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Season One, Episode Thirty Nine - "The Captive Comet"
Doom Log File Title: "The Omega Comet Incident – Logfile #1"
Summary: Haggar tells Zarkon the history of the Omega Comet, a traveling
black hole that moves like a comet. Ages ago Voltron apparently hid the Omega
Comet somewhere in the far corner of the universe it could do no harm, which
Zarkon points out that every kid on Doom knows as a children's story. Yeah,
a kid’s story. C’mon, a comet that’s actually a black hole that moves like a
comet? Someone failed astrophysics. Haggar then says she has found
it in Sector G29 and it's the perfect weapon to destroy Arus. Lotor then orders
Romelle, who's still a captive, brought to him. A robot then reports that
they've found the Omega Comet, and it's subsequently bombarded by gravitons,
pulled in, and destroyed. Zarkon is annoyed that they used one of his best
battleships for this demonstration, but Haggar assures him it was worth it.
If you think I’d be desensitized to having
state-of-the-art ships that cost half my treasury destroyed by now, you’re
wrong! When Romelle is brought in, Lotor and Haggar tell her they are
going to knock the comet off course to destroy Arus. Romelle manages to radio a
warning to the Voltron Force, and later we find out that she broke out of her
cell to pull that off, (Cossack's Note: Bet Mogor got a nice write-up for that
one!) but Lotor tells Zarkon they can use that to their advantage.
Voltron meanwhile approaches the comet and try to knock it off course again by
blasting all they can at it. Lotor and Haggar are watching it on screen and
Lotor remarks as Romelle is brought in that it's a shame they don't know the
right attack plan, which Haggar promptly explains. Romelle gasps and makes a
mad dash for the radio controls and blabs it to the Voltron Force. They take
her advice, while Lotor points out that she just helped them do themselves
in—they set her up. Of course the nice trusting Voltron Force doesn't smell the
rat—never mind that the transmission came from a Doom ship and we have ways of
making people talk, not to mention a witch who already fooled them once with a
great Romelle impression—and Voltron winds up glued to the comet's surface while
the comet gets closer to Arus and starts to tear it apart.
YAY! Finally! Allura calls back to Coran
for help, and he gets in touch with the GA, who sends some flunky to say they're
all too busy to help. After whining his way through the red tape they agree to
spare the one commander they have, of a fleet guarding their primary power
source. Meanwhile back on Lotor's ship, Haggar uses a metal ripper planted on
the fallen Doom ship to chew its way through Voltron. While Voltron gets a
close shave, the GA backup shows up—Starfleet 11, led by Romelle's brother,
Prince Shorty. (Cossack's Note: Starfleet 11? What's that named after, its
commander's age?) They decide the only way to save Arus is to blow the comet
off course by blasting the comet with everything they have, Voltron included.
Bandor whines for a while and then opens fire, blasting the comet off course and
Voltron, still stuck on the surface, to who knows where. Mogor goes in to tell
Lotor about the comet being off course, but Lotor was apparently in a pissy mood
and kicked him out. That's where the log file cuts off for that day.
Notable Doom Highlights: Nothing says respect like calling your royal witch
an "old windbag" or her telling her king that he should just "take it easy."
Yeah, our “relationship” is unconventional at best. I’d
rip out the bronchus of anyone else who’d dare tell me to “take it easy,” but
an old green lady with a magic stick who build giant bioweapons for you can get
a little leeway, even when her robeasts are batting 0.01. Lotor's
manipulation of Romelle and her resultant crybaby fit was also memorable.
Additionally, Mogor vaguely mentioned in the file something about Haggar saying
to Lotor that Zarkon doesn't seem to appreciate her like Lotor does and she says
she can help him get the throne, but Lotor shoots her down saying she only
trapped Voltron, not destroyed him, so they'll deal when that happens. Then
when Haggar goes to do her witchy work, Romelle freaks out and Lotor trips her,
causing her to fall on her face and cry again. Trip the princess—sounds like a
fun game to me! Haha, have a nice trip! See you next
fall!
Notes: Nice to know they finally got around to worrying about
Princess Romelle again. Pollux must be pretty low on the GA priority list if
she was sitting around in our dungeons from the time between Incident 21 and
this one. I should have charged her rent.
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