Trekking Through Compliance

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode By Any Other Name, which aired on February 23, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4657.5.

A landing party beams down to investigate a distress call, and two "perfect" human life forms register and put in an appearance. They are members of the Kelvin Empire from the Andromeda Galaxy. They want a return trip home, which will take some 300 years, and take control of the Enterprise to accomplish this. They are subjected to some humorous adventures and emotions to which the Kelvins are dismayed by their human responses and fearful that they have betrayed their form and culture by taking human form. Kirk and Spock, therefore, convince them to work with the Federation to find a habitable planet in the Milky Way for their people and return control of the Enterprise to Kirk.

Compliance Takeaways:

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode  Patterns of Force which aired on February 16, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 2534.

When the Enterprise approaches the inner planet Ekos to investigate the cessation of communication with researcher John Gill, it is attacked with a rocket carrying a nuclear weapon. Kirk and Spock beam down to investigate and discover that a Nazi movement has swept the planet. John Gill is their leader.

They are captured, and in jail, they find that the Nazi movement began with the arrival of Gill. They escape and penetrate Nazi headquarters. They discover that Gill is only the drugged puppet of deputy Führer Melakon. Gill and Melakon are killed. Kirk and company then return to the Enterprise in peace.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     What happens when good men go bad?

2.     Your own sales force can be the best assessor of risk.

3.     Why is regime change such a prescient risk?

4.     Resources

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode  Return to Tomorrow, which aired on February 9, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4768.3.

The Enterprise receives a distress call from a planet hundreds of light years too distant to have been visited by any Earth ship. Spock determines that the planet is similar to Earth but older and that its atmosphere was ripped away half a million years ago. Spock detects a power source originating 100 miles below the planet's surface, and they all beam down.

The landing party discovers evidence of an ancient culture on a planet whose habitable surface was destroyed long ago by a self-inflicted cataclysm. They meet Sargon, who Sargon occupies Kirk's body. This transference produces great stress on Kirk's body, causing McCoy to become alarmed. Sargon then asks to borrow the bodies of Spock and Dr. Mullhall so that they may construct androids. Sargon realizes that the temptation for him and Filissa to abuse their god-like powers is too great, and he and Filissa desert their bodies and fade into oblivion.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     High risk can mean a high reward.

2.     What is your risk management protocol?

3.     How does your organization account for changing risk?

Resources

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode A Private Little War, which aired on February 2, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1.

Spock, Bones, and Kirk beam down to a planet Kirk surveyed 13 years ago and are attacked. Spock is shot while trying to escape. Kirk speculates that the Klingons have violated the treaty governing the "neutral planet", which restricts both parties to scientific research, and provided them with rifles.

On the planet, Kirk furnishes the hill people with rifles. The wife of the leader of the Hill people is killed, and now Tyree is mad with anger and asks Kirk for many weapons with which to kill the village people. Kirk complies by asking Scotty to manufacture flintlock rifles for the hill people, which he refers to as "serpents for the Garden of Eden." As they beam back to the Enterprise, Kirk s upset at the loss of innocence he has contributed to but knows of no other action he could have taken.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     Why a Board needs compliance expertise.

2.     What is the M&A safe harbor?

3.     How the FCPA fosters competition.

Resources

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Immunity Syndrome, which aired on January 19, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1.

The Enterprise is diverted to investigate the mysterious cessation of communication with the Gamma 7A star system. While on its way, Spock telepathically senses the destruction of a starship manned by Vulcans. The Enterprise encounters a strange field that drains all mechanical or biologically generated energy. Spock finds that the zone of darkness is a negative energy field. They send a probe that penetrates the organism and discovers it to be living and filled with protoplasm.

Spock sets out in the shuttlecraft and heads for the nucleus. Spock establishes that the organism has stored enough energy to reproduce and that the 40 chromosomes in the nucleus are ready to come together. The Enterprise is sucked into the organism. But Kirk fills a probe full of antimatter and plants it in the nucleus.

As the Enterprise backs out of the organism before it blows up, it detects Spock’s shuttlecraft and locks on a tractor beam. The explosion rocks the ship, but it survives, and the stars appear on the viewing screen again. Somehow, the shuttlecraft survives as well.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     The written word still holds power.

2.     Can you communicate in local vernacular?

3.     How do you select your Board of Directors?

Resources

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode A Piece of the Action, which aired on January 12, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4598.1.

The Enterprise crew attempts to contact the inhabitants of planet Sigma Iotia II, whose inhabitants of Sigma Iotia II have built a culture around the book Chicago Mobs of the Twenties accidentally left behind a hundred years ago by the S.S. Horizon. At the Horizon’s visit, the noninterference directive was not in effect, so Kirk, McCoy, and Spock wondered what sort of “contamination” they would encounter. Upon arriving, they are held at gunpoint but are taken safely to the “Boss” after a machine gun attack by rival boss Krako.

