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Moonbase Alpha status report, 1807 days

after leaving Earth orbit.

Dr. Helena Russel recording.

A derelict space ship has appeared in our third quadrant,

Commander John Koenig and security officer, Tony Verdeschi

are en route to investigate.

The question is, could its sudden appearance

be connected with the fact that our science officer, Maya

has developed a high fever of unknown origin

which has so far resisted all medication.

- Mentor, don't do it mentor.

You must leave Psychon.

Don't do it, Mentor.

We have to leave the planet.

- Take it easy, Maya.

- Mentor.

Mentor.

- Maya.

Maya.

- I've been having terrible visions,

flames all around me, volcanoes erupting.

- You have a very high fever,

as soon as we can bring it down

you'll be alright.

Is there anything you want?

- I'm afraid.

I'm afraid, Helena.

Where's Tony?

I want Tony.

- He'll be here soon, okay.

Alan, contact Eagle One, ask them to return

as soon as possible, I'm worried about Maya.

- Will do.

Sahn, will you get Eagle One on the big screen

and open up a channel?

- Moonbase Alpha calling Commander Koenig,

this is Moonbase Alpha calling Commander Koenig.

Come in, please.

Commander Koenig, come in please.

- Go ahead, Alpha.

- John, we'd like an eta on your return, Helena's worried.

We'll return after we board the derelict ship.

- All personnel assume emergency positions.

Personnel assume emergency positions

- What the hell's going on?

- Alan, come in, Alan.

Give me a shot of Alpha on the big screen.

- What's happened to Alpha?

- It's disappeared.

- Mentor.

It's happening again.

- We're not on Psychon, Maya.

Hold on, Maya.

- What hit us?

- We'll find out, as soon as we have time.

- Alright everybody, back to your stations.

Maintenance.

- How long before you can restore full power.

I'll give you a time as soon

as we locate the source of the trouble, Mr. Carter.

- Can you get Eagle One on the big screen?

- Alan, I cannot locate them.

What did this to us?

- I'm not sure yet, keep trying.

- Nothing.

- What's our position?

- That was our position.

This is our position now,

we have moved five light years in a matter of minutes.

- We've gone through a space warp.

There's no chance of the commander ever

making it back to Alpha.

- Unless he can find a window in the space warp.

- The chances of that are pretty remote.

What's our present velocity?

- Back to normal.

- Get ready to launch a refueling Eagle.

- Yes, sir.

- Yeah, I know it's a long shot

but if they can find that space warp

then they're gonna need refueling

to get back to Alpha.

Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha,

come in Alpha.

It's no good, John, I just can't get a fix on them.

- There's only one answer, Tony,

they must have gone through a space warp.

- They could be billions of miles away,

we have fuel for less than a million.

- Might not make any difference even if we had

all the fuel we needed.

- Yeah, we wouldn't even know which direction to go in.

- I'll help you.

I'll help you.

- Maya come on, come on just lie back, come on

here we go, here we go, easy.

Alright now, alright just take it easy.

You've been delirious, Maya.

- Yes, I know.

The nightmares, they're getting worse,

they're taking over.

- Ben, prepare a sedative.

- No, that won't do it.

Helena, I'm beginning to lose molecular control,

I don't know what will happen,

you've got to put me in restraints.

- Maya I can't do that.

- You've got to.

I can be dangerous.

Put me in restraints.

- Ben, prepare a sedative.

Okay, put her in restraints then.

- Command center.

- Alan, I must speak to Eagle One.

- You have to tell her, Alan.

- Tell me what?

- That shaking, we went through a space warp.

Eagle One is on the other side of it.

We are five light years from our last position.

- Okay, this is just about where Alpha disappeared.

We've matched Alpha's velocity.

And now all we have to do is find that hole in space.

- You're the doctor, Helena, so forgive me for prescribing

but you need some rest.

- If there're any developments, Helena.

- What are his chances?

- Well you know John, he won't give up.

- What are the chances of his finding

that same door in space?

- It depends.

- On what?

- On luck.

- Luck, in space?

I guess his chances are a billion to one.

