WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.519 Aboard of vast generation ship. Whole generations have lived and died, 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:08.759 believing its enclosed decks are all that exist. This is 3 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:14.240 Dimension X episode thirty one, Universe, first heard on NBC 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:19.559 November twenty sixth, nineteen fifty adapted for radio by George 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.600 Lefferts from Robert A. Heinlein's nineteen forty one story. It 6 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:28.000 concerns one inhabitant's growing questions about the beliefs inherited by 7 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.320 his society. Mason Adams and Peter Kappel are heard in 8 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:36.520 the cast under the direction of Edward King. Now from 9 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:41.560 Dimension X Universe. Here is the original broadcast. 10 00:00:44.799 --> 00:01:01.359 Adventures in Time and Space transcribed in Future ten. In 11 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:07.439 the beginning, there was Jordan thinking his lonely thoughts. Out 12 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.280 of the loneeness came a longing. Out of the longing. 13 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:11.680 Came a vision. 14 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:15.439 Out of the dream came a planning, and out of 15 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:20.840 the planning game decision. Jordan's hand was lifted and the 16 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:21.959 ship was born. 17 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:30.079 You look out, Are you all right? 18 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:30.400 Yes? 19 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:32.000 It missed me. What was it? 20 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.519 A mutant with a slingshot? I think a dashed down 21 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:36.159 that passageway. You want to go after it, so we 22 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.120 never catch it, Alan, It's probably twelve decks above us 23 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.280 by now. I didn't think they ever came down this far. 24 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:43.840 The trolls usually got him before they reach this level. 25 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.879 They get more daring with each generation. This one looked 26 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:47.640 like a female. 27 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:49.959 Male or female. It might have killed us. 28 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.959 I told you this trip was pure foolishness, climbing twenty 29 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:55.359 four decked levels to hear a crazy old man rave. 30 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:01.640 We're almost there in a compartment X fifteen, level twenty four. 31 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:02.319 This is the place. 32 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.200 This area smells as if it hadn't been visited by 33 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.280 a sanitation crew for generations. 34 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:18.879 Part of the ship is almost deserted. Yes, this is 35 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:20.680 the compartment of John the Witness. 36 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:21.199 Who are you? 37 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.759 My name is Hugh Hoyland. I'm a cadet from the 38 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.280 Scientist Barrack. This is my friend Alan mahoney. 39 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.520 What do you want of John the Witness? Only to talk? 40 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.960 Are you a believer in Jordan's naturally? 41 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.080 I have heard that there are the holes among the 42 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:34.960 younger scientists who doubt the. 43 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:39.479 Word of Jordan's to doubt it's death. We're not heretics. 44 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:40.719 Enter. 45 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:47.479 I have brought a gift of tobacco grown on the 46 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:48.240 richest level. 47 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:52.360 It smells good. 48 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.960 I assure you it's the best wait. 49 00:02:55.400 --> 00:03:03.960 Here without ratsnessh what the devil do you think he 50 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:04.520 can tell you? 51 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:05.319 I don't know now. 52 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:14.520 Hush, well, you are John the Witness. 53 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.439 I am good eating to you. I am Hugh Hoyland. 54 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.039 This is my friend Alan Mahoney, who had rings a 55 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.159 gentleman of the scientist's class to my humble department. 56 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.919 I have heard that you and your parents before you 57 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.719 have long been keepers of the legend of the ship. 58 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.360 Since Jordan gave the word. 59 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.800 I am anxious to hear the word as Jordan spoke it. 60 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:39.199 You see, among the young scientists there have been some 61 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.719 who talk against the word. 62 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.800 Regulations against such hairships. 63 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.000 Some of them say the ship has no purpose. 64 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:52.159 They say that we're here accidentally, that we have no 65 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:56.000 more grace in Jordan's eyes, than the most deformed mutant 66 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:57.520 who dwells in the highest. 67 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.240 Level of the ship. What shall I say you? 68 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.280 I wish to hear the word from the mouth of 69 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:08.479 one who knows that I may become more convinced. Sir, 70 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.800 you have gift for the Witness, the finest tobacco. 71 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:21.040 I wild him the light. Now pay close attention for 72 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:26.199 these other words as my father's father's father gave them 73 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:31.439 to his son's son's son. This is how the ship 74 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:36.439 came into being, how our people were created. 75 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.120 In the beginning, there was only Jordan's. 76 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:49.639 Thinking, his lonely thoughts. In the beginning, there was darkness, 77 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:55.879 formless and dead. Out of the loneliness came a longing. 78 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:01.079 Out of the longing came a vision. Out of the 79 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.839 dreams came a planning. And out of the planning came decision. 