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The Leukocyte Maneuver · Alien Worlds

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Slowly orbiting at the edge of deep space, 1,000 kilometers
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: beyond 21st century Earth, is the Arthur C. Clarke Astronomical Observatory, STARLAB. Here,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: STARLAB research director Maura Cassidy and scientists and technicians of
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: the International Space Authority watch over the countless stars and
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: planets that fill the universe. This week, space exploration team
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: captains John Graydon and Buddy Griff encounter a massive, shapeless
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: organism in the silent distances beyond Starlab. An organism whose
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: power and pathology forced John and Buddy to instigate the
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: leukocyte maneuver on Alien Worlds. Star Labs' Jodrell McKenzie radio
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  Speaker 1: telescope has detected an unidentified energy mass slowly moving to
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: the constellation of Cygnus, the Northern Cross. entered in Starlab's
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  Speaker 1: Mycroft computer as Stellar Anomaly 505. The energy mass is
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: being tracked in the Radio Telescope Monitoring Laboratory by Professor
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Royce and astronomer technicians Karen Stone and Carl Phillips.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's try and get a visual on it.
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  Speaker 1: Karen, cross-link the 350 optical telescope and calibrate for maximum
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: vector scan.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: What about polarization?
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: We'll let that go for the time being.
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Carl, switch on screens 4 and 5 and interface the
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  Speaker 1: azimuth grid for Cygnus.
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: Full resolution on both screens?
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: Just on 5.
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  Speaker 6: There it is.
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  Speaker 7: Horizontal travel along Submeridian 201.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful, isn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Like a tiny star in silver mist.
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  Speaker 5: You think everything out there is beautiful?
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Interface the DRS, Carl.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get a radial velocity on this thing.
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  Speaker 5: This can't be right.
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  Speaker 2: What's the problem, Carl?
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  Speaker 5: The radial velocity. I'm getting a synchronous red shift and
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  Speaker 5: blue shift. The anomaly is approaching and receding simultaneously.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not to mention.
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: That it's still moving sideways.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that. It's starting to cartwheel.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe we should... What? What happened?
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 6: It's gone.
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  Speaker 5: Royce, look at this. I'm still picking up its radio velocity.
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  Speaker 2: Live wave readings when there's no light? What's going on here?
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  Speaker 6: It's on the screens again.
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  Speaker 2: Submarine 068.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: How long was it off?
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  Speaker 9: The retro timer says nine seconds.
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  Speaker 6: It just traveled two light years.
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  Speaker 9: In nine seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Karen, run a total spectrum analysis on that thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Carl, get a kinetic temperature reading.
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  Speaker 6: I'd better let Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Cassidy know about this.
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  Speaker 1: After a 20-minute conference with Professor Royce, Dr. Maura Cassidy
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  Speaker 1: decides to have the anomaly investigated at close range by
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  Speaker 1: space exploration team captains John Graydon and Buddy Griff. Half
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: an hour later, John and Buddy enter Docking Bay 16,
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  Speaker 1: where they board the SET Interceptor Solaris and stand by
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  Speaker 1: for launch clearance.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry about that, John. I must have got something in
• 4:01
  Speaker 8: my nose when we walked through the maintenance section. You
• 4:03
  Speaker 8: sure you're not coming down with a cold? No, no,
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  Speaker 8: I think it's the primer they were using on that shuttle.
• 4:07
  Speaker 8: Every time I get within ten feet of spray painting,
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  Speaker 8: my nostrils backfire.
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  Speaker 2: Well, keep them open. You know the rule.
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  Speaker 10: If you're not 100% sensory and paranasal, you're grounded. If
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  Speaker 10: you get too stuffed up, we'll have to cancel the mission.
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  Speaker 2: Cancel the mission?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy!
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  Speaker 10: That's what I like about you, buddy, your willingness to
• 4:24
  Speaker 10: face the unknown without batting a nose.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do the funny.
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  Speaker 6: Stuff, Skip.
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  Speaker 4: Starlab Control to Solaris.
