Mind Control

Introduction

Year One

• RATM: Ted Clifford and Helena Russell taken over by the Tritonian probe, in that order. The former died, the latter would have within a few more days. Suggestion that John Koenig would have been the next victim.
• "Missing Link": not quite control so much as John's mind appearing elsewhere with physical form?
• "Guardian of Piri": everyone except John under the Guardian's control. (Even Main Computer is controlled as well, though presumably by other means of control.) One death as an indirect result?
• "Force of Life"(?): Zoref?
• "Alpha Child": Jarak nearly kills everyone through mind control.
• "Collision Course" (sort of): Arra is not really controlling John and Alan, but planting suggestions (and waking them at key times?).
• "End of Eternity": Balor takes control of Mike Baxter, driving the latter to viciously attack Koenig with a model airplane. Baxter then screams and collapses, with a horrible expression and hand attitude.
• "War Games" (sort of): Aliens seemingly plant interactive imagery of what could happen if Alpha starts attacking the aliens.
• "Space Brain": Kelly taken over by the title entity. Dying? Actually dies under the foam.
• "Dragon's Domain": the Dragon can take psychic control over its intended victims, to draw them in.

Year Two

• "Metamorph": What is left of Ray Torens is seen, post mind-drain (by Psyche under control of Mentor), working in the mines, where he later dies dies when it collapses during final destruction of Psychon.
• "All that Glisters": Living rock-like life form takes over Tony Verdeschi and then Dave Reilly. (Note: It also blocks Maya from reverting, but this appears to be physical interference, not mental interference.)
• "The Taybor": Taybor hypnotizes (via a pendant device) Maya in order to kidnap her. She later throws off the influence, and manages (in part via a clue given by John) to free herself.
• NANE: Magus influences John and Maya and Tony and Helena to pair off, in an attempt at genetic experimentation. They try, with some success at first but failing later, to fend off the influence, but before things can proceed beyond kissing, both couples are interrupted.
• BOW: Every Alphan is under direct but incomplete control by aliens who can implant images and suggestions that deceive and influence Alphans, but have to be somewhat subtle. John driven erratic, put under brain therapy machine, sheds the influence, and eventually sufficiently convinces Maya of his viewpoint that she undergoes the same treatment and sheds the influence. Most of the rest lose it when Helena(?) devises a sonic interference treatment. The few remaining are only freed when the aliens themselves finally lose and fade away.
• "The Lambda Factor": Carolyn Powell proves able to control virtually anyone she wants, however she wants -- except Koenig (after he deals with some of his metaphorical ghosts -- memories of two dead friends).
• "Dorzak": Dorzak proves able to control anyone not protected by a neuro-pulsonic jammer, including (at various times): Yesta (at considerable distance), Helena, and Maya. Tony has the jammer implanted in himself, confronts Dorzak, and shoots him with a stun gun.

Notes

• Does not count Shermeen Williams (from "A Matter of Balance"), as it seems more like she was simply very impressionable, not directly taken control of.
• Koenig is so strong-willed that he seems to be the hardest to control and the first to shed such. This is sometimes directly mentioned via dialog.

See Also

• Brain or Mind Damage