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By request of Bondofox:Maya, the resident alien shapeshifter on Moonbase Alpha, finds herself overcome and left at the mercy of an alien octopoid. And we all know that tentacles usually aren't a good thing.
For those of you mystified by this scenario, you're probably too young to remember the TV show Space: 1999. Some of you may be too young to remember 1999. For those folks, the show involved a massive explosion on the moon that sent the satellite out of Earth's orbit and hurling through space, along with the moon base colony that happened to be ON the satellite and all the people who were stationed there. Maya came along in the second season, an alien species who could change into animal forms
Google it if you're still curious. Maya's not going anywhere.
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For the record, this is STILL one my most and very pictures you've done, I still love it!
I also submitted it to a few more groups, look out for thoseΒ
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I'm watching "Space 1999" right now on Comet TV. Β I remember when the show was first on the air, and I watched a couple of episodes here and there, but I never really got into it. Β I do remember Maya, and I was somewhat smitten with her, but then "Star Wars" came along, and I forgot all about this show. Β I can remember Maya appearing in a commercial for the second season in which she looks at the camera and introduces herself and tells the viewers about her powers.
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I wish I were too young to remember 1999!Β But on the other hand, at least I'm not too old to appreciate this great illo of the lovely Maya... not that I enjoy seeing her in this situation of course.Β
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I used to ponder that same thought myself back when the show was on the air and the 1999 conventions were going on! π: 0 β©: 1
When I was writing the now-unfinished
Right; that's why this scene would last for an eighth of a second (assuming you could get her into it in the first place
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Man I would have killed to see a scenario like this. Hell I would belive that Ewoks did this to her
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God, I remember it was on in the seventies when 1999 sounded so far off to the future. Well Sept 13th 1999 came and went and the moon is still here.
She was one of the best best parts of season two
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I preferred season 1 and the older fellow who was played by Barry Morse; just as Buck Rogers was not the same when they brought in the hawk man.
I admit your Maya is awesome, but I like the original versions many times.
There was also a blonde guy, Alan Carter.
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Barry played Victor Bergman, the scientist with an artificial heart. I liked Victor's character too.
Alan Carter, played by Nick Tate, was the Eagle pilot who was on for both seasons. The other blond guy was, I think, Paul Morrow and was played by Prentis Hancock, (I think that was his name.) He was only on Season One.
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Sorry, Paul had dark hair. Alan was the only blond regular male character.
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Yes, you can tell I was more a fan of season 1 of both shows.
Nick Tate was a very handsome man, I still dream of him of he and I at a quiet meal over candlelight!
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I actually met Nick Tate. He's a very cool guy!
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Now all you got to do is tie up the purple haired women of the SHADO moonbase from UFO.
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Great!
Thanks for reminding this TV-show. Besides Star Trek Space 1999 was the base for my SciFi-interest.
Loved the eagle Starships, too. I built two of the Revell-Kits. Unfortunately they got lost (in space, lol) somehow...
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Crap series, great pic 
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What do you mean tentacles are abad thing? A tentacle monster and girl left to its mercy, what could possible go wrong?.... Oh wait the monster will rape the girl! Sorry its been a slow day.
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Exlllcent work on her I heard of that show
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I remember that series! My folks got me the Eagle spaceship when I was a kid. And I thought Maya was great. It looks like she doesn't like this particular form though.
Jag
PS: Wasn't there a blonde named Helen?
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It was Dr Helena Russel (Barbara Bain's Character)
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Was Helen the Barbara Bain character? If not, I don't have enough memory cells to recall.
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That's what Wikipedia says (about Helen, not your memory cells).
Jag
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Yes, but it wasn't Helen. It was Helena.
I don't know why either
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Helena. That was Barbara Bain's character, she was the co-star along with her then-husband Martin Landau who played the base commander John Koenig.
Her full character was Dr. Helena Russell, she was the chief medical officer on Moonbase Alpha.
