In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we journey to the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab, where research director Maura Cassidy and her team encounter mysterious phenomena linked to the works of Edgar Allan Poe. As the deep space laboratory ship Galileo returns with its crew in a state of identical dreams, the team must unravel the connection between these dreams and Poe's haunting tales. The narrative unfolds with a rescue mission to the planetoid Tamerlane, where the crew experiences a dream within a dream, exploring the boundaries of reality and the ethereal realms of Poe's imagination.
As the story progresses, the team discovers a dream chamber that transcends time and space, revealing the spectral presence of Poe himself. With the planetoid slipping back into its own dimension, the crew must escape before being trapped in this parallel universe. This episode masterfully blends science fiction with literary homage, creating a captivating tale of exploration, dreams, and the enduring power of storytelling.
(00:33) Introduction to STAR Lab and the Mission
(01:35) The Mysterious Incident on the Galileo
(05:18) Analyzing the Crew's Dream State
(06:18) The Return of the Galileo and Poe's Influence
(12:16) Journey to Tamerlane and the House of Usher
(19:03) The Dream Chamber and Poe's Eternity
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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond twenty first century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab. Here, STAR Lab research director, Maura Cassidy, and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority watch over the countless star systems that filled the universe. This week, Maura Cassidy and space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff encounter the phantoms of Tamerlane and experience a dream within a dream on Alien Worlds.
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StarLab control. This is the Galileo. Do you read me?
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This is StarLab. I read you, Galileo. What's your situation, Captain Egan? Where are you? We're
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200 kilometers out, Inspector, two zero five. And this isn't captain Egan. It's lieutenant Becker. Egan is dead.
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Lieutenant Becker, this is doctor Cassidy. What happened to captain Egan?
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He died in the mails from doctor Cassidy. A whirlpool in the universe. Captain Egan fell into it and
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drowned in the stars.
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Well, he's either tripped out on something or he's in shock.
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Lieutenant Becker, what's the condition of your crew?
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Sleeping. They fell asleep on camera lane.
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They're still dreaming. Call the short range vehicle hangar, Jerry, and order a couple of tugs out to tow him in. Right. And all my days are are trances
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and all my nightly dreams are where thy dark eye glances and where thy footstep gleams in what dethereal trances.
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Attention all SRV personnel. This is a priority rescue alert. Prepare three Magnum class tugs for immediate launch. Utility pilots Haskell, Shaw, and Henning. Please report to the SRV operations officer. Clear. Roger firefly.
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Roger StarLab. We have the galval view inside and she is damaged. Looks like the starboard thruster housing's ripped open and she's leaking fuel. Tug 17. 17. Go ahead, Lee. Yeah. Jimmy, see if you can check out that fuel leak, will you? Go, Roger. A tug nine. A tug nine. Come on, Ron. I know you're there. I can hear you swearing at your receiver in my headphones. Sorry about that, Lee. I had to switch to another channel. Your transmission was, breaking up. Okay. Get around to the Galileo's port side and, see if you can get a grappler pad on her. Use the standard placement. Roger.
I have grappler contact, Lee. That magnetism is stable. Okay, Lee. I've closed off the leak. Alright. Now let's get a grappler pad on her starboard side. I'll stick one on my nose. Roger. Okay, you guys. Let's holler in.
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Forty five minutes after launch, space tugs two, nine, and 17 return to StarLab with a damaged laboratory ship in tow and guided into Docking Bay 14. 30 Minutes after the Galileo's arrival, STAR Labs executive physician doctor Diana Rossiter begins a computer assisted examination of the ship's unconscious crew. Three hours later, STAR Labs Mycroft computer completes its analysis of the examination.
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Look at the waveform patterns here on screen three. These are the electroencephalograms of the Galileo's crew. You notice anything unusual?
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Looks like the same EEG repeated 10 times. That's right.
