In this thrilling episode of Alien Worlds, we find ourselves on the edge of deep space at the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STAR Lab. As the crew of the Solaris, captains John Graden and Buddy Griff, return from a routine patrol, they encounter a mysterious UFO. This object, a decahedron made of copper-colored metal, presents a unique challenge as it matches their speed and resists magnetic grappling. As they maneuver it closer to STAR Lab, the crew must unravel the mysteries of this alien artifact, which is filled with ionized gelatin that converts to nitrogen plasma.
Meanwhile, personal tensions rise as STAR Lab's research director, Maura Cassidy, confronts her past with Professor David Balan, who is unexpectedly duplicated by the alien object. This duplicate, named Aviem, reveals the tragic history of his race and their quest for rebirth through interaction with humans. As Maura and Aviem prepare for a new beginning, the episode explores themes of love, identity, and the eternal quest for connection across the cosmos. Join us for an adventure that challenges the boundaries of science and the heart.
(00:02) Introduction to STAR Lab and the Ancient Intruder
(01:13) Encounter with the UFO
(10:01) Analyzing the Alien Object
(15:15) Personal Conflicts and Discoveries
(19:10) The Alien's Origins and Intentions
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And now, Peter Paul Mounds, Almond Joy, and Cadbury Chocolate Bars presents Alien Worlds. Slowly rotating at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers beyond the atmosphere of 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 stars and planets that fill the silent distances beyond the giant space station. This week, an ancient intruder from another galaxy exposes StarLab to the genetic mysteries of the seeds of time on Alien Worlds.
50 kilometers beyond StarLab, the SET interceptor Solaris reduces speed and moves into a preliminary docking orbit with a huge space station. Aboard the Solaris, captains John Graden and Buddy Griff.
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Solaris to StarLab control.
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This is StarLab. Go ahead, Solaris.
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We're holding at the outer boundary, Jerry. How soon can you get us aboard?
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Traffic's pretty heavy right now, John. I've got a Soviet fighter and two Canadian tanks coming in now, and three lunar shuttles in a docking orbit two kilometers out. Hold your position, and I'll get back to you in about ten minutes.
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Roger, STARLAB. Solaris out.
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STARLAB clear.
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Since ten minutes usually means half an hour, why don't we put the ship on autopilot? And go down to the cargo bay for a little zero gravity racket ball? Do you know where the rackets are? No. They're floating around down there somewhere. Alright. Let's go. What? We better stay, Skip. The high density scanners are picking up something. How far away? Three, four, four point six kilometers, and it's holding at zero eight one degrees starboard. Get a full magnification visual and bring it up on screen six. Right. What is it?
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I don't know.
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I've never seen anything like it.
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In the center of the screen against a background of jet black space and scattered stars, the mysterious object begins to slowly rotate. Reflected sunlight blazing from each of its 10 smooth surfaces.
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Silaris to STARLab. This is STARLab. Go ahead, Silaris. Jerry, we're visually monitoring a UFO. Are you picking it up on your scanners?
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No. I I don't think so. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah. There is something out there about four kilometers from your present position.
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Right. Okay. Tell Morrow what the situation is, and you'd better notify professor Balan too. We're going in for a closer look.
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I'll keep an eye on him here, John. You need to be careful. Starlab out.
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What do you think, buddy? Let's play it safe and sort of sneak up on it. I'll do a tomography profile at three kilometers. If the thing's not dangerous, we can get in close and do a phase one scanner series. And what if it explodes and blows us to kingdom come? You know, maybe we should stick to racketball.
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Woah.
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Talk about sensory overload. I wonder how she keeps her balance. Maybe it's trick photography. Couldn't be. No photographer is that tricky.
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Got to know, but if I air
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control. This is StarLab. Go ahead, Maggie.
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We've got a problem, Jerry. We're still working on this new orbital power satellite effective 07/2006, and we just knocked on that bundle of solar panels.
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What happened?
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An anchor in cable on the surface to let go, and the panels are drifted off into deep space. Can you help us out? This thing's supposed to be operational by tonight.
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How many panels do you need? 10. What type?
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Amplitude on s p 16.
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Oh, hold on. I'll check the computer and see what we got. This is your lucky day, Maggie. We've got two dozen s p sixteen's in storage. Will this be a pickup or a delivery?
