Arisia '25: The Menagerie
At the 2025 Arisia science-fiction convention, the Post-Meridian Radio Players presented our gender-swapped look at the classic Star Trek episode “The Menagerie”, directed and adapted by Liz Salazar from the original script by Norman Spinrad. (For information on Arisia, go to https://www.arisia.org/.)
In "The Menagerie," after hearing of an accident involving her former Captain, Christina Pike, Ms. Spock commandeers the Enterprise to return to the site of a past mission for mysterious reasons.
Performances
There was one Arisia performance on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 5 PM at The Westin Boston Seaport.
Investigating a distress call from the USS Constellation, Captain Jane Kirk finds it dead in space with the commanding officer, Commodore Decker, alone on board with a harrowing tale of a giant planet-killing device. With Captain Kirk stranded on the broken-down starship and a distraught Decker bent on revenge, can the crew of the Enterprise survive their encounter with the planet killer and stop it from continuing its destruction?
Tonight, Feb. 11, at 9:30pm, we will perform our gender-swapped adaptation of the classic Star Trek episode “City on the Edge of Forever” over Zoom.    In this episode, originally written by sci-fi icon Harlan Ellison, Captain Jane T. Kirk and Ms. Spock must follow a delirious Dr. McCoy into the 1930s before she can alter the course of history. Will Kirk make the necessary sacrifice to save the past and secure the future?