Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:hester@uci-icse From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:hester@uci-icse Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Space: 1999 Message-ID: <298@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 02:30:30 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.298 Posted: Thu Jan 17 02:30:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 05:31:54 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 36 From: Jim HesterThe following is from "Fantastic Telivision": a reference book to many TV-SF serials, and ancient memories. The spelling of the alien's name was "Maya." She came from the planet Psychon. In four pages of description, the only things "Fantastic Television" had to say about her were "He (Fred Freiberger - producer for the second season) also wanted to add new characters, most significantly an alien named Maya who would serve as Alpha's science officer" and "The introduction of Maya, however was not the wisest move. Audiences looked upon her as a gimmick---a Mr. Spock rip-off, a token, rather than a resident, alien." The pertinant details from the index of episodes follows: THE METAMORPH: This first episode of the (second) season ... introduces Maya to the regular cast. On the planet Psychon, an evil-minded alien named Mentor captures the Alphans and tries to drain their minds. His daughter Maya who is capable of transforming herself into any form, helps the Earth people escape. I vaguely recall this episode. Their planet was doomed, reason unremembered. Mentor had created a 'protein computer' which had transmutation abilities, but it got it's power from intelligent beings, using them up in the process. Maya's father was killing off everyone in sight trying to charge the computer up to save his planet, and just about killed off the Space 1999 regulars before Maya finally discovered him and destroyed the computer, which set off a chain reaction killing her father and destroying the planet (or at least making it uninhabitable). Thus she joined the Alphans. There was one other episode that had a criminal from her planet who had been put into some kind of suspended animation and cast adrift. Same plot: Maya believed everything he said up until the end when she found him out and betrayed him. The episode was called "DORZAK", which was presumably his name. The description given in the index is worthless.