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Arthur Weiss' 'Journey With Fear' has a nutty premise even by 'Voyage' standards. The Seaview is used as launching pad for a space rocket. One of the astronauts is 'Chip Morton' ( Bob Dowdell ). No sooner is the capsule in Earth orbit than aliens spirits the two men off to an outpost on Venus. They are from the planet Centaur. They have noted Man's interest in other worlds and, concerned we might be planning to invade theirs, interrogate Chip ( the other man having died ) to find out what he knows. Crane goes after him ( luckily, he had a second rocket handy ) and winds up on Venus also. Eventually, the aliens grow dissatisfied with what they have learnt, and elect to kidnap Admiral Nelson too...

This, like a lot of Season 4 'Voyage', is something you have to switch your brain off to fully appreciate. You must ignore the cockroach-like aliens and their very American voices and propensity to speak in clichés ( "Earthman! Resistance is useless!" ), the fact they seem unable to cope with flames coming out of a space capsule's engine ports ( all they needed to do was to move away! ) and stop wondering why they settled on Venus in the first place ( the Moon would have been a better bet ). I love the way the rocket changes from a Polaris missile to an Atlas missile before becoming an ordinary capsule ( stock footage from the movie 'In Like Flint', released that same year ). The Venusian cave is very pretty ( not having seen a real one I am unable to confirm its level of scientific accuracy ) and Chip Morton does a very good impersonation of a blind man.

The notion of a submarine getting whisked off to another world was later used by the writers of the Steven Spielberg-produced 'SeaQuest D.S.V'.