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I won't be able to spare any of our codes for another hour or so. What's available on your end?
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Well, we've got a Soviet freighter heading your way in about fifteen minutes. I'll have the captain contact you. Okay?
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I'll stay above this call. Thanks, Derek. Junction over to Scott's cab.
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Starlab control clear. Docking Bay 12, this is the bridge. Bay 12. Go ahead, Jerry. Yeah, Ernie. Call storage bay nineteen and tell them to deliver 10 amplitron s p 16 solar panels to the Odessa, and then have captain Vashanko contact construction orbiter five. It's kind of an emergency. Will do, Jerry. Yeah. There was a right. Sensory overload. Yeah.
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Wow. Look. Oops.
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Hi, Jerry. Hi, Mara. You heard from John and Buddy? Yeah. About twenty minutes ago. They've maneuvered the Solaris into a side by side position with the UFO, and, Buddy said he'd contact us as soon as he did the preliminary scan series.
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Okay. What's that magazine you're holding behind you? Magazine? Come on, Jerry. Hand it over.
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Oh, Mara.
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The Astounding Adventures of Galactic Gladys the Girl Wonder?
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Well, you know
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Which one of these bimbos is Galactic Gladys?
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I believe that's her there locked in mortal combat with the evil swamp gas creature
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Well, she's certainly a wonder alright I'll bet she hasn't seen her feet in years. Jerry, where did you get this publication?
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I found it in the technician's lounge. Uh-huh.
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I wondered why they were all running around down there with their tongues hanging out. Sorry. Hi, Professor Ballon. How you doing, Jerry? David, you're just in time for a little x rated science fiction. Look at this.
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What happened to our clothes? The evil swamp gas creature ate them. Well, yum yum. I don't know about you, David.
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Three days on StarLab and you're already starting to sound like Buddy Grip.
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It must be the altitude.
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Control. This is StarLab. Go ahead, John. We finished their preliminary scans on the UFO. It is more of their I'm right here, John, and so is our new alienologist. Okay. Here's Buddy. The object is 33 meters square and shaped like a decohedron.
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It's made of some kind of copper colored metal that's about 75%
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hydrogen. As far as we can tell, there's no inboard or outboard propulsion system. How fast is it moving, Buddy? How fast do you want it to move?
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What does he mean, John?
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Well, it was stationary when I brought the ship alongside, but for the past ten minutes, it's been matching our speed no matter how fast we go.
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What kind of a readout did you get on the tomography scan, buddy?
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The interior of the thing is filled with some kind of ionized gelatin that converts to nitrogen plasma and then reconverts to gelatin at twelve second intervals.
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Buddy, is it giving off any kind of sound?
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Yes, it is. When the gelatin converts to plasma, the object gives off with sounds like accelerated heartbeats. And when the plasma reconverts to gelatin, we hear the heartbeats in reverse.
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Alien worlds will continue.
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That's why I'm here confessing. It's because sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't. Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds
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Alien Worlds continues. Returning from a routine patrol aboard the Solaris, SET captains John Grademan and Buddy Griff encounter an unidentified flying object 50 kilometers beyond STAR Lab.
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The object is three meters square and shaped like a decohedron. It's made of some kind of copper colored metal that's about 75%
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hydrogen. As John maneuvers the Solaris into a side by side position with the UFO, Buddy continues to analyze the object with the ship's tomography scanners.
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The interior of the thing is filled with some kind of ionized gelatin that converts the nitrogen plasma and then reconverts the gelatin. Twelve second interval.
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What do you think, David? I think we better see about getting that thing into one of the isolated laboratory pods. Buddy, shoot a magnetic grappler over and see if you can bring it in. We already tried that, Laura. The grappler pad won't stick.
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The object is anti
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magnetic. How about if you go EVA and try to push it into the Solaris' cargo bay? Hold on just a moment, please.
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I don't think that'll be necessary. From the way it's been matching our speed, I think it'll follow us in.
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Alright. Give it a try. If it works, get the object as close as you can to the outward airlock of ISO Lab 9. I'll have a crew standing by to take it inside. Okay, Mark. Solaris down. Star lab clear. Come on, David. Let's get down there.
