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Dimension X - "No Contact" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: October 28th, 1950.
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  Speaker 2: NBC brings us Dimension X, episode 27, No Contact. Set
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  Speaker 2: on June 2nd, 1987, it follows the rocket star cloud
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  Speaker 2: on a sixth attempt to reach the planet Volta after
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  Speaker 2: five earlier expeditions disappeared at the galactic barrier. Louise Van
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  Speaker 2: Rooten stars as Captain Thorson, with Donald Bucca as Lieutenant
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  Speaker 2: Collier and Cameron Prude-Holm as Charlie at Earth ground control.
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  Speaker 2: George Lefferts wrote the script from a storyline by Lefferts
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  Speaker 2: and Ernest Kenoy. Edward King directed. Now, back to the
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  Speaker 2: golden age of radio. Follow old-time sci-fi radio for more
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  Speaker 2: classic science fiction broadcasts.
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  Speaker 3: Described in future tense. Can you predict what will come
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  Speaker 3: in 100 years? Or in 10? Or in the next minute?
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  Speaker 3: Some people think they can. Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists.
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  Speaker 3: They'll predict the shape of the future. Why? Because they
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  Speaker 3: make the future. Because they see beyond the known dimensions
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  Speaker 3: of time and space.
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  Speaker 1: Into the unknown.
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  Speaker 3: Dimension X. It was in the year of 1982 that
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  Speaker 3: spacemen first discovered the great galactic barrier. In the past
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  Speaker 3: ten years, rocket travel to the moon and the nearer
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  Speaker 3: planets had become commonplace. And then, men fixed their sights
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  Speaker 3: on a more distant star, the remote planet known as Volta.
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  Speaker 3: five exploratory ships went out and none came back, each
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  Speaker 3: in turn disappearing mysteriously at the same vanishing point, at
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  Speaker 3: an invisible wall somewhere in the vast outer reaches that
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  Speaker 3: became known as the wrecker of spaceships, the Galactic Reef.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the explorers refused to admit defeat.
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  Speaker 3: It was on June the 2nd, 1987, that the rocket
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  Speaker 3: Star Cloud made ready for takeoff, the sixth to attempt
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  Speaker 3: to crack the.
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  Speaker 1: Barrier and win through to Volta. Now hear this.
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  Speaker 4: Condition green.
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  Speaker 1: Two minutes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't suppose you'd want the ship's doctor up here
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  Speaker 5: on the bridge during glass door.
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  Speaker 2: I think not, Smitty. All right, then.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be in the sick bay counting vitamin pills if
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  Speaker 5: you need me.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck, Lewis. Thank you, Smitty.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Collier.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You're relieved. You'd better get down to navigation control and
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  Speaker 2: take over.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Lieutenant. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Um, we've, uh, we've never flown together before. This is
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  Speaker 2: your first flight in a space vessel as big as
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  Speaker 2: the star cloud, isn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: But I was trained in oversized jobs at the Naval Academy.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you're half as good a navigator as your.
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  Speaker 2: Father was, you'll do fine.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You, uh.
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  Speaker 1: You were old shipmates, weren't you? Old shipmates.
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  Speaker 2: I served under them in the first rocket that ever
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  Speaker 2: got back to its base in one piece. We flew
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  Speaker 2: that mission in a tin can not much better than
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  Speaker 2: a primitive guided missile. I... I almost went along on
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  Speaker 2: the last trip your father.
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  Speaker 1: Made to the barrier.
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  Speaker 2: Too bad about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. That's all, Collier.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bus you when you get down to nav control.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Paulson. Yes, sir. Get me ground control tower on
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  Speaker 2: the radio. I want to talk to Colonel Harrison. Sparks
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  Speaker 2: has the circuit up now, Captain. Go ahead, sir. I've
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  Speaker 2: patched in our bridge speaker.
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  Speaker 8: Colonel Harrison.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Captain. We're standing by for takeoff in 60 seconds. Good.