There are a dozen or so Bosses across the planet, each controlling his territory. Krako, Boss of the southside territory, also wants heaters and instruction on how to use them and offers Kirk one-third of the proceeds of their use. The Bosses are impressed by a display of the Enterprise’s firepower and agree to Kirk’s planet unification, with Oxmyx as head Boss and Krako as his Lieutenant. Spock has reservations about leaving a criminal organization in charge and wonders how Kirk plans to collect a 40% cut every year.

As the Enterprise leaves, however, McCoy realizes he has left his communicator behind in Bella’s office. The communicator contains a transtator, the integral part found in all machinery found in the Enterprise, so the imitative Iotians will likely have made impressive technological progress the next time the Federation visits them.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     The written word still holds power.

2.     Can you communicate in local vernacular?

3.     How do you select your Board of Directors?

Resources

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Gamesters of Triskelion, which aired on January 5, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 3211.7.

Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov prepare to beam down to Gamma 2, and they have whisked away from the transporter platform. They are captured and fitted with "collars of obedience" by Galt, master Thrall of the planet Triskelion. Spock finds them 11.630 light years away but is prevented from beaming down.

The Providers who started all this threaten to destroy Kirk and the Enterprise, but Kirk makes a bet with the gamesters about his ability to survive in combat. If he wins, the Providers must free Kirk and the Thralls. If he loses, he offers the entire Enterprise crew up as Thralls. Amazingly enough, Kirk wins, even after one of the opponents is replaced by Shahna. Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura are returned to the Enterprise, leaving behind a saddened Shahna.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     What tools are available to you?

2.     What is an informed risk?

3.     What is your risk management strategy?

Resources

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Trouble with Tribbles which aired on December 29, 1967, Star Date 4523.3

The Enterprise is called to Deep Space Station K7 by a priority 1 distress call. A Klingon ship arrives at the space station and requests that its crew be granted shore leave. Meanwhile, the intergalactic trader Cyrano Jones gives Uhura a thrilling creature called a tribble, who brings it to the Enterprise, where it promptly begins reproducing.

The tribbles begin proliferating throughout the Enterprise. After Kirk finds that tribbles have spread aboard the Enterprise through air vents, he becomes concerned that they may have also infested the grain storage lockers on the space station. However, Spock notes that many of the tribbles are dead inexplicably.

When the station transporter room is being cleared of tribbles, one of them yelps at Baris's assistant Darvin. Kirk verifies that yelp for Klingons. McCoy verifies that Darvin is a Klingon and reveals that the grain was poisoned. The tribbles are finally removed from the Enterprise when Scotty transports them aboard the Klingon ship.

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Wolf in the Fold, which aired on December 22, 1967, Star Date 3614.9.

Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy beam down to Orgellius II for shore leave when Mr. Scott is accused of murder. His fingerprints are the only ones on the murder weapon, and he has a concussion and amnesia.

Mr. Scott claims that he felt the presence of a foul, cold, evil creature. A search of crime records shows the following pattern of unsolved mass murders: 1932 Shanghai, 1974 Kiev, 2105 Martian colony, and 2156 Heliopolis on Alpha Eridani 2. In order to avoid making the creature stronger by allowing him to feed off the fear of the crew, McCoy injects everyone with a tranquilizer. The creature returns to Hengist's body. However, Hengist is quickly subdued and tranquilized, and Spock transports him into space with the widest possible separation. Kirk and Spock must wait 6 hours for the tranquilizer to wear off their extremely "happy" crew.

Compliance Takeaways:

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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Obsession which aired on December 15, 1967, Star Date  3619.2.

On a planet Kirk notices a sweet, honey-like odor which he recognizes.  He orders the security guards to scan for choronium and fire at any gaseous cloud they encounter. Before they can do so, 2 are killed and one seriously injured. Kirk becomes obsessed with the destruction of the creature, which killed half the crew of the U.S.S. Farragut which was  Kirk's first deep-space assignment. 

Scanners report that the creature is in a border state between matter and energy. The creature slows and then heads for the Enterprise  and it enters the ship through the number 2 impulse vent which had inadvertently been left open by Scott after performing maintenance. The creature then leaves the ship and heads away at warp speed, but Kirk has a hunch of where the creature is headed, its home planet where the creature is destroyed. 

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     Sometimes a CCO must make a stand and speak truth to power. 

2.     How is a root cause analysis different than an investigation?

3.     Why you should train for crisis management.

Resources

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