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481 – Star Cops – Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits
Crazy genius developing diabolical plans on a remote space facility. Are we watching Blakes 7 again?
John and Eugene discuss Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits?
Episode Synopsis:
A salvage ship scores big. They find cargo module drifting on a course into the sun. They retrieve it, hoping to return it for a reward from the owner or salvage of the scrap. They’re also not above fudging the logs a bit to make it appear to have been a hazard to navigation, allowing them to collect a reward for clearing the hazard.
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On Earth, Dilly Goodman contacts the Ronald Reagan space station, trying to reach her brother, Harvey, but they have not record that he ever existed, and even the module Z-13 that he assigned to never existed.
On the moon, Kenzy is not happy about the job duties she’s been assigned now that she’s back in the Star Cops. Spring clearly doesn’t trust her or want her on the force and is trying to make it miserable enough for her to resign. But she won’t.
Spring is on his way to the Ronald Reagan to try to convince the Americans to allow him to replace Hubble, the American Star Cop that was caught on the fiddle in the previous episode. Second in command, David, must meet with the next Moonbase Coordinator, a Russian, who is replacing the previous coordinator that left after being rumbled for a crime by Spring and the Star Cops two episodes ago.
On the Ronald Reagan, Spring meets with American Commander Griffin. Griffin is a royal grade-A1 asshole as well as a comically stereotypical American. He’s not happy that Hubble was forced to resign. He doesn’t want “internationals” on his space station. He doesn’t trust Europeans, and he even thinks Spring has played into the Russian’s hands by having the moonbase coordinator replaced. He’s not going to cooperate, the State Department isn’t going to cooperate, and he’s going to make Spring’s stay as miserable as possible.
Dilly Goodman calls Star Cop HQ on the moon and talks to Kenzy. She explains that her brother has not only gone missing, but that everyone tells her that he never even existed. All this under the watchful eye of the new moonbase coordinator. Kenzy leaves for the Ronald Reagan to investigate.
She’s met by a distinctly cold shoulder by Spring because, not only is she not doing her assigned job, she still hasn’t resigned, but she also didn’t do a very good job of preparing for the case before leaving. She, and the others back on the moon, think there’s something fishy going on. Someone is manipulating things, possibly the Russians. There is literally no computer records of a Harvey Goodman existing anywhere. Ever.
Realizing this is a massive attempt to erase the man, Spring decides they need to look into this further. He lets Kenzy stay when it turns out there’s one person happy to see her on the Ronald Reagan – the American Commander, who like to show her fun ways to use his pool table.
Spring lets Kenzy endure a decade’s worth of #MeToo experiences while he breaks into the commanders office to study his computer files.
On Earth, David has gone to interview the sister. Her house is vacant, and he is knocked out from behind by someone working for Griffin.
On the moon, the salvage operators file their claim and move the capsule, designated Z-13, into a moonbase hanger to open and salvage.
When Griffin discovers Spring was in his office, he realizes the game is up. He offers Spring a deal – you forget Goodman and I’ll allow Star Cops on this base. Kenzy saves the day by recording that attempt at quid pro quo and forces Griffin to tell them what’s happening.
It goes something like this: Goodman was working, in an unauthorized capacity, on microbiology – something that is forbidden on the Ronald Reagan as too dangerous. Goodman discovered (or engineered) a space bug that could survive the vacuum of space, but accidentally released it, and getting himself killed. The Americans sealed up the capsule and dropped it towards the sun. Believing that no one would ever believe it wasn’t a US backed bio-warfare project, they decided to cover it up, erasing Goodman from all records, because they knew he had no family. So who is the so-called sister? She has completely disappeared, but Griffin believes that she is a Russian provocateur trying to use the Star Cops into embarrassing the Americans. Coincidentally, Hubble knew about this cover-up and had been blackmailing Griffin to keep silent.
With the Russian moonbase coordinator watching, the salvage people cut their way into the capsule.
Back on the moon, Spring receives a call from the “sister” and it turns out she’s not a Russian, she’s the press. He cuts a deal with her and she uses the power of the press to strong-arm the American’s into allowing Star Cops on the Ronald Reagan.