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And not only are their EEGs identical, they all have the same pulse rate, temperature, respiration, and dream state algorithms. Really? I don't know what happened to them, Mara, but they're all dreaming the same dream.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien Worlds continues. Six weeks after its disappearance during a routine mission, the deep space laboratory ship Galileo returns to StarLab, its captain missing and presumed dead. Its first officer in a state of second degree mind shock, its crew asleep and dreaming identical dreams.
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What about Lieutenant Becker? He talked off and on during his examination, but he was getting so anxious, I I thought it best to sedate him for a while.
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Diana, did you record what he said during the examination? Mhmm. Maddie's making a copy of the tape now. You wanna hear it? Mhmm. Have her send it up to my quarters. I'll listen to it when John and Buddy get here.
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Solaris to STARLab control. That's the StarLab. Go ahead, Solaris. We've picked up some time, Jerry. Our revised ETA is four minutes thirteen seconds.
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Four plus thirteen, Roger. Okay, John. Your revised docking orbit insertion coordinates are one nine or six degrees at sub vector two zero alpha, Docking Bay 9. See you in a few minutes, Jerry. Solaris out. Starlight clear on IDS channel 09 or six.
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You have that look on your face, buddy. What are you thinking? Remember what Morris said about Lieutenant Becker? You know, that verse he quoted when she asked what happened to Frank? Yeah. What about it? Well, it's part of a poem by Thacker, your Tennyson, one of those guys. It's from that period anyway. I know I've either heard it or read it.
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Wait a minute. Ingrid.
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Ingrid read it to me. Solaris to STAR Lab control.
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This is STAR Lab. Standby.
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Go ahead, Solaris. Jerry, patch me through the library. I have to talk to Ingrid. Roger, stand by.
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And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams are where thy dark eye glances, and where thy footsteps gleams. In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams.
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That's it. What's it from, Ingrid?
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It's the last verse of a poem called To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe. And that isn't Lieutenant Becker's only reference to Poe. Buddy, play back the last part of doctor Osset's tape again. Okay.
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They're almost finished, Lieutenant. Now look into the light.
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No. It was dark. It was always dark. Mhmm. Then captain Agan wanted to explore, so we went out in a crawler. I see.
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Now the other eye, lieutenant?
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The whirlpool started. I got scared, and I jumped out of the crawler, and it was swallowed up in a maelstrom. I didn't mean to leave him there. I know you didn't, lieutenant.
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My hands.
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When I when I look at my hands, I see sand. Grains of golden sand. How few, yet how they creep through my fingers to the deep?
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While I weep. While I weep. Not to
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lie down, Lieutenant. Come. That that's right. Now I'm going to give you something to make you feel better.
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Well, anyway, the whirlpool he mentioned coincides with one of Poe's short stories, a descent into the maelstrom.
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And the reference to grains of golden sand.
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A poem Poe wrote in 1847 after his wife died. A dream within a dream.
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Mara. What is it, Jerry? You better get up here. I have a transmission coming through on the mayday frequency. It's Captain Egan.
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Egan? How can that be? We're on our way, Jerry.
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I'm on Tamberlake, somewhere in the Ursa Minor System. The exact coordinates are on the Galileo's flight recorder.
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What about the whirlpool, captain?
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An illusion, a dream.
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Like, everything else around here. What's your situation now, Frank?
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Well, the batteries here in the crawler are about gone. So this will have to be my last transmission. And I have rations for two, maybe three days. Get me out of here, buddy. I don't I don't think I can Captain Egan? Captain Egan?
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No. That's it. We've lost him. Ingrid, is Tamarlane connected to Poe? It's one of his most famous poems. What's it about? Love, life, death, rebirth, the entire spectrum of physical and mystical experience. Call talking 14, Tell Simon to disconnect the Galileo's flight recorder and take it to the Solaris. Okay. Ingrid, go back to the library and pull everything you have on Edgar Allen Poe. Hard copy, sleep tapes, micro cards, everything. Then meet us at the Solaris. Am I going with you? You certainly are. But why? Because what happened to the Galileo might happen to us. And since this whole incident is somehow connected to Poe, what you know about his work might be our only protection.
