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BEHIND-THE-SCENES: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN PROTON

The actual design of the Captain Proton props was done by HMS Creative Productions, who have a long-standing relationship with Paramount, via Alan Sims the property master for 'Star Trek Voyager'. He acquainted HMS partners Mike Moore and Steve Horch with the goals of the Captain Proton mini-series. Their aim was to produce designs that would translate easily on screen as that of past science-fiction classics. Sims told them of his desire to have all the props made in the likeness of Flash Gordon weapons. The Captain Proton scenes would also naturally be filmed in black & white for authenticity.

Alan Sims, property master for 'Star Trek Voyager': The props for Captain Proton were delivered to me in a full five-act treatment in which I could see what the look and feel of the characters had to be. I remembered the Flash Gordon serials. I honed in on exactly what was required in the script such as the hand ray gun; Satan's Robot, which came right out of the Commando Cody episodes; and the Commando Cody rocket pack."

[#95 Night]
[#95 Night]

[Thirty Days]
[Thirty Days]

[#157 Shattered]
[#157 Shattered]

The rocketpack. Zombies of the Stratosphere 1952
Captain Proton's rocketpack. [#95 Night]

Alan Sims: "The back jet pack itself also came from the research pictures of the Commando Cody.
A friend of mine who is a Cody fan built the pack for me and found where the original actor from the Cody serials was doing autograph signings and showed him the photos of what he was building.
Finally he showed up at a Cody signing dressed in a Commando Cody outfit and the actor who had portrayed him in serials looked at him and was absolutely shocked. Tears came to the actor's eyes because it brought back so many memories."
Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)

Alan Sims: "After I found the black-and-white stills from those episodes [the Commando Cody episodes], I showed them to the producers, who agreed that this was the robot we wanted. So wardrobe built the costume."

Satan's Robot in appeared in The Mysterious Dr Satan and Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)

Satan's Robot. [#95 Night]
Satan's Robot.
Source: TOSTFF
Dr Chaotica tells Captain Proton "there is one force in this universe that even you cannot defeat!"

Ergin also plays Satan's Robot in [#95 Night], [#106 Bride Of Chaotica!] and [#157 Shattered], although it is impossible to tell as he is not visible due to the nature of the costume's design.

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