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  Speaker 2: Solaris, go ahead, Jerry.
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  Speaker 4: I've got an update on that energy mass from radio
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  Speaker 4: telescope monitoring.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, good.
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  Speaker 2: What's the story?
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  Speaker 4: The anomaly has moved to the top of the Cygnus
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  Speaker 4: constellation and becomes stationary one parsec away from the binary
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  Speaker 4: star Beta Cygni Albireo.
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  Speaker 2: Is it still generating second magnitude alpha waves?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: When it became stationary, its wave frequency changed.
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  Speaker 2: What's it generating now?
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  Speaker 4: They don't know. There's too much interference from the binary
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  Speaker 4: to get an exact reading. Hold on, John. Here's Maura.
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  Speaker 3: John, don't take any unnecessary chances out there. Just get
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  Speaker 3: as close to the.
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  Speaker 7: Anomaly as you have to in order to scan it.
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  Speaker 7: Then transmit the data back here. We'll analyze the scan
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  Speaker 7: and let you know if there's anything else.
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  Speaker 4: You have to do. Okay?
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, buddy?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Maura.
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  Speaker 3: John, what's wrong with Buddy?
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  Speaker 10: Uh, nothing that can't be fixed. His sense of humor
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  Speaker 10: is taking a nosedive, that's all.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome to the worst pun of the century. We'd better
• 5:33
  Speaker 8: get this show on the road before you come up
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  Speaker 8: with another one.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, I'll certainly buy that. What's the traffic situation, Jerry?
• 5:38
  Speaker 10: We've already handled our pre-flight procedures.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty seconds, John.
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  Speaker 5: Thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, Jerry, we're online.
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  Speaker 4: Launch vector zero niner alpha, John. I'm opening the bay
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  Speaker 4: doors now.
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  Speaker 7: Remember what I said, you two. No unnecessary chances. Scan
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  Speaker 7: it and transmit the data.
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  Speaker 3: That's all. Contact, buddy.
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  Speaker 11: I've created a monster.
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  Speaker 2: Starlab Control to ISA Transport 119-er. ISA 119-er.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: I have your revised docking orbit insertion coordinates, Rachel. Are
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: you ready to program?
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  Speaker 4: Roger.
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  Speaker 9: DOIC Meridian 203 at subvector 17-alpha.
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  Speaker 2: Docking bay 28. Thanks, Jerry.
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  Speaker 3: ISA 119-er out.
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  Speaker 8: Starlab clear on ITS frequency 19.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Jerry.
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  Speaker 11: How are John and Buddy doing?
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  Speaker 2: Everything's okay. They checked in at 1330, right on schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 11: Where are they?
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  Speaker 2: Between Pluto and Neptune.
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  Speaker 4: They should reach their warp-through coordinates in about six minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, keep me posted.
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  Speaker 11: I'll be up in radio telescope monitoring.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, buddy, let's start the switch over to hyperdrive. Initiate
• 7:31
  Speaker 10: sidereal search buffer overlap.
• 7:36
  Speaker 8: SSB terminals are online. Parallel sequencer links to substatus screen.
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  Speaker 8: VSLs are in phase.
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  Speaker 10: Primary and secondary parsec refractors to parallax subroutine one.
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  Speaker 2: Refractors are in the grid and stable at 3-0-3.
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  Speaker 10: Charge the warp generator and synchronize for a minus 10 interface.
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  Speaker 5: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure you're not coming down with something? I'm
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: all right. See you in Cygnus.
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: Alien Worlds will continue.
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  Speaker 6: Alien Worlds continues.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Starlab's giant Jodrell-McKenzie radio telescope has detected a massive energy
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  Speaker 1: field in the constellation of Cygnus 10.6 parsecs away.
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: I've got an update on that energy mass from radio
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  Speaker 4: telescope monitoring. The anomaly has moved to the top of
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  Speaker 4: the Cygnus constellation and becomes stationary one parsec away from
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  Speaker 4: the binary star Beta Cygni Albireo.