Okay. Let's get busy.
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At thirteen thirty hours, forty minutes after receiving Captain Egan's transmission, Maura and Ingrid enter Docking Bay 9 and join John and Buddy aboard the Solaris.
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Is everything programmed and ready? Oh, we're all set, Mara. Good. Better strap yourselves in. We're due to launch in ninety seconds.
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Ready? Let's go.
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Okay, buddy. Let's run it down. Exterior hatches and fuel bay doors. Pressurized and locked. Environmental control systems. Green across the board. ECS backup terminals. In phase and program for for zero time emergency interlock. Microwave antenna function? Positive. Digital auto guidance and inertial gyro integration? Auto guidance in phase. Gyro integration at zero minus three seconds. Tank pressure, maximum one through six. Cancel the efficient safety terminal. Positive function on IST lockout.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues. Forty eight hours after launching from StarLab, the Solaris penetrates the Ursa Minor Star System. A constellation filled with glowing stellar dust and brilliant star clusters. A constellation dominated by the second magnitude binary star, Polaris. Three hours later, guided by the navigation coordinates from the Galileo's flight recorder, the sleek white SET interceptor lands on the dark mist shrouded planetoid of Tamerlane.
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Open the visual scanner ports, buddy. Let's have a look at this place. Okay.
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There's nothing but mist and shadows.
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Can you move a little to the right, buddy? I can't see the screen from back here. Oh, yeah. Sorry.
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How's that? That's fine.
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It looks like the landscape in the fall of the house of Usher. Wait a minute. What's that in the corner of the screen?
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It's a cat. Yeah. A flat cat. It's Wait a minute. What happened? Where'd it go? It It's gone.
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Was it really there?
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It's gone. Maybe it wasn't really there.
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It had to be there. Oh, buddy. I'm so sleepy. We all saw it, didn't we?
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Where's Frank?
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We have to find Frank. Go to sleep.
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Don't go to sleep. We can't go to sleep. Don't go to sleep.
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Hear the tolling of Labels, iron bells. What a world of solemn thought their memory compels. Hear the loud alarm bells, brazen bells. What a day out of terror now, their turbulency tells.
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In there, Fortunato. The cask of a monkey other was in there.
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I forced the last stone into position and blasted it up. Against the new masonry, I re erected the old rampart of bones. For half a century, no mortal has disturbed them.
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Rest in peace, Fortunato. Requiscard in Pace.
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Under the floor. He's hidden the old man's body under the floor. Louder. Louder.
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Louder. I admit it. I admit it. Tear up the blanks. Stop the beating of his hideous arch.
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The vibration of the pendulum was at right angles to my length. It slowly descended, hissing back and forth, repeating its arc again and again.
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As the shades of evening draw on, within view of the melancholy House Of Usher. Aberration,
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never flitting, still sitting, still sitting on the pallid bust of Paz, just above my chamber door. And his eyes have all the sealing of the demons that is dreaming.
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How shall the burial rite be read? The solemn song be sung. The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young, young, young, young. All that we see
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or seem is but a dream within dream. Dream within dream.
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Doctor Cassidy. Within a dream. Buddy. Within a dream. John. Within a dream. Buddy. John, wake up. Within a dream. Doctor Cassidy, wake up. Frank. I saw you land about an hour ago. I've been trying to raise you on the crawler short range transmitter ever since.
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Bells. I was dreaming about bells and some kind of terrible razor swinging back and forth. And there was a murder.
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An old man was killed. His body was under the floor, but his heart wouldn't stop beating.
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The pit in the pendulum, the telltale heart. Poe, we've all been dreaming about his stories and poems. Everyone aboard the Galileo had the same dreams.
