Post by magicmuggle01 on Oct 20, 2018 11:28:33 GMT
Halloween was an Earth holiday celebrated on the evening of October 31st. It was a holiday that celebrated witches, ghosts, mumbo jumbo, and other monsters that go bump in the night. It also allowed celebrants to dress up in costumes to trick or treat.
In 2267, alien explorers Korob and Sylvia, attempting to understand our galaxy, constructed a castle, garbed themselves as a wizard and sorceress, and used other imagery that suggested the holiday of Halloween to James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy. Spock later theorized that the aliens attempted to telepathically scan the landing party, and "missed", somehow retrieving information from the subconscious fears of the explorers. (TOS: "Catspaw").
In 2364, when Jean-Luc Picard first entered his Dixon Hill holonovel, based on Earth in 1941, he was still wearing his Starfleet uniform. As a quick cover for his unusual attire, he explained to Jessica Bradley that he had "lost a bet". She replied, "Oh well. At least you're ready for Halloween" – a term Picard was not familiar with. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye").
Korob
Korob was one of two Ornithoids who established an outpost (in the form of a large castle) on Pyris VII around 2267. Sent there from outside the galaxy by the Old Ones, their declared goal was to learn about Humankind.
Gender: Male
Species: Ornithoids
Occupation: Explorer
Status: Deceased (2267)
Died: 2267
To this end, Korob devised a series of frightening images intended to test the loyalty, bravery, and character of visitors. These images were drawn telepathically from the subconscious recesses of his visitors' minds. He also wanted to better understand the science of his visitors; his questions made Captain Kirk uneasy, as they seemed too much like the kind of information advance agents for an unfriendly power might want to learn. Kirk's fears were compounded by the behavior of Korob's colleague Sylvia, who tormented the visitors. The aliens could reshape matter, transport people and objects from place to place, and create other effects that, to the unsophisticated eye, resembled magic.
On learning that Sylvia intended to dispose of him, Korob finally realized she had become dangerously irrational. He freed the landing party from Sylvia's cell, but was forced to retreat from Sylvia, who had assumed the form of an enormous cat. Attempting to escape, Kirk, Spock, and Korob returned to the cell, where Korob was crushed and severely injured when Sylvia battered down to the door. Kirk was able to retrieve Korob's wand, which proved to be the chief source of the aliens' power; it was a mechanism called a transmuter. To prevent Sylvia from seizing it, Kirk smashed it. All the alien artifacts disappeared; all that remained were the tiny, helpless forms of the aliens themselves, as Sylvia described them "like feathers in the wind". Within seconds, they perished, and dissolved into smoke. (TOS: "Catspaw").
Sylvia and Korob as they really were
Information about Korob's species was displayed by the computer as a graphic in Keiko O'Brien's schoolroom on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "A Man Alone", "The Nagus").
Sylvia
Sylvia was the junior member of a team from beyond the Milky Way Galaxy of two Ornithoid explorers in Human form who established an outpost, disguised as a large castle, on the planet Pyris VII. Landing parties from the USS Enterprise were trapped by Sylvia and her colleague Korob for observation in 2267.
Gender: Female
Species: Ornithoid
Occupation: Explorer
Status: Deceased (2267)
Died: 2267
In the place where these aliens came from, there was evidently no luxury and little sensation. Sylvia's sudden immersion in sensation and luxury caused her to become irrational; she discovered, too, that she liked inflicting pain and controlling others. Korob considered Sylvia a traitor and her actions a betrayal of the purpose for which the Old Ones dispatched the explorers. But by that time, Sylvia was past caring; in fact, she planned to dispose of Korob and seize his greater power for her own use.
Sylvia could alter her form at will, and could telepathically examine the minds of individuals near her. She could also control the minds of individuals telepathically; all of these feats were performed by her own mind, amplified by the power of a mechanism entrusted to her; in her Human and cat forms, this instrument appeared as a crystal pendant. In one of the landing party expeditions to Pyris VII, Sylvia projected an image of Crewman Jackson in her mind. When she killed the image, and knew it was dead, she murdered him for real.
Korob, recognizing that his entire mission was compromised, freed the Enterprise crewmen, and began to guide them out of the castle. But Sylvia interrupted this, confronting them in the form of an enormous cat.
In the form of a black cat
While attempting to escape her clutches, Korob was crushed and seriously injured by a large door that Sylvia knocked off its hinges; Kirk seized Korob's wand, the transmuter, and escaped through the ceiling. There, Sylvia sent her enthralled minions, McCoy, Scott, and Sulu, against Kirk and Spock; they defeated these men, only to be faced with Sylvia, still a gigantic cat. But by this point, Kirk understood the importance of the transmuter: even though he couldn't control it, he threatened Sylvia with it. Sylvia evidently could operate it only when in physical contact with it; despite the fact that Kirk was quite close to her, holding the device, she continued to demand that he give it to her. Finally, she tried to use a phaser to force him to give her the device; he responded by smashing it, which undid everything it had created, leaving only the frail forms of Sylvia and Korob, tiny creatures only a few centimeters long, and frail as feathers on the wind, quickly withering and dying. (TOS: "Catspaw").