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  Speaker 1: Three hours after the anomaly's discovery, space exploration team captains
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  Speaker 1: John Graydon and Buddy Griff board the SET interceptor Solaris
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  Speaker 1: and rocket into deep space to investigate. Six hours later,
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  Speaker 1: the Solaris warps through the time-space continuum and arrives in
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  Speaker 1: the constellation of Cygnus, near the anomaly's last known location.
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  Speaker 8: I don't get it, Skipper. Nothing on the spectrometer, nothing
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  Speaker 8: on the gas amplification sensors, and nothing on the radiation scanners.
• 9:59
  Speaker 11: Maybe it's... moved up into the Veil Nebula.
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  Speaker 8: Open the parsec frequency. Let's see if they're still tracking
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  Speaker 8: it on Starlab. Solaris to Starlab Control.
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  Speaker 4: This is Starlab. Is that you, buddy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you, all right.
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  Speaker 4: I'd recognize that.
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  Speaker 5: See you anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: What's happening out there?
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's just it, Jerry. Nothing's happening. There's no sign
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  Speaker 8: of that whatever it was. Are they still tracking it
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  Speaker 8: up in radio telescope monitoring?
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  Speaker 4: Stand by.
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  Speaker 3: I'll check.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was just thinking, buddy. Maybe that thing's
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: some kind of an organism.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't think so, John.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, a 2,000 kilometer wide living organism that's invisible?
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 10: I know it sounds pretty far-fetched. But if it were
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  Speaker 10: some sort of organism, that would explain why we aren't picking.
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  Speaker 6: It up on the.
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  Speaker 4: Starlab control to Solaris.
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  Speaker 2: Solaris, go ahead, Jerry.
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  Speaker 4: Radio telescope monitoring says the anomaly went off their screens
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  Speaker 4: at about the same time you got there. Mara wants
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: you to come back to Starlab.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, Jerry.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, by the way, have Dr. Rossiter break out some
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  Speaker 8: of her little yellow pills, will you? In spite of
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  Speaker 8: all reports to the contrary, I think I'm coming down
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  Speaker 8: with a lunar flu or something.
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  Speaker 4: Will do. Now I have control clear on parsec frequency one.
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  Speaker 2: Solaris out. Hey, you better take an antipyretic and try
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  Speaker 2: and get some sleep. Yeah. Let's get out of here.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: What's wrong, Skipper?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Give me a status read on the ignition generator. The
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  Speaker 2: computer says it's okay.
• 11:50
  Speaker 11: Try it again.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: Thruster malfunction.
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  Speaker 8: Shut down the system, buddy. Let's have a status readout
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  Speaker 8: on the thrusters. Physical obstruction. Something's blocking the nozzles. It's
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  Speaker 8: got us. Something's got us.
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  Speaker 2: All integrity subcritical.
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  Speaker 3: It's crushing us.
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  Speaker 6: My God.
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  Speaker 2: Shut down the bioscan indicators before the circuits blow.
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: Don't be afraid.
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  Speaker 11: John... Did you hear that? Or am I in shock?
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  Speaker 2: No, you're all right. I heard it too.
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  Speaker 5: What are you?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you?
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  Speaker 9: I am undifferentiated potential, a galactic wanderer.
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  Speaker 1: You are inside of me.
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  Speaker 2: What? Inside of you?
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  Speaker 9: I am the anomaly you were searching for.
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  Speaker 11: Uh, how do you know we were searching for an anomaly?
• 13:04
  Speaker 9: The universe echoes with life, intelligence, voices... Yours, others, I
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  Speaker 9: sense it all.
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  Speaker 2: Our bioscanners. You're not an energy field anymore, are you?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 9: I am now a leukocyte, a white blood cell, a corpuscle,
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  Speaker 9: identical in many respects to those in your own bodies.
• 13:27
  Speaker 8: Why a leukocyte? Why not an enzyme, or a hemoglobin,
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: or an amino acid molecule? I mean, is a white
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  Speaker 8: blood cell hipper than a red one?
