Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes
Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes is an archive of Star Trek episodes recovered from alien quantum states using techniques adapted from high-energy literature.
The archive is manifested as an anonymous transdimensional corporation, widely believed to be the work of rogue mathematician Fell Swoop.
Episodes
"The Rosenbergs"
Mister Spock, while conducting research on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, finds it curious that historical sources speak of "the Rosenbergs" in an almost collective sense, as if they were two halves of a single creature.
Disaster strikes when a rip in time causes the Enterprise to beam Ethel and Julius aboard the Enterprise, fusing their two bodies into a single blob of agonized protoplasm.
Doctor McCoy leaps in to euthanize the blob, but is himself caught in the time rip and thrown back to 1953, where he sees first Ethel, then Julius, executed by electrocution. The authorities then force McCoy to sign death certificates for both bodies.
Solemn music; fade to black.
Background
- Template:Selected anniversaries/September 25 ||1915: Ethel Rosenberg born ... American spy.
- Template:Selected anniversaries/May 1 ||1918: Julius Rosenberg born ... spy.
- Template:Selected anniversaries/May 12 ||1918: Julius Rosenberg born ... American spy.
- Template:Selected anniversaries/March 6 ||1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- Template:Selected anniversaries/April 5 ||1951: Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
- Template:Selected anniversaries/February 11 ...Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
- Template:Selected anniversaries/June 19 ||1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
"Treatment"
When a routine experiment in high-energy literature unexpectedly generates quantum plot holes, Doctor McCoy must write an entirely new story treatment about a doctor who must write an entirely new story treatment about a doctor who must, and so on, recursion within recursion, each iteration shouting "I'm a doctor, not a screen writer!". This makes up the bulk of the episode (about forty-one minutes).
In the closing scene, as the camera pulls back from deranged mind of McCoy, his eyes motionless and staring yet wild with despair, we see that his body, rigid with catatonia, lies strapped to a security bed in sick bay, the monitor overhead registering only a faint drizzle of static from what remains of the doctor's ruined brain.
Kirk and Spock stand nearby silently, mourning their friend.
Solemn music; fade to black.
Outakes
In a notorious outtake scene (staged by Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan), Scottie drinks alone in his quarters, playing dirge on the bagpipes, causing Uhura to bang on the dividing wall and shout "Keeping it down over there!"
"A Demon By Any Other Name"
TO_DO: plot summary.
See Demon (nonfiction). Compare "by all means necessary".
Dialog fragment
SPOCK: A rose by any other name would not be named Rose. And names matter, Doctor. Names matter.
MCCOY: Blast your Vulcan lustration, Spock. This is the scent of roses we're talking about, not some damned floral display show!
Dialog fragment
MCCOY: Well thank pointed ears and mutant magnolias, the Captain's nose was right after all. [Music: humorous exit theme.]
Dialog fragment
UNKNOWN: By all names necessary.
"The Cowbell Maneuver"
The crew of the Enterprise must ring the greatest Cowbell in the galaxy before the Tholians complete their Cosmic Dirge.