- Helena if I can.

- Maya?

Maya?

Maya, please revert.

No.

Maya, please.

- I got a rest period now, do you want a coffee?

Hey.

- Emergency in corridor level A,

emergency in corridor level A.

- There's some kind of monster loose on Alpha.

We've just been attacked.

- Emergency in weapons section.

- I heard.

All security personnel, there's a dangerous creature

loose on Alpha, take no chances,

put your laser guns on kill.

Take no chances, kill on sight.

All non-essential personnel to remain in their quarters,

this creature is dangerous,

I repeat this creature is dangerous.

Security, kill on sight.

- Occupant of elevator, please identify yourself.

Occupant of elevator, please identify.

- Security.

- Elevator seven, levels C and D.

- Yes, sir.

- Helena, what happened?

You alright?

- Maya, Maya turned into some kind of a space creature.

Look I'm alright but there's no telling what she might do.

- She's already been doing it.

Alan's orders are to kill on sight.

- Alan, you've gotta cancel that kill order.

- Hey now wait a minute, that creature is...

- That creature is Maya, she can't control

what she's doing.

- Top priority, all personnel

don't shoot to kill, change to stun.

- Should we try number 11?

- No, let's try to raise Alpha on the screen.

I guess there are gonna be no miracles today.

How about that derelict?

It's power pods could be the same as ours

and we might be able to use its fuel store

if it's got any left.

- Yeah, you never know, we could get lucky.

- What have we got to lose?

- It's making its way back towards the upper levels

but we're staying clear as you ordered.

- Don't lose contact, but stay out of reach.

Tranquilizer darts are almost ready.

- Okay.

But how much do we use?

Too little, no effect, too much, death.

- Let's hope this is the correct dosage.

- Well the stun guns have had little effect on it.

- This has more of a kick.

- Mr. Carter, it seems to be making its way

towards the travel tube.

- The travel tube?

When Maya was delirious she was hallucinating

about Psychon, that her father was still alive

and that she had to save him.

- Well you think it's making for the Eagle?

- Yeah, and if she gets onto one

and starts off she'll be making a one way trip

to a planet that's no longer there.

- No, Maya, please listen to me.

Maya, listen please let us try to help you.

- She's making for launch pad four, come on.

Cut off the path to the main travel tube.

Alright, Helena, we've got her trapped underground.

We've hit her with stun guns, tranquilizer darts,

and she's still on her feet.

Oh boy, what do we do now?

- We go in after it.

Alan.

- If she makes it to an Eagle and takes off

there's no way we can help her.

- Come on, we'll try the old travel tube.

- Launching area.

- This is top priority alert,

block travel tube tunnel one, permit no entrance.

- Launch area, launch area What's going on there?

Launch area pick up the phone and give me a report.

Launch area personnel can you hear me?

Will you get over here and give me a report.

Launching area, launch area what is going on in there?

Launching area, what's happening?

- Mr. Carter, we've been attacked by...

- Yeah okay, I figured that.

Where has it gone now?

- In Eagle Four.

It's too late, the boarding tube's already retracted.

- We can't let it lift off.

- I'll bring her down.

- Alright, let's see what's going on inside.

The anesthetic is beginning to have effect.

- I'll bring it in.

- Right.

Can't we stop it?

- No, we have no control over it now.

Get the rescue unit on the double.

- Get her out of there.

- Move it, go.

- She's dying.

- Well can't you save her?

- I've never seen this species before,

it's anatomy and vital functions are unknown to me.

- Well you've got to do something.

- Maya, change back please, change back.

- That anesthetic dart really worked.

Its metabolism can't cope with it.

The pressure's in here somewhere.

We have nothing to compare,

we've never seen anything like this before.

We have insufficient knowledge of this species

to know what that's all about,

we can't treat its injuries.

- Just stand here and let Maya die?

- Look, the creature's blood.

If we treat it, it could upset the corpuscle balance.

We don't know what the hell we're dealing with.

- Helena?

How long ago did Maya transform into this?

- About 45 minutes ago.

