Podcast Enterprise: S2S23 The Omega Glory
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- Story structure
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The synopsis: When this episode opens, we find that the USS Enterprise is orbiting a planet called Omega IV, and it’s also getting close to a ship called the USS Exeter, which has had some sort of problem with communication, and it has gone offline, and the Federation wants to know what happened to this ship. So Kirk, along with the landing party that consists of himself, McCoy and Spock, board the USS Exeter along with Lieutenant Galloway, and they find the ship is completely deserted. But after they do a bit of preliminary examinations, They find that it’s not deserted. They find that the members of this ship were actually dead and all the water has been drained out of their body reducing them to just some kind of crystalline dust material. The surgeons log that they find aboard the bridge tells them that there is an infection aboard and the only way to avoid any sort of death, the same fate is to have themselves beamed down to this planet.
That’s the only way. And the captain of the USS Exeter is also down on that planet. So Kirk and the landing party cannot go back to the USS Enterprise. So they beamed down to Omega IV. There they find Captain Ronald Tracy, who is the captain of the USS Exeter.
And here’s where things get a little bit bizarre because they come to a village square. They find one set of people, one group of aliens attempting to behead another group of humanoid aliens. The aliens in charge seem to be more Far Eastern in appearance. They are very humanoid. And the other group of aliens, the supposed savages, look like Europeans.
And one thing leads to another. The aliens in power are the Kohms. And the others are the Yangs. Captain Kirk finds that Captain Tracy is a little off in the head. He’s looking for immortality. There is something in the planet’s atmosphere that protects all of them from disease.
And because of that, according to Captain Tracy, at least The Kohms are living for thousands of years. He wants that kind of longevity for himself. But he also takes a dislike to Kirk and has him imprisoned. While in prison, Kirk manages to somehow befriend some of the Yangs over there.
He also gets beaten up quite often, as we’ll see in this episode. There are a lot of fistfights. Once he’s out of that prison, he also finds that the Yangs have some sort of obsession with freedom, which ties into the American constitution and the Kohms are communists. He manages to bring both these groups together in a very strange turn of events.
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