Information about Sylvia's species was displayed by the computer in Keiko O'Brien's schoolroom on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "A Man Alone", "The Nagus").
In 2267, alien explorers Korob and Sylvia, attempting to understand our galaxy, constructed a castle, garbed themselves as a wizard and sorceress, and used other imagery that suggested the holiday of Halloween to James T. Kirk and Leonard McCoy. Spock later theorized that the aliens attempted to telepathically scan the landing party, and "missed", somehow retrieving information from the subconscious fears of the explorers. (TOS: "Catspaw").
In 2364, when Jean-Luc Picard first entered his Dixon Hill holonovel, based on Earth in 1941, he was still wearing his Starfleet uniform. As a quick cover for his unusual attire, he explained to Jessica Bradley that he had "lost a bet". She replied, "Oh well. At least you're ready for Halloween" – a term Picard was not familiar with. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye").
Korob
Korob was one of two Ornithoids who established an outpost (in the form of a large castle) on Pyris VII around 2267. Sent there from outside the galaxy by the Old Ones, their declared goal was to learn about Humankind.
Gender: Male
Species: Ornithoids
Occupation: Explorer
Status: Deceased (2267)
Died: 2267
To this end, Korob devised a series of frightening images intended to test the loyalty, bravery, and character of visitors. These images were drawn telepathically from the subconscious recesses of his visitors' minds. He also wanted to better understand the science of his visitors; his questions made Captain Kirk uneasy, as they seemed too much like the kind of information advance agents for an unfriendly power might want to learn. Kirk's fears were compounded by the behavior of Korob's colleague Sylvia, who tormented the visitors. The aliens could reshape matter, transport people and objects from place to place, and create other effects that, to the unsophisticated eye, resembled magic.
On learning that Sylvia intended to dispose of him, Korob finally realized she had become dangerously irrational. He freed the landing party from Sylvia's cell, but was forced to retreat from Sylvia, who had assumed the form of an enormous cat. Attempting to escape, Kirk, Spock, and Korob returned to the cell, where Korob was crushed and severely injured when Sylvia battered down to the door. Kirk was able to retrieve Korob's wand, which proved to be the chief source of the aliens' power; it was a mechanism called a transmuter. To prevent Sylvia from seizing it, Kirk smashed it. All the alien artifacts disappeared; all that remained were the tiny, helpless forms of the aliens themselves, as Sylvia described them "like feathers in the wind". Within seconds, they perished, and dissolved into smoke. (TOS: "Catspaw").
Sylvia and Korob as they really were
Information about Korob's species was displayed by the computer as a graphic in Keiko O'Brien's schoolroom on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "A Man Alone", "The Nagus").
Sylvia
Sylvia was the junior member of a team from beyond the Milky Way Galaxy of two Ornithoid explorers in Human form who established an outpost, disguised as a large castle, on the planet Pyris VII. Landing parties from the USS Enterprise were trapped by Sylvia and her colleague Korob for observation in 2267.
Gender: Female
Species: Ornithoid
Occupation: Explorer
Status: Deceased (2267)
Died: 2267
In the place where these aliens came from, there was evidently no luxury and little sensation. Sylvia's sudden immersion in sensation and luxury caused her to become irrational; she discovered, too, that she liked inflicting pain and controlling others. Korob considered Sylvia a traitor and her actions a betrayal of the purpose for which the Old Ones dispatched the explorers. But by that time, Sylvia was past caring; in fact, she planned to dispose of Korob and seize his greater power for her own use.
Sylvia could alter her form at will, and could telepathically examine the minds of individuals near her. She could also control the minds of individuals telepathically; all of these feats were performed by her own mind, amplified by the power of a mechanism entrusted to her; in her Human and cat forms, this instrument appeared as a crystal pendant. In one of the landing party expeditions to Pyris VII, Sylvia projected an image of Crewman Jackson in her mind. When she killed the image, and knew it was dead, she murdered him for real.
Korob, recognizing that his entire mission was compromised, freed the Enterprise crewmen, and began to guide them out of the castle. But Sylvia interrupted this, confronting them in the form of an enormous cat.
In the form of a black cat
While attempting to escape her clutches, Korob was crushed and seriously injured by a large door that Sylvia knocked off its hinges; Kirk seized Korob's wand, the transmuter, and escaped through the ceiling. There, Sylvia sent her enthralled minions, McCoy, Scott, and Sulu, against Kirk and Spock; they defeated these men, only to be faced with Sylvia, still a gigantic cat. But by this point, Kirk understood the importance of the transmuter: even though he couldn't control it, he threatened Sylvia with it. Sylvia evidently could operate it only when in physical contact with it; despite the fact that Kirk was quite close to her, holding the device, she continued to demand that he give it to her. Finally, she tried to use a phaser to force him to give her the device; he responded by smashing it, which undid everything it had created, leaving only the frail forms of Sylvia and Korob, tiny creatures only a few centimeters long, and frail as feathers on the wind, quickly withering and dying. (TOS: "Catspaw").
Information about Sylvia's species was displayed by the computer in Keiko O'Brien's schoolroom on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "A Man Alone", "The Nagus").
