What happens
Aboard the spaceship Star Climber, veteran spaceman Percy is questioned by Captain Iron Man after a series of odd rule changes and a passenger, Mr. Costello, who seems to know too much. Costello, who collects recorded voices, shows Percy how a captain can be checked by the crew and steers the conversation toward suspicion. After the ship reaches the planet Borengwen, Percy finds its people gathered together in crowded warehouses, afraid of anyone who lives or travels alone. Percy meets his old acquaintance Nola, who warns him about the fur trappers called glunkers and the powerful committee led by Costello. Percy must decide where his loyalties lie as events turn sharply against him.
A spaceship bound for the planet Borengwen, and the planet Borengwen itself, where people live in crowded central warehouses.
Characters: Percy, Iron Man, Mr. Costello, Nola, Mr. Hines
Listen for: Pay attention to how Costello uses recorded voices and crowd pressure to control the people around him.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.