I was also working once on what I'd hoped would've been a script back when I was young and naive about the writing and TV production world. It involved Helena and Maya getting captured and spending the episode bound back to back. It never would've sold, but I had the fun of writing it
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OK, Helena, not Helen.
I knew there was some guy named Koenig, but the Martin Landau? Wow!
Jag
PS: I also had a "Viewmaster" of an episode.
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Geez, i used to watch that show all the time! Great work!
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Now what would be the best kind of critter to change into that's most suitable for escaping this plight? Or is that a no go?
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I don't remember enough of the show to recall if she could change while restrained.
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There's a likelihood the show never broached that subject.
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I could never get into that show. Of course, if it had scenes like this, I might have watched it! Great scene, and very well done. We'll just assume that the alien octopod sends out a radiation that prevents Maya from turning into a mouse to wiggle free...
(My favorite line from the show was based on the inflection. Martin Landau once said "We do not commit MINDLESS violence!" The implication--with the emphasis on mindless--was that if you give us half a reason, we'll kick anyone's ass. Just not mindless violence. I still chuckle when I think of it!)
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Well personally, I've always been of the considered opinion that if Maya had her hands tied behind her back, any transformation at all would result in her breaking an arm or a shoulder, or at least doing some serious damage to one or the other.
When I was writing the third story of The Psychon Trilogy , Maya had been captured by Psycon's other enemies known as the Rolmars and was in their version of a POW camp, ala Stalag 17 or 13, take your pick. In one scene she was in a cell, hogtied, the cuffs on her wrists and ankles were steel lined with rubber, and the chain also ran to a similar collar around her neck. No transforming for her!
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Hmmmm... Interesting! As I recall, the effects weren't all that great or expensive, so her "transformations" involved a the camera going to a close-up of her eye, which had an image of the new form, then pulling out to reveal that she was in the form, with no explanation of how got there. I always assumed that when she started to change, her body kind of went liquidy, like Odo on Deep Space 9. But if her body parts actually shift around, then some nice tight bondage would stop that from happening!
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The effects were actually pretty good, considering. Until the original Battlestar Galactica came around, 1999 was the most expensive TV show ever produced.
You're right too, Maya's transformation usually took place off-camera, the sound effect and the zooming-in on what was supposed to be her eye, a picture of the creature, then the creature (Catherine Schell never played the aliens herself due to the time that would've been involved getting her in and out of her Maya costume/makeup and into the alien costume). The technology simply didn't exist in the mid-1970's to do what Star Trek could do later.
And your Maya/Bondage theory matches mine, so my thoughts are vindicated!
And in my teenage years and my early years of becoming a writer, Maya and Sandra got tied up a lot!
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Like I said, I was never a big fan of the show, so Maya stuck in my head but I had to Google Sandra. She was pretty cute; I can see why you threw her into the mix! You know, I may have to give this show another chance (thanks to the magic of Netflix)...
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I remember that show. Loved it. Loved the Eagles. I based a Star Trek sim along the same lines, only using a Starbase-74-type sent careening into the Delta Quadrant, back tracking Voyager's journey. Called it Starbase:Voyager! for name recognition, but the base was Starbase Alpha
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I was doing similar, novel-wise. The show inspired me to do my own thing, basically crossing Star Trek with 1999 called The Omega Factor , which I still pull out and play with now 30+ years later. In one incarnation of The Story, ESC (Earth Star Cruiser) Omega was on a proprietary mission to find Moonbase Alpha, only their science officer was replaced with a Psychon named Yoschor, who was Maya's pre-mate before he left Psychon and got caught in a space warp.
Looks like the show is making a resurgence too. I really should consider pulling that Story out of mothballs. What the hell, it might be fun
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Dude, I owe you BIG TIME for this!! After all of these years, finally I get to see Maya bound and gagged!
"Thank you" doesn't sound like enough!
Thank you!!
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I remember the leading man, Martin Landau whom I was always confusing with Mark Lenard.
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wow!--a space:1999 DiD--we ARE old...!
nice job!
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Well, it WAS a request.
But yeah, we ARE that old . . .
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