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Trekking Through Compliance – Episode 55 – Assignment Earth

 

The Enterprise has used the light-speed breakaway factor to propel itself backward in time. It can monitor Earth communications while on a historical fact-finding mission to study how Earth survived the turbulent year 1968. While in orbit, the Enterprise accidentally intercepts a transporter beam originating more than 1000 light years away, beaming aboard interplanetary agent Gary Seven and his partner Isis, disguised as a black cat. His mission is to prevent Earth from destroying itself before it can become a peaceful society by destroying an orbital nuclear weapons platform launched by the US.

Chekov notes the arming of the warhead aboard the Enterprise, who attempts to contact Kirk for instructions. When the communicator beeps and the rocket base guard picks it up, Spock nerve pinches the guard and tells Scott to beam Kirk and himself to Seven’s apartment. Here, they watch Seven explode the warhead 104 miles above the ground and meet Seven’s cat, Isis. Records from the Enterprise show that such an event occurred and that it caused the nuclear powers to re-assess the risks of placing hydrogen bombs in orbit.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     How many pizzas have you bought post?

2.     A lunch alone is a lunch wasted.

3.     Does your organization rotate senior executives through compliance?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

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Trekking Through Compliance: Episode 47 – The Immunity Syndrome

 

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Immunity Syndrome, which aired on January 19, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1.

The Enterprise is diverted to investigate the mysterious cessation of communication with the Gamma 7A star system. While on its way, Spock telepathically senses the destruction of a starship manned by Vulcans. The Enterprise encounters a strange field that drains all mechanical or biologically generated energy. Spock finds that the zone of darkness is a negative energy field. They send a probe that penetrates the organism and discovers it to be living and filled with protoplasm.

Spock sets out in the shuttlecraft and heads for the nucleus. Spock establishes that the organism has stored enough energy to reproduce and that the 40 chromosomes in the nucleus are ready to come together. The Enterprise is sucked into the organism. But Kirk fills a probe full of antimatter and plants it in the nucleus.

As the Enterprise backs out of the organism before it blows up, it detects Spock’s shuttlecraft and locks on a tractor beam. The explosion rocks the ship, but it survives, and the stars appear on the viewing screen again. Somehow, the shuttlecraft survives as well.

Compliance Takeaways:

1.     The written word still holds power.

2.     Can you communicate in local vernacular?

3.     How do you select your Board of Directors?

Resources

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein

MissionLogPodcast.com

Memory Alpha

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Trekking Through Compliance – Episode 27 – The Alternative Factor

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Alternative Factor, which aired on March 23, 1967, Star Date 3087.6.

As the Enterprise maps a planet with an iron-silicon surface and oxygen-hydrogen atmosphere and begins heading towards Starbase 200, the ship is twice subjected to massive disturbances. Spock reports that the magnetic field of the surrounding space “blinked,” and the planet’s gravity momentarily reached zero. Spock then finds a human life form on the planet’s surface, and Spock, Kirk, and a security detail of 3 beams down to investigate.

They find a spaceship and a bearded man who yells something about having time to stop still “him” and then jumps or falls off a cliff. Kirk discovers that the blinking phenomenon drained the Enterprise’s dilithium crystals, leaving only 10 hours before the orbit decays. Starfleet command reports that every galaxy quadrant has been subjected to magnetic, gravimetric, and electric disruption, and Kirk and Starfleet fear it may be a prelude to an invasion.

Kirk interviews the fallen man, who claims he is chasing a murderer who destroyed his entire civilization. He was saved because he was inspecting magnetic communication satellites. He attempts to enlist Kirk in his fanatic pursuit. It turns out that the strange phenomena are caused by the man, whose name is Lazarus.

Compliance Takeaways:

  1. How do you triage a whistleblower compliant?
  2. When expanding into new markets, scale up your compliance program.
  3. What is the role of gatekeepers?

Resources:

Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein
MissionLogPodcast.com
Memory Alpha

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Trekking Through Compliance – Episode 22 – Space Seed

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Space Seed, which aired on February 16, 1967, Star Date 3141.9.

 The derelict DY100 class spaceship S.S. Botany Bay built in the 1990s, is discovered by the Enterprise. The Enterprise has no record of the ship, but this is not surprising as many records were lost in the great World War of Eugenics fought during that period.

The leader, who is discovered to be Khan Noonien Singh, is accidentally awakened when the lights are turned on. Khan admits that he is one of the supermen from the Eugenics Wars. After a struggle, Kirk maroons the superhumans on Ceti Alpha 5, leaving them sufficient supplies to enable them to colonize the uninhabited planet. Kirk gives McGivers a choice between a court-martial and being left behind with Khan, and she elects to stay with Khan.


 Compliance Takeaways:
1.     How do you manage 3rd parties after the contract is signed?
2.     Interview questioning is as much art as science.
3.     Have you practices your crisis management program?

 Resources
Excruciatingly Detailed Plot Summary by Eric W. Weisstein for Space Seed
MissionLogPodcast.com-Space Seed

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Trekking Through Compliance-Episode 22-Space Seed

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Space Seed which aired on February 16, 1967, Star Date 3141.9.
Compliance Takeaways:
  1. How do you manage 3rd parties after the contract is signed?
  2. Interview questioning is as much art as science.
  3. What crisis management program do you have in place?