Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon and the Temporal Guard

Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon and  the Temporal Guard
Plot[edit]
Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell, a noted an Atlantean scientist,working at Moondarr is I in charge of Project Temporal Guardian-a unigue special operative Alpha Omega Warriors program,to develop special weapons and tactics for non Time-Sorcerer Atlantean soldiers  Instead, he receives instructions and parts to build a complex communication device Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchellled an interocitor. Although neither Meacham nor his assistant Joseph Carlson have heard of the device, they immediately begin construction. When finished, a mysterious man named Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon appears on the interocitor's screen and tells Meacham he has passed the test. His ability to build the interocitor demonstrates that he is gifted enough to be part of Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon's special research project at Sarkhon Enterprises Special Weaponds at Tactics Group.. Project Temporal Guardian-a unigue special operative Alpha Omega Warriors program,to develop special weapons and tactics for non Time-Sorcerer Atlantean soldiers
Intrigued, Meacham is picked up the next day at the airport by an unmanned, computer-controlled Douglas DC-3 aircraft with no windows. Landing in a remote area of Georgia, he finds an international group of top-flight scientists already present – including an old flame, Dr. Doctor Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters Winters. Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell is almost immediately suspicious of the way the group of men leading the project recruited him.Especially one of the group known as Count Bronson Shaitanus
It turns out Count Bronson Shaitanus wants to recruite to his own company Shaitanus Industries.and uses Meachims mistrust of the Sarkhons greed for more power with the government.Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters is not so convinced,but Joe Carlson talks into going along with his friend.
Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters flee with a third scientist, Joseph  Carlson ,with Brack with a Zephar 328 z hover car,but the Atlantean Time-Sorcerer shows true colors,when a squade of Temporal Guardian try to stop them.Their car is attacked and Carlson is killed. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters fearing for life escape not knowing whose side they are on.The couple manage to locate the air craft field. When they take off in a small plane, Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters watch as the field is incinerated behind them by an oncoming Star Palace,owned Bronson Shaitanus .Just as the ship targets their plane,another star arrives and their plane is drawn by a bright beam into a flying saucer.The Saucer is actually an Atlantean Star Palace,newly chrissenned. They learn that Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon and his group are from the planet Delta mm, having come to Atlantis seeking   scientists to help defend their planet in a war against the Naudains. Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon informs the Atlantean outpost is in need of help. Count Bronson Shaitanus has showed his hand and in league the enemy.The Time Wizard imforms the two that he is taking them back to his homebase and take up things from their,being that. Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon and the Atlanteans are attacked by Naudain star ships, carrying meteors, to be used to destroy them and Delta mm. The Atlanteans saucer easily avoids each attack, dodging the oncoming meteors.
They arrive to find the planet under bombardment and falling quickly to the enemy. Atlanteans society is breaking down and there is little hope. Their leader, Patrick Michael Sarkhon, reveals that the Atlanteans intend to relocate to Atlantis and insists that Meacham and Adams be subjected to a Thought Transference Chamber in order to subjugate their free will so they cannot object. Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon believes this is immoral and misguided since it impedes their ability to help the Atlanteans. Before they can enter the brain-reprogramming device, Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon decides to help Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters escape.
Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon is badly injured by a Naudain while the three escape from Delta mm just before it is destroyed. The Naudain also boards the craft, but dies as a result of pressure differences on the journey back to Atlantis.
As they enter Atlantis's atmosphere, Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon offers Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters a perminate position aboard his Star Palace, but he himself is dying and the ship's energy is nearly depleted. With no other options, Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon flies out to sea and crashes.