80 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:14.360 Jordan's hand was lifted and the ship was borne mile 81 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:21.160 after mile of good compartments, tank after tank for golden corn, 82 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:26.519 ladder and passage, door and locker fit for the needs 83 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.560 of the yet unborn. He looked on his work and 84 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.279 found it pleasing meet for a race that was yet 85 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:39.360 to be. He thought of man, and man came into being. 86 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:44.360 Then Jordan chudged his not and such for the key. 87 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:51.279 Men untamed would shame his maker. Men unrul'd would spoil 88 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:57.639 the plan. So Jordan made the regulations, some to speak 89 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:02.399 and some to listen. Order came to the ranks of men. 90 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:05.720 Crew He created to work. 91 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:10.959 Attestatis scientists to guy at the plan. Over them all, 92 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.639 he created captain made him judge of the race of Man. 93 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:16.959 Thus it was. 94 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:29.319 In the cold and name. These are the true words, 95 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.439 as my father's father taught them. 96 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:35.240 But what are the strange beast like people on the 97 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.399 upper levels of the ship. Surely Jordan did not create them. 98 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.959 Jordan is perfect. All below him lack perfection. You have 99 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:44.240 heard of the legend of Huff. 100 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.959 I have heard that he mutinied against Jordan's. 101 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.199 Darkness, swallowed the ways of virtue. Sin prevailed upon the ship, 102 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.000 and before wisdom prevailed in the bodies of Huff and 103 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.600 his followood were pared into the converter. Some of the 104 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.680 rebels escaped and lived father the mutants. They are tainted 105 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.879 with the sins of their fathers. 106 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:09.399 One more question, witness speak, What is the ship? 107 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:17.680 The ship is a great sphere twenty five kilometers wide 108 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.519 and one hundred levels deep. 109 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:23.480 I know that, But what about the upper levels. 110 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:27.279 The regulations forbid us to venture into the upper levels. 111 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:31.720 But it is said that beyond the levels of the 112 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:39.399 mutants lies the forbidden place where Jordan's spirit prevails. 113 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:40.279 So I've heard. 114 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:44.680 But something troubles me, something which prompted my coming. Here's 115 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:51.480 my son, what lies beyond the ship. What lies beyond 116 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:56.360 the ship? I will not permit such talk. The ship 117 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.639 is complete, the ship is universal, The ship is everywhere. 118 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:02.879 Theship you're muttering to those of a frightened old man. 119 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:06.560 They answer nothing. You Christ the world. I think you lie. 120 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.160 Hear me, mister Island, for what you have already said. 121 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.279 I can have your body fed with the converter, your 122 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:15.279 soul launched on the endless trip. 123 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.959 You frighten me for Jordan's so you think. 124 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.319 I fear this dried figure of a man too. My 125 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:22.519 friend is impetuous. 126 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.480 He doesn't understand I might be persuaded to forget the 127 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:27.639 substantial gilt pig. 128 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.120 You come on in the fight of the soul called 129 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.560 holy man offends me. 130 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.039 No, you shall not leave. 131 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.000 Don't try to frighten me with a gun, old man, 132 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.879 remain where you are. Heritic warn you put down the 133 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:39.399 gun now. 134 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:47.200 No closer Robert very well, then death to the Heritane. 135 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:50.799 Is he dead? I don't know. 136 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:57.919 Come on you, we gotta get out of here now. 137 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:59.879 We can't come back and peters into. 138 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:06.399 The what the old woman must have turned in an alarm. 139 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:08.000 Come on, the patrol will be here no time. 140 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.039 Where can we go the upper levels, but the mute 141 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:11.120 we'll have to take our chance. 142 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.000 That's the patrol. We've got to climb actually down the 143 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:18.679 card the. 144 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:21.600 Ladder. 145 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:41.000 She wait, how far are we from the outside wall? 146 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.279 Judging by the slope of the deck, about two miles 147 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:44.879 Mutan territory. 148 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:51.720 Come on, we'll try this. Pass it away. What I 149 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.720 don't know. I feel as if we're being watched to 150 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:59.399 your imagination. Perhaps it's all your ships, right, get a 151 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:01.639 grip on. Your help was as big as a dog. 152 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.039 Come on, I can't drag myself much further. We've got 153 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:06.639 to find a compartment with water. 154 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.840 If only you hadn't asked him that stupid question to 155 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:10.879 know he was going over that. 156 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.200 Why did you do it? Why? Alan? 157 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:17.039 I've been thinking about it for a long time, And 158 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.759 when he began to give me those stupid pat answers, well, 159 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:22.360 I just saw red, I guess. 