- Okay now look you're afraid to operate

because you're unfamiliar with its anatomy right?

Well Maya can't hold this form

for longer than one hour,

we've only got to wait another 15 minutes.

- She doesn't have 15 minutes.

Ben, will you assist me, please.

- If you operate, you could kill her.

- At least she'll have a chance.

We'll make our incision right here,

if we can stop that blockage...

- What if it's not a blockage?

What if it's natural tissues performing

a natural function?

- Let's find that out.

Alright, here we go.

- Dr. Russell, heart fibrillating, pulse erratic.

- You can't operate, she won't make it.

- Maya, you've got to change now.

You've got to change right now.

Alan, I think she hears me.

Maya no, no!

Maya, no!

Stop it!

Don't kill him!

- Make sure your gun's set on stun.

- That looks like a docking port.

- See, we are getting lucky.

- Cut power.

- Power cut, okay we're locked on.

- Right, let's take a look.

Tony, check the power room, see if the fuel supply

is adaptable to our Eagles.

- Yeah, okay.

- Obviously a data bank.

- John that power room is amazingly sophisticated,

it's way beyond our capabilities.

- Maybe the answer lies here.

Look at that one, it's a different color.

- Yeah.

- This is Captain Duro.

Commander of the Betanon scout cruiser, Menon.

We want to have parsecs distant from the mother ship

and Menon, when it disappeared into a space warp.

That happened star time 12,

it is now star time 32

and through all that long period

I and my crew have been desperately

trying to find that same entry into the space warp.

We thought that we had pinpointed

the exact location of entry of the mother ship

into the space warp, it was after a number

of unsuccessful attempts to enter a space warp

that we realized our coordinates were wrong

and it wasn't our fault.

On our space warp locator our ship suffered much

damage, I sent my engineers to work.

We were very close to attaining the correct coordinates

when there was a malfunction in a power pod

which caused an explosion, killing all my crew.

I myself suffered a fatal wound.

In the last few moments of my life,

I am making this record so that if any other

intelligent life arrives in this area

they will have an explanation of these tragic events.

The data relating to the space warp locator

is recorded on cartridge 26.

In the burial tradition of my species

I have ejected my crew members out into space.

And at the conclusion of this report

I will join them.

- Well, if it's any consolation to him,

we know how he felt.

- We owe him...

We owe him for pointing the way.

26.

- This stage of the operation is critical.

The data shown must be fed into our on board computer

and linked to yours, the correct coordinates

will be obtained by connecting

the space warp locator to your computer's

navigational programmer and the Menon's computer activated.

The rest of the procedure is relatively simple.

- Simple.

Wish we had Maya here.

- Well we don't.

- John it's a hell of a long shot.

- Yeah.

But it's a shot.

Let's find that locator.

Travel tube clear.

- Check.

- Life support.

- Anything?

- There's none in this area, Mr. Carter.

- Check.

Attention all security personnel,

all the corridors are clear, the travel tubes are clear,

the life support area is clear.

Levels C and D are clear.

Now check levels A and B.

Gotta be somewhere on this base.

- If Maya's still in control, if her brain

is still feverish she'll be trying to get to Psychon.

- The launch pads are sealed off.

She cannot get to an Eagle.

- Well it might take a little time,

but we'll find her.

- John.

- Tony, I found it.

- You know this is it?

- Let's transfer it to Eagle One, see if it works.

- John even if we do break through

that space warp and come out the other side,

we're never gonna catch up with Alpha,

we don't have enough fuel.

- Tony it's my hunch that everyone on Alpha

is working on that contingency.

Come on.

- Sam, would you patch me another refueling Eagle.

- Moonbase Alpha to Eagle Three,

Moonbase Alpha to Eagle Three.

Eagle Three to Moonbase Alpha, go ahead.

Gary what's your eta?

- Eta to rendezvous point, seven minutes twelve seconds.

- Rendezvous point, we hope.

- When you reach the rendezvous point

I want you to cruise the area.

- For how long?

- Well until I give you further notice.

- Mr. Carter, we've cornered the animal

in air lock seven, it seems hell bent

on getting out of Alpha.

