Jack7
First Post
A long, long time ago (as a kid) I saw a Star Trek cartoon that involved Kirk and Spock seeking to recover a Slaver Weapon from a stasis box while the Kzin were also trying to get the weapon. It was a sort of covert mission by the Federation to prevent the Kzin from obtaining a powerful weapon created millennia before by the Slavers. Actually, now that I think on it, if I recall correctly it was really a weapon designed by another race, to be carried by their espionage agents, who fought the Slavers and were seeking to rebel against them. The weapon had various settings and could change shape and function with each different setting. (Maybe some of you guys have seen it. Can even remember things form it I don’t.)
It was, I think, based upon a short story by Larry Niven in the Kzin Wars about a Human and a Puppeteer involved with the Kzin following the same basic storyline. I can’t recall all of the details as I was a teenager at the time (30 or more years ago) and I only read the story once.
Well, this morning I re-dreamt that Star Trek episode, except there was no Kirk and Spock, it was just me trying to recover the weapon from the stasis box and I never saw who was trying to get it other than me, but I knew they were there.
I got to the stasis box, triggered it open (don’t recall how) and found the weapon. It could do everything it could in the cartoon episode, except it could also communicate with creatures and beings forward and backward in time. It also had a “genetic signature” and ended up injecting some of its genetic material into me, which altered me in some ways, but I can only remember one, I could see forward and backwards through time.
Because it has injected itself into me, through my hand, I aloes discovered that the weapon was actually a living creature, or to be more accurate, an organic machine hybrid.
It told me several things about the era in which it had originated and then told me that it had several other hidden and coded functions, and that it could show them to me, but that they would be dangerous to use.
”How dangerous?” I asked.
“You won’t be the same thing anymore, and neither will I.”
I was debating my reply when I woke up. I have no idea what the dream meant, or why I would dream this (though last night I rewatched Prometheus, or to be more accurate the original film) and so maybe that triggered it. It sure was an interesting dream though. I wish it had lasted longer.
It was, I think, based upon a short story by Larry Niven in the Kzin Wars about a Human and a Puppeteer involved with the Kzin following the same basic storyline. I can’t recall all of the details as I was a teenager at the time (30 or more years ago) and I only read the story once.
Well, this morning I re-dreamt that Star Trek episode, except there was no Kirk and Spock, it was just me trying to recover the weapon from the stasis box and I never saw who was trying to get it other than me, but I knew they were there.
I got to the stasis box, triggered it open (don’t recall how) and found the weapon. It could do everything it could in the cartoon episode, except it could also communicate with creatures and beings forward and backward in time. It also had a “genetic signature” and ended up injecting some of its genetic material into me, which altered me in some ways, but I can only remember one, I could see forward and backwards through time.
Because it has injected itself into me, through my hand, I aloes discovered that the weapon was actually a living creature, or to be more accurate, an organic machine hybrid.
It told me several things about the era in which it had originated and then told me that it had several other hidden and coded functions, and that it could show them to me, but that they would be dangerous to use.
”How dangerous?” I asked.
“You won’t be the same thing anymore, and neither will I.”
I was debating my reply when I woke up. I have no idea what the dream meant, or why I would dream this (though last night I rewatched Prometheus, or to be more accurate the original film) and so maybe that triggered it. It sure was an interesting dream though. I wish it had lasted longer.
