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| - After being scolded for destroying a fuel cell and allowing the hydroponic garden to die of neglect, Dr. Smith leaves the Robinson camp to fend for himself. Alone and afraid, he shoots at some bushes and a star-shaped alien flies out. The next day, Will finds Smith, and the two discover the wreck of an alien spaceship. Will finds a machine that can materialize anything one wishes, which Smith promptly claims for himself. Will makes Smith feel guilty for hoarding the machine, so the Doctor donates the machine to them, at one point trying to wish up a new Jupiter 2 but getting a miniature instead. It then starts to play on their greed, so John tells Smith to get rid of the machine; Smith returns to exile, and turns the wreck into a luxurious home for himself. When he asks the machine to give him a servant, the machine's owner, a strange rubberoid creature, reappears to retreive it, and Smith runs back to the Robinsons, hiding the machine along the way. The alien follows him to the Jupiter 2, John reasons out that the alien has the right to the machine, and directs Smith to return the machine to the alien. Will realizes that the alien was actually being magnanimous and shared the power of the machine so that the Robinsons could have a little bounty, but the alien cut off access when Smith showed how greedy the Earth people could be. The alien is aware of Will's explanation, and rewards the boy with another genuine Earth apple like the ones he wished up earlier.
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