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Moonbase Alpha status report.

2012 days after leaving Earth orbit.

Dr. Helena Russell recording.

It is now three weeks since we sighted

the space phenomenon we call Taura.

Within the next 24 hours,

we shall know whether it is a habitable planet,

but false hopes have been raised before,

and since Commander Koenig doesn't want

to raise false hopes again,

he has ordered the few people

who are aware of the situation to keep it secret.

Command Center have been put off limits to all

but a few chosen personnel.

- The picture's gone, I don't understand it.

We've got a right to know what's happening.

- Well something is, that's for sure.

The Command Center's off limits,

the screens are all blank.

- We're approaching a planet.

A habitable planet, I'm sure of it.

- You've predicted it before.

- Yeah well, these things take time to work out.

But why is Koenig keeping it from us?

- I can guess.

Why should we guess?

Let's find out.

- He's just the craziest guy.

And he came up to the redhead, you know the one.

You know, the technical, what's her name?

- I don't know who you mean.

- Sure you do, you know, the crazy redhead.

What, you got something?

- Taura, it's shifting position.

Maya, why is there a show of change of position?

Can that be correct?

- My sensors record a source of internal energy

which has caused a definite change of position.

Keep tracking it.

- You know Commander Koenig's orders.

Command Center's off limits.

- Well, if those are the Commander's orders.

Time they were changed.

Don't tell me, I'm not supposed to be here, right?

Well I am here.

And I'm gonna find out what you've got on that screen.

- You're off limits, Sanderson.

- Eva, open the big screen.

Shut the doors.

Just like I said, a planet.

- But is it habitable?

- We'll need another astral prediction for that.

Let's get prepared.

Eva, turn off the computers.

Concentrate.

Concentrate.

Total concentration.

Total concentration.

Total concentration.

Total concentration.

- It can't be.

- It is.

We've got to get back immediately.

Eagle Four to Moonbase Alpha.

Koenig to Command Center.

Respond.

- With trees...

- Command Center, do you read me?

Calibration shows Taura and Moonbase Alpha

on a direct collision course.

Go to red alert.

Repeat, go to red alert. - A habitable planet.

And grass.

It's a habitable planet!

A habitable planet!

The prediction was right, it's a habitable planet!

- Come on.

What happened?

It's Sanderson, he's in there.

- Sanderson!

My prediction was right.

- Sanderson! - My prediction was right.

- Stand back.

- My prediction was right.

A habitable planet.

With trees and grass.

The astral prediction was right.

It's a habitable planet.

It's a...

- Get a medical team up here right away.

How is she, okay?

- She'll be fine.

- Helena.

What is it?

- Auto hypnosis.

- As far as I'm concerned, it's criminal.

- It's Green Sickness, John.

You know the symptoms.

- Is mutiny one of the symptoms?

- Well, it could be but I have to take responsibility.

- Responsibility for what, mutiny?

- We all know that surface exploration units

like Sanderson's have it rougher than the rest of us.

Living out there alone,

having nothing to look at but bare rock

for a month at a time.

They're paying the price.

I should've seen it coming.

- None of the other teams ever reacted this way.

- Sanderson's team has always done more

and stayed out longer.

And the other teams are beginning to show signs.

I'm gonna have to limit surface exploration

to 15 days maximum at a time.

- All right.

Confine Sanderson and his team to Medical Center.

Under guard.

What have we got?

- Internal energy.

Electrical storms.

Rain, sleet.

And atmosphere.

- That's a vast weather belt, in fact.

- Could we travel straight through it?

- Well if the atmosphere doesn't

clog up our recycling systems,

there may be a solid center.

- Which could mean a planet.

Sanderson's habitable planet.

- Well let's hope Maya's instruments are wrong.

Because if Taura's got a hard core

and we're on a collision course with it,

then God help us.

Alan, have a reconnaissance Eagle prepared.

- Right.

- Maya, come with me.

My preliminary diagnosis is that

you're suffering from a condition

that we've termed Green Sickness.

- That's a convenient fiction, Doctor.

It's a neat way to cover Koenig's lies.

- Now listen to me carefully, Greg.

You are one of the first people

assigned to Alpha and the psychological pressures

have had longer to build up in you

than in everyone else.