- Right, we're on our way.

Still trying to get to Psychon.

- If she smashes that air lock.

- Uh huh, explosive decompression

will wipe out everybody on this section of Alpha.

You guys set on stun?

Fire.

- Computer, open the inner door to air lock seven.

- What are you doing, if that breaks through

the outer elec door onto the surface,

she'll die instantly.

- Computer close the inner door to air lock seven.

Ben, I need an anesthetic gas cylinder

at air lock seven immediately.

Right, I'm on my way.

- In that confined space the anesthetic should

have an immediate effect.

- It better.

- That's nothing.

No effect at all.

Maya.

- It must have an air store like a camel stores water.

- Yeah.

How long will it last though?

- What matters is that Maya can only

hold that form for an hour.

- Do you want us to follow you, sir?

- No, not just yet.

Get yourself suited up and wait for a command

around in air lock C.

- Yes, sir.

Command center.

- Have you got visual?

- It's approaching area Copernicus

of the Copernicus depression.

Its pace has slowed.

- Right.

- Slowed, huh, must be running out of air.

Depressurize.

- Okay, John I should no be hooked up to your

on board computer.

- We have link up, I'm going to activate.

- Okay, got all the coordinates.

Now all we have to do is understand them.

- Alright, I'm coming aboard.

Creature is now on a bearing of

2670 and still slowing.

- Roger, Alpha.

- There she is.

- Moon buggy to Alpha, we have visual.

- Alan look out.

- Helena, hang on.

Get out of the way.

No, Maya, no.

- Helena, I'm losing oxygen.

- Command center, I need an emergency Eagle immediately.

- Beautiful.

- You'll be alright, Alan.

The creature's running out of air,

if it transforms into Maya she'll die instantly.

- One.

Two.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

Four.

One down to blue.

- One down to blue.

- Yeah.

- Conversation factor.

- Port thruster 22.2 second burn,

inertia factor green plus two.

- Green plus two.

- And that's it.

- Well here are the coordinates.

Let's hope they're the right ones.

- Well, if Alpha can do it, so can we.

- At least she's still breathing.

- Barely.

Maya, can you hear me.

Change now, Maya.

- You're not making contact.

- She's been this form for nearly an hour,

she can't hold it much longer.

- She hasn't come back as Maya the last couple of times

what happens if she transforms into something even worse?

- Any developments?

- None.

Refueling Eagle maintaining position.

- And they have nothing to report, either?

- Just that they're almost at the point of no return.

Are you all right?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

Hey, well that's something,

at least we've got full power again.

- Alan look, I'm getting peculiar readings

from the area of the refueling Eagle.

- There's nothing on the screen.

- There is something, Alan.

Sensors are picking up an enormous disturbance.

Sensors readings increasing in magnitude.

- Hey, do you see what I see?

- Do I.

Medical.

- Helena, I have a little surprise for you.

Take a look at your screen.

- Break link with derelict.

- Pulse normal.

- Helena.

The restraints.

- You don't need them.

- But I'm dangerous.

- Not anymore.

- All life signs stable, fever's gone.

- How do you feel?

- Like I've been riding the tail of a comet

for days on end.

- We all do.

Refueling complete, commander.

- Right, thank you.

I want you to tow the derelict back to Alpha.

Yes, sir.

- We're bringing the derelict in.

- How come you got the derelict in tow.

- It's a long story, Alan.

- What is it, something special about it?

- Would you believe a friendly alien?

- We'll believe anything you say,

just get back to Alpha.

- Right, oh and have Maya stand by

so she can apply her beautiful scientific mind

to reveal the mysteries of this magnificent marvel.

- As soon as she's awake.

You mean she's asleep?

- Well how about that?

We've been beating our brains out trying

to jump back through a space warp

and they've been doing nothing back on Alpha

except catching up on their sleep.

- Well you can't blame them Tony,

if nothing's going on on Alpha

the least they could do is a get a little relaxation.

- Right, Helena?

- Right, John, absolutely nothing has been

going on down here on Alpha,

we have been all perfectly relaxed.