Trekking Through Compliance

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Deadly Years which aired on December 8, 1967, Star Date 3478.2.

When Chekov, Spock, Lt. Gallway, McCoy, Kirk, Scotty beam down to resupply the experimental colony on Gamma Hydra 4, they initially find no one home. They then find the leader, Robert Johnson, along with his wife Elaine. Both appear to be extremely old. Kirk beams the landing party up together with those of the colonists who are still alive. Aboard the Enterprise, the colonists die of old age. 

Kirk then begins to lose his memory and displays advanced arthritis. Commodore Stocker becomes increasingly concerned about Kirk's condition, and forces Spock to hold a competency hearing. Kirk is found incompetent, and Commodore Stocker takes over. An injection containing adrenaline, which is used on Kirk and the shot is effective and Kirk assumes back control of the Enterprise, which is now under attack by the Romulans thanks to Stocker's incompetence in violating the Neutral Zone.

Using an old subterfuge, Kirk transmits a message that he will destruct the Enterprise using a corbomite device. The Romulans give a little ground lest they be destroyed in the upcoming explosion, and Kirk immediately races out of the Neutral Zone and into Federation space at Warp 8.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     Just because research is discontinued does not mean it is invalid.

2.     Training-Why was Chekov’s reaction like that of a schoolboy?

3.     How do you show the quality, ability and competence of your compliance team?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Friday’s Child, which aired on December 1, 1967, Star Date 3497.2.

Kirk attempts to secure a mining agreement for a topline on Capella 4, where Bones had once been stationed. He warns Kirk that although the Capellans are scrupulously honest, they are war-like. After beaming down, a security guard pulls out a phaser to shoot a Klingon emissary and is instantly killed by a fleet-wielding Capellan.

On the planet, the leader is killed in a coup, and his pregnant wife Eleen is sentenced to death because she carries a royal child. After giving birth, Eleen escapes and runs to give herself up to the Capellans. She claims to have killed the child and the Earthmen as they slept. The Klingon does not believe her and demands of the Capellans, under threat of phaser fire, that they verify Eleen’s story. Suddenly, Kirk shoots the Klingon with an arrow, and an exchange between the Capellans and Kirk and Spock follows. The Klingon threatens to shoot anyone who raises a weapon against him. This does him no good, however, since Maab exchanges his life for that of Eleen by confronting the Klingon, and Keel uses the opportunity to kill the Klingon. Kirk gains mining rights when Eleen is regent for the child Tierr-to-be, Leonard James Akaar.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.   The three C’s of leadership.

2.   How do you react when the leader goes off the deep end?

3.   Train your employees on what to do when faced with a bribe demand. 

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Journey to Babel which aired on November 17, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 3842.3.

The Enterprise transports ambassadors to a conference to discuss the admission of Corridon to the Federation. Sarek is the ambassador from Vulcan, is accompanied by his wife Amanda. To Kirk's surprise, they turn out to be Spock's parents. Also to Kirk's surprise, Sarek is cool towards Spock, apparently because Spock has chosen to devote his life to Starfleet instead of Vulcan science.

The Tellerite ambassador is murdered and Sarek falls under suspician. Meanwhile, Spock detects tritanium emissions from an alien ship's hull after it transmits a message. Sarek requires an open heart operation and Spock provides a blood transfusion.

Kirk is attacked and requires medical attention, so Spock assumes command. Under these circumstances, he says he cannot take time off to give the transfusion to Sarek, and cannot pass command on to anyone else because he is the best qualified person to command the Enterprise. His mother pleads with him, but he refuses.

The Enterprise is then attacked by alien ship while Sarek and Spock are on the operating table, endangering both their lives. Kirk fools the alien ship by turning off shields and internal power, luring the enemy ship in for the kill. When it begins moving in, Kirk hits it with phasers and disables it. However, before he can ask them to surrender, they blow themselves up.

McCoy confines both the injured Kirk and the recovering Spock to sickbay, shushing all protests. "Well, what do you know," he says with a grin, "I finally got the last word."

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     HR is key ally of the compliance function.

2.     Dynamic tensions between employees must be resolved.

3.     Be careful in freewheeling banter.

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Metamorphosis which aired on November 10, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 3219.4.

Commissioner Nancy Hedford, who had been on a diplomatic mission to stop a war, is ill with Sicuro's disease and needs treatment aboard the Enterprise. The shuttlecraft is forced down on a small planetoid and Kirk is unable to contact the Enterprise, despite the fact that the communications equipment appears to be functioning perfectly. On the planet, they find a man named Cochrane, who claims he has been marooned but has a being known as the Companion.

Cochrane is greatly disturbed by the knowledge that the Companion is in love with him, and storms out saying that he doesn't want to be "fodder for any inhuman monster." Hedford, in a feverish daze, remarks that it is strange that Cochrane runs from love while she herself has never had the opportunity to be loved. But the Companion occupies and cures the body of Commissioner Hedford, who had been on the verge of death and also restores the shuttlecraft and communication devices to working order. However, the Companion is unable to leave the planet without dying, and Cochrane decides to remain with her. As they prepare to depart, Kirk agrees not to mention his adventure with Cochrane.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     As a CCO you may have a legal background but you must act as a compliance professional.

2.     Prejudice has no place in today’s corporate culture. How do you stop unconscious bias?

3.     How do you evaluate your senior leadership from the business perspective?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider episode I, Mudd, which aired on November 3, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 4513.3.