160 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.519 But who are you to question the ways of Jordan? 161 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:26.720 When you asked me to go with you to visit 162 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.840 the witness, I thought you wanted spiritual help. 163 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.639 I never dreamed that. Sorry, Alan, I couldn't foresee this. 164 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:37.080 I didn't know. Wait a minute, oh what another ship? Right? No, 165 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.279 I thought I saw something move Yeah, that buggin? I 166 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:48.840 didn't see anything. Maybe my eyes are going bad? Still you? 167 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:09.720 Oh where am i? What are you get away from me? 168 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:14.799 Alan? That nice pair away from me? Alan? 169 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.639 Well, I don't kill him, Bobo, not yet? 170 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:23.120 Who are you forgive my friend? 171 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:23.639 Bobo? 172 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.559 Like so many of my people, he's rather impetuous where 173 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.320 members of the so called super race are concerned. 174 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:31.919 Who are you? What place is this? 175 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.120 As you can guess from my leg I'm a mutant? 176 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:40.519 Where is Alan? 177 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.039 Your friend is dead? I was not able to restrain 178 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:45.799 my people in time to save him. 179 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.600 Why don't you destroy me and get it over with? 180 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.200 We do not kill for pleasure, mister Hoyland, only when necessary. 181 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:54.000 You know my name? 182 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.399 I read your identification tag? 183 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.919 Who are you mutants? Can't read? 184 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.279 My name is Gregory. I'm a leader of my people. 185 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.960 Although we are unfortunate in our heredity, mister Hoyland, many 186 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.440 of us are quite intelligent. 187 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.440 Why do you live like animals? 188 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.159 You would rather live like free animals than like regimented 189 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:18.480 slaves as you do. 190 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.519 I've heard that you practice cannibalism. 191 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:24.720 Undoubtedly you hear many things about us. 192 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.919 We raise our own cattle on the upper levels and 193 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.559 those of our people who choose to farm raise enough 194 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:35.799 crops for our small population. To turn your head, Why 195 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:37.639 this one? 196 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:40.080 I've never seen a creature like him. 197 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.960 Bobo is an unfortunate He was born without the power 198 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:44.559 of speech. 199 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.200 How can you tolerate a monstrosity? 200 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.480 We have learned to live with difference. 201 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.720 If we began to destroy our imperfect as you do 202 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.919 on the lower levels, there would soon be no one left. 203 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.840 It violates the regulations, the word of Jordan's and the island. 204 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.559 Your people are really primitive by that. 205 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:04.799 You dare say that to me? 206 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:08.440 I dare say, God dear more. But let's go to 207 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.759 my compartment and speak further. I'm always interested in information 208 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:12.799 of the lower levels. 209 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:14.360 I won't give you any information. 210 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:15.320 Bobo. 211 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.639 I want mister Harland in my cabin. Please reminds you 212 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.159 to go quietly, mister Holland. Bobo has a hatred of 213 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.720 superior beings, which is unfortunate, but quite understand. 214 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:49.399 Proceed and to mister Harland, this is where you. 215 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:55.279 Live, yes, but you have books stolen from your libraries. 216 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:02.039 Mister Harland, Compton's astrophysics, the philosophy of it is still 217 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.639 a navigation celestial mechanics. 218 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.840 You have read these, erm most of them. 219 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:16.919 Why did you bring me? What do you intend to do? 220 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.279 You believe in Jordan, mister Darland, there is no other 221 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.879 belief and the trip I suppose you believe in the 222 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:24.480 trip to. 223 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:26.519 What else is there to believe? 224 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.159 When you die, your remains are fed to the converter 225 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:31.120 and your soul makes the trip. 226 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:32.759 And where does the trip take you? 227 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.720 Why to Centauris, of course? 228 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:36.080 Huh uh? 229 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:41.279 Well what is Sinauris? Why Sentauris? Mind you? I'm just 230 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:42.960 telling you the orthodox answer. 231 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.480 Centauris is where you arrive when you've made the trip, 232 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.919 a place where everything is happy, and everybody is happy, 233 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.799 and there's always good eating. It's mythological, of course, and 234 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.600 you will believe this. The peasants believe it literally, but 235 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:02.320 many of the younger scientists, like myself know that it's figurative, symbolic. 236 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:04.440 Why do you ask? 237 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:07.840 Didn't it ever occur to you, mister Harland, that the 238 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:12.039 trip is exactly what your peasants believe. It is that 239 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.879 the ship and all the crew were actually going someplace moving. 240 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:21.240 The ship can't go anywhere. It already is everywhere. 