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  Speaker 4: The deal is cleared of all personnel. We'll try to
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  Speaker 4: reestablish radio contact immediately after takeoff. In any event, there'll
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  Speaker 4: be a 24-hour ground monitor.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 4: Good luck. I hope you make it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Bridge to navigation control.
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  Speaker 1: Man Control, call you. Ready, Lieutenant?
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  Speaker 7: We're ready, Captain.
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  Speaker 4: The course is in the integrator for taking off at 1,200 hours.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by for blastoff. Bridge to engine room. Fire up
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  Speaker 2: your rocket chambers. Take off at exactly 1,200 hours. I'll
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  Speaker 2: read you off. 20 seconds, 19, 18, 17, 16. Condition red.
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  Speaker 2: Hold it.
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  Speaker 1: Who turned in that alarm? We uncovered a stowaway, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Stowaway?
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  Speaker 1: Where, Masters? Hiding in Six Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Smithson found him.
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  Speaker 1: Have him brought up to the bridge. Engine room, kill
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  Speaker 1: your rockets and stand by.
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  Speaker 4: This is Colonel Harrison at ground control. What's holding you up?
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  Speaker 8: Trouble.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 1: What's the matter with you? There's a stowaway aboard.
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  Speaker 4: Stowaway?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I thought your men were supposed to police this base.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Captain, take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: You know what this delay can do to us, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: One minute later, takeoff can throw us a million miles
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  Speaker 2: off course. We'll have to reintegrate the whole work.
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  Speaker 4: Well, look, how long do you think it'll take?
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  Speaker 1: Don't bother me for a while. I'm busy. Stupid idiot.
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  Speaker 7: Captain Thornton.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come in, Smitty.
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  Speaker 1: Here's your stove. I'll court-martial the... Charlie. Can you use
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  Speaker 1: a good radio man, Skipper? I see you two have met. Met?
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  Speaker 1: Skipper and me made 50 trips to the moon together.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't we, Captain?
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  Speaker 2: Charlie, if you wanted to come along, why didn't you volunteer?
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  Speaker 1: I did, Skipper. They turned me down. What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: Acceleration bends.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: They said my arteries wouldn't stand another trip.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: But they're wrong, sir. I got one more good trip
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  Speaker 1: in me. Now listen, Captain. You know these green kids
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  Speaker 1: don't know the first thing about space radio operations. You
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  Speaker 1: put a man like me on, I'll be getting your
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  Speaker 1: bedtime story for Mars.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, Charlie, you know the regulations as well as
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  Speaker 2: I do. I can't take you.
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  Speaker 1: Much as I'd like to. Colonel Harrison will murder me
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  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Charlie. I'll have to put you aground. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what. I'll ask Harrison to put you on
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  Speaker 2: his ground radio contact.
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  Speaker 1: It'll seem as if you were right here with us.
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  Speaker 1: He won't do it, sir.
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  Speaker 2: He'd better, or I'll have him busted to corporal for
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  Speaker 2: letting you sneak aboard. You'd better be off, Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: Masters.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sending this man aground. Give him time to clear
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  Speaker 2: the launching platform.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. So long, Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck, Skipper.
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  Speaker 7: I thought you were going to have him drawn and quartered.
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  Speaker 2: If it had been anybody else, I would have, Smitty.
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  Speaker 2: But Charlie, well, he's kind of special. Been with me
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  Speaker 2: since my first command, when Giller run to the moon.
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  Speaker 2: If he wanted to come along this time, well, it's
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  Speaker 2: only through loyalty to me.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Lewis, I didn't realize it before, but you're
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  Speaker 5: almost human.
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  Speaker 3: Build you.
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  Speaker 2: Navigation, Lieutenant Collier.
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  Speaker 1: You there?
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  Speaker 4: Nav control, Collier.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant, how badly are we fouled up? Can you recalculate
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  Speaker 2: the course or shall I cancel the takeoff?