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: Hipper?
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: Smarter.
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  Speaker 11: More fun to be around.
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  Speaker 1: You're very amusing, buddy.
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  Speaker 11: Well, what do you know about that? A corpuscle with
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  Speaker 11: a sense of humor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't get too carried away. Remember, he's 2,000
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  Speaker 2: kilometers wide. If he laughs, we're finished.
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  Speaker 6: You are sick, buddy.
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  Speaker 11: You mean I'm not amusing?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're ill, physically ill.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 9: And because you are, the leukocytes in your immune system
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  Speaker 9: have energized to resist the illness. I sensed this when
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  Speaker 9: your vehicle penetrated my other form. And because I have
• 14:12
  Speaker 9: great compassion for suffering, I affected a sympathetic metamorphosis.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: You're communicating with us through our immune systems, aren't you?
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  Speaker 11: Yes. But I'm the one who's sick. Why is John
• 14:24
  Speaker 11: able to hear you?
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  Speaker 9: Does that answer your question?
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Sorry, Skipper. That's okay.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: There's nothing like a cold in the heat of an emergency.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: Emergency?
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Look at the life support annunciators, buddy.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Uh-oh. What's wrong?
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: Well, the shaking we took when you materialized around the
• 14:45
  Speaker 8: ship damaged the primary oxygen flow matrix. The backup system's on,
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: but there's only enough oxygen in that for seven hours.
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: And after we warp back to our original parsec coordinates,
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  Speaker 8: it's going to take at least six hours to reach
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  Speaker 8: our home base.
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  Speaker 11: I think you'd better release us.
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  Speaker 2: I can't release you. Why not? Why don't you just
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  Speaker 2: reconvert yourself to energy?
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  Speaker 9: I was devitalized when you encountered me. And because I
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: was born in this star region, I had come back
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  Speaker 9: to rest, perhaps to die.
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  Speaker 2: What's the problem? Maybe we can help.
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: The leukocyte transformation process has depleted certain light wave frequencies
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  Speaker 9: necessary for my reconversion to energy.
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  Speaker 8: Then why did you transform yourself in the first place?
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  Speaker 9: I've never encountered beings like yourselves. I wanted to know you.
• 15:34
  Speaker 9: Are you angry with me?
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: No, I guess not.
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  Speaker 9: You may lose your lives because of me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, getting mad about it isn't going to help.
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  Speaker 9: Do you share Buddy's feelings, John?
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 9: What remarkable creatures you are.
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  Speaker 2: Open the Parsec channel, Buddy. We'd better let them know
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: it's Starlab.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Solaris to Starlab Control. Starlab, go ahead, John. Patch this
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: transmission through tomorrow, Jerry. Roger.
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  Speaker 5: Stand by.
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  Speaker 6: Alien Worlds will continue. Alien Worlds continues.
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  Speaker 1: Ordered to investigate a massive energy field 10.6 light years
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  Speaker 1: from Starlab Buddy and John warp the Solaris through the
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  Speaker 1: time-space continuum into the constellation of Cygnus.
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  Speaker 6: Suddenly, the energy.
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  Speaker 1: Field transforms itself into an enormous intelligent organism, a 2,000
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  Speaker 1: kilometer wide leukocyte. that envelops the Solaris and damages its
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  Speaker 1: primary oxygen flow matrix. Meanwhile, on Starlab.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Commissioner. The Solaris is impacted right in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if it was energy to begin with, why can't
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  Speaker 4: it transform itself back?
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  Speaker 3: Well, according to John, the lightweight frequencies it needs for
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  Speaker 3: reconversion are exhausted.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: How much oxygen do they have?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Less than seven hours.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I just had a thought, Maura.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: The Solaris is outfitted with a whole arsenal of military
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: and scientific lasers.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Maybe they could use.
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  Speaker 4: Them to restore the light-wave frequencies the organism needs to reconvert.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: You must have read their minds, Commissioner. That's exactly what
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: they're going to try. Okay, buddy. Let's put the laser
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: generators online. Normal sequence.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: LG-135.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, Skip, they're hot. LG 246.
