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THERE IS NOTHING AT THE POSTED COORDINATES SO I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND GOING THERE. All containers have Rite in the Rain log sheets. When stopping please try not to interfere with the flow of traffic.

I remember how much I enjoyed watching the original Star Trek series when I was younger. Over the years I have continued to watch the various Star Trek series and movies and I have many favourite episodes and movies. This series of puzzles relates only to the 79 episodes of the original series not including the pilot episode.

Episode 22 - Space Seed (N43 53.711 W079 15.848)

In this episode, the USS Enterprise finds the derelict SS Botany Bay floating in space, it was launched from Earth in the 1990s. A landing party comprised of Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and historian Marla McGivers beam over to the freighter. They find a cargo of 84 humans, 72 of whom are alive in suspended animation after nearly 200 years. Spock discovers that their leader is Khan Noonien Singh who, along with his people, are products of 20th-century selective breeding designed to create perfect humans.

PUZZLE

Selective breeding is mating individuals carrying desirable mutations in their DNA to create super humans. Genes in the DNA are composed of sequences of triplets known as codons. Codons are three-letter codes that correspond to one of the 20 amino acids that the body synthesizes. These 20 amino acids are often written as one-letter codes (thus, not every letter of the alphabet is represented). This is of course a scientific approach to the genetic code, not an arbitrary assignment of three-letter codes to letters and numbers.

AAC TAG AGA ACT CAT TTC TAG TGA AGA ACA CAC CGT GAA GAG TTC ATC GTG GAA ACG CAC AGA GAA GAG AGC GAG GTT GAG AAT TAG AAC GAA TAG AAC GAG

TGG GAG TCC ACC TAG GAA CGC TAG TCC GAG GTA GAG AAT AAC ATC AAT GAA TAG AAT GAA TTT ATC GTC GAG GAA ATA GGG CAC ACC TTC TAG TGA CGG GAG ATA GGC CAT ACC

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Na vagrearg frnepu bs "bayvar qan genafyngvba" fubhyq yrnq lbh gb gur arprffnel gbby gb fbyir guvf bar. Uvqr: Ynzc cbfg.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)