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  Speaker 4: I've already plotted a new course on the integrator, sir. Good.
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  Speaker 4: Can we take off in exactly two minutes?
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  Speaker 2: Two minutes? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: If we can, all we need to correct is for
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  Speaker 4: only a one degree deflection. I can do that before
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  Speaker 4: we breach the stratosphere.
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  Speaker 2: That's quick work. Are you sure?
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  Speaker 1: Positive, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all right, Collier. I'm putting it in your hands.
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  Speaker 2: We'll blast off on your signal.
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  Speaker 5: Lewis, isn't that a lot of responsibility for a young
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  Speaker 5: green officer?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but if he can't do his job, I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: find out now than at the galactic barrier. Bridge to
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  Speaker 2: engine room. Prepare to blast off on navigator signal.
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  Speaker 1: Hey!
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  Speaker 2: How are we doing, Collier?
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  Speaker 8: Coming on the bearings, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Four.
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  Speaker 4: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Two.
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  Speaker 7: Zero.
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  Speaker 1: We've intersected the course vector.
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  Speaker 2: Good work, Collier.
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  Speaker 1: The course is corrected, sir. Ready to go into atomic
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  Speaker 1: overdrive any time you say.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Stand by. Now hear this.
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  Speaker 1: Now hear this.
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  Speaker 2: Prepare for maximum acceleration. Bridge to engine room.
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  Speaker 4: Kill your rockets. Rockets out.
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  Speaker 2: Fire up number one cyclotron.
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  Speaker 1: Number one ready.
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  Speaker 2: Fire up number two.
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  Speaker 4: Number two ready.
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  Speaker 2: Withdraw your dampening rods.
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  Speaker 5: Aye.
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  Speaker 1: Fission chamber ready.
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  Speaker 4: Blast tubes cleared. All generators operating on capacity, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Going to overdrive on the count of zero.
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  Speaker 8: Five seconds, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Two.
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  Speaker 3: Two.
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  Speaker 4: Two.
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  Speaker 1: One, one, zero.
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  Speaker 2: Zero! How are we doing, Collier?
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  Speaker 1: On course, sir. She's running hot and true.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my compliments, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: This job would have done your father credit. He was
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  Speaker 2: one of the best navigation officers I ever saw.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Now start your gyros and put her on robot control.
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  Speaker 2: The bridge is yours, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Collier.
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  Speaker 1: If you need me, I'll be in Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Smith's office. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I see you got us off the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You can thank young Collier for that.
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  Speaker 1: Chip off the old block. You knew his father?
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, I knew him very well. First-rate spaceman.
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  Speaker 1: Is he the one who.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He was lost in the galactic barrier on the second ship.
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  Speaker 2: we sent out to Volta.
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  Speaker 7: Lewis, just what do you think this galactic barrier is?
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  Speaker 2: Your guess is as good as mine, Doc. All I
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  Speaker 2: know is that five ships have gone into it. None
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  Speaker 2: of them have come back out.
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  Speaker 5: How about Mastrovik's theory that it's a time warp in space,
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  Speaker 5: that the ships reach it and slip into another dimension?
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  Speaker 2: Rubbish. My theory is that the galactic barrier is nothing
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  Speaker 2: more than a radioactive layer of some kind.
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  Speaker 7: What makes you say that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we know that radar signals bounce off it like
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  Speaker 2: they were hitting an invisible glass wall. And we know
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  Speaker 2: that it destroys our ships and crews in some way.
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  Speaker 2: There's no other logical explanation.
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  Speaker 7: What makes you think we can get through it, Lewis?
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  Speaker 2: Because we're ready for it. The others weren't. The entire
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  Speaker 2: hull is completely shielded with lead. We can crack through
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  Speaker 2: any radioactive cloud ever detected. Besides, we're equipped with some
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  Speaker 2: new UHF radio devices that should enable us to maintain
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  Speaker 2: radio contact with Earth. Nothing can happen.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Who are you trying to convince?
