Just a Spring Clean for the May Queen
May. 10th, 2006 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven". Yes, if you're a regular listener to a classic rock radio station, you hear it every day. If you collect MP3 files you might even have it more than one place.
I heard it yesterday in my car while I was driving into town. And that brought to mind an episode of my story Rayome which the song inspired. Let me tell you about it...
Rayome is mainly set aboard a starship in a far future resembling Star Trek and/or Babylon 5. In the episode in question, the ship just made a jump into hyperspace--and the Captain has been hit with a psychlogical hazard called "space lace", while she's cybernetically plugged into the ship's navigation hardware! The usual fail-safes have come undone, and so almost everybody on the whole ship has just been knocked unconscious...and they all begin sharing a wondrous dream. This dream slowly becomes a nightmare by the time the song gets to "your stairway lies on the whispering winds"--the May Queen (the Captain) is about to be burned at the stake, the torches set the funeral pyre alight--
And back at reality, the only person who is AWAKE (Rayome's boyfriend Camr) frantically finds out what's happening and realizes the ship is a runaway. He gets to the Bridge...but since he's never been there before he doesn't know what to do to stop the ship. But he has an idea--he wires an electric guitar into the Captain's circuits! By playing a few choice riffs, he wakes her up--and then she wakes everybody else up--and they succeed in bringing the ship back under control in the nick of time.
I'd come up with the idea a dozen years ago, but this is the first time I've shared it with anybody. So there it is.
FP (who acknowledges his debt to Page and Plant)
Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven". Yes, if you're a regular listener to a classic rock radio station, you hear it every day. If you collect MP3 files you might even have it more than one place.
I heard it yesterday in my car while I was driving into town. And that brought to mind an episode of my story Rayome which the song inspired. Let me tell you about it...
Rayome is mainly set aboard a starship in a far future resembling Star Trek and/or Babylon 5. In the episode in question, the ship just made a jump into hyperspace--and the Captain has been hit with a psychlogical hazard called "space lace", while she's cybernetically plugged into the ship's navigation hardware! The usual fail-safes have come undone, and so almost everybody on the whole ship has just been knocked unconscious...and they all begin sharing a wondrous dream. This dream slowly becomes a nightmare by the time the song gets to "your stairway lies on the whispering winds"--the May Queen (the Captain) is about to be burned at the stake, the torches set the funeral pyre alight--
And back at reality, the only person who is AWAKE (Rayome's boyfriend Camr) frantically finds out what's happening and realizes the ship is a runaway. He gets to the Bridge...but since he's never been there before he doesn't know what to do to stop the ship. But he has an idea--he wires an electric guitar into the Captain's circuits! By playing a few choice riffs, he wakes her up--and then she wakes everybody else up--and they succeed in bringing the ship back under control in the nick of time.
I'd come up with the idea a dozen years ago, but this is the first time I've shared it with anybody. So there it is.
FP (who acknowledges his debt to Page and Plant)