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Fifteen minutes later, the Solaris maneuvers the object into a position two meters away from Isolat Nine's outboard airlock. Then, as John guides the Solaris into a nearby docking bay, the lab's airlock opens, and a crew of technicians in yellow pressure suits and tinted glass helmets, take the alien decahedron inside. Ten minutes later, the object rests on a slowly rotating observation pad in the center of the lab's brightly lit quarantine chamber.
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It's remarkably beautiful isn't it?
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Frightens me. Why? The way it looks. The color and size, texture. All those desperate perfect angles constantly repeating themselves its physical aspects are so familiar we can call them by name in a language we all understand and yet we don't know what it calls itself or what it might be calling us
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You feel whatever is inside is alive?
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Don't you?
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Yes.
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Well, at least our scientific cells are still in sync.
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Laura, please. Not now. Hey. Who's here? Well, I'm glad to see it hasn't blown up yet. Come on, Skip. Let's go inside for a close-up. Yeah. Okay. I think you better stay on this side of the glass for a while. The object's still being scanned. If you go in there now, your body impulses will be included in the scanner data.
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Maybe we should go in anyway just to blow their minds up in data processing. I can hear Professor Clark now. I say, Ramsey. Have you seen this printout? Green and Griff are trapped inside that alien gizmo. Really? How do you know it's them? Elementary, my dear Ramsey. The tall one's thumbing his nose, and the short one thinks it's funny. Mara? David? Not even a smile. What's with you two? We've got a lot on our minds, John. Yeah. I see. Well, okay. Come on, Skip. Let's go have dinner. Yeah. Right. We'll see you guys. See you later.
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It's time we had a talk, David. Let's go up to my quarters.
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Coming to Starlab wasn't my idea, Mara.
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We go where the ISA wants us to go. You know that. If I'd known you were married, I would have asked commissioner White to send someone else.
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Why?
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When I was told you were going to spend three months on Starlab, I thought we were getting a second chance.
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Second chance for what, Mara? To pick it up where it fell apart three years ago?
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Why not?
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Because your work has always been more important to you than anything else. And I don't think that'll ever change. Even when things were good, we we were never together more than three months out of the year. Your whole life was spaceports and laboratories and conferences and trips off the planet.
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You make it sound like I didn't care at all.
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I don't mean to, Mara. I know you cared and I know you love me, but you love the rockets more.
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I'm sorry, David.
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So am I. I'll, I'll see you in the morning, Laura.
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Okay. Lunar shuttle 10, I have you on the screen. You're docking orbit insertion coordinates are five zero niner at sub vector seven zero alpha.
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Five zero niner at seven zero alpha. Roger, STARLab. A lunar shuttle 10 out.
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STARLab control clear. Morning, Mara. Jerry, have you seen David? Not since yesterday afternoon. Hey.
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I don't care. Good morning. Have either of you seen David?
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Yeah. We saw him after dinner last night when we went down to have another look at the UFO. He was in the ISO lab with it. Maybe he's still there. I checked the ISO lab twenty minutes ago. Well, maybe you missed him. Let's get on and take another look. There he is, Mora. Hit the intercom button, Skip.
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David, can you come out for a minute?
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There's no need to be frightened, Mara. Professor Balan has not been harmed.
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David? What's the matter with you? You sound so Mara,
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his hands are transparent.
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David, what happened to your hands?
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It's not David.
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I am not professor Balan, Mora. I am Aviem.
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David is safe inside my vehicle. Well, then open it. Let him out.
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As you wish, Moron.
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David. Good god.
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Isolab control to sickbay. Sickbay? Just rostered. Diana, this is buddy. Flight. Get down to ISO Lab 9 as fast as you can. I'll bring a portable vital sign in to Peter. David's balance inside the UFO, and he's encased him some kind of gelatin. There is no need to be frightened.
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Professor Mallon has not been harmed.
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Alien Worlds, weekly to you. From Peter Paul. Cool as the snow falling light on the trees. Alien Worlds continues. Entering the control booth of Isolab 9, Maura, Buddy, and John discover that the substance inside the alien decahedron has transformed itself in
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hi. Diana,
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hurry. Oh, it wasn't the hardest way. Have you tried to get into the chamber? The head just sealed from the inside.
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There's no need to be frightened, doctor Rossiter. Professor Balan has not been armed.
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He knows me. He knows all of us, Diana.
