| rdfs:comment | - An exploratory mining rocektship from Earth lands on a "weird planet" looking for valuable ore. One of the miners by the name of Anderson wanders away from the ship while maintaining visual contact. Examining a deposit of titanium ore, he notices large Amoeba creatures. Three of the alien Amoeba take on his form. When he returns to the ship with the other three following him, they all claim to be Anderson. The captain chooses the right Anderson to let aboard. When asked how the captain knew, he told Anderson that he was the only one of the four who sweated.
- The space amoeba was a large cosmozoan lifeform of unknown origin.
- Space Amoeba, released in Japan as Gezora, Ganime, Kamoeba: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas (ゲゾラ・ガニメ・カメーバ 決戦! 南海の大怪獣"Gezora Ganime Kameba Kessen! Nankai no Kaijuu"), is a 1970 Kaiju film produced and released by Toho Studios. This was one of director Irisho Honda's last kaiju movies, and the first such movie made after the death of special-effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. This was also the final Toho film for which Sadamasa Arkiwawa acted as director of special effects. Plot
- The USS Enterprise encountered the space amoeba in 2268 while en route to Starbase 6, after diverting to investigate the destruction of an inhabited planet in the Gamma 7A system and the all-Vulcan starship USS Intrepid. The organism made a zone of darkness in space trying to destroy all life in it.
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| abstract | - An exploratory mining rocektship from Earth lands on a "weird planet" looking for valuable ore. One of the miners by the name of Anderson wanders away from the ship while maintaining visual contact. Examining a deposit of titanium ore, he notices large Amoeba creatures. Three of the alien Amoeba take on his form. When he returns to the ship with the other three following him, they all claim to be Anderson. The captain chooses the right Anderson to let aboard. When asked how the captain knew, he told Anderson that he was the only one of the four who sweated.
- The space amoeba was a large cosmozoan lifeform of unknown origin.
- Space Amoeba, released in Japan as Gezora, Ganime, Kamoeba: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas (ゲゾラ・ガニメ・カメーバ 決戦! 南海の大怪獣"Gezora Ganime Kameba Kessen! Nankai no Kaijuu"), is a 1970 Kaiju film produced and released by Toho Studios. This was one of director Irisho Honda's last kaiju movies, and the first such movie made after the death of special-effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. This was also the final Toho film for which Sadamasa Arkiwawa acted as director of special effects. While some fans deride the film as a last gasp of the kaiju eiga genre, others appreciate the fact that the monsters have been scaled down (only being 20 to 30 meters tall), making their interactions with human characters more compelling. Plot The "Helios 7" space probe is sent on a mission to study Jupiter. While on its outward journey to the planet, the probe is overtaken by Yog, an extraterrestrial made of pure energy. The probe returns to Earth and crashes into the South Pacific, where Yog leaves the device and inhabits the body of a cuttlefish, causing it to mutate into Gezora. The giant cuttlefish begins attacking ships and islands in the area. A photographer named Kudo and his entourage land on Selga Island for a photoshoot, but their camp is attacked by Gezora. Because of Yog's ihabitation the creature can create extremely cold temperatures with its body. When the survivors discover that Gezora is vulnerable to fire, Kudo and his friends use a leftover Japanese World War II munitions bunker to set fire to the monster. Severely burned, the creature retreats to the water where it dies. Later, Yog controls a stone crab, mutating it into Ganimes and attacks the surrounding islands. Luckily the humans manage to lour Ganimes into a pit and blow it up with explosives. Yog though is not killed and fleas into the surrounding jungles plotting its revenge. Yog decides to control two creatures this time. Another stone crab witch becomes another Ganimes, and a rock turtle with mutates into Kamoebas. The two monster assault the base camp to try and destroy the humans. Luckily Kudo realizes the monsters weakness, supersonic waves. By releasing a storm of bats Yog loses control of the monsters. Kamobas and Ganimes begin to fight. Then using explosives the humans cause the volcano to erupt and engulf the two monsters destroying them and Yog.
- The USS Enterprise encountered the space amoeba in 2268 while en route to Starbase 6, after diverting to investigate the destruction of an inhabited planet in the Gamma 7A system and the all-Vulcan starship USS Intrepid. The organism made a zone of darkness in space trying to destroy all life in it. The Enterprise crew discovered that the negative energy field was toxic to humanoid life. When unmanned probes only gave little information, Dr. Leonard McCoy suggested sending a shuttlecraft out to study the organism despite the risks of a man not coming back. Kirk agrees in defeat to send Spock out. They also found that the organism would soon reproduce by cell division. In view of the nightmarish danger posed by the organism and its multiplication across the galaxy, the Enterprise crew used an antimatter warhead to destroy it hitting its nucleus at point blank range, despite nearly being destroyed in the blast along with it. (TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" ) The space amoeba was created by Frank Van der veer of Van der Veer Photo Effects. It was made by placing a colored liquid of several layers between two closely spaced sheets of glass, and by moving the two glasses, making the liquid undulate a little - to look like the "creature" is alive. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 236) As evidenced by the first draft script of TNG: "Relics" , the space amoeba was originally to have been referenced in that outing, with Montgomery Scott remarking to Geordi La Forge near the end of the episode, "Someday I'll have to tell you about the time we ran into a giant amoeba." However, all mention of the lifeform was eliminated from that installment by the time the final draft of the script was issued. [1]
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