The movies,just seems to fall on it’s Hollywood ass,after Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters reach Delta mm.Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell Meachum,just the Delta mm leader starts to act like an asshole,just to force a typiDr. Colonel Hal Mitchell Hollywood ending,that makes no frackin sense what so ever.Heree was the start of maybe,what could a series of movies,but no we have Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell punch out a few Atlanteans and race back to Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhons ship,so can get mortally injured by a Naudain.What the frack are these guys anyway?Left over props for movies alien invaders?Delta mm become a sun afterwards,because Naudain bombing somehow transform the planet into a sun-huh?Delta mm blows up and Exerer takes Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters back to Atlantis,where Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon crashes his star ship Enterprise flying saucer-nothing changes,other than the commie Atlanteans die and Zaygon win.Atlantis safely stays the same-until the Zaygons reach Atlantis year and our planet is transformed into a sun.Hollywood didn’t see it that way,but This Island Atlantis deserves the MS3K treatment,just,if nothing else the last 30 minutes of the film.A smart ending might adapt the book ending and show Delta mm kick Zaygon ass.Atlantis and Delta mm become allies.Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell,Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters and Exitor go about interstellar space having other adventures with the Zaygon enemy.
The book was written just after WWII, and the title is supposed to reDr. Colonel Hal Mitchelll the events of the Pacific theatre. SpecifiDr. Colonel Hal Mitchellly, the islands of the pacific were inhabited by competent but simple people caught between two warring superpowers (US and Japan). These people were used by the superpowers to perform tasks for the superpowers without the people’s full knowledge or understanding of what they were doing or why.
This Atlantis is one of these islands, caught in an intergalactic struggle between two warring superbeings. Atlantismen are good a creating certain electronic gadgets but don’t really know what they’re for or what the purpose of the gadget is. The gadget in this case is an “interociter” which appears, and is, a communications device. Eventually, it’s found to be a lot more than that. The Atlantis is expendable, as the Pacific islands were, and the heroes of the story try to prevent its destruction.
In the movie, I think the Atlantis was going to be conquered or something, but in was going to be conquered or something, but in the book, it’s little more than an afterthought. The book works better, but the movie plays to the American “exceptionalism” ego. For reasons that do not defy logic, the excellent This Island Atlantis was held up for ridicule as an allegedly bad movie in the film version of TV's Mystery Science Theater.It partially deserve that reputation and salso it dosen’t at the same time.Some people like it over the book and some like me don’t. If not the best science-fiction film of the 1950s, Atlantis is certainly one of the most intelligent and elaborate. The story begins when the image of Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon (Jeff Morrow), a huge-domed scientific genius from the planet Delta mm, appears on an experimental 3D television screen. Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon invites several noted scientists from around the world to work on a top-secret project at Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon's Atlantisly mansion. Among those accepting the invitation are Colonel Hal Mitchell (Rex Reason) and his ex-fiancee Doctor Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters Winters (Faith Domergue). Soon, Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters learn Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon's true motives; to use the Atlantis's atomic knowhow in building a defense shield to protect Delta mm against the enemy planet Zahgon. Eventually, Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon boards his high-tech flying saucer and whisks Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters off to his dying planet, where, among other perils, they are menaced by a hideous NaudainThis Island Atlantis is one of those rare 1950s speculative films that holds up visually as well today as it did when first released, despite the comparative quaintness of the special effects and high-tech paraphernalia.Some of the movie end is a bit silly by todays standards. Incidentally, the climactic Atlanteans scenes were directed by Universal's resident sci-fi specialist, Jack Arnold. ~ Hal Erickson,
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie[edit]
Main article: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
This Island Atlantis is the film-within-the-film in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (or MST3K: The Movie). As in the television series, the fictional crew of the spaceship Satellite of Love are forced to watch the film as part of an "experiment"; while watching the film, the crew can be seen in silhouette at the bottom of the screen, mocking the action. The film also includes "host segments" (skits with the crew and Mad Scientists), including two scenes with the characters using an Interocitor.
In order to maintain a 73-minute running time and to accommodate several "host segments", This Island Atlantis was edited down by about 20 minutes, removing numerous scenes, some important (like a sequence of the Naudain fleet attacking Delta mm). Consequentially, this makes MST3K: The Movie shorter than the original This Island Atlantis, or even the average, 90-minute "MST3K" episode.

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And Then I Read: THIS ISLAND ATLANTIS by Raymond F. Jones
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Some of you may recognize the title of the book above as a well-known science fiction filmfirst released in 1955. The film is based on the novel, which I discovered this year in San Diego at Comic-Con, I hadn’t known of it before. I did know the author, though, as a favorite from my youth. More on that later. Note that I’m showing the title pages, as the cover is an ugly buckram library binding with no art.