241 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:24.440 Imagine a place bigger than the ship much bigger with 242 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:27.039 the ship inside moving inside. 243 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.720 But there can't be any place bigger than the ship. 244 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.720 There wouldn't be any place for it to be. 245 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:37.440 Oh, for Hal's sake, listen, you know the lowest level. 246 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.919 Yes, if you started digging a hole in the lowest level, 247 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:43.279 where would that hole go? 248 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:48.639 Where would that Hulloh? No, it's forbidden to think such 249 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.720 a thought. Where would it go? No? No, I can't 250 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:56.559 think about it, Obo, Obo. 251 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:58.679 We're going to take mister Harland to the place. 252 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.080 Where are we going to the top level? But it's 253 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:01.799 certain death? 254 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:04.600 Nonsense. I've been there a thousand times. Come along, No 255 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:05.000 I won't. 256 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:05.759 You can't make me. 257 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:08.240 I think we can. 258 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:10.080 Not. 259 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:11.559 Shall we proceed peacefully? 260 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:14.000 Or shall I have Bobo persuade you? 261 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:29.320 Open the door? Bobo? 262 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:34.159 Inside? 263 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.799 What place is this? 264 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:47.360 This, mister Hoyland, is the main control room? When, mister Holland, 265 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:48.519 you're trembling. 266 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:49.919 It isn't true. 267 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.879 There is no such place except in mythology to younger 268 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.440 men are so wise, mister Hoyland, except for one thing. 269 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.840 This happens to be the main control of the ship. 270 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:04.880 But it's nothing but a huge room with an instrument panel. 271 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.400 What that you expect. How do you know this is 272 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:09.480 the main control? 273 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:13.799 See these instruments, using them to navigate the many hundreds 274 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.799 of years ago, actually steered the ship on its voyage. 275 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.640 I don't understand that. Didn't suppose you would. 276 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.000 Your people have been so steeped in superstition and ignorance 277 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:27.400 that the whole concept has lost its meaning. Sit in 278 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.599 that chair, don't be frightened. Sit down very well. 279 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:38.759 Look up. What do you see? Nothing but a huge shield? 280 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.759 Watch it for one moment at island. 281 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:44.880 You are going to see something that few of us 282 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:48.960 have ever been privileged to witness, something so dazzling that 283 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:51.319 you may find it hard to accept it first, but 284 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:56.079 it is there. It is a reality. Ultimately you must 285 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:56.680 accept it. 286 00:17:59.400 --> 00:17:59.960 What are you doing? 287 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.119 I'm living the life. Don't be frightened. Keep your eyes 288 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:10.279 focused on the shield above us. Ready, watch the. 289 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:23.119 Shield, it's flying back coast. Well, what am I see? 290 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:30.960 The universe is the Harlem? The universe and all. 291 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:36.400 Its beauty, the stars, the planets, the suns, moons, and 292 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:45.279 the constatation. This is your heritage, mister Harlem, the heritage 293 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.799 you've been too stupid to see you. 294 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:54.039 But it can't be The ship is the universe. There 295 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:57.240 is nothing but the ship. But there it is. 296 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:00.920 You see it before your eyes spread out like a 297 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:01.960 canopy of glow. 298 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:05.400 You still deny it? 299 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.200 Answer me, mister Hoyland. Do you deny it? 300 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:14.559 Oh? Oh, I can't. 301 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:18.240 They lie? 302 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:30.519 They lie to us. Good? Why did you close the shield? 303 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.680 You will see it again if you're not afraid. I'm 304 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:33.279 not afraid. 305 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:35.759 Many times I have shown this to others of your 306 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:37.720 people whom we captured, and though they saw it before 307 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:39.440 their very eyes, they would not believe it. 308 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.519 Told me about it, Tell me about the ship, about 309 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:43.200 the universe. 310 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:45.559 What are these things? How did this come about? 311 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:50.839 Many thousands of years ago, on a planet like those 312 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:56.119 you've just seen, a planet called Earth, a scientist named 313 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:58.680 Jordan decided to build a ship that would carry men 314 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:03.160 from one planet to another. For many years, Jordan and 315 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.880 thousands of others studied and planned, and when they were finished, 316 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:10.880 they built the ship, a ship so large that it 317 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:12.960 had to be assembled in its own orbit beyond the 318 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:19.480 place called the moon. Sixty years it took them to construct, 319 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:22.200 and when it was finished, the whole new science had 320 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:27.440 been conceived. Then the trip was begun, the trip that 321 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:29.759 was to land a colony of earthmen on a far 322 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:33.680 off planet called Sentaurus, millions of light years beyond the 323 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:35.359 farthest planet ever reached before. 