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- Moonbase Alpha status report.

1,150 days after leaving earth's orbit,

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

During the many months of our space journey,

we've kept a full record of everything that has happened.

That record is now being reviewed.

Our computer is assessing what we've learned

from the past, and transferring that data

to the main computer memory banks.

So our computer is fully engaged,

and some of our non-scientific personnel are having

a bit of a rest.

- Much good that does.

- What's the matter, John.

Don't you like having an easy time?

- Oh, I'd like it much better if my off duty

time coincided with yours, and it hasn't, not once.

Not once since we started this memory rewind.

- Well, maybe the computer will pick up some

memories of us together.

And we can learn from the past.

- I'd rather get back to the present.

- What's that coming up now?

- Change?

- That's not from the memory track.

No, that's happening now.

- John.

- Yasko, show me the horizon.

- We're changing course.

- The moon can't be off course.

That's impossible.

- Maya, what's pulling us?

- I have no reading, Commander.

- Yasko, find something on that screen.

- It looks the same as it always does.

- Maya, what factor could be involved

in a change of course that we couldn't read?

- Just one, a gravity pull from space.

- Locate that gravity source.

- The computer is still reviewing the memory track.

- Cancel the review.

- Review canceled, gravity scan in progress.

- Come on, come on.

I wanna know what's pulling us off course.

- Predicted position of gravity source, no prediction.

- That's correct.

- Yasko, I want a 360 degree visual scan.

- Nothing.

Could be a black dwarf.

- A collision course with a black dwarf.

- Evacuation procedure.

- Medical Center, prepare to evacuate.

- Research unit, prepare to evacuate.

- All Eagles prepare to evacuate,

repeat, prepare to evacuate.

Eagle 10 to remain on standby to evacuate

command personnel.

- Check rate of change.

- Change constant, rate of close accelerating.

- We're getting closer to whatever is pulling us.

And we don't have much time.

- Evacuate.

- Commander.

- Identify.

- Estimates only.

- Estimates only what?

Why isn't our computer dealing with this?

- I don't know.

It seems to have slowed up.

- Is that what's pulling us off course?

- No commander.

I calculate it's a small planet

with no more gravity pull than we have.

- Focus and magnify.

Wait a minute.

Intercept.

- Eagles One and Two, intercept unknown spaceship

approaching Moonbase Alpha.

Command Center will guide you.

On target.

- Eagle One to Moonbase, we have visual.

- Koenig to Eagle One, are you having

abnormal gravity from that spaceship?

No sir, gravity is normal.

Eagle One to Eagle Two, angle 10 degrees from me.

Eagle One to spaceship.

Eagle One to spaceship, can you receive me?

We are friendly.

Hello Eagle One.

Am I glad to hear your voice.

Eagles from planet earth!

Whew, and is that or is that not

the dear old moony moon moon?

- Eagle One to spaceship, that is the moon.

Identify yourself.

Oh yeah, hello Eagle how are you?

My spaceship the Swift also originating from planet earth.

I was on a star mission with three other swifts

and a mother ship.

We left earth in 1996.

- Let's try to check that out.

- It's working.

The star mission in 1996, mother ship and four swifts

under the command of Captain Michael.

- What happened to the expedition?

- There was a communications break.

Fate unknown.

- Swift to Eagle One, hey there used to be a base

on the moon, what was it?

Uh, Alpha.

Is it still there, is it manned?

Moonbase Alpha is operational.

- Yeah, we'd be more operational if I knew

about that gravity pull.

Any more data?

- No commander, I'll check if it's a real

gravity threat, or if our computer has developed a fault.

Swift to Moonbase Alpha.

Swift to Moonbase Alpha.

Hello there.

Hey listen you guys, I haven't seen

or heard anybody for long enough.

I'd given up.

Hey, I tell you what, can I come down

and have lunch with you?

- Moonbase Alpha to Swift.

Alright, come on down and have lunch with us.

- Weapons section, this applies to missiles

standing by for evacuation.

Target incoming spaceship, an old Swift from earth.