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  Speaker 2: Myself, I suppose.
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  Speaker 7: Lewis, you've had your share of glory.
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  Speaker 5: First skipper to reach the moon back in 1962. You
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  Speaker 5: could have retired. Why are you risking this trip?
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  Speaker 2: Because five ships are missing. And men like Prentiss and
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  Speaker 2: Marketson and young Collier's father. I'm tired of seeing good
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  Speaker 2: men fed into that meat chopper.
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  Speaker 7: Then why are we going?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't any choice, Smitty. We're in a race, the
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  Speaker 2: kind of race where men and ships are expendable. According
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  Speaker 2: to Interspace Code, the first nation to reach Volta can
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  Speaker 2: claim it.
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  Speaker 7: Personally, I want no part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Doc, there are a dozen nations who feel very differently
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 7: I know, I know. You're right, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at least it won't be boring.
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  Speaker 5: I'll have to play physician morale builder and mother substitute
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  Speaker 5: for 112 slightly nervous men.
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  Speaker 2: Your morale doesn't sound too good, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: As morale officer, I can state without fear of contradiction,
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  Speaker 5: it is terrible. And something tells me that as we
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  Speaker 5: approach that galactic barrier, I'm not going to be alone.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Earth. Captain Thorson of the Star Cloud calling Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Star Cloud to Earth. Can you read me?
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Star Cloud.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Captain. Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: I see they haven't court-martialed you yet.
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  Speaker 1: No, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to you. That's good to hear you. You can
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  Speaker 2: read us the funny papers on Sunday morning. Right.
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  Speaker 1: How's our signal?
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  Speaker 4: Strong.
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  Speaker 1: Clears the bell.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's our log report for Colonel Harrison.
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  Speaker 3: Ready?
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  Speaker 4: Shoot.
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  Speaker 2: June 2nd, 1987. Four weeks out from Earth. Running true,
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  Speaker 2: no radiation.
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  Speaker 1: Operation normal.
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  Speaker 2: Still making our approach to the galactic barrier. That's all, Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: See you later.
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  Speaker 4: Good luck, Captain. I sure wish I was with you.
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  Speaker 2: How's the morale, Smitty?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the men know we're getting closer to the barrier.
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  Speaker 5: They're beginning to show a little tension, Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: How's their physical condition? Any sickness?
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  Speaker 7: About half the crew has come down with space flu.
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  Speaker 4: I was afraid of that.
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  Speaker 2: Bad?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, same as usual.
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  Speaker 5: Lips and hands with a bluish cast. Eyes are sensitive
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  Speaker 5: to infrareds.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. When I first started flying these tin cans,
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  Speaker 2: nobody ever heard of space blues.
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  Speaker 5: There's a theory it's caused by the terrific acceleration of
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  Speaker 5: the atomic overdrive.
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  Speaker 7: The change in gravity affects the circulation.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I think it's psychosomatic. I've noticed that the same
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  Speaker 5: men who get space blues under tension on a ship
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  Speaker 5: tend to get blue coloration back on Earth when they're upset.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it's an occupational disease of space navigators.
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  Speaker 2: You think it's just nerves, then?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. Young Collier's got a bad case.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I think it's tension from overwork.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe he needs some vitamins.
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  Speaker 5: Lewis, when will you realize that vitamins are not a
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  Speaker 5: panacea for all the troubles of mankind?
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  Speaker 1: Sir, I... I understand you've relieved me from duty.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Smithson says you aren't looking very well, Collier. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: giving you a rest.
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  Speaker 1: But, sir, I.
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  Speaker 7: I feel perfectly able to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Your lips are as blue as Minnetonka.
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  Speaker 1: Captain, I'd like to remain at my post. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: so foolhardy, Lieutenant. I'm not being foolhardy, sir.
