On space station Perma One all hell is breaking loose.  The Head has assembled the starship captains as well as Palindrome and Quark to warn them that the evil Gorgons are headed their way.  The Gorgons have developed a powerful doomsday weapon and is using it against the United Galaxies.  At this very moment the High Gorgon (Henry Silva) is headed for Perma One.  The Head directs that Perma One be evacuated.  Commander Walker is charged with evacuating Perma One’s leading scientists.  Commander Estro is instructed to evacuate the space station’s top-secret files.  The then tells Quark to seek out and destroy the Gorgon’s secret doomsday ship.

To aid Quark in his assignment he is given the United Galaxies greatest weapon, The Source (Hans Conried voiced).  A weapon of such great power that it is only used for clashes between good and evil.  The Source was last used 200 years ago during the Quasar Rebellion.  The source, having spent the last 200 years stuck in an orb is a little out of practice when it comes to defeating the Gorgons.  It has also developed a bit of an inferiority complex and needs an ego boost to be able to assist Quark in any way.  The fact that he and his crew are headed for certain death at the hands of the Gorgons doesn’t help the situation at all.        

Episode 2 was directed by Hy Averback.  The episode uses elements from “Star Wars”, “Flash Gordon” and “Buck Rogers” in parody form.  The title of the episode is a play on the “Star Wars” phrase “May the Force Be With You”.

Douglas Fowley, who played the character Dr. O.B. Mudd, was replaced by Richard Kelton as a character named Ficus, a humanoid looking plant known as a Vegeton and the ship’s science officer.  Ficus comes from a race that is intelligent but lacking in human emotion.  As such he has difficulty understanding humans.   He is representative of the Spock like sidekick from “Star Trek”.

Supposedly, in the Spanish-language version the scene where the Bettys compare Quark to a god was removed so as not to offend Catholic viewers.

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