Weapon section armed and ready.

- Standing by.

- Eagles, remain on standby.

- On standby.

- We'll investigate Swift, Helena.

- This is the commander of Moonbase Alpha.

We're coming aboard.

- There's no one there, sir.

- What?

- There's just no sign of anyone.

- The ship is in good order?

Yes sir.

- But empty.

- That's right, doctor.

Okay fellas, okay, okay

you've had your inspection.

You're well-armed I see.

You know I get the fact that you really

are from planet earth, so that's okay.

We're all friends.

- Where are you?

Just coming out.

Where's your commander?

- Right here.

- What's your name?

- Koenig.

- What's your name?

- Oh lady, what a question.

I haven't got a name.

No, no, no, you stay there, okay?

I'll come and meet you.

Koenig?

- Yeah, that's me.

- And you're the lady.

- I'm doctor Russell.

- Well how are you doctor Russell?

Shall we go into the Moonbase?

Oh, will you excuse me?

Just break it up, will you fellas?

Down guns, very rude.

Oh, there aren't any steps or stairs, are there?

- No.

- Because I'm on wheels, and I can't go for the bumps.

They didn't think of that when they made me.

And you guys, you watch my antenna.

I better tell you what's what, huh?

Who I am, I mean.

- Yes, who are you?

- Well like I said, Star Mission 1996.

On a mother ship, and the other Swifts

landed on that planet, we called it Planet D.

And they died, all of them.

They just died.

I've been orbiting ever since,

waiting for another earth mission to turn up.

- Were you a member of the original crew?

- I'm only the talking seeing head, the brain.

The rest of me is that old computer on the Swift.

My antenna allows me to move about

while still keeping contact with my body, so to speak.

Ow!

Don't step on my antenna.

It gives me the heebie jeebies.

Not to mention a headache.

- Sorry.

- What do we call you?

- Well like I said, I haven't got a name.

There's only one of me, so I don't need a name, do I?

- Brain.

- What, that's not my name, that's what I am.

The first word I ever said was brain,

only I got it wrong.

I said Brian.

Well that's a name, if you wanna give me a name,

call me Brian.

- Alright Brian.

We wouldn't wanna get you wrong.

- Okay lady.

- Shall I lead the way?

- After you.

- Fine.

Wee, that's nice.

- We've had an odd change of course on Alpha.

Has your computer.

- My what?

- Have you recorded it?

- Oh no I haven't, no.

Change of course?

What do you mean, change of course?

What's pulling you?

- That's what we wanna know.

- You mean a gravity pull, like from Planet D?

Well a collision course for Planet D won't be so funny.

Gee, I'll check on that.

- He can help us.

- Hello everybody, how are you?

I'm fine, I'm okey doke, I really am.

You know, it's really nice to see you.

I thought I was gonna have to wait for a century or so.

Oh, how do you do, yeah, I'm sorry I can't shake hands,

I haven't got a hand, but you can pat me if you like.

Well go on, go on.

Ooh, peek a boo!

Peek a boo!

Oh will you take a look at that trolley!

Yellow plastic wheels, oh!

No I'm just kidding really, I mean that trolley don't mean

anything to me, we're just good friends.

I mean yellow wheels, blech!

Oh hey, hey look your computer is the same as mine.

Mock 10 Holographic Programming, yeah!

You know, him and me we are compatible.

Koenig thanks for having me on board.

Listen I'll get back, and I'll check

that change of course.

- What about that lunch you wanted?

- Well I haven't got a digestive system.

A couple of kilowatts does me.

Doctor, would you like a personally conducted tour

of inspection of my humble abode?

- Thank you, I'd like that very much.

- Well I ask you because being the doctor,

maybe you can throw some light on the death of my crew.

Not to say, my captain.

- I'll be glad to try to help.

- Fine, on we go.

- Mind if I come along?

- Mind, no why should I mind, I'd be delighted, really.

Oh, so long everybody.

This way, huh.

Oh these doors are so narrow.

- Well what do you make of that?

