The Man Who Trained Meteors

   

The Man Who Trained Meteors was the eighth of 11 Star Trek: The Original Series audio productions released by Peter Pan Records. It was distributed twice in 1979 packaged with other stories.

SummaryEdit

Log entriesEdit

Captain's log, stardate 95.801 : The starship Enterprise has entered the Pylar solar system, a warm comfortable realm with twelve planets revolving around a medium-sized yellow sun. Our mission is to check the colonists of Perinda IV, a new Federation-settled planet. According to starbase's last report, the world is one of the richest, lushest, most peaceful settlements in the known universe.

ReferencesEdit

CharactersEdit

Pavel Chekov • James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Frank Tanka • Teranius • Nyota Uhura • Tulid Yorker

Starships and vehiclesEdit

USS Enterprise • shuttlecraft

LocationsEdit

Perinda IV • Perinda City • Pylar system • Teranius (meteor)

Races and culturesEdit

Human • Vulcan

States and organizationsEdit

Federation • Starfleet

Science and technologyEdit

communicator • force field • machine • phaser • photon torpedo • sensor • spacesuit • transporter • transporter • viewscreen

Ranks and titlesEdit

captain • colonist • communications officer • emperor • engineer • engineering officer • Federation Starfleet ranks (2260s) • governor • lieutenant • scientist • security officer • Starfleet ranks

Other referencesEdit

atmosphere • beam • cave • code 1 alert • colony • communications • copper • dilithium crystal • distress signal • emotion • engineering • hatch • hypnosis • iron • logic • meteor • meteor shower • meteorite • mile • mineral • minute • orbit • outpost • psychokinesis • second • space • star • sulfur • telepathy • transporter room • turbolift • universe • year

TimelineEdit

Production historyEdit

1979 

Released on Peter Pan Star Trek record #15 along with three other stories.

1979 

Released on record #22 along with five other stories.

AppendicesEdit

BackgroundEdit

• Alan Dean Foster, who wrote six of the previous Peter Pan Records scripts, did not cite this story among his credits. (Audiobook bibliography at Alan Dean Foster's website)
• For young listeners, Spock clarified the differences between meteors and meteorites, even stating that they usually burned up 30-50 miles above ground, while Scott described their composition.
• Although the packaging used imagery from TOS movie: The Motion Picture, also released in 1979, the officers were addressed using their 2260s ranks.

Related storiesEdit

• TOS episode: "Plato's Stepchildren" – Parmen used psychokinesis to manipulate Kirk and Spock.
• TOS comic: "Mutiny on the Dorado" – Through telepathy, Spock controlled the unconscious body of his cousin Horek.
• TOS comic: "Where Giants Tread" – A defensive mass driver fired meteor salvos at the Enterprise.

ConnectionsEdit

External links Edit

• The Man Who Trained Meteors article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.