- For other uses, see Constance.
Constance Goodheart.
Constance Goodheart was the faithful secretary and love interest of Captain Proton. She was the damsel of distress whose purpose was to scream, get kidnapped, and then scream some more. Her personal vocabulary appeared to consist of a series of variable pitch screams. (ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Children of the Glass")
Fictional biography[]
Captain Proton and Chaotica's Ray of Doom described her as curvaceous, tending to wear skimpy outfits whenever the trio got into trouble. (VOY - String Theory novel: Fusion)
She enjoyed taking baths, daydreaming, and found warm light comforting. When she was young, she enjoyed playing in piles of leaves and using static electricity to stick balloons to herself. She once faced her worst fear while under attack by Balloon People: finding herself shrunk to about two feet tall. Proton forced the Balloon Leader to reverse a shrinking ray and return her to normal. (ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Scream and Scream Again")
She loathed spiders and insects. Captain Proton asked her not to scream when they met the Queen of the Mind-Sucking Ant Creatures as that might be taken as an insult, and Goodheart managed to limit herself to faint sobbing. (ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Death of the Patrol")
Queen Ferns kidnapped Goodheart and brought her to Grayhawk II, where a rotting fish monster grabbed her with a tentacle and lifted her ten feet above the ground. Proton shot out its eyes and was able to free her. (ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Children of the Glass")
She, Captain Proton, and Buster Kincaid narrowly avoided being eaten by a giant crocodile-like creature. She felt sick after their escape, as her hair was still covered with its slobber. En route home, Jonah Quimby diverted them to investigate Doctor Chaotica's activities on Mars. They found him amid a theft, and she screamed while being grabbed by Satan's Robot. With a mind-control ray, Chaotica took control of Kincaid and commanded him to kill Proton. To try to snap him out of it, Proton reminded him of the time they rescued Goodheart from an ice dragon. After recovering, they set out to rescue the kidnapped Goodheart, who had been taken back to the Fortress of Doom on Planet X. (VOY - Explorer short story: "Kill Captain Proton!")
While exploring the Red Mountain planet, Goodheart slipped on ice and fell through a vent shaft, where she was captured along with Proton and Kincaid by the Lost Race. She wore herself out after screaming constantly for ten minutes, and had to spend two days in the Pit That Time Forgot. (ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "The Forgotten and Lost Race")
She was once taken over by an ancient artifact on Mercury and compelled to attempt to kill Kincaid. The Phantom tried to force Goodheart to marry him. She later found herself having to explain love and peace to Inhunz insectoids intent on eating humanity. She also time traveled to prevent alterations in history to the founding of the Incorporated Planets. At one point, she was being contacted telepathically in her dreams and stole Captain Proton's rocket ship to seek out its source. She also was once trapped with Kincaid aboard their damaged spacecraft in orbit of Pluto with failing life support. (VOY video game: Elite Force)
Chaotica once kidnapped Goodheart as a lure to draw Queen Arachnia to his fortress. (VOY episode: "Bride of Chaotica!")
History and specifics[]
In the 1938 radio adaptation, she was played by Evelyn Ankers. (DS9 short story: "Captain Proton and the Orb of Bajor")
Constance was also a character in the Captain Proton holonovels devised by Tom Paris aboard the USS Voyager. Seven of Nine took on the role without much enthusiasm. (VOY episode: "Night")
In 2375 during a holodeck recreation of the Captain Proton adventure "Bride of Chaotica", real photonic aliens visiting Voyager seemed to kill Goodheart. As that didn't happen in the original narrative, Paris knew that something odd was happening in his holodeck program. (VOY episode: "Bride of Chaotica!")
Shortly after Voyager's return to the Alpha Quadrant in 2378, Lieutenant Candace Roske — assigned to guard Voyager while it lay in drydock — altered the Captain Proton holoprogram and took the role of Goodheart for herself, adapting the character into a heroine every bit the equal of Proton. During Admiral Janeway's infiltration of Voyager, Tom Paris (as Proton) incapacitated Roske (as Goodheart) in order to disable the ship's security force. (VOY novel: The Farther Shore)
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Appearances and references[]
Appearances[]
- VOY episode: "Night"
- VOY episode: "Bride of Chaotica!"
- ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Children of the Glass"
- ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Scream and Scream Again"
- ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "The Forgotten and Lost Race"
- ST - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth short story: "Death of the Patrol"
- VOY video game: Elite Force
- Captain Proton episode: "Mines of Mercury"
- Captain Proton episode: "Earth in Peril"
- Captain Proton episode: "Queen Arachnia Pt. 2"
- Captain Proton episode: "The Phantom Wedding"
- Captain Proton episode: "The Way And The Light"
- Captain Proton episode: "Timelines"
- Captain Proton episode: "Where's Proton?"
- Captain Proton episode: "The Ultimate Price"
- VOY - Amazing Stories short story: "The Space Vortex of Doom"
- VOY - Explorer short story: "Kill Captain Proton!"
References[]
- VOY - String Theory novel: Fusion
- The Complete Star Trek Voyager trading card PA11: "Constance Goodheart"
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External link[]
- Constance Goodheart article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.