- I'm not sure.

- Well what is it?

- It's a self programming computer.

Self-monitoring too.

- Is it alive?

- That's a difficult question.

It doesn't breathe, it doesn't reproduce,

it depends what you mean by alive.

- I don't know what I mean.

But that sure made my day.

- Tony.

- Uh huh.

- I've got a bad feeling about that machine.

- A bad feeling?

- Mm.

- Aw, come on Maya.

Well give it a chance, it's doing a check for us.

We don't know where we're heading yet.

You know what your problem is.

Your brain works like a computer, so you're jealous

of that other computer.

- I have a bad feeling.

What are they doing on Swift?

Open a channel.

- Okay.

- Red alert.

- No response.

- We've been cut off.

Where are they?

- Ooh!

Where are you taking us?

- I'm sorry, I'm sorry so we took off.

Now don't panic or we'll all be in trouble.

Let me be until I get this ship under control.

- Let you be?

- John, it's just a machine.

- What do you think you're doing?

- Shut up.

Wowee, oh.

I'll just pull through for a minute.

- You alright?

- Yeah.

- Am I all right?

I've gotta be.

- I wasn't talking to you.

Where are you going?

- I'm going to my pilot console.

Come on in.

Uh oh.

Just let me trim this course.

- Trim it back to Moonbase Alpha.

- No way.

This is where we're going.

- Planet D?

- You got it lady.

Uh uh commander, it's channeled through me.

- Program the spaceship to return to Alpha.

- If you fire that and kill me, the airlocks will open

and you and the lady will be swept into space.

And if you make a move for the spacesuits,

I'll let the air out.

So sit down, both of you.

Sit down, or I'll spit you out.

I don't need air, do I?

- Let me communicate with Alpha.

- Why not, put your gun down on the shelf.

- Why are you taking us to Planet D?

- Put your gun down and I'll tell you.

I'm not gonna harm you.

- I don't trust you.

- Hard luck, put your gun on the shelf.

You know Koenig, I can't eject one without the other

and if you're going to space, she goes.

One, two.

Shall I open the airlock and out you go?

Put your gun on the shelf Koenig,

near the airlock panel.

That's it, behind you.

- Let us through to Alpha.

- I'll give you service with a smile, lady.

But I can't smile as you can imagine.

Although I do have a very pretty face.

There's the service on the screen.

- There's no picture, whichever button I press.

- Try a straight line to the Medical Center.

- Nothing but a mathematical sine wave.

Try the memory bank.

What date is it?

- The same.

What diameter is this moon?

- The same?

- Yep.

- The computer has either had its memory wiped,

or the links to it have been paralyzed.

Well either way, Moonbase Alpha is blind.

- The brain had the same computer as ours.

When it got in here, it somehow gave the command, eradicate.

- Is that true?

You blinded them so they can't communicate?

- I guess so.

- Can't even tell where the horizon is.

Are we on a collision course, or are we going

into orbit around some gravity center?

- I've been sitting on Eagle One waiting

to hear from you, what's going on?

- Our communications have been wiped out.

- All of them?

- Yep.

- Well.

- What about the computer in Eagle One?

- It's functioning, but we can't get an answer from you.

- Hey wait a minute.

Could you fly without guidance from base computer?

- I suppose so.

- The commander and doctor Russell

have been abducted on that Swift, and we've

gotta get them back.

- I'll go after them.

- And we'll go after the with a whole

squadron of Eagles, come on Maya.

- That's a good crew, Koenig.

You know what these boys of yours are showing?

They're showing loyalty.

Yeah, wow, I like that.

I'm gonna make a note of that.

Hang on folks, I'm gonna slow down.

Watch close folks, while I blind those Eagles.

- No!

- Why not lady?

If I don't they'll damage me.

And if they damage me, they damage you and Koenig.

- Eagle One to Eagle Squadron.

Swift seems to want us to catch up.

- It could be a trap.

- Circle target.

- Let me talk to them.

- Anything you want, Koenig.

Go ahead.

Tony.

John!

