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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 49 - Return to Tomorrow

In this episode, the Enterprise receives a distress call from a lifeless planet. Upon arrival, a telepathic being named Sargon addresses Kirk and Spock as his "children", and invites them to beam down to the planet. Their destination coordinates are 160 km below the surface. Kirk dismisses concerns about the safety of the party, reasoning that if Sargon had wanted to kill them he would have already done so. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Lt. Ann Mulhall beam to a subterranean vault. The voice of Sargon greets them from a luminous sphere on a pedestal. He explains that he and two others are the last survivors of their race. Their minds, stored in these orbs, have existed here since their planet was devastated by war. Sargon then transfers his mind into Kirk's body and Kirk's mind into the sphere. Sargon explains that he and his companions will need human bodies temporarily, in order to construct artificial bodies for themselves, and then returns to his orb. Kirk, returned to his own body, declares his confidence in Sargon.

PUZZLE

Let's try our own little transfer, if the following are interchanged:

9 <=> 1

8 <=> 3

7 <=> 6

5 <=> 0

4 <=> 2

then North 28 04.739 would become N ?? ??.???

and West 561 93.882 would become W ??? ??.???.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Whfg n fvzcyr yvggyr znccvat. Pnpur: Unatvat va gbc bs fvta cbyr - vs lbhe ernpu vf yrff guna 230pz lbh zvtug arrq n GBGG.

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)