Elements of Geometric Sequence from One where First Element is not Power of Number

Theorem
Let $G_n = \sequence {a_n}_{0 \mathop \le i \mathop \le n}$ be a geometric sequence of integers.

Let $a_0 = 1$.

Let $k \in \Z_{> 1}$.

Let $a_1$ not be a power of $k$.

Then $a_m$ is not a power of $k$ except for:
 * $\forall m, k \in \set {1, 2, \ldots, n}: k \divides m$

where $\divides$ denotes divisibility.

Proof
By Form of Geometric Sequence of Integers from One, the general term of $G_n$ can be expressed as:
 * $a_j = q^j$

for some $q \in \Z$.

Let $k \nmid m$.

Then by the Division Theorem there exists a unique $q \in \Z$ such that:
 * $m = k q + b$

for some $b$ such that $0 < b < k$.

Thus:
 * $a_m = a^{k q} a^b$

which is not a power of $k$.