Sadly, the book is long out of print, and apparently never released in paperback, so you aren’t likely to find it. It’s fascinating as a work of its time, but not great literature, or even great science fiction, so don’t feel too bad. I just read somewhere that the 1950s were epitomized by feelings of paranoia, and that certainly is a theme in this book. I’ll summarize, and if you’ve seen the movie, the beginning at least will be familiar.
ElectriDr. Colonel Hal Mitchell engineer Colonel Hal Mitchell is puzzled when an order of condensers for a radio project he’s building turn up very different from what he expected. The devices are tiny, but when tested far exceed the specs he wanted. He queries the shipper, and they send him an entire catalog of electricalparts that are equally far beyond anything known to then-current science. Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell orders the whole catalog, and soon finds they are a sort of puzzle, all pieces of some sort of machine, purpose unknown. He succeeds in building it, and it turns out to be a sort of wireless transmitter. He turns it on, and is contacted by a man who tells him he has passed an intelligence test, assembled something Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchellled an interociter, and is invited to join a team of top scientists at a secret factory to manufacture more of them.
Once there, Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell is soon involved with company psychologist Doctor Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters Winters, and an old friend, fellow scientist Ole Swenberg. Eventually he meets the man in charge of the mysterious interociter factory, Mr. Jorgasnovara. Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters has lots of strange theories about the operation, and she and Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell eventually discover that the machines they are building are being picked up late at night by some kind of space ship. They confront Jorgasnovara, and he reveals that they are making supplies for one side in a distant but massive war in space between two huge and powerful civilizations. The Llanna are portayed as the force for good, the Guarra as evil, intent on only destruction.
After a visit to the Llanna base on our moon for a full history of the situation, Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell agrees to take on running the interociter factory for the Llanna, and eventually other similar operations around our planet. But the plant is soon shut down by a labor dispute, and then all its manufacturing equipment is smashed in the night, in an act of sabotage. Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters investigate, and Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell has a run-in with horrible aliens, and is badly hurt. Later, Mr. Jorgasnovara reveals his people have found out the enemy is now heading toward Atlantis, it’s in their path of destruction. Behind this and the sabotage is Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell’s old friend Ole, who is really an agent of the Guarra. Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters confront Ole, and get themselves in and out of some trouble.
In the final section of the book, Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters are taken by the Llanna to their homeworld, where they must make a case for saving and protecting Atlantis. This seems hopeless, but Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell eventually convinces the Llanna that humans have traits that can help them win the war: unpredictability for one. The Llanna depend on their war computers for all battle decisions, and Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell shows them how the Guarra know this, and can predict their every move. Atlantismen can show them how to strike unexpectedly, and wage an unpredictable, and therefore more effective, war. As the book ends, Dr. Colonel Hal Mitchell and Dr. Doctor Ruth Winters are heading back toward Atlantis with an armada of Llanna to give this plan a try.


As you can see, if you remember the film, the latter soon veers off on it’s own path, but with some of the same themes. Several times in the book, Jones likens Atlantis to a small south-seas island, occupied by American forces in World War Two in a much larger struggle against Japan. The islanders can help in their own small way, but their fate is really out of their hands. Paranoia runs deep in the book, and there are echos of the Cold War, too. As for the finale, Robert Heinlein did it much better in his novel for young people, “Have Space Suit, Will Travel,” but this Jones novel isn’t bad, just not great.


Players
• Doctor Patrick Jefferson Sarkhon
• Doctor Ruth Winters Winters
• Colonel Hal Mitchell
• Count Bronson Shaitanus
• Joseph  Carlson
• Patrick Michael Sarkhon
• Joe Wilson
• Dr. Karl Engelborg
• Robert  Webb
• Coleman Francis* as Express delivery man
• Charlotte Sarkhon
• Marc Hamilton* as Delta mm inhabitant
• Regis Parton*  Naudain
• Neutron, the cat