The Enterprise finds Harry Mudd (Harcourt Fenton Mudd) on a planet and the "ruler" of 500 robot women. Mudd is being studied by the robots, who are accommodating but refuse to let him go. The androids tell Kirk people from the Andromeda galaxy built them. However, the civilization that constructed them was destroyed by a supernova, so the androids were left without supervision. Now they have found a new purpose in Mudd. Spock makes inquiries and discovers that there are 207,809 androids and, most importantly, that they seem to be controlled by some central coordinating power.

The robots find people too destructive and plan to take over and "serve" all humans in the galaxy to control them. Kirk leaves Harry on the planet with his attendant robots to serve as an example of human failure to them. The robots are also reprogrammed to carry out their original task of rendering the planet fit for human life. As a final blow to Mr. Mudd, Kirk also leaves behind several android copies of his shrewish wife, Stella.

Compliance Takeaways:

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Catspaw which aired on October 27, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 3018.2.

Strange things happen to a landing party consisting of Jackson, Sulu, and Scotty when they beam down to planet Pyrus 7. When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to investigate, leaving DeSalle in command and Chekov as his sidekick, they are enveloped in fog. They also detect multiple life readings, despite the fact that the Enterprise's sensors detect only the landing party. They are all captured by Korob and Sylvia

Meanwhile, the Enterprise is breaking free through the efforts of DeSalle. Korob sets Kirk and Spock free and tells them to leave immediately because be can no longer control Sylvia. Kirk grabs Korob's scepter, and after fending off attacks from McCoy, Scott, and Sulu, Kirk tells Sylvia that he has the scepter. Kirk breaks the scepter in front of Sylvia. The castle vanishes, and Sylvia and Korob appear as the bizarre blue and yellow puppet-like alien beings they are. Unable to survive in this galaxy without the transmuter, they shrivel up and melt away and Sulu and Scott are returned to normal.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     Why ego is part of Jonathan Mark’s Fraud Pentagon.

2.     Fraudsters need a dupe and the term ‘Catspaw’ describes a person who is used as a dupe.

3.     How much can you do with the tools you have at hand?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance and leadership lessons from the episode The Doomsday Machine which aired on October 20, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 4202.9.

The Enterprise responds to a distress beacon from the Starship U.S.S. Constellation, then find the battered remains of the ship itself. Kirk sends a boarding party to the Constellation to investigate. It Commander  Commodore Matt Decker is in a state of shock and not very coherent. Even after an injection by McCoy, Decker can say that his ship was attacked by "that thing."

Kirk beams Decker and McCoy back to the Enterprise. The Doomsday Machine and attacks the Enterprise.  Commodore Decker pulls his rank and assumes command over Spock's objections. The Enterprise is attacked by the doomsday machine. From the Constellation, Kirk sees what is going on, and begins heading towards the doomsday machine using impulse power.

Kirk angrily orders Spock to re-assume command on his personal authority, which he does. Decker steals a shuttlecraft and pilots it into the Doomsday Machine, killing himself, but producing a small power drop in the doomsday machine. Kirk reasons that the explosion of a starship might be capable of destroying the alien vessel. Scott rigs the Constellation to explode, then transports to the Enterprise. The Constellation then explodes turning the planet killer into a harmless pile of space junk.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     How do you terminate a third party?

2.     How do you evaluate your risk assessment?

3.     How does your organization respond to findings in an investigation?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance and leadership lessons from the episode The Apple, which aired on October 13, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3715.0.

A Landing Party finds danger on a seemingly pristine planet as the Enterprise is threatened. The planet's inhabitants are the feeders of Vaal. Kirk asks to be taken to Vaal, just as Scott reports that the Enterprise is being dragged into the planet by a tractor beam from the planet.

Kirk and Spock go to confront Vaal. Vaal responds by calling a thunderstorm and striking Spock with a lightning bolt. The people of Vaal then attack, killing a security guard. As usual, the rest of the landing party fends off the attack and gets off unscathed. Kirk has Scott attack Vaal with the ship's phasers to weaken. This drains Vaal's power reserves and frees the people from his grip. Spock accuses Kirk of giving the people the equivalent of the apple of knowledge and driving them from their Eden, but Kirk maintains that Spock's resemblance to the Devil is much more apparent than his own.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     How do you validate that your policies are being followed?

2.     Red shirts in TOS and managing risk.

3.     The role of the Board of Directors in compliance.

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Mirror Mirror which aired on October 6, 1967, Star Date unknown.

During transport in an ion storm, the Away Team is transported into a parallel universe and a mirror image Enterprise. There they find members who are mirror images of themselves and belong to an evil Federation known as the Empire. Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, and Scotty impersonate their mirror image counterparts while finding a way to return to their universe. 

Discovering that a switch has occurred, anti-Spock then assists Kirk in returning his landing party to their own universe so that the Empire landing party may return to its. When Kirk and the party return, they find that their Empire counterparts were immediately recognized and put in detention. The Enterprise's crew attributes this to the fact that it is easier for logical men to appear barbarous than for barbarous men to appear civilized.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     Tone really does start at the top.

2.     How do you change your compliance functions within an organization?

3.     High risk requires high risk management. 

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance lessons from the episode The Changeling, which aired on September 29, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3451.9.

The Enterprise encounters a probe that identifies itself as Nomad, which believes that Kirk is its creator of Nomad. Nomad says its mission is to destroy that which is not perfect, unfortunately including humans.

Kirk confronts Nomad, telling him that his contempt for biological units is illogical since its creator is a biological unit. Kirk then gets Nomad to admit that it must sterilize everything, which is in error. While attempting to consider the situation, Nomad is beamed into space. It is caught in a logic loop while attempting to analyze its errors and finally self-destructs to "sterilize" its imperfections.

Compliance Takeaways:

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices