Unidentified Flying Oddball story
A NASA employee unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. It is an adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
18 total · 8 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| android | major | Tom Trimble constructed an android look-alike named Hermes. |
| betrayal | major | Sir Mordred and Merlin betrayed their sovereign King Arthur and made a bid to oust him and take the reigns of power for themselves. |
| infatuation | major | Alisande fell in love with Tom. |
| life in medieval Europe | major | We saw a zany depiction of life in 6th century England. |
| primitive point of view | major | The story parodied the superstitious medieval people of Camelot who, among other things, mistook a spacesuit bedecked Tom for a monster of some sort. |
| science as magic to the primitive | major | Tom bedazzled the people of Camelot with his various space age gizmos. |
| the legend of King Arthur | major | NASA employee Tom Trimble accidentally traveled back in time with his android look-alike Hermes to King Arthur's Camelot. |
| time travel | major | NASA employee Tom Trimble accidentally traveled back in time with his android look-alike Hermes to King Arthur’s Camelot. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | Sir Mordred treated Alisande's father to the rack in an effort to get the old man to give him his land. |
| coping with saying goodbye forever | minor | Tom bid a sad goodbye to Alisande before embarking to return to the 20th century. |