"Mad Idolatry" - Random Orville Thought!
Thinking about the planet in "Mad Idolatry" and the cult that grew around Kelly. Am I the only person who wondered how a major religion grew out of a single "miracle" and a brief encounter of, oh, two minutes tops? It's not as if Kelly went around preaching a doctrine like the founders of Christianity, Islam or Buddhism!
Then I remembered that this particular planet shifts into a different universe once every 700 of its years, and it started to make a bit more sense. Because once every 700 years its night sky must change completely, and to a primitive people something like that could only appear like a major omen. (Just think how people used to regard comets!) So the sky foretells something momentous, and Lo! The Kelly appears and works her miracle.
(And that is going to be my headcanon from now on!)
Then I remembered that this particular planet shifts into a different universe once every 700 of its years, and it started to make a bit more sense. Because once every 700 years its night sky must change completely, and to a primitive people something like that could only appear like a major omen. (Just think how people used to regard comets!) So the sky foretells something momentous, and Lo! The Kelly appears and works her miracle.
(And that is going to be my headcanon from now on!)