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  Speaker 8: You see, I have a special personal reason for wanting
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  Speaker 8: this expedition to reach Volta.
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  Speaker 2: Your father?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, my father.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: You think he might still be alive? Sir, I.
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  Speaker 1: I have to find out what happened.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: I think I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Very well, Collier. Report back to duty.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: What's the reading, Paul? We're getting a block five radar
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  Speaker 2: bounce now, sir. Coming off a barrier almost as fast
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  Speaker 2: as we've tended out. What's the interval?
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  Speaker 1: Three-tenths of a second.
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  Speaker 4: Shortening step.
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  Speaker 2: This rate will hit the wall in the next few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Alert the crew. Sound General Quarterson.
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  Speaker 1: Condition read.
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  Speaker 2: We are now approaching the galactic barrier.
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  Speaker 1: All hands to stations.
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  Speaker 2: All radiation detectors to be fully manned. Full security will
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  Speaker 2: prevail until further notice.
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  Speaker 3: That is all.
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  Speaker 2: Bollison. Yes, sir? Radar bounces up at plus six. We'd
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  Speaker 2: better try to make final contact with Earth. Is Sparks
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: still trying to raise the base? Yes, sir, but he's
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: not having much luck. Seems to be some interference. That's
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: the radio room now. Yes? You've got him? Well, cutting
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  Speaker 2: in on the bridge speaker. The captain will take it
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  Speaker 2: from here. Hello, star cloud to Earth. Can you hear me, Earth?
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  Speaker 8: Hello, Skipper?
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  Speaker 3: I can barely read you.
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: We're getting heavy static. Sunspots.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: That's not sunspots.
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  Speaker 2: We're right on the galactic barrier. Getting a plus seven
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  Speaker 2: radar bounce. Expect to hit the barrier almost any second now.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Good luck, Skipper.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Charlie, stick with us, will you?
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  Speaker 2: We're switching to the automatic center now so you can
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  Speaker 2: track us in.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: If we crack the barrier and come through still in
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  Speaker 2: one piece, I'll try to get back to you on
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the high frequency band.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Gotcha, Skipper. Don't worry.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I'll be waiting.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: So long, Charlie. So long, Starcraft.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: We must be getting awfully close now, Captain. Echoes bouncing back,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: so fast.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Almost beating the signal.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: When they coincide, hold on to your hat.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: That's when we run.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Into the wall.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Just a second. Hold on. Here goes nothing.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Here it comes. Captain.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: What?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Nothing happened.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: We made it, Captain. No radiation. No time for nothing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: The crew's gone crazy, sir. Damn, they earned it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, Doc, can you break up a few bottles of
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: snake bite serum for medicinal purposes?
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I sure can, Lewis. This calls for a celebration. How's
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: your morale now? Couldn't be better. How's yours? Couldn't be better. Hey,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: what the... Condition red. Condition red.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Radiation detected.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Condition red.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Radiation detected.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Holy mackerel. Look at the needle on that indicator. Policen. Policen.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I see it, Captain.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: It's picking up radiation like crazy. What's it like? It's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a strong impulse. What kind? I don't know, sir.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: It's too long for a cosmic ray and too short
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: for UHF.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: The ship's lousy with it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Man your battle stations!
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: Apollison, track it down.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Triangulate it and make it fast. I want a direction
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of fifth.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Engine room.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: We're picking up radioactivity.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Is it the fishing chambers? No leak here, sir.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I'll check your gauges.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Nothing here, Captain. Must be coming from outside.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Damage control.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Is radiation penetrating the lead field?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Haven't found anything yet, sir.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Well, keep at it. Paulusen, how are you doing?
