"Kill Captain Proton!" is a VOY short story by Lisa Klink. Edited by Jonathan Wilkins, it was published in June 2022 in Star Trek: Explorer, Issue 3. The story was collected in the Q and False and Other Stories omnibus in December 2022. This story from the fictional 20th century Earth science fiction serialized series The Adventures of Captain Proton sees Captain Proton and Buster Kincaid revisiting Planet X, the mysterious home of the evil Dr. Chaotica.
Description[]
- An all-new adventure for the Holodeck hero Captain Proton.
References[]
- Chaotica • Constance Goodheart • Buster Kincaid • Lonzak • Captain Proton • Jonah Quimby • Satan's Robot
Starships and vehicles[]
- Captain Proton's rocket ship • Chaotica's ship
Locations[]
- Mars (Mars Space Laboratory) • Planet X (Dungeon of Pain • Fortress of Doom) • Saturn
- Referenced only
- Andromeda Prime • Earth • Zatonia
Races and cultures[]
- Arkenian • Human • Lizard People
States and organizations[]
- Interplanetary Planets Patrol
Science and classification[]
- amplitude modulator • armor • cannon • computer • Cradle of Persuasion • imagizer • laboratory • lightning shield • microscope • mind control ray • pike • ray gun • robot • rocket pack • technology
Ranks and titles[]
Other references[]
- beaker • crocodile • desert • energy • forest • hair • ice dragon • iron • leather • lizard • metal • planet • poison • ring system • rock • sand shark • second • space • tree • underground passageway • venom • wire • year
Appendices[]
Related media[]
- VOY episode: "Bride of Chaotica!" – Planet X was recreated on USS Voyager's holodeck and experienced as a real place by visiting photonic aliens in 2375.
- VOY - Strange New Worlds V short story: "The Difficulties of Being Evil" – Chaotica visits a planet to obtain plants for use in a mind control weapon.
Background[]
- The story was set after The Adventures of Captain Proton, Chapter 18: "The Bride of Chaotica", as Chaotica had improved his defenses since then by assigning Lizard People to guard underground passageways leading to his Fortress of Doom.
- Proton cited prior adventures with Arkenians, sand sharks on Andromeda Prime, and an ice dragon from Zatonia. Their most recent battle was with a giant crocodile.
- Flash Gordon fought a snow dragon in the 1939 comic strip The Ice Kingdom of Mongo and an ice dragon in the 1966 comic The Ice Monster by Al Williamson, later reprinted in paperback with a Gil Kane cover. He encountered shark men in the 1936 strip "On the Planet Mongo" and in an animated series developed by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and even rode a shark on the cover of Troubled Waters, a Whitman Publishing Flash Gordon comic written by John Warner.
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Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous story: The Way to Exile |
Short stories (Star Trek: Explorer) | Next story: Cumulative Damage |
| Previous story: Retribution |
Voyager short stories | Next story: Summer Days Can Last Forever |
| Previous story: The Difficulties of Being Evil Strange New Worlds V |
Captain Proton stories | Next story: latest story |
| Previous story: Retribution |
Stories by: Lisa Klink |
Next story: Prey |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: The Difficulties of Being Evil Strange New Worlds V |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: Far Beyond the Stars Chapters 10, 13, 16, 17, 24, 26 & 32-35 |
Publication history[]
- 28 June 2022
- First released in Star Trek: Explorer magazine. (Titan Magazines)
- 20 December 2022
- Collected in the Q and False and Other Stories omnibus. (Titan Magazines)