Or, "How many Betties is too many?"
In the 23rd century, the USS Starship
C-57D reaches the distant world
Altair IV to determine the fate
of an Earth expedition sent there
20 years earlier. Dr. Edward Morbius,
one of the expedition's scientists,
warns the relief ship not to land,
saying he cannot guarantee their
safety, but C-57D Commander
John J. Adams ignores his advice.
After landing, Adams and Lieutenants
Jerry Farman and "Doc" Ostrow are met
by Robby the Robot, who transports
them to Morbius' residence. Morbius
describes how one by one the rest
of the expedition was killed by
a "planetary force" and that their ship,
the Bellerophon, was vaporized
as the last survivors tried to lift off.
Only Morbius, his wife, who later died
of natural causes, and their daughter
Altaira, now a buxom, leggy teenager
were somehow immune. Morbius offers
to help them prepare for their return
journey, but Adams says he must await
further instructions from the Earth.
When Morbius appears, Adams
and Ostrow learn that he, Morbius
has been studying the Krell, the highly
advanced native race that perished
overnight 200,000 years before;
In a Krell laboratory, Morbius
shows them a "plastic educator",
a device capable of measuring
and enhancing intellectual capacity.
When Morbius first uses it, he barely
survives, but his intellect is permanently
doubled. Morbius then gives them
a tour of a gigantic Krell underground
machine complex, a cube 20 miles
(32 km) long on each side, still
functioning and powered by 100,000,000
self-servicing thermonuclear reactors.
Afterwards, Adams demands that Morbius
turn over his discoveries to Earth. Morbius,
however, states that "humanity is not
yet ready to receive such limitless power".
With Krell Technology & a stack
of vintage ******* magazines,
Morbius is able to create a private Eden
personally tailored to his every whim
& need, populated by perfectly idealized
but solidly actualized brainless
Playmates habitually undressed.
Later, while Adams tries to persuade
Altaira to leave, Ostrow sneaks away
to use the Krell educator. He is fatally
injured, but with his dying breath,
Ostrow tells Adams that the great machine
was built to create anything the Krell
could imagine. He says that the Krell
forgot one thing, however: "Monsters
from the Id". Their own base subconscious
desires given free rein and unlimited
power by the machine brought about
their quick & utter extinction. Adams
asserts that Morbius' subconscious mind
created the creature that killed
the original expedition and attacked
his crew; Morbius refuses to believe him.
In the classic 1956 science
fiction film, the extinct
race of advanced beings
of the planet Altair IV
are known as the Krell.
The first Earth ship to land
on Altair IV, the Bellerophon,
is destroyed, the only survivors
being Dr. Edward Morbius
and his wife [unnamed]
who later dies of natural
causes [cancer] and
his precocious, brilliant
daughter & protege,
the just 18 Altaira.
In his isolation, Morbius
becomes the lone
researcher to ever study
the extinct Krell.
All the while having
incestuous masturbatory
fantasies, bringing
the pages of his ancient
Earth **** to bizarre
fully-fleshed life; the
robot Robby originally
built as a multipurpose
***** & ahead-of-its-
time ******* to satisfy
the insatiable female
realizations...
Bellerophon (/bəˈlɛrəfən/; Ancient Greek:
Βελλεροφῶν) or Bellerophontes
(Βελλεροφόντης) is a hero of Greek
mythology. He was "the greatest hero
and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus
and Perseus, before the days of Heracles",
and his greatest feat was killing the Chimera,
a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's
head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "
her breath came out in terrible blasts
of burning flame." Bellerophon
was born at Corinth and was the son
of the mortal Eurynome by either
her husband Glaucus, or Poseidon.