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I've got a fix, Captain.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I'll have to recheck my figure.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Hurry up.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: The angle is correct.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Come on, man. For Pete's sake, what's the radiation from?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: It's coming from inside the ship. That's impossible.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: No, sir.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I've checked it twice. Well, it's got to be the engines.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: If it is, we're finished. Engine room.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: That radiation must be in the overdrive pile.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: No, sir. It isn't here, sir.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Are you certain? Yes, sir. All right.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Keep checking.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Well, only one thing left to do. Follison, get a
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Geiger counter. We're going to start combing this ship inch
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: by inch.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Turn it on.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Ready, Captain.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: We'll check the atomic guns first. Come on. We'll cut
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: through the officers' quarters to ordnance. Yes, sir. Go here.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: All right. Wait a minute, sir.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: The signal is weaker now.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Let's go back.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Hold it, hold it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Seems strongest right about here.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: Doesn't make sense.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Whose cabin is this?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Collier's.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Collier! He's down in lab control. Drive the door. It's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: not locked, sir. This is in here, all right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Listen to that counter.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It's strongest over here.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Open that wall cabinet. It's locked, sir. I'll smash it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Shut off the Geiger counter. Well, what do you make
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: of this, Paulus? Well, it looks like some sort of
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: portable transmitter, sir. Must be foreign manufacture. I don't recognize
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the calibration symbols at all. I've never seen anything like it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Which raises a small question. What is Lieutenant Collier doing
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: with a transmitter in his cabin? I don't know, sir. Well,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I intend to find out, Paulison. Get down to nav
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: control and bring Collier up to the bridge on the double.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Well, haven't we better find some way to shut this
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: thing off first?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I know a way.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Collier, I'm going to ask a few simple questions.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And I want a few simple answers.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: What were you doing with a transmitter in your cabin?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Transmitter, Captain.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: You know nothing about it?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: No, sir, I don't.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Do you recognize these calibration symbols?
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: No, sir.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Can you think of how it might have been placed
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: in your cabin without your knowing it? No, sir, unless
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: someone came in while I was on duty. Would that
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: have been possible?
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Well, I.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I suppose so. Well, if someone had a key... I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: found your cabin door unlocked.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I meant a key to the wall cabinet.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't say the wall cabinet.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Well, sir, I.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: You what, Lieutenant? How could you have known it was
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: in the wall cabinet? Well, I.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I just assumed.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Collier, I find it hard to believe you would lie.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Having known and respected your father and having observed the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: way you handle your job. However, I intend to get
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to the root of this thing. May I have your wristwatch, Lieutenant?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Your wristwatch.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Here you are, sir.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Follison, turn on that Geiger counter.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Now hold this watch next to it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant, if you hadn't any close contact with that transmitter,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: how do you explain the radioactivity of this watch?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I don't, sir. I think you'd better. To whom were
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you sending those signals?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Condition red.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Condition red. There's your answer, Captain. What is this, Collier?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Alien spaceship approaching.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Alien spaceship approaching.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Collier, who's aboard that ship? All right, now talk.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: Very well, Captain.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: My mission seems completed. Your mission? Are you admitting that
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you're an agent of a foreign power?
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: I am stating it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: What nation? No nation, Captain.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: What?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I am an agent of the Voltan government.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: The what?
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: The government of the planet of Voltan. Are you crazy?
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: Are you so stupid that you think your people are
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: the only ones who can invade another planet?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Tell him, what do you mean?
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: We've had agents operating on Earth since 1945.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: What do you think happened to those five ships, Captain?
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: Where do you suppose we got our information? Your language, your.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Culture, family background. Your appearance, you look like... Like Commander Collier?
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Is that so surprising, Captain? We had a living model.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I ought to kill you.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: That would be very foolish, Captain. I would advise you
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: to surrender without delay.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Alien ship now coming into ordnance range.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I'll deal with you later, Collier.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Paulison.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Put this man in irons and take him away.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, sir.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: We'll take good care of him.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Gunnery.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Gunnery.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: What's the range?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: 10,000 meters. They're closing fast.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Put your guns on radar tracking.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Tracking.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Coming on the bearing.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Fire.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Fire.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Fire, Richardson, did you hear me?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Fire! What's the matter down there, did you hear me?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Richardson, answer me!
