherein a child is born in a cave.
“Friday’s Child” opens with a briefing on how to get along in Capellan society. Kirk and crew are headed for Capella IV to head off a potential alliance between that world and the Klingons, but the good captain doesn’t seem to have learned much about the required protocol. The planet’s leader is deposed and his wife seems fated to die, but Kirk interferes and the Klingons turn the Capellans against him and his team. McCoy helps the woman deliver her baby, who is ultimately named the new ruler when the Klingons kill the latest ruler; the child is named “Leonard James” after McCoy and Kirk—but Spock, not much for children, it seems, gets short shrift.
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