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Crazy genius developing diabolical plans on a remote space facility. Are we watching Blakes 7 again?
John and Eugene discuss Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits?
Episode Synopsis:
A salvage ship scores big. They find cargo module drifting on a course into the sun. They retrieve it, hoping to return it for a reward from the owner or salvage of the scrap. They’re also not above fudging the logs a bit to make it appear to have been a hazard to navigation, allowing them to collect a reward for clearing the hazard.
[expand title=”More…” swaptitle=”Less” tag=”strong”]
On Earth, Dilly Goodman contacts the Ronald Reagan space station, trying to reach her brother, Harvey, but they have not record that he ever existed, and even the module Z-13 that he assigned to never existed.
On the moon, Kenzy is not happy about the job duties she’s been assigned now that she’s back in the Star Cops. Spring clearly doesn’t trust her or want her on the force and is trying to make it miserable enough for her to resign. But she won’t.
Spring is on his way to the Ronald Reagan to try to convince the Americans to allow him to replace Hubble, the American Star Cop that was caught on the fiddle in the previous episode. Second in command, David, must meet with the next Moonbase Coordinator, a Russian, who is replacing the previous coordinator that left after being rumbled for a crime by Spring and the Star Cops two episodes ago.
On the Ronald Reagan, Spring meets with American Commander Griffin. Griffin is a royal grade-A1 asshole as well as a comically stereotypical American. He’s not happy that Hubble was forced to resign. He doesn’t want “internationals” on his space station. He doesn’t trust Europeans, and he even thinks Spring has played into the Russian’s hands by having the moonbase coordinator replaced. He’s not going to cooperate, the State Department isn’t going to cooperate, and he’s going to make Spring’s stay as miserable as possible.
Dilly Goodman calls Star Cop HQ on the moon and talks to Kenzy. She explains that her brother has not only gone missing, but that everyone tells her that he never even existed. All this under the watchful eye of the new moonbase coordinator. Kenzy leaves for the Ronald Reagan to investigate.
She’s met by a distinctly cold shoulder by Spring because, not only is she not doing her assigned job, she still hasn’t resigned, but she also didn’t do a very good job of preparing for the case before leaving. She, and the others back on the moon, think there’s something fishy going on. Someone is manipulating things, possibly the Russians. There is literally no computer records of a Harvey Goodman existing anywhere. Ever.
Realizing this is a massive attempt to erase the man, Spring decides they need to look into this further. He lets Kenzy stay when it turns out there’s one person happy to see her on the Ronald Reagan – the American Commander, who like to show her fun ways to use his pool table.
Spring lets Kenzy endure a decade’s worth of #MeToo experiences while he breaks into the commanders office to study his computer files.
On Earth, David has gone to interview the sister. Her house is vacant, and he is knocked out from behind by someone working for Griffin.
On the moon, the salvage operators file their claim and move the capsule, designated Z-13, into a moonbase hanger to open and salvage.
When Griffin discovers Spring was in his office, he realizes the game is up. He offers Spring a deal – you forget Goodman and I’ll allow Star Cops on this base. Kenzy saves the day by recording that attempt at quid pro quo and forces Griffin to tell them what’s happening.
It goes something like this: Goodman was working, in an unauthorized capacity, on microbiology – something that is forbidden on the Ronald Reagan as too dangerous. Goodman discovered (or engineered) a space bug that could survive the vacuum of space, but accidentally released it, and getting himself killed. The Americans sealed up the capsule and dropped it towards the sun. Believing that no one would ever believe it wasn’t a US backed bio-warfare project, they decided to cover it up, erasing Goodman from all records, because they knew he had no family. So who is the so-called sister? She has completely disappeared, but Griffin believes that she is a Russian provocateur trying to use the Star Cops into embarrassing the Americans. Coincidentally, Hubble knew about this cover-up and had been blackmailing Griffin to keep silent.
With the Russian moonbase coordinator watching, the salvage people cut their way into the capsule.
Back on the moon, Spring receives a call from the “sister” and it turns out she’s not a Russian, she’s the press. He cuts a deal with her and she uses the power of the press to strong-arm the American’s into allowing Star Cops on the Ronald Reagan.
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