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After we landed here to repair the meteorite damage, we saw a black cat. When it ran into the mist, we all fell asleep. But you weren't asleep the whole time you were here. What woke you up? Earth tremors and storms. And after every disturbance, the mist would clear long enough for us to see another part of Tamerlane had disappeared. It's it's losing its molecular density too. I've been checking it out on the crawler's densiometer. Tamerlane is returning to its own dimension. What do you mean? Tamerlane isn't supposed to be in this time space continuum. Somehow or other, it slipped out of its own dimension, and now it's slipping back. How do you know that?
The longer you stay here, the more you dream. And with every dream, you understand a little bit more about Tamerlane and what it is.
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Have you found out why all the dreams are related to Edgar Allan Poe? Yes. I have.
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I found the house last night.
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House? What house?
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The house where the dream chamber is. The house of Usher. Come on. I'll show you.
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House of Usher.
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It's just the way I imagined it. Looks haunted to me.
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Come on. Let's get this over with me before Tamarlane drops out from under us. Take my hand, buddy.
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Where to Frank? Up the stairs then turn left.
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It's freezing in here.
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Help me with the door, John.
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Impossible. It's impossible. It's not a room at all. Space. Oh, it's beautiful. We're in space.
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The dream chamber. An opening in the time space continuum. A place enclosed not by walls, but by the golden light and phantom shadows of a parallel universe. A void filled with glittering star fields, and an eternity of stellar mists, tinted with all the colors of creation. And in the center of the dream chamber, a bed made of interlocking beams of light. And lying on the bed, forever asleep,
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and forever dreaming. It's him. It's Paul. Is he alive?
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He's a dream, buddy. A dream sustained by everyone who reads his work, and falls in love with its beauty, and terror, its sorrow, its truth.
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Are we looking at eternity?
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Well, we're looking at Poe's eternity.
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It's fading. Everything's fading. Let's get back to the ship before we get caught in this. Look. He's standing up. Edward, what's wrong with you? He's not standing up. He's still He's still playing. He's running away. Hey, Grant. Buddy, help me. I can't heal anything. Hey, help me with her brain. Okay. Let's get her out
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of
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here. Alright, Ma. Thanks for letting Alright, ma. Thanks for letting me know. I'll notify STARLab and tell them you're on your way in. Thanks, commissioner. Oh, by the way, I heard from doctor Rossiter. Lieutenant Becker's alright, and so is the Galileo's crew. I woke up about a half an hour ago. Alright, commissioner. Thank you. See you tomorrow. ISA comm center clear.
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Half hour ago. That means they woke up the instant Tamarlane disappeared.
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What are you doing, Ingrid?
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The hallucination I had in the dream chamber and that terrible stillness afterwards, I know it's related to one of Poe's stories. I remember something I remember. Here it is. Silence. A favor. And mine eyes fell upon the countenance of the man. So for that. And he was afraid. And he was afraid. He raised his head and listened. Raised his head and listened. But there was no voice throughout the vast inimitable void. Only silence. And silence. Now the man turned his face away and fled into the distance.
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And I beheld
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him no more.
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A Dream Within a Dream was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Phillip Miller, Corey Burton, and special guest stars Francis Bay, Clark Warren, Mel Wells, Jack Angel, and Marilyn Shrefler. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant, Peter Sky. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for the adventure of the parallax deception from the elsewhere and else when of Alien Worlds.
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Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond twenty first century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clark Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab. Here, STAR Lab research director, Maura Cassidy, and scientists and technicians of the International Space Authority watch over the countless star systems that filled the universe. This week, Maura Cassidy and space exploration team captains John Graden and Buddy Griff encounter the phantoms of Tamerlane and experience a dream within a dream on Alien Worlds.
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StarLab control. This is the Galileo. Do you read me?
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This is StarLab. I read you, Galileo. What's your situation, Captain Egan? Where are you? We're
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200 kilometers out, Inspector, two zero five. And this isn't captain Egan. It's lieutenant Becker. Egan is dead.
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Lieutenant Becker, this is doctor Cassidy. What happened to captain Egan?
