Memory Gamma: Recent Episodes
Skip Harvey
(A Star Trek 'True Crime' Fan Project) Earth may be a paradise, but crime still exists in the universe. Some are mundane, some committed on a galactic scale. This is a journal of the most memorable, most important crimes in the Milky Way, and the complex beings who commit them.
On a bloody day, at a delicate time after the destruction of Praxis, these motives would converge to create a pivot point in history, one that would change the course of the galaxy.
Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise-A, escorted Gorkon and Kronos One from Klingon space on the journey to Earth. Little did they know that an unseen force shadowed their journey, waiting, biding time for its chance to make history.
Sure, radio signals move at the speed of light, but subspace radio transmissions move the equivalent of 6 light years per hour.
As is common with Klingon history, myth and legend are inexorably intertwined with cold hard fact. To the Klingon peoples, they are one and the same. Few epitomize this like the House of Kor.
Its fungal roots, or mycelium, fan out into infinity across the universe to form the mycelial network.
Akharin would spill more blood than most who would ever walk the Earth. But one man’s butcher can be another man’s hero, and he would spend the rest of his life trying to find meaning in either.
Flint was born as Akharin in 3834 BC in Mesopotamia, where he grew up to become "a soldier, a bully, and a fool." Akharinhad seen a hundred billion fall, and had tossed enemies into death's grasp. He would later go on to contribute more to Humankind than anyone who had ever lived.
Obviously, synthetic beings are not unique to earth the android is.Here's a short history of automata from Earth's history.
One of the most infamous figures in Human history is Colonel Phillip Green - a key player in the build-up to war and the literal fallout to follow. He’s viewed - rightfully - as one of the biggest villains ever to walk the Earth.
What would happen if you met your doppelganger? What if - outside the Mirror Universe - another you existed? Without your experiences and tribulations would they be the same person? What if that image in the mirror lived all the tragedies and terror that you hadn’t? Put yourself on the other side of that mirror. Who would YOU be?
A bonus, long form version of our Dukat series, condensing all three episodes into a single shot.
Dukat’s dream had been fulfilled: he was finally the end-all, be-all force of power on Cardassia. His enemies vanquished. His wisdom; supreme.
Gul Dukat was a survivor. Even when he lost everything he knew his path back to the top.
Gul Dukat was never compassionate, or empathetic, no matter the narrative he sold even to himself. He was a narcissist. His were equal parts playing a role to get results for his superiors, exercising power over others, and anger for Bajorans not being thankful for what he considered ruling with a stern but merciful hand.
Phased Energy Rectification weapons - or Phasers - are remarkably versatile and effective devices for the Federation, even though they often give the impression that other cultures’ weapons could steal their lunch money.
Even though almost no one even knew Governor Kodos’s face, the fates of 8,000 Tarsus IV colonists were now in his hands.
The murder of 4,000 people would forever label Kodos 'The Executioner'.
A bonus episode explaining the physics behind one of the Federation's most important technologies.
Part 2 of our dive into the enigma that is Q. Agent of Chaos or Guiding Hand? Also, more on those zany Voyager adventures.
To the few who survived their encounters with it, The Crystalline Entity seemed wondrous and mysterious, a near mythical figure in its behavior and physicality. On a visceral level, seeing it descend from the skies and raze the surface of all that lived must have screamed ‘Vengeful God’.
Scoundrel... delight... conniver... hustler... and much, much more... half the classic Scaramouch... half the classic almost everything else. Harry Mudd, in a word, was style... and all his own kind.
Villain, murderer, tragedy? Nothing about Dr. Tolian Soran’s life was black and white and by learning who he was and what he did we will all undoubtedly be forced to ask ourselves ‘ what would we do for love’?
Memory Gamma is a Star Trek Fan Production satirizing 'True Crime'.
James Atoz is your Holographic A.I. Host to the Federation's Memory Gamma Library. These archived Audiocasts are a journal of the most memorable, most important crimes in the Milky Way, and the complex beings who commit them.