The episode " Confetti Check A-OK " is almost entirely devoted to the breakdown of Straker's marriage under the strain of maintaining the secrecy of the classified nature of his duties.

Moreover, it is repeatedly demonstrated that there is no realistic prospect of Straker's circumstances ever improving, though if circumstances were different he would undoubtedly embrace change.

The overall effect of Straker's regularly referenced back story is to transform what could have been a stereotypical sci-fi character into one who is three-dimensional, complex and sympathetic.

One relatively consistent element of Straker's character is that he refuses to drink alcohol even though he has a fully stocked bar in his SHADO office.

Foster appears to be somewhat of a protégé of Straker's, as he is shown in a number of major positions.

Initially depicted in the pilot episode ' Identified ' as being a cheerful ladies ' man in his early 40s, Freeman is thereafter a far more straight laced more serious character who is Straker's right hand man and, occasionally, his muscle.

Henderson, Straker's superior officer, heads the International Astrophysical Commission, which is a front for SHADO and is responsible for obtaining funds and equipment from various governments to keep SHADO operational.

Lead singer Emile Straker's whistling is one of the most distinctive components of their sound, and often serves as the primary focus of the musical interludes in their songs.

However, later episodes such as ' Destruction ' ( where they share a working breakfast in Straker's office ) and ' Timelash ' where Henderson refers to Straker as " SHADO's most important piece of manpower ..." suggests a remaining bond of friendship.

Straker's closest friend and best man at his wedding, Freeman was the very first operative recruited into SHADO by Straker ( as seen in " Confetti Check A-OK "), Freeman finds standing in for Straker difficult in ' The Responsibility Seat ' but in other episodes such as ; ' Close Up ' has become confident at handling control in Straker's absence.

') and we are led to believe Henderson effectively rammed the post of SHADO Commander down Straker's throat in " Confetti Check A-OK ".

The ending not only shows him lying in bed recovering from the harmful effects of drug use, but has a subtext that the plot of the episode may, in fact, have been a drug-induced delusion, although actual evidence of the events such as Turner – Guest Star Patrick Allen – being found shot dead by Col Foster and guards at the start, plus Col Lake ( Wanda Ventham ) being found having been knocked out, also the gate security officer's records showing Straker's car as being ' logged out ' but not ' logged back in ' to SHADO H. Q.

In UFO, this appeared in the guise of Straker's " secret " office, which doubled as a lift ( elevator ) that takes him down to the SHADO control centre located beneath the studio.

Two key images from " A Question Of Priorities " – Straker's son being struck down and his ex-wife declaring she never wants to see him again – are repeated in flashback in two subsequent episodes, " Sub Smash " and " Mindbender ," suggesting that Straker remains haunted by these unresolved emotional issues.

But when his second-in-command, Col. Alec E. Freeman, was forced to divert the plane in order to investigate some curious UFO-related events in Ireland, Straker's sense of duty prevented him from informing and overruling him as to the plane's original mission.

He masquerades as one of Straker's film producers in the studio and enjoyed a brief relationship with Col. Virginia Lake.

He appeared twice in the drama series UFO, once as the partner of Ed Straker's estranged wife and once as the captain of a British warship under attack by the aliens.

Replacement grips have an adhesive backing, whereas overgrips have only a small patch of adhesive at the start of the tape and must be applied under tension ; overgrips are more convenient for players who change grips frequently, because they may be removed more rapidly without damaging the underlying material.

He feigns disinterest ; there is an underlying tension in their relationship.

They typically occur in patients with an underlying headache disorder such as migraines or tension headaches that " transforms " over time from an episodic condition to chronic daily headache due to excessive intake of acute headache relief medications.

" It contains virtually every important element of the Yiddish-speaking mind-set in easily accessible form: the constant tension between the Jewish and the non-Jewish ; the faux naivete that allows the old man to pretend that he isn't disturbing anyone ; the deflation of the other passenger's hopes, the disappointment of all his expectations after he has watered the Jew ; and most importantly of all, the underlying assumption, the fundamental idea that kvetching — complaining — is not only a pastime, not only a response to adverse or imperfect circumstance, but a way of life that has nothing to do with the fulfillment or frustration of desire.

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The conflict between the Jews ' demand for religious independence and Rome's efforts to impose a common system of governance meant there was underlying tension.

Nevertheless, it created some emotional discomfort and an underlying tension.

There is an underlying tension between Tria and Novem over who should lead Gilgamesh.

Robert K. Elder, of the Chicago Tribune, disliked the movie, writing " espite decades of soaking in bloody classics such as the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Spit On Your Grave, Zombie didn't absorb any of the underlying social tension or heart in those films.

Despite the great differences between the two men in musical style and an underlying tension based on musical politics — Brahms championing a more conservative approach to music while Wagner, along with Franz Liszt, called for " the music of the future " with new forms and new tonalities — Wagner complimented the work graciously, if not wholeheartedly, saying, " One sees what still may be done in the old forms when someone comes along who knows how to use them ".

By the time the song changes to 3-2 on the V7 chord, Machito has developed a considerable amount of rhythmic tension by contradicting the underlying meter.

By the time the song changes to 3-2 on the V7 chord, Machito has developed a considerable amount of rhythmic tension by contradicting the underlying meter.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

The Mathematical Appendix presents the rigorous argument, but is best read after Part 1, in order that the assumptions underlying the equations may be explicit.

The underlying assumption, of course, is that only sight and touch enable us, in any precise and fully dependable way, to locate objects in space beyond us, the other senses being decidedly inferior, if not totally inadequate, in this regard.

To speak of this underlying view of the world is to embark upon matters of subjective judgment.

It is really as though the Russians have seen in this character the oftentimes underlying vitality and courage of supposed buffoons.

An appeal " as of right " is one that is guaranteed by statute or some underlying constitutional or legal principle.

In Heidegger's phenomenology, Dasein is always in a meaningful world, but there is always an underlying background for every instance of signification.

Although single genes have little effect on complex traits and interact heavily both between themselves and with the external factors, research is underway to unravel possible molecular mechanisms underlying anxiety and comorbid conditions.

Central to his behaviour in the later novels is the underlying assumption that particular crimes are only committed by particular types of people.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

29 .</ ref > This tendency to identify one specific underlying reality made up of a material thing constitutes the bulk of the contributions for which Anaximenes is most famed.

Is there some underlying unity to aesthetic judgment and is there some way to articulate the similarities of a beautiful house, beautiful proof, and beautiful sunset?

Specifically, at speeds of OC-3 and above, the cost of segmentation and reassembly ( SAR ) hardware makes ATM less competitive for IP than Packet Over SONET ( POS ); because of its fixed 48-byte cell payload, ATM is not suitable as a data link layer directly underlying IP ( without the need for SAR at the data link level ) since the OSI layer on which IP operates must provide a maximum transmission unit ( MTU ) of at least 576 bytes.

Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.

Eventually what he'd be left with is something similar to a call option on the underlying stock, acquired at a very low price.

The correspondence between these values and the physical states of the underlying storage or device is a matter of convention, and different assignments may be used even within the same device or program.

If X is a Banach space and K is the underlying field ( either the real or the complex numbers ), then K is itself a Banach space ( using the absolute value as norm ) and we can define the continuous dual space as X ′ = B ( X, K ), the space of continuous linear maps into K.

Typically bronze only oxidizes superficially ; once a copper oxide ( eventually becoming copper carbonate ) layer is formed, the underlying metal is protected from further corrosion.

Most scholars hold that the Hebrew text underlying the Septuagint version is older than the Masoretic text and that either the Masoretic evolved either from this vorlage or from a closely related version.