The Underwater Galaxy

Boy, did this story have a long gestation. As the title suggests, the germ of this particular nugget ame from the discovery and return of episodes of The Underwater Menace and Galaxy Four. Why not combine them in a new Karkus story? So I did. Why not also turn this into a story which explains how Professor Zaroff looks the way he does? Sure. Why not make it an epic four-parter, told from his perspective? Um...

There's a four-part version of this story, but for the most part it's just more puffery from the Professor and some cod-Vernean/Lovecraftian exploration of the subterranean world. This version is denser, but packs in the main points. I dig efficiency, but this is somewhat crowded efficiency. That said, I don't think the four parts of the original script were merited, and here we are.