- I don't buy that, Doctor.

- You want to marry, you want children,

you feel that your life is slipping away.

- And the others?

- They follow your leadership.

It's no secret that you're the best

exploration team leader that we have.

You've pulled Cernik, Stevens, and Eva

out of trouble, oh, 100 times.

They've come to rely on you.

You're failing them now, Greg.

You're behaving irrationally.

I'm going to see Koenig.

- You can't, you're confined here until further notice.

- Who's confining me?

- Security.

Sanderson's on his way to Command Center.

We couldn't stop him.

- Hold it, Sanderson.

- All right, where's Koenig?

- Stand where you are.

- Where is he? - Right here.

You were confined to Medical Center.

Sure, and that way, no one hears

what I've gotta say about the new planet.

- There is no new planet.

So far, it's just a weather belt.

Until we explore it and maybe, maybe find something else.

- And when you find the planet?

If we find the planet,

I'll determine whether or not it's habitable.

- There is a habitable planet.

But you come back denying it.

- Sanderson, why would I do that?

- Because you can't stand the thought of us

having a normal life again.

Because in a normal lifestyle,

we'd make our own decisions,

have children, vote.

And there'd be no place for Commander Koenig's dictatorship.

That's why you won't tell us the truth.

- If there's a planet out there,

everyone on Alpha will be told.

- Some people here may buy that, but I don't.

Because once you're up there,

how can we be sure what the computer's really telling you?

- All right.

All right.

Every piece of data from Taura

will be processed here on Moonbase through main computer.

Now that way, everyone on Alpha

will see what's happening,

as it happens step by step on this screen.

Now how does that suit you?

- I don't buy it.

Put that Eagle on the pad.

Ready for liftoff.

- Right.

Lone Guard, prepare Eagle One for liftoff.

Right, Mr. Carter.

- Stand up.

- So you're beating up the guards now, huh?

What the hell is the matter with you, Sanderson?

- He's sick, Tony.

- Sick?

No.

I just see clearer than the rest of you.

- Oh yeah?

Well everything you see from now on

is gonna be by the monitors of the restriction area.

Now get him out of here.

- He needs treatment, Tony.

I want him back in Medical Center.

- Okay.

But I want him constantly under guard.

And I mean properly this time.

Now take him away.

Eagle One to Alpha, on course for Taura.

- What we're dealing with here

is an extreme manifestation of tension.

As the stress builds,

it results in disorientation and hallucination.

- As in my case?

- Yes. - No, Doctor.

- Let's have the treatment completed first

and then see if you're so certain of that.

- What about Eva?

- She's free to go.

She's not hallucinating.

She's in love.

- You heard what Dr. Russell said.

You're free to go, so go.

- I'll be in my quarters.

Medical emergency, medical emergency.

Recycling plants one and two.

Recycling plants one and two.

What's happening, Helena?

- I'll let you know as soon as I find out, Tony.

- Okay.

- George?

- Range?

- Range count to seven.

How far in do you want to go?

- Not so far in that we can't pull away

at the first sign of gravitational drag.

Got a reading?

- Nothing to indicate a planet.

But there can be anything in the center of all that.

- All right, let's hook up to main computer.

- Ready on main computer.

- Ready to receive data.

- No gravitational trace.

You're clear to approach to range three.

- Range two.

- What have you got, Sahn?

- First atmospheric indications.

High density, high carbon dioxide content.

Unbreathable.

- Are we still clear on gravitational pull?

- I'm getting a slight tremor here.

Could be atmospheric vibration.

Or the beginning of a gravity pull.

- Watch it, John.

You could get sucked right into it.

- I'm going in a range,

one that confirms negative atmosphere indications.

We turn back at the first confirmation of a gravity pull.

- We've got to make him go all the way in.

We've got to make him find that planet.

- But if the atmosphere's unbreathable then...

- Of course it's unbreathable.

At the outer limits, it's like Earth.

- The tremor's gone, Maya.

- Looks like you're clear to go in as close as you like.

- Zero gravity.

I can't believe it, something's wrong.

- Let me switch to the onboard computer.

- Maya, everyone in Alpha will think

we're holding back information.

We stay with main computer like I said.

Get Tony.

- You're clear to approach, John.

Zero gravity.

