“Goodbye Polumbus” (March 17, 1978): Quark and his crew are sent on a suicide mission to Polumbus to discover why no one has returned alive. Quark and his crew fall prey to their fantasies as part of a fiendish plot by the dreaded Gorgons to drain the minds of the United Galaxy’s most brilliant scientists. Quark encounters a beautiful dream girl, Ficus encounters a teacher, the Bettys encounter dancing clones of Quark, and Gene/Jean encounters his favorite comic book character “Zoltar the Magnificent”. In order to save his crew, Quark must destroy the obelisk and free the shape-shifting “Clay People” it enslaved. The episode’s title is spoof of the film Goodbye, Columbus, in which Benjamin played the lead.