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: What, what, who?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It's no use to shout, Captain.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Collier, how did you get loose?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Where's Paulusen?
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Lieutenant Paulusen is dead.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: All stations, Lieutenant Collier has escaped.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Seize him, men!
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Don't waste your breath, Captain. Your men can't hear you.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: What?
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: Those still alive are my men.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: You're lying. No, Captain.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Every ship that has ever left Earth was controlled by
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: a Voltaire crew.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: That's impossible. Those were hand-picked men. Hand-picked by us.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. Then why not call for help? Carpenter, Robinson, Haley, report.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Carpenter.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Robinson.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Haley.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Report.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You see, Captain, it is quite useless.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: The star cloud will be taken to Volta for, shall
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: we say, further experimentation.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I see. Of course, there's one thing you haven't counted on.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And just what is that, Captain? This....
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Carpenter!
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Are you in there, Lieutenant Carpenter?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: They can't all be dead.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: There must be one alive. Smitty!
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Smithson!
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Smitty!
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, Smitty. What have they done to you?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Louis.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Those dirty.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Don't talk. Don't talk. I must lean closer. Not much time.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Louis, space blues. Space blues?
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: What is it, Smitty?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: What are you trying to tell me?
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: All men with space blues.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Voltan.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Here, let me help you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: No, Lewis.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Get message back to Earth. Voltan, fifth column.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: Watch out for space blues.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Spiddy, Spiddy. Captain Thorson! Captain Thorson!
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: You can't hide from us now.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Come back to the bridge and surrender, or my.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Men will come and get you. Oh, yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Captain Thorson! Captain Thorson! You can't come.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Starcloud calling Earth.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Please, God, let me through. The board's too late.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Hello. Starcloud to Earth. Come in, please. Come in, please!
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Hello? Skipper!
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Is that you?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It's coming in a little louder now, Skip. Keep sending.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: What?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Spell that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Voltans?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Skipper, are you all right?
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: They'll be here any second. Now, listen, they have a
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: fifth column on Earth.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: They're planning to invade you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You don't mean it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Of course I mean it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Don't tell Harris.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: You're posing as humans.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: You can detect them by space blue.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You got that?
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Only Vulcans get space blue.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Charlie, can you hear me?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Space blue. I get you. I'm sorry. You weren't everybody.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Captain?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Captain?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Captain Thorson?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: Hello, Star-Cloud?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Come in.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: What's the trouble, Sergeant?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I was just trying to raise the star.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Cloud, Colonel.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Had any luck?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: No, sir.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: No contact. No contact?
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: No, sir.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: Nearly an hour since they hit the galactic barrier. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: don't understand why they haven't tried to get a message back.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: No, sir.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Neither do I.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: All right. I'll take over for a while.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: You do that, you go right ahead, sir. Right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, Charlie, you'd better go out and get yourself some coffee.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: You look a little blue around the gills.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: You have just heard No Contact, an adventure in time, space,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and the unknown. The world of.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Dimension!
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Next week we have a cheerful little tale that starts
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: with the disappearance of Grant's tomb. It's about a veteran
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: newspaper reporter and a strange little man who calls himself
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: the world's greatest genius. You'll hear all about it next
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: week at the same time when we present The Professor.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Was a Thief.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Dimension X has presented No Contact. An original story written
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: by George Lefferts from a storyline by Lefferts and Ernest Kenoy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Louis Van Rooten as Captain Thorson,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Donald Bucher as Lieutenant Collier, and Cameron Prudhomme as Charlie.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman, engineer
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Bill Chambers. Dimension X is produced by William Welch and
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: directed by Edward King. Stay tuned for The Remarkable Quiz
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Kids on NBC. Dimension X has concluded No Contact. Good night,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and thank you for spending this time with Classic Radio.
• 30:41
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