Destination Moonbase-Alpha

Moonbase Alpha, the well-established and colonized space station,

is regularly monitored and smoothly functioning.

Atomic waste disposal is one of the biggest problems of our time.

Simmons, you assigned me up here to clear up this mess.

That's what I'm trying to do.

Everything proceeded normally, until one day,

on the dark side of the moon, a malfunction

started in the nuclear prime.

The resulting chain reaction caused

an immense atomic explosion, blasting the moon out of Earth orbit.

The totally unforeseen accident on the lunar surface has caused very serious repercussions

here on Earth. The gravity disruption, the earthquakes in the United States along the

San Andreas Fault and in Yugoslavia, as well as southern France, has caused enormous damage

to life and property.

The International Lunar Commission is an executive conference at this moment deciding what steps

might be taken to rescue the 311 men and women on moon base alpha.

Little hope is held, however, that there are any survivors.

It has now been established that the moon's acceleration away from Earth has put it beyond

the reach of any Earth launch.

The near-crippled Moonbase Alpha plunged deeper into outer space,

virtually in free flight in the universe, unable by its own resources to return to Earth.

For the survivors of the doomed Moonbase Alpha, the date-time is now well into the 21st century.

In command of Moonbase Alpha, veteran astronaut John Koenig.

In charge of the Moonbase Medical Center, Dr. Helena Russell.

Maya, a metamorph who joined Moonbase Alpha from the outer planet Psycheon.

She had mastered the art of molecular transformation.

The ability to change herself at will into any other form of life she chose.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

He he he!

Whee!

Woo hoo!

Commander Koenig.

Tony, you'd better see this.

John, what the hell's going on up there?

John, what's going on up there?

Uh-oh!

Come in, John!

John, can you hear me?

Hey! Look, Ma, no hands!

Do you read me?

Ooh, baby! Look out!

There was a report of an increase in the neutron card.

The commander went up to investigate.

Haven't had so much fun since I burned Grandma's wig.

Medical unit, stand by.

Hey, you really gotta try this.

You have to fly this baby to really believe it.

It's terrific.

Hallelujah! There are angels everywhere!

He's heading for the nuclear waste dumps.

It's too low. He'll hit one of the domes.

John, get out of there. That's lethal.

Come and join us. Come and join us.

Come and join our happy band.

Ha, ha, ha!

Yoo-hoo!

Whee!

Ha, ha, ha!

Alan, take over that eagle by remote.

Medical rescue unit to the launch area.

Crash unit full to launch area.

He's deactivated the remote control.

I can't take over.

If he hits one of those domes, he could cause a nuclear explosion.

No, that will need a specific stimulation with atomic fuel.

He's gonna crash. Alan, get over there.

Take a couple of nuclear physicists with you, just in case.

Erlich, backwards.

Keep your heads out! Big Daddy's coming in!

John, get out of there!

The End

I'm sorry.

Moonbase Alpha status report, 1912 days since leaving Earth orbit.

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

Commander Koenig, while piloting Eagle 10,

became suddenly irrational and unresponsive.

He crashed in the area of the nuclear waste domes.

I've got it all on film.

What's the radiation count?

Negative.

All clear.

It was lucky.

Will he be okay?

He's got severe concussion.

It's a feedback complex, Maya.

It takes brain impulses, modifies them,

feeds it back into the brain.

It's like a brain massage.

Electronic.

It is still experimental.

Then you don't know the side effects.

Is it worth a risk?

If I don't take the risk...

What happened to him up there?

I don't know.

Tony, I have something on the screen.

I'm on my way, son.

Hang in there, John.

Come a mile.

What is it?

It's too far away to tell.

Ma?

Sensors pick up configuration of a spaceship.

Range?

90,210,000 miles.

Heading?

Directly at us.

Medical center.

Helena, how long before I can talk to John?

15 minutes at the earliest.

He's linked to that brain complex, Tony.

I don't dare break the sequence.

Okay, thanks.

Even at the speed of light, it would take that spacecraft

almost an hour to reach out for.

What happened to the monitoring crew that went out to the nuclear waste area?

They're on their way back to report.

Tony, range 40 million miles.

It's impossible.

That means it's exceeding the speed of light.

32 million miles.

Well, we're lucky.

Damage to that nuclear dome was minimal.

Yeah, not a trace of radiation leak.

The nuclear waste area is stable.

Yeah, I was gonna say that way too for centuries,

unless some fool drills a hot plutonium...

Magnify.

Alan, what do you make of that thing?

That is a super swift.

No, it can't be.

But it is, I tell you.

A super swift never got off the drawing board.

No, not before we left Earth. But things have changed.

Physics hasn't changed.

That thing is traveling faster than the speed of light.

Sure in hell looks like the drawings are super swift.

Yeah, it seems like human technology to me.

It could be from Earth.

Now, whatever that thing is out there,

let's not get sentimental about it.

Tony, it's moving into land.

Weapons section, armhole lasers.

Open a channel.

Moonbase Alpha, the spaceship. Identify yourself.

Repeat, identify.

Moonbase offered a spaceship. Identify yourself.

Repeat, identify.

Tony, they're trying to come through.

It's Guido.

Hiya, little brother.

It's my brother, Guido.

Guido.

Holy Guido! - Holy!

I saw you on that screen. I didn't believe it!

I still don't believe it!

I bet you! - I'm so scared.

Are you still keeping that guard up, Carter?

Well, I still got the Houston-based championship, buddy.

Only because I couldn't get up here for a rematch.

Dr. Shaw!

Good night, Diana. - Hey, darling.

Ah.

Now look, brother, I'm a captain.

Now I want a little respect from you.

Oh, yeah, well, that cuts both ways.

I don't know you.

How is your handicap?

Hi.

Oh, Henry, I hate to have to tell you this,

but I can put a shot in the crater at 1,600 yards.

How's your handicap?

I am.

You won't look at you, Sophie.

It's white green grass and fresh hair.

Oh.

You know?

Well, hello.

Hello.

Could you tell me where I could find Dr. Ben Vincent?

Mm-hmm.

Oh, you're his sister, right?

No.

Oh, his daughter?

No.

I know you're his grandmother.

No.

Oh boy, I guess that only means you're gonna tell me

what I'm afraid you're gonna tell me.

Yes, I'm his fiance.

Well done, Spoh.

Wonderful.

Did you make that physiotherapy major?

Oh, without your coaching, it was difficult.

But I made it.

Okay, well, listen, I gotta,

Got a lot of stiff tendons all around here.

You know?

All around here?

You've got it, Jeremy. You've got it, Jeremy.