324 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:37.799 How do you know these things? 325 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.160 Among my books are the log which Jordan himself kept, 326 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.079 and the records of the journey for the first forty years. 327 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:47.640 What happened? There was a mutiny. 328 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.960 A man named Huff led a rebellion of those who 329 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.599 wanted to turn back in the struggle, the navigators were killed, 330 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:56.640 and the crew fell into a state of anarchy. 331 00:20:57.480 --> 00:20:58.119 In the years to. 332 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.039 Follow, small groups of men tried organs idtorship for navigation, 333 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:06.160 and each time they failed. Finally, the whole idea was abandoned, 334 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:13.519 and so for centuries we have swung in space, unmanned, undirected, 335 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:18.200 living in a lost world of our own making, without purpose, 336 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.279 without direction. 337 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:25.279 Why have you told me this? Why have you brought 338 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:28.200 me here? You could have killed me? 339 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.920 Can you bess? 340 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:40.119 No? No, I can't unless but it would be too fantastic. Well, 341 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:49.599 you want to finish the trip? Yes, that's it. What 342 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:51.359 would it take to do it? 343 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:55.440 A miracle? Almost? The crew would have to be trained, 344 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:57.880 many people, each skilled in a certain duty. 345 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:59.319 Couldn't you train your own people? 346 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:01.960 We are too few who besides the main driver is 347 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:04.559 in the lower levels where my people are forbidden to go. No, 348 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.799 it would mean that both our peoples would have to 349 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:13.079 work together our differences and coverage, rather than deny. 350 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:15.559 It can be done. You showed me, You can show others. 351 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:17.799 I can show them. Can you see the captain himself? 352 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:19.359 I have an uncle on the central board. I'll tell 353 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:20.839 them what I've seen here. And do you think you'll 354 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:23.279 believe you send one of your people with me. That's 355 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:24.119 asking a good deal. 356 00:22:24.279 --> 00:22:27.480 I'm risking a good deal by going back. Very well. 357 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:30.799 Bobo will go with you. He can't talk. There will 358 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:31.640 be no need for talk. 359 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:35.200 I will write a message guarantee safe conduct for a 360 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:38.119 group of unarmed scientists to visit the main control room. 361 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:43.279 Bobo will take you safely through our territory. What happens 362 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.279 when you reach your own level is up to you. 363 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:00.400 Moment. 364 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:08.480 Yes, what Hugh quick? Uncle Edison, But dismutan, he's harmless. Please? 365 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:11.920 Now, what is this? 366 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:15.400 Why I know all about that? Listen, Uncle, I must 367 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:16.160 see the captain. 368 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:17.440 The captain are you mad? 369 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:19.599 You're a council member? You can get me to see him. 370 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:21.880 They'll kill you. You want it for Harris. 371 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:24.359 I don't care. I must speak with the captain. You're 372 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:25.680 close to him. You can arrange it. 373 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:28.240 I don't understand what, uncle, Listen to me. 374 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:30.160 The ship is moving. 375 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:33.240 I can prove it. Do you understand there is a 376 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.400 purpose in the ship. 377 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:37.599 I don't understand what you're babbling. 378 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:38.200 Never mind. 379 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:40.799 Just talk to the captain. Tell him I have information 380 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:44.720 of tremendous importance. Tell him I've arranged a truce with 381 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:47.519 the mutants, a truth here showing this course of time 382 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.559 by their leader. Do it, uncle, for my sake. 383 00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:51.480 I don't know. 384 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:52.400 Uncle. 385 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:55.319 If I'm to die, let this be my last request 386 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:57.359 to you. 387 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:12.519 Very well. I'll speak to the captain. I'll try, and. 388 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:14.839 You say, Miss Darland, that you saw this with your 389 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:16.880 own eyes. I swear it, Captain, I swear it on 390 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.079 the word of Jordan's. Let me see that paper again. 391 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:25.279 Hmm do you think, amandarist I don't know, sir. It 392 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:26.279 might be a trick. 393 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.799 I guarantee you safe conduct. If these things there is, 394 00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:32.240 Mister Harland reports them. We paid the risk a few lives. 395 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:34.000 A man is a convicted herita. 396 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:37.039 Still we mustn't discount his word entirely. He has a 397 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.640 safe conduct, A mute Intersted's life coming with him. I 398 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:42.720 think we might investigate. 399 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:45.839 You will do it. I'll have an expedition outfitted. Dismiss 400 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:57.119 Miss Darland. Thank you, sir, thank you, Captain. You'll make 401 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:00.000