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He died in the mails from doctor Cassidy. A whirlpool in the universe. Captain Egan fell into it and
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drowned in the stars.
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Well, he's either tripped out on something or he's in shock.
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Lieutenant Becker, what's the condition of your crew?
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Sleeping. They fell asleep on camera lane.
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They're still dreaming. Call the short range vehicle hangar, Jerry, and order a couple of tugs out to tow him in. Right. And all my days are are trances
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and all my nightly dreams are where thy dark eye glances and where thy footstep gleams in what dethereal trances.
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Attention all SRV personnel. This is a priority rescue alert. Prepare three Magnum class tugs for immediate launch. Utility pilots Haskell, Shaw, and Henning. Please report to the SRV operations officer. Clear. Roger firefly.
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Roger StarLab. We have the galval view inside and she is damaged. Looks like the starboard thruster housing's ripped open and she's leaking fuel. Tug 17. 17. Go ahead, Lee. Yeah. Jimmy, see if you can check out that fuel leak, will you? Go, Roger. A tug nine. A tug nine. Come on, Ron. I know you're there. I can hear you swearing at your receiver in my headphones. Sorry about that, Lee. I had to switch to another channel. Your transmission was, breaking up. Okay. Get around to the Galileo's port side and, see if you can get a grappler pad on her. Use the standard placement. Roger.
I have grappler contact, Lee. That magnetism is stable. Okay, Lee. I've closed off the leak. Alright. Now let's get a grappler pad on her starboard side. I'll stick one on my nose. Roger. Okay, you guys. Let's holler in.
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Forty five minutes after launch, space tugs two, nine, and 17 return to StarLab with a damaged laboratory ship in tow and guided into Docking Bay 14. 30 Minutes after the Galileo's arrival, STAR Labs executive physician doctor Diana Rossiter begins a computer assisted examination of the ship's unconscious crew. Three hours later, STAR Labs Mycroft computer completes its analysis of the examination.
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Look at the waveform patterns here on screen three. These are the electroencephalograms of the Galileo's crew. You notice anything unusual?
[00:05:35] Unknown:
Looks like the same EEG repeated 10 times. That's right.
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And not only are their EEGs identical, they all have the same pulse rate, temperature, respiration, and dream state algorithms. Really? I don't know what happened to them, Mara, but they're all dreaming the same dream.
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Alien worlds will continue. Alien Worlds continues. Six weeks after its disappearance during a routine mission, the deep space laboratory ship Galileo returns to StarLab, its captain missing and presumed dead. Its first officer in a state of second degree mind shock, its crew asleep and dreaming identical dreams.
[00:06:39] Unknown:
What about Lieutenant Becker? He talked off and on during his examination, but he was getting so anxious, I I thought it best to sedate him for a while.
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Diana, did you record what he said during the examination? Mhmm. Maddie's making a copy of the tape now. You wanna hear it? Mhmm. Have her send it up to my quarters. I'll listen to it when John and Buddy get here.
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Solaris to STARLab control. That's the StarLab. Go ahead, Solaris. We've picked up some time, Jerry. Our revised ETA is four minutes thirteen seconds.
[00:07:16] Unknown:
Four plus thirteen, Roger. Okay, John. Your revised docking orbit insertion coordinates are one nine or six degrees at sub vector two zero alpha, Docking Bay 9. See you in a few minutes, Jerry. Solaris out. Starlight clear on IDS channel 09 or six.
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You have that look on your face, buddy. What are you thinking? Remember what Morris said about Lieutenant Becker? You know, that verse he quoted when she asked what happened to Frank? Yeah. What about it? Well, it's part of a poem by Thacker, your Tennyson, one of those guys. It's from that period anyway. I know I've either heard it or read it.
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Wait a minute. Ingrid.
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Ingrid read it to me. Solaris to STAR Lab control.
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This is STAR Lab. Standby.