Return to Alpha.

- But they're prisoners.

- That's so, but if you don't go back,

your computer will be blinded like Moonbase Alpha.

And you won't be able to get back.

- We can't just leave you.

You must.

Tell them you're okay.

I got food and drink.

What do you want, music?

I got music.

- We're being looked after, we're safe.

Acknowledge command.

Acknowledge, Tony.

- Command received.

- Did you check whether the moon and Planet D

are on a collision course?

- Sure.

The moon and Planet D are not on a collision course.

- What course are they on?

- They're going in circles around each other.

They'll go along spinning around each other

until the end of time.

- What is this brain, some crazy, hijacking slot machine?

- I'm no slot machine, you plastic pea brain, you!

- Eagle One, return to Alpha.

I want all personnel back on Moonbase.

Yes sir.

- You know what you've shown Koenig?

Is leadership.

I'm very impressed.

I'm making a note.

- All communications cut, they can't see or hear us now.

- I can guide you.

- Okay send all the other Eagles back.

We'll go on.

We've got our own foolproof computer, Maya.

- Where's the Swift heading for?

- Planet D.

- I wanna be on Planet D waiting when that thing gets there.

- What's Planet D like?

- It's like the moon.

- Does it have air?

- Yeah, but there's a kind of mist that could be poison.

Aw, come on folks.

Be happy.

I brought you together here.

I'm offering you all the time in the world.

Don't you love each other?

- No.

- Of course not.

- Do you mind if I test that?

I've got to know.

Now we've got two airlocks in the passenger module.

I want one of you in each.

- Well what if we don't?

- Well how about this?

Oh, John!

- Shut your eyes.

- Won't do no good, your eyes are gonna shrivel up.

Please turn it off!

Get in the airlock.

Alright, just turn it off, turn off the light.

- Now, into the airlock.

Come on, come on, come on.

All right.

That ultraviolet never fails.

Thank you, come along.

- In there?

- Right.

That's fine, Koenig, that's fine.

Now don't worry.

Now you lady.

Into the next one.

Okay, good girl.

You're gonna be alright.

There's just something I've gotta know about you two.

I've really got to know.

Koenig, do you love this lady?

- No I don't.

- Doctor Helena Russell, do you love this man?

- No I don't.

- Yeah.

What I'm gonna do, I'm gonna let the air out slowly.

You see a button in your airlock, the black one?

Do you see the black one?

Now at any time folks, while the air is getting thinner,

you can press your button and that will channel

your remaining air to the other airlock.

You get it?

Koenig if you press your button, all the rest of your air

goes to the lady.

And doctor Russell if you hit your black button

you'll give all your remaining air to Koenig.

And he can live.

- I forgot to tell you, you can't communicate

with each other, no way folks.

Ready, here goes!

You're running out of time folks.

Golly!

Simultaneous!

You can have all your air back.

You love each other, waah, oh yeah!

You know keeping one of you hostage

gives me an 18 carat gold crunch on the other.

Come on, come on lady, move faster.

- I'm moving as fast as I can.

- I don't believe you lady, you're going slow.

- Why are you making me go out to Planet D,

why don't you go out yourself?

- Because it's too bumpy out there.

I'm on wheels, I told you.

- What are you after?

- I'll tell you Koenig.

I've landed within 150 yards of my old mother ship.

I want you to get aboard the mother ship,

unload the fuel store, bring it back to me,

and install it in my storage tanks.

- Fuel?

You have enough nuclear fuel here.

Enough?

- Yeah for a thousand years.

- What's a thousand years to me?

There's enough fuel on that mother ship

to last me a billion years.

You know Koenig, I'm gonna live forever.

It's okay, I'll keep the lady safe for you.

I know how you feel.

So no monkey tricks, or you know what you'll find

when you come back.

- Oh, John!

- Alright, turn it off, now turn off that light.

- Well now, that's better.

Come on Koenig, watch it!

Keep contact, what are you doing, where are you?

Report back.

What are you doing?

I can't see him.

- Well visual communication is not too good

on Planet D.

