The Adventures of Captain Proton

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The opening shot of "The Bride of Chaotica"

The Adventures of Captain Proton was a holonovel created by Tom Paris for play (or historical study) in the USS Voyager's holodeck. The program was built to look like 1930s science fiction B-movies. During this program the holoprojectors would display in black and white. Real people and objects entering the holodeck would also appear in monochrome.

The program may have been partially based on the film The Bride of Chaotica, which was amongst the many films held in the Enterprise's database. (ENT: "Cogenitor")

Characters

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Satan's Robot

• Captain Proton
• Buster Kincaid
• Doctor Chaotica
• Constance Goodheart
• Satan's Robot
• The President of Earth
• Queen Arachnia
• Lonzak
• The Twin Mistresses of Evil
  • Demonica
  • Malicia

Chapters

• Chapter 16: "Spell of the Spider"
• Chapter 18: "Bride of Chaotica"
• Chapter 37: "The Web of Pain"
• Unknown chapter: "Captain Proton versus the Cosmic Creature"
• Final chapter: "Satan's Robot Conquers the World"

Story elements

• Army of Evil
• Confinement rings
• Cradle of Persuasion
• Death ray
• Den of Crocodiles
• Destructo beam
• Fifth dimension
• Fortress of Doom
• Imagizer
• Lightning shield
• Mines of Mercury
• Planet X
• Rocket ship
• Spider People
• Spider ship

Appendices

Appearances and references

• ENT:
  • "Cogenitor"
• VOY:
  • "Night"
  • "Thirty Days"
  • "Bride of Chaotica!"
  • "Alice"
  • "Drive"
  • "Repression"
  • "Nightingale"
  • "Shattered"
  • "Lineage"
  • "Endgame"

Background

Captain Proton is an interpretation of movie serials of the 1930s through 1950s like Buck Rogers, Commando Cody, and Flash Gordon. ^{(citation needed • edit)}

It appears that the "Captain Proton" novelization may have been based on the early 1940s science fiction series Captain Video and His Video Rangers, with some cosmetic changes. The series shared the same campy themes and post World War II/Cold War clichés. A robot also existed in that series by the name of Tobor. ^{(citation needed • edit)}

The Captain Proton simulations establish that the Voyager holodeck apparently has the ability to fade the colors of anything and anybody inside, making them appear "black and white".

At least one complete Captain Proton story has been written in the real world, by Dean Wesley Smith, Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth. He presumed that, in the Star Trek universe, the holonovel Captain Proton was adapted from a supposed 1930s pulp magazine, and set out to write and publish that story.

Apocrypha

In Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force, Tom Paris flies the Hazard Team to the "Scavenger" mission and tells them that the in-flight movie will be Captain Proton vs. the RoboZombies. The game also contains a Captain Proton-themed training level in the holodeck.