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Go ahead, Solaris. Jerry, patch me through the library. I have to talk to Ingrid. Roger, stand by.
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And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams are where thy dark eye glances, and where thy footsteps gleams. In what ethereal dances, by what eternal streams.
[00:08:39] Unknown:
That's it. What's it from, Ingrid?
[00:08:42] Unknown:
It's the last verse of a poem called To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe. And that isn't Lieutenant Becker's only reference to Poe. Buddy, play back the last part of doctor Osset's tape again. Okay.
[00:08:59] Unknown:
They're almost finished, Lieutenant. Now look into the light.
[00:09:05] Unknown:
No. It was dark. It was always dark. Mhmm. Then captain Agan wanted to explore, so we went out in a crawler. I see.
[00:09:17] Unknown:
Now the other eye, lieutenant?
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The whirlpool started. I got scared, and I jumped out of the crawler, and it was swallowed up in a maelstrom. I didn't mean to leave him there. I know you didn't, lieutenant.
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My hands.
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When I when I look at my hands, I see sand. Grains of golden sand. How few, yet how they creep through my fingers to the deep?
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While I weep. While I weep. Not to
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lie down, Lieutenant. Come. That that's right. Now I'm going to give you something to make you feel better.
[00:10:02] Unknown:
Well, anyway, the whirlpool he mentioned coincides with one of Poe's short stories, a descent into the maelstrom.
[00:10:10] Unknown:
And the reference to grains of golden sand.
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A poem Poe wrote in 1847 after his wife died. A dream within a dream.
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Mara. What is it, Jerry? You better get up here. I have a transmission coming through on the mayday frequency. It's Captain Egan.
[00:10:27] Unknown:
Egan? How can that be? We're on our way, Jerry.
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I'm on Tamberlake, somewhere in the Ursa Minor System. The exact coordinates are on the Galileo's flight recorder.
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What about the whirlpool, captain?
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An illusion, a dream.
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Like, everything else around here. What's your situation now, Frank?
[00:10:55] Unknown:
Well, the batteries here in the crawler are about gone. So this will have to be my last transmission. And I have rations for two, maybe three days. Get me out of here, buddy. I don't I don't think I can Captain Egan? Captain Egan?
[00:11:14] Unknown:
No. That's it. We've lost him. Ingrid, is Tamarlane connected to Poe? It's one of his most famous poems. What's it about? Love, life, death, rebirth, the entire spectrum of physical and mystical experience. Call talking 14, Tell Simon to disconnect the Galileo's flight recorder and take it to the Solaris. Okay. Ingrid, go back to the library and pull everything you have on Edgar Allen Poe. Hard copy, sleep tapes, micro cards, everything. Then meet us at the Solaris. Am I going with you? You certainly are. But why? Because what happened to the Galileo might happen to us. And since this whole incident is somehow connected to Poe, what you know about his work might be our only protection.
Okay. Let's get busy.
[00:11:56] Unknown:
At thirteen thirty hours, forty minutes after receiving Captain Egan's transmission, Maura and Ingrid enter Docking Bay 9 and join John and Buddy aboard the Solaris.
[00:12:16] Unknown:
Is everything programmed and ready? Oh, we're all set, Mara. Good. Better strap yourselves in. We're due to launch in ninety seconds.
[00:12:25] Unknown:
Ready? Let's go.
[00:12:27] Unknown:
Okay, buddy. Let's run it down. Exterior hatches and fuel bay doors. Pressurized and locked. Environmental control systems. Green across the board. ECS backup terminals. In phase and program for for zero time emergency interlock. Microwave antenna function? Positive. Digital auto guidance and inertial gyro integration? Auto guidance in phase. Gyro integration at zero minus three seconds. Tank pressure, maximum one through six. Cancel the efficient safety terminal. Positive function on IST lockout.