Repeat, zero gravity.

- That's impossible.

Get him back.

Tony, run a full systems check.

You must be wrong.

- Okay, Sahn?

- Approaching range one.

- Circuit one, okay.

Circuit two, okay.

Power lines one through to 10, okay.

Circuit three, malfunction.

- Computer malfunction, turn back now.

Turn back, John, turn back.

- It's too late.

Now you'll have to find that planet, Commander.

Turn back, Eagle One.

Do you read me?

Commander, it's the planet.

- Come in, John.

Maya, respond please.

- Moonbase Alpha to Eagle One.

Moonbase Alpha to Eagle One, come in please.

- Maya, you all right?

- Yeah.

- Get the helmets.

- They're both damaged.

- Let's get out of here.

Seal this off.

Come on.

Still operational?

- I think so.

- We'd better check the oxygen.

- Our oxygen recycling plant is less than 5% effective.

Insufficient to maintain life.

- John, Maya, are you receiving me?

- Yes, Tony.

- This is Command Center to Eagle One.

Are you receiving me?

Transmission symptoms not functioning.

- No response?

No, nothing.

- I have a reading on the damage.

Pressure valve pierced.

Transmission silenced.

Oxygen recycling plant damaged.

Engines and guidance systems intact.

- Intact.

Alan, could you pull them out of there

on the remote control?

- We'll give it a try.

- Yeah.

- Security.

Was checked at Level C, D, B.

No sign of Sanderson.

- What happened on Level A?

That was cleared first.

- All right, well start again from square one.

I want Sanderson found.

- Ah, I'm getting feedback from Eagle One.

I'm firing forward thrusters.

- They've got us in automatic.

They're trying to get us out of here.

- Come on, baby.

Come on.

- It's a three hour flight back, Commander.

We've only got enough oxygen for one hour.

- Sit down.

I know a source that gives clear oxygen.

Vegetation.

- Liftoff!

We have liftoff.

But a plant needs the sun

so it can start the photosynthesis process

to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

- Or something that's close to the sun, like a bright light.

- Ready, launch pad one.

We have a damaged one.

- Alert rescue units.

All emergency and decontamination units

to Eagle Hangar Bay One.

- Stretcher unit to Eagle Hangar Bay One.

Surgical team to Medical Center immediately.

- Okay Sandra, bring down the launch pad.

Let's go.

Command Center to Launch Area.

Lower Eagle One to launch pad.

What is it?

Where did all this vegetation come from?

- Maya.

Maya?

Maya, are you all right?

- Yes.

What happened?

- It's oxygen starvation, Helena.

The atmosphere couldn't support both of us.

- One thing about oxygen deprivation.

We can tell fast if there's been brain damage.

- Or else the patient wakes up wondering

what all the worried faces are worrying about.

- John.

John, do you hear me?

John, do you know who I am?

- I never saw you before in my life.

Dr. Russell.

- That'll do.

- While we were concentrating on you,

Sanderson broke in here and sabotaged the main computer.

- Where is he now?

- He's in travel tube D.

But if we try to get to him,

he'll just mow us down.

- Sandra, give me travel tube for section D.

Sanderson, it's urgent that you listen to me.

If you can hear me, let me know.

We have no time to lose.

We're on a collision course.

- Oh, you admit there's a planet then.

- Well, well there is a planet,

but it's in the earliest stages of formation.

There's no green grass, no rivers, no trees.

We've arrived 50 million years too early.

No you're lying, Koenig.

- It's not a habitable planet.

It's just a weather belt.

- Just a weather belt?

- With a thick core of dust and unbreathable gas.

- Sanderson, we've been on your

exploration team from the beginning.

You've gotten us out of some pretty tight stops.

- What are you saying?

- He's saying what we both feel, Sanderson.

He's saying out there on the moon's surface,

we wouldn't think of questioning your judgment.

What you say goes.

Plenty of times, it's the only way we've stayed alive.

- But?

- But well, now we're just not so sure.

- The Commander may be telling the truth.

- He's lying!

He's just trying to make us give up.

On our present course,

we'll be drawn into orbit around Taura.

- There is no orbit.

We'll be swallowed by a vast swamp of dust.

- No, there is a habitable planet out there.

The prediction says so.

- We've got to get through to him in time.

