foster@nsc.uucp (Jerry Foster) (07/27/83)
Re: request for info on WE ALL DIED AT BREAKAWAY STATION. A novella (or possibly a novel) by that name sticks in my memory as having appeared in a pulp sci-fi magazine (Amazing Stories?) in the late sixties. It was about a space station (fortress/warship?) which had been attacked and everyone was killed after a valliant effort to defend the space station/fortress/warship. The crew had been rescued and brought back to life (sort of) by having all their burned and blasted organs, arms, legs, etc. replaced by mechanical parts (presumably the brain was still alive). The story is told in flashback as the rescued survivors are being transported back to earth. They decide to have another go at the baddies with their crippled bodies in a crippled warship and all go to hell together in a blaze of glory. It was an execellent yarn in many ways, well written (for a pulp mag) and had an unusual story line for the time. I was reminded of that story when I first saw the STAR TREK episode "The Menagerie". The apperance of Captain Pike in that mechanical life support wheelchair was exactly as I had pictured one of the main characters in WE ALL DIED AT BREAKAWAY STATION.