[00:13:15] Unknown:
Alien worlds will continue. Alien worlds continues. Forty eight hours after launching from StarLab, the Solaris penetrates the Ursa Minor Star System. A constellation filled with glowing stellar dust and brilliant star clusters. A constellation dominated by the second magnitude binary star, Polaris. Three hours later, guided by the navigation coordinates from the Galileo's flight recorder, the sleek white SET interceptor lands on the dark mist shrouded planetoid of Tamerlane.
[00:14:21] Unknown:
Open the visual scanner ports, buddy. Let's have a look at this place. Okay.
[00:14:26] Unknown:
There's nothing but mist and shadows.
[00:14:28] Unknown:
Can you move a little to the right, buddy? I can't see the screen from back here. Oh, yeah. Sorry.
[00:14:35] Unknown:
How's that? That's fine.
[00:14:38] Unknown:
It looks like the landscape in the fall of the house of Usher. Wait a minute. What's that in the corner of the screen?
[00:14:44] Unknown:
It's a cat. Yeah. A flat cat. It's Wait a minute. What happened? Where'd it go? It It's gone.
[00:14:54] Unknown:
Was it really there?
[00:14:56] Unknown:
It's gone. Maybe it wasn't really there.
[00:14:59] Unknown:
It had to be there. Oh, buddy. I'm so sleepy. We all saw it, didn't we?
[00:15:05] Unknown:
Where's Frank?
[00:15:08] Unknown:
We have to find Frank. Go to sleep.
[00:15:12] Unknown:
Don't go to sleep. We can't go to sleep. Don't go to sleep.
[00:15:33] Unknown:
Hear the tolling of Labels, iron bells. What a world of solemn thought their memory compels. Hear the loud alarm bells, brazen bells. What a day out of terror now, their turbulency tells.
[00:15:59] Unknown:
In there, Fortunato. The cask of a monkey other was in there.
[00:16:14] Unknown:
I forced the last stone into position and blasted it up. Against the new masonry, I re erected the old rampart of bones. For half a century, no mortal has disturbed them.
[00:16:34] Unknown:
Rest in peace, Fortunato. Requiscard in Pace.
[00:16:43] Unknown:
Under the floor. He's hidden the old man's body under the floor. Louder. Louder.
[00:16:53] Unknown:
Louder. I admit it. I admit it. Tear up the blanks. Stop the beating of his hideous arch.
[00:17:15] Unknown:
The vibration of the pendulum was at right angles to my length. It slowly descended, hissing back and forth, repeating its arc again and again.
[00:17:31] Unknown:
As the shades of evening draw on, within view of the melancholy House Of Usher. Aberration,
[00:17:38] Unknown:
never flitting, still sitting, still sitting on the pallid bust of Paz, just above my chamber door. And his eyes have all the sealing of the demons that is dreaming.
[00:17:57] Unknown:
How shall the burial rite be read? The solemn song be sung. The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young, young, young, young. All that we see
[00:18:12] Unknown:
or seem is but a dream within dream. Dream within dream.
[00:18:23] Unknown:
Doctor Cassidy. Within a dream. Buddy. Within a dream. John. Within a dream. Buddy. John, wake up. Within a dream. Doctor Cassidy, wake up. Frank. I saw you land about an hour ago. I've been trying to raise you on the crawler short range transmitter ever since.
[00:18:39] Unknown:
Bells. I was dreaming about bells and some kind of terrible razor swinging back and forth. And there was a murder.
[00:18:49] Unknown:
An old man was killed. His body was under the floor, but his heart wouldn't stop beating.
[00:18:55] Unknown:
The pit in the pendulum, the telltale heart. Poe, we've all been dreaming about his stories and poems. Everyone aboard the Galileo had the same dreams.
[00:19:07] Unknown:
After we landed here to repair the meteorite damage, we saw a black cat. When it ran into the mist, we all fell asleep. But you weren't asleep the whole time you were here. What woke you up? Earth tremors and storms. And after every disturbance, the mist would clear long enough for us to see another part of Tamerlane had disappeared. It's it's losing its molecular density too. I've been checking it out on the crawler's densiometer. Tamerlane is returning to its own dimension. What do you mean? Tamerlane isn't supposed to be in this time space continuum. Somehow or other, it slipped out of its own dimension, and now it's slipping back. How do you know that?