But call him.

- John?

- Yes, okay.

- He said okay!

Oh, not to worry lady.

So who's worried?

- How did you come to be made?

- My master Captain Michael made me, I told you.

He taught me to speak, and he grew fond of me.

- What was he like?

That's him, my father.

Koenig to Swift.

I'm now in the vicinity of the mother ship.

- Koenig, what do you see?

What state is the mother ship in?

Communication indistinct.

Can't see you, can hardly hear you.

Going around to the blind side of the ship now, out.

- John, John!

- We'll have to wait until the mission is completed.

He's out of contact now.

- John!

- Tony, Maya!

Am I glad to see you.

- Well we landed ahead of you, so we came aboard.

- Did you see what's out there?

- Mm.

- Yeah.

- Presumably the crew.

I tested the atmosphere, toxic, deadly.

They went out without their suits.

They must've been crazy!

Captain Michael, commander of this Star Mission.

- Permission to test the console, commander.

- Permission granted.

Make it fast, we've gotta get back to Helena.

- A sine wave.

Same response as our Moonbase.

That means the mother ship is blind.

- That brain is mad.

- Blinding the computer on its own mother ship.

- That's why the crew didn't know about the poison.

They wandered out there and died.

- That's why Captain Michael was left alone

with no means of life support.

- John, why did the brain kidnap you?

- To transfer the fuel from this ship, back to the Swift.

- The fuel?

- It wants to live forever, Maya.

We better find that fuel.

- Listen, how do we get at the brain?

We can't just rush it, it's still got Helena.

- Not only that, it's got the only working computer

in this part of the universe.

- Okay, so how do we get at it?

- By breaking its mind.

- Breaking its mind?

- Confusing it to the extent it doesn't know

what it's doing.

It killed the man who made it.

We'll work on that.

- I had a good look at Captain Michael.

- I know you did, Maya.

Hello, what's this?

Wait a minute.

I think Captain Michael was working on something here.

Well does that matter now?

- Yes it does, Tony.

I think I know what this was gonna be?

What are you on to, John?

- How do we get you aboard?

- I can fit into your pocket.

Good girl.

Easy, Maya.

- You got her?

- Let's find that fuel, Tony.

- That Koenig is taking his time.

- He's gotta find the fuel store, unlock the core,

and find a way to get it back here.

- Lady, you don't know what this means to me.

Is Koenig reliable?

- He's reliable.

- There he is!

John!

Have you got it all?

- Koenig to Swift.

I'm approaching with the fuel core.

- Have you got it all?

Koenig, answer!

- Are you ready to receive me?

- Yes, of course I am, come on Koenig!

- Koenig, come on, come on Koenig, come on!

Come on, come on, come on!

- He has to decompress probably.

- He's fine.

- Come on Koenig.

There, come on.

Oh you got it.

That's beautiful.

- How are you, how is it, are you alright?

- I'm fine.

- Will you cut it out you two?

Koenig, get to the fuel, come on.

- You mind if I take off this spacesuit?

- No you can do it later, now come on,

come on, get on with it.

Doctor Russell, open the hatch there, number four.

- Brian?

Incidentally I saw your crew scattered all over

the planet surface lying dead.

- So they're dead?

- And Captain Michael sitting at his command desk.

Also dead.

- My father?

Oh, come one get on with that fuel.

In there.

Doctor Russell, will you open the hatch.

- Brian, which end goes in first, which end is up?

- What?

What does it say?

- It doesn't say anything.

- Well any way, those fuel cores are symmetrical

now quit fooling Koenig.

- You're the boss, Brian.

- That's right, gently, carefully.

Yee haw, yippie!

Oh boy, oh boy, do I feel good.

Oh boy that fuel, oh yeah.

Yee haw!

Woo, ayee ayee ayee ayee, I like you very much.

I'm so happy I could cry, but I wasn't programmed

for crying, it's the happiest day of my life.

I'm free!

I'm free to roam this universe, free to live forever!

Stand by for takeoff!

