The Logistics of Stampede was the sixth of 11 TOS stories produced by Peter Pan Records. It was initially released in 1975 as an audio production along with three other stories. It was released twice in 1979, packaged with other stories. This was the sixth of seven stories set during Captain James T. Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the USS Enterprise and the third of five without an associated comic book.
In this story, a massive herd of animals threatened to ruin the grain crops of an entire colony.
Description[]
- Ad for Peter Pan Record
- Federation freaks will hail these full-length adventures as the hottest thing since Vulcan ear-muffs! "A Mirror for Futility," "The Time Stealer," "Logistics of Stampede" and "To Starve a Fleaver," all on a high-quality 33 1/3 RPM disc! Warning: do not play at Romulan sock-hops!
Summary[]
- Captain's log, stardate 5466.9.
- The Enterprise is in orbit around the outpost colony world of Ribol II, on orders from the Federation Agricultural Division, to try and find a solution to the destructive plague of dranzers, which wipes out seventy to ninety percent of the grain crop every sixth year. A landing party of Doctor McCoy, First Officer Spock, and myself has beamed down to the Ribolian surface to survey the problem first hand. Mister Newt Henderson, of the Ribolian Settlers League, has taken us in hand.
Getting their first look at a dranzer herd from an aircar, they become aware of the immense size of their problem. The herd could stampede tomorrow or in six months. They capture and study a live dranzer, and soon Spock devises a solution. But scouts from an outpost of the Delatra family ranch in the northwest hills send an alert to Henderson — the stampede has started.
Henderson provides Kirk with a number of high-speed groundcars for use in diverting the path of the stampede. A few brave local volunteers operate the vehicles. 1.8 liters of highly concentrated synthetic dranzer musk is split between the vehicles. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy command separate groups of the ground vehicles, releasing the musk to redirect the rampaging animals along a planned route. As their vehicles begin to get low on fuel, Henderson panics, thinking they're about to be crushed by animals in front and behind them. In actuality, they've caught up to the rear of the herd they were leading, and have successfully diverted the animals into a circular path west of the colony, where they'll cause no further harm.
Although crops will no longer be trampled, Spock points out a consequence. The natural fertilizer resulting from dead dranzers along the stampede route will have to be added manually to the farmers' soil.
References[]
Characters[]
- Ellie • Newt Henderson • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Spock
Starships and vehicles[]
Locations[]
- Ribol II
- Referenced only
- Delatra family ranch
Races and cultures[]
States and organizations[]
- Federation • Federation Agricultural Division • Ribolian Settlers League • Starfleet
Science and classification[]
- agriculture • organic chemistry • engine • fertilizer • fuel
Occupations and titles[]
Other references[]
- animal • avalanche • beam • buffalo • colony • compost • continent • crop • day • decade • dog • dranzer • elephant • food • government • grain • grass • kilometer • landing party • liquid • liter • locust • logic • minute • month • musk • outpost • pig • rabbit • scientific principles • shadow • soil • Starfleet ranks • sun • taxes • year
Appendices[]
Related media[]
- TOS episode: "The Trouble with Tribbles" – Quadrotriticale is the only grain that will grow on Sherman's Planet.
- TAS episode: "More Tribbles, More Troubles" – Sherman's Planet is threatened by famine, with Enterprise escorting an emergency supply of the grain quintotriticale.
Background[]
- This story was not released as a solo story and was the only 1975 audio production not re-released prior to 1979.
Images[]
Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous story: To Starve a Fleaver |
Peter Pan Records | Next story: A Mirror for Futility |
| Previous story: To Starve a Fleaver |
Stories by: Alan Dean Foster |
Next story: A Mirror for Futility |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous adventure: The Crier in Emptiness |
Memory Beta Chronology | Next adventure: To Starve a Fleaver |
| Previous story: The Crier in Emptiness |
Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Year Five | Next story: To Starve a Fleaver |
Production history[]
- The Logistics of Stampede was released three times. It was initially released in 1975 on Peter Pan TOS record #2 of 23, a 33-rpm LP, along with "The Time Stealer", To Starve a Fleaver and "A Mirror for Futility". The album was re-released in 1979 as record #10 with TOS movie: The Motion Picture cover imagery.
- It was also released on record #22 along with five other stories in 1979.
External links[]
- The Logistics of Stampede article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- The Logistics of Stampede article at Curt Danhauser's Star Trek Story Records website.
- Peter Pan Records article at Sequart.