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  Speaker 11: Malfunction on number six.
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  Speaker 2: Shut it down. Okay, put them in the grid.
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: We have positive grid interface.
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: Open laser port one and calibrate for a 5,000 angstrom
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: green light discharge.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Soft beams.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I can't be more specific concerning the color
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: or intensity of the light.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: That's all right.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: We'll figure that out by trial and error. The only
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: thing I'm worried about is if our lasers have enough
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: saturation potential.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Well, fire number one, buddy.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: I feel it, but it's not having any effect.
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: Well, maybe green isn't your color. Can we show you
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: something nice in red?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: Open laser port number two, buddy, and calibrate for a 6,000
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  Speaker 10: angstrom red light discharge.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Fire.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, but red isn't my color either.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: How much oxygen is left in the backup system?
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: Six hours, 19 minutes. Open up number three. Let's try 4,600
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: angstroms of violet.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Starlight patrol to Solaris.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Solaris, go ahead, Mara.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: It's passing out there, John. Any luck with the lasers?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: No, not yet.
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  Speaker 10: We've tried green and red, and we're getting ready to
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: try violet.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: What's your life support situation?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Critical.
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: If we don't get out of here in 19... minutes,
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: we won't have enough oxygen to get back to Starlab.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: What about the O2 packs that your pressure's in?
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: There's only an hour of oxygen in them, Maura. And
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: I don't think an hour is going to make that
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: much difference.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: But what.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: God, I feel so helpless.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: It's not over yet, Maura.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: We've been in worse situations than this.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: As long as we've got oxygen and lasers and our
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: wits about us, there's still a chance.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Way to go, buddy.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Maura?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I hear you, buddy.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Maura, does Commissioner White know what's going on out here?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, I talked to him a few minutes ago.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Number three's ready to fire, Skip. Good. Maura, we'll call
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: you back when we finish the laser procedures.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Now let's see right 4600 angstroms of violet wait a
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: minute buddy come on skip minutes are at a premium
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: i was just thinking about commissioner white so white buddy
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: white i still don't follow what happens when you spin
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: a color wheel all the colors blend together and the
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: wheel turns white and what do you see when you
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: look at the stars white light What did the anomaly
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: look like on the screens at Starlab?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: White light.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: That's it, buddy. That's our leukocyte maneuver.
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: If we run all the lasers through a spectrum filter,
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: we'll get pure white light.
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: And if we interface all the laser generators, we'll have
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: five times the discharge and saturation power.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Cross-link all laser generators and open the rest of the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: laser ports. All right.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: If this attempt succeeds.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: will no longer be able to communicate.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I've enjoyed our encounter.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: And because you've made no attempt to destroy me, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: will leave you with something you won't know you have
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: till I'm gone.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Shall we begin? Ah, sure.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: All right, buddy.
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: Fire.
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: Fire.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: I am the firstborn of the universe. I am matter
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: and antimatter. Singularity and synchronicity. The force that holds a
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: bird in the air. The sounds you hear when androids
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: dream of men.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I am old.
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: How do you feel, John?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know. I feel good. I mean, my
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: body feels good.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I'm not sick anymore.
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: Yeah, neither am I. Whatever it was that made us sick,
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: he took with him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: He healed us.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: The Lucasite Maneuver was based on a story by Anthony
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: DeWitt and was written by Ron Thompson and starred Linda Gary,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Chuck Olson, Bruce Philip Miller, Corey Burton, with special guest
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: star Larry Moss. Associate Producer, Ron Thompson. Music Director, Tom Rounds. Engineer,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Stu Jacobs. Assistant to the Producer, Jim Cook. Technical Consultant,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Peter Skye. Alien Worlds was created, produced, and directed by
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Lee Hansen. And so, until next week, this is Roger
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Dressler inviting you to join us for our next adventure
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: from the Elsewhere and Elsewhen of Alien Worlds.