- Take it easy, counter approach too close

or the brain might blind it.

- What's that?

What is that?

- A mouse.

- Get rid of it, it's blocking my antenna.

Where did it come from?

- Planet D.

- There are no mice on Planet D.

- There are now.

It's got a message for you.

- What message?

- A message from Captain Michael.

- What?

But he's dead.

What message?

What message?

- Revenge.

- You don't have a message from Captain Michael,

listen mortals, what do you think you can do against me?

I'm in complete control of this spaceship,

and everything aboard it.

You're a fool to come upon me,

because I'm gonna blow you into space!

- Why did you kill your master?

- I did not kill my master!

- He were sitting in his command desk, dead.

You killed him.

- I did not kill him, I don't know how he died!

- He died because you blinded his computer.

His crew was misled, and he was left with

no means of life support.

- You killed the man who created you.

Your own father, why?

- Now listen, both of you.

- I know why you killed him.

He was working on an improved version of you.

- Oh, he was not, he was not!

- Yes he was, I saw it.

He was working on an advanced version of you.

You were gonna be scrapped, weren't you?

- You blinded the mother ship so that a new brain

could not be made.

- Oh my god, he was not working on a better brain,

there can't be a better brain.

If any improvements are made, I will make myself!

- You're agitated.

- I'm gonna sweep you out to space!

- No, no, you can't solve your problems

by killing us the way you killed Captain Michael.

- I did not kill Captain Michael!

- You did!

- I did not!

- Yes you did!

I did not!

He told me.

Who told you?

- Captain Michael!

- Brain!

- Aaaaah!

- Brain, I want to talk to you.

- Aaaah!

- Why did you do it?

- It was a mistake!

- Who am I?

- You're Captain Michael, my father!

- He conceived you, he made you, he's wiser than you

and greater than you!

And you killed him!

- I didn't, I didn't, it was an accident.

- Let's contact Arty.

I'll stop this with the docking procedure.

Koenig to Eagle One.

Eagle One to Commander Koenig.

We are receiving you.

Let me talk to Tony.

- Right here, John.

Come alongside and pick us up.

Preparing to dock.

Our problem now, is to get the memory core

from the brain, and take it back to Alpha.

- The brain still has its antenna.

- We'll destroy it, cut it.

If you destroy my antenna,

my memory core will be wiped clean.

Moonbase will be blind forever.

- Is that the truth, or another lie?

- If you don't get me back in, I'll wipe it clean anyway.

- I'll take that chance.

Cut the antenna.

Don't cut my antenna, please!

Don't cut my antenna!

- Alright, Brian.

We'll let you live if you give us

your memory core undamaged.

- Yes, take my memory, take everything.

What is it with life and friends.

I'm so lonely.

Take it all, take it all.

- He's crying.

- Programming of memory core complete, commander.

- Alright, let's see if it works.

- It's operational.

- We still don't know where we're going.

- Direction check.

- Horizon data direction, check.

Operational.

- We're not spinning around Planet D.

We're on the same course we always were.

- Another lie from Brian the Brain.

- What do you intend to do about the brain, commander?

- I don't know, Maya.

- Let's take a look at it.

- You've made it blind, and taken away its memory.

- Listen, when it was operational, it killed

a lot of people.

- Well it felt guilty about its master.

- It cried.

It had a conscience.

- We could always reinstall its memory core.

Though that could be dangerous.

- No, not if we program our own morality into it.

Give it the Ten Commandments.

- Yeah, you could order it to self-destruct

if it ever harbors any evil thoughts again.

- Return the memory core to Swift.

- Yes, commander.

- Hey Maya.

Now that our computer has the brain's memory,

you better not transform yourself

into a yellow wheeled trolley, or this console

will get up and chase you.

- Are we going to have any off duty time

that coincides?

- I think all our off duty time has been

used up for the next month, sir.

- Terrific.

I was looking forward to discussing that love test.

- What test was that, commander?

- Oh, just a little something that our friend Brian devised.

- It's a test that we, we failed.

- I thought we passed it!