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Connect the vital sign indicator to the scanner terminal, John. He's alright. His vital signs are perfect. Oh, boy. Well,
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if you will be patient, the seed placenta will soon evaporate, and David will be released.
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Soon? How long is soon?
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No.
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David, are you alright?
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I think so. Yes. I suggest you leave the chamber now, David. The placenta residue will soon convert to a toxic gas that could mutate your senses. Yes. Alright.
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Hey. Welcome home. Where have you been? How do you feel?
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When that thing opened up last night and took me inside, I thought I was a goner. But as soon as the seat was out, it started to cover me. I wasn't afraid anymore. It was incredible. I sensed everything that was going on. And when my duplicate emerged, it it was like one of those films where the guy dies and you see a spirit leave his body.
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Film, I guess art imitates life after all. I think it's the other way around, Skip.
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Life and art should be the same.
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Yes. They should be. But they rarely are.
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Perhaps we should learn the lesson of the Balinese. They say they have no art. They simply do everything as well as they can.
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You once said that to me, David.
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I know. It's amazing, isn't it? How precisely I've been duplicated.
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Well, David number two, what now?
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I want to return to my world, Diana. And I want to take Mara with me.
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Now hold on a minute, you. I'm not in the habit of running off to alien worlds with life forms I hardly know.
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You know me, Mara. And I know you.
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He's got a point there, Mara.
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Well, be that as it may, I just don't think the original me and the duplicate you are ready for you I'm well, why are your hands transparent anyway?
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David was wearing protective gloves that prevented the seat placenta from taking a precise imprint of his hands. And, Mara, a duplicate of you is all I want. Why? I still love you, Mara.
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Oh, David. Why didn't you Wait a minute. What am I saying? Oh, this is weird. David? Yes? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, David. I mean, the duplicate David.
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Yes, Diana.
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I think all of us would like to know a little more about your origins.
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Centuries ago, explorers from another galaxy visited my planet. Their bodies contained bacteria, harmless to them but lethal to us. There was a plague, and before the end came, our scientists created the placenta substance and filled it with the genetic seeds that were the essence of our race. Then they placed these seeds of time in hundreds of vehicles like this one and set us adrift in the universe.
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Was your race humanoid?
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Yes, buddy. It was. But some of the cells were randomly coated so we could become whatever organic life form we contacted. I could have been a bird or an insect or even a flower. Any living thing in which the seeds could take root.
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What would have happened if you had become a flower?
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I would have simply pollinated other flowers of the same species, and my race would have been reborn as a genus of of conscious intelligent orchids or roses.
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Would you eventually have re evolved your original humanoid form? Eventually, yes.
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But I'm not a flower, am I? I'm an ion negative duplicate of a human male, and my race can be reborn only if I interact with an ion positive duplicate of a human female.
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Alright. I'll do it.
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There's a banker, Mara. Thank you,
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Mara. It's okay. Just remember, I don't fool around on the first date.
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What do you want me to do? Saturate yourself with pure oxygen for two minutes. That will protect you from the toxic residue. Then come into the chamber and enter the secondary placenta compartment of my vehicle.
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Okay. Get me an e four oxygen unit, buddy. I'm about to become a double feature. Oh, okay. How do you feel, Mara? I'll be alright, Diana. I'll be alright, Diana. Listen to that I'm in stereo Thank you, Mara Thank you I have a question Yes? When you and David, this David are you know when you're will I feel anything? We don't know, Mara. It's possible.
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You'd better leave the chamber now, Mara. The Placenta residue is starting to become toxic. Alright.
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Bye. Goodbye, Mara.
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Did you arrange for a ship, John? There's a long range shuttle waiting for them just outside the airlock.
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Mara, you'll be able to fly the shuttle, won't you? Yes. I love the rockets as much as you do now. Goodbye. Goodbye.
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Well, so long. You too. Have you more luck? It looks like we're getting that second chance after all, Mara. You're right, David.
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You're absolutely right.
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THE SEEDS OF TIME was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary, Chuck Olsen, Bruce Phillip Miller, and Corey Burton. With special guest stars, Pete Renaday and Francis Bey. 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 Hanson and is distributed by Watermark Incorporated. And so until next week, this is Roger Dressler inviting you to join us for our next adventure, the Madonnas of Zanzibar Alpha, from the elsewhere and else when of Alien Worlds.
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