The longer you stay here, the more you dream. And with every dream, you understand a little bit more about Tamerlane and what it is.
[00:19:56] Unknown:
Have you found out why all the dreams are related to Edgar Allan Poe? Yes. I have.
[00:20:01] Unknown:
I found the house last night.
[00:20:03] Unknown:
House? What house?
[00:20:05] Unknown:
The house where the dream chamber is. The house of Usher. Come on. I'll show you.
[00:20:26] Unknown:
House of Usher.
[00:20:28] Unknown:
It's just the way I imagined it. Looks haunted to me.
[00:20:34] Unknown:
Come on. Let's get this over with me before Tamarlane drops out from under us. Take my hand, buddy.
[00:20:46] Unknown:
Where to Frank? Up the stairs then turn left.
[00:20:53] Unknown:
It's freezing in here.
[00:20:57] Unknown:
Help me with the door, John.
[00:21:10] Unknown:
Impossible. It's impossible. It's not a room at all. Space. Oh, it's beautiful. We're in space.
[00:21:20] Unknown:
The dream chamber. An opening in the time space continuum. A place enclosed not by walls, but by the golden light and phantom shadows of a parallel universe. A void filled with glittering star fields, and an eternity of stellar mists, tinted with all the colors of creation. And in the center of the dream chamber, a bed made of interlocking beams of light. And lying on the bed, forever asleep,
[00:21:52] Unknown:
and forever dreaming. It's him. It's Paul. Is he alive?
[00:21:57] Unknown:
He's a dream, buddy. A dream sustained by everyone who reads his work, and falls in love with its beauty, and terror, its sorrow, its truth.
[00:22:09] Unknown:
Are we looking at eternity?
[00:22:12] Unknown:
Well, we're looking at Poe's eternity.
[00:22:19] Unknown:
It's fading. Everything's fading. Let's get back to the ship before we get caught in this. Look. He's standing up. Edward, what's wrong with you? He's not standing up. He's still He's still playing. He's running away. Hey, Grant. Buddy, help me. I can't heal anything. Hey, help me with her brain. Okay. Let's get her out
[00:22:38] Unknown:
of
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here. Alright, Ma. Thanks for letting Alright, ma. Thanks for letting me know. I'll notify STARLab and tell them you're on your way in. Thanks, commissioner. Oh, by the way, I heard from doctor Rossiter. Lieutenant Becker's alright, and so is the Galileo's crew. I woke up about a half an hour ago. Alright, commissioner. Thank you. See you tomorrow. ISA comm center clear.
[00:23:07] Unknown:
Half hour ago. That means they woke up the instant Tamarlane disappeared.
[00:23:16] Unknown:
What are you doing, Ingrid?
[00:23:18] Unknown:
The hallucination I had in the dream chamber and that terrible stillness afterwards, I know it's related to one of Poe's stories. I remember something I remember. Here it is. Silence. A favor. And mine eyes fell upon the countenance of the man. So for that. And he was afraid. And he was afraid. He raised his head and listened. Raised his head and listened. But there was no voice throughout the vast inimitable void. Only silence. And silence. Now the man turned his face away and fled into the distance.
[00:23:51] Unknown:
And I beheld
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him no more.
[00:24:18] Unknown:
A Dream Within a Dream was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Phillip Miller, Corey Burton, and special guest stars Francis Bay, Clark Warren, Mel Wells, Jack Angel, and Marilyn Shrefler. Associate producer, Ron Thompson. Music director, Tom Rounds. Engineer, Stu Jacobs. Technical consultant, Peter Sky. Assistant to the producer, Jim Cook. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by Lee Hansen. And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for the adventure of the parallax deception from the elsewhere and else when of Alien Worlds.
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