- How?

- Maya, how long do we have?

- In our present course,

we collide with the dust planet in eight hours.

- Eight hours.

Tony, is there any way we can alter Taura's trajectory?

- Well, no.

We just don't have the megatons.

- Okay, then we go around it.

- Yeah, over the moon's course.

- 1999, the way this whole thing started.

When the nuclear waste dumps blew up.

You'll trigger deliberately the atomic waste?

- Some of it.

It's the only way.

We have to create an explosion big enough

to shift the moon one or two degrees off its course.

- You know, that could work.

If we had an atomic trigger.

And one hell of a lot of luck.

- Maya, get me a damage forecast

on a sudden two degree shift.

- Anticipate severe damage in all sections.

High fire risk.

- And people?

- Forecast, zero survival rate.

- Attention all Moonbase personnel.

We are faced with the enormous risk

of blasting the moon out of its present collision course.

To minimize the risk,

I am ordering immediate and total evacuation.

- Just to stay in command.

- But suppose he is telling the truth.

- Trust me, like you trusted me before.

Concentrate.

Concentrate.

Concentrate.

Total concentration.

Total concentration.

- We'd better take that along,

just to be on the safe side.

Maya.

Yes, Helena.

- John, is it really worth taking all this stuff with us?

- If we can't shift the moon's course,

those Eagles will be our only home.

- How long are we gonna survive

on a fleet of transporter Eagles?

We'll be at each other's throats.

- You know, a lot of Alphans said the same thing

when we split away from Earth.

- John Koenig, philosopher.

If there are chips on the table,

we're still in the game.

- Right on.

- John, all essential equipment's on board.

The personnel board is complete,

apart from pads six, eight, and nine.

Transporter Eagles ready for liftoff in nine minutes.

- Sanderson and the others?

No, he's still in the travel tube.

- Sanderson.

You know the danger of staying here

when we trigger the waste dumps.

This is your last chance.

You can still make it to a boarding station

and be evacuated safely.

Response, Sanderson.

It's the last chance for all of you.

Sanderson, listen to me.

Sanderson, Eva, Cernik, Stevens.

This is your last chance.

- He'll never do it.

He'll never trigger the waste pits

while we're still here.

- Just suppose you're wrong about this habitable planet.

- I'm not wrong.

- Just suppose, for a moment,

that Koenig is telling the truth about this dust planet.

To save the Moonbase, he'll have to trigger off

the atomic waste, whether we're still here or not.

- I have information, Eva.

I have the predictions.

For the sake of every Alphan,

we have to go through with this.

Cernik, Stevens.

- Dr. Russell diagnoses a sickness.

She says we all have it.

A sickness where a wish for the green planet

is so strong that our decisions are distorted.

- Do you believe that or me?

- Sanderson.

Don't you see?

We're just not sure anymore.

- After all we've faced together.

Suddenly, you're just not sure anymore.

- But this is different.

It's gotta be different.

- How different?

- You talk about the new planet, Sanderson.

You talk about freedom from John Koenig's command.

I say let's start now, the four of us.

Let's vote on what we do.

- Vote? - Well why not?

It's Koenig that's a dictator, isn't it, not you.

- Eva?

- I think we should vote.

- All right.

All those in favor of evacuation.

- I'm sorry, Greg.

- You understand that we have

a responsibility to the others?

- We just took a vote.

Do you abide by it?

- Koenig, we're coming out.

- Good, the last Eagle lifts off in five minutes.

- Evacuation complete, Commander.

Two hours and 23 minutes to collision point.

- All right, let's get that atomic trigger in position.

- John, trouble.

I just checked the boarding lists.

Sanderson's missing.

He's still down there somewhere on Moonbase.

Sanderson, listen to me.

There are two hours, 20 minutes to collision point.

- To orbit, understand?

And then we use the transporters

to transfer everyone to the new planet.

- We'll be swallowed by red dust and toxic gases.

- Sanderson, I'm coming down for you.

There's no time, Tony.

Stay where you are.

- You make one move to bring that transporter down,

and Maya won't be Maya anymore.

Get on that computer.

I want to know the moment we go into orbit.

- If Taura's atmosphere gets into our recycling system,

our air will be lethal.

- The air is clear on Taura.

Fresh.

And pure.

There's water.

- Eva, you've got to persuade him.

It's their only chance.

- Put the gun away, Greg.

Please.

You were wrong.

We were all wrong.

Cernik, Stevens, all of us.

- You'll thank me for this, Eva.

For holding out against them.

We'll walk on that planet, breathing real air.

Not recycled survival gases.

Walking on grass, amongst trees.

Streams, the prediction.

- The prediction's wrong, Greg.

Dr. Russell is right.

It's an hallucination.

A mirage.

- You too, Eva.

You've gone over to Koenig's side.

You know why he's doing it.

He has to, to keep us on this barren rock.

- You're wrong, Greg.

It's all in your mind.

Greg, please, do what the Commander wants.

Before all this happened, you believed in him.

Believe in him now.

- Believe in him?

I've never believed in him.

- Tony.

- Yeah?

- Eva can't get through to Sanderson.

I'm going on down.

- No Alan, hold your position.

That's an order.

- He's lied to us all along.

And he's still lying now.

And for that, he's got to die.

- Maya, get the gun.

Fire!

Why didn't you fire?

- I couldn't, it was jammed on kill.

- We've got less than two hours

to set the atomic trigger, let's go.

Well, there they are.

The old nuclear waste silos.

Each of those shafts is 10000 feet deep

and capped with concrete.

We'll have to blast one of those concrete caps away,

so we can lower the atomic trigger.

- ETA to collision point.

- 57 minutes.

- Magnify.

- What is that thing?

I don't know, we're not close enough.

- Well magnify, damn it.

- I am trying.

- Alan.

Yes, Tony.

- There's something on the surface.

Can you identify from your position?

Can you give me any coordinates?

- I've got it.

It's a moon buggy.

- It's Sanderson.

John, Sanderson's down there waiting for you.

Do you read me?

Sanderson is waiting for you.

- Scanners indicate that he's amongst the rocks,

but I cannot pinpoint them from here.

- Did you get that, John?

- Yeah Tony, got it, thanks.

How we doing?

- Okay.

It's gonna be hard to pick him out in this terrain.

- We shouldn't be hovering up here,

away from all the action.

- Yeah I know how you feel, Alan.

We can't risk anybody else.

- Sanderson is down there.

- I know that.

If and when we pinpoint Sanderson,

we'll go down after him, believe me.

- Setting?

18 minutes.

- Is that gonna give you enough time?

- That's all the time we've got.

Four minutes to blast away the concrete cap,

two minutes to attach this device

to the silo and get back here,

and 12 minutes at full thrust

to blast ourselves as far away from here as we can get.

Good luck.

- I'll need it.

- No sign of him.

- He's down there somewhere.

I'm at the silo now.

Right, Commander.

We have no visual of Sanderson.

Continuing to scan.

Eagle Three calling Eagle Six.

Any movement in area three, Alan?

Eagle Six.

Nothing so far, Tony.

We'll continue search.

Can you see anything, Maya?

Nothing, Tony.

Where could he be?

Sweep coordinate to fort.

Right, Tony.

Connecting charges now.

Keep an eye out, John.

Sanderson's around somewhere.

All clear, Tony.

Aerial rigged for detonation.

Eagle Six to Eagle Three.

No sign of Sanderson.

Recheck your area, Tony.

- Maya, three o'clock.

Maya?

Maya, can you hear me?

John, Eagle Two's been hit.

I've lost contact with Maya.

Tony, keep trying.

Okay, the cap is blown.

Going in to lay the atomic trigger now.

Watch Sanderson, he's still dangerous.

John, look out.

Eagle Two, come in.

Come in, please.

Maya, it's Tony, can you hear me?

What's the damage?

Maya, answer me.

Eagle Two, do you read me?

Maya, come in, please.

Atomic trigger in position.

Are you all right?

You're running out of time.

John, get out of there.

John, are you okay?

Okay, Tony.

What's the damage report on Eagle Two?

No report, we can't reach Maya.

Get out of there.

Okay, I'm on my way.

This is Eagle Six calling Eagle Two.

Come in, Eagle Two.

Maya, can you hear me?

Maya, this is Tony, answer me.

Come in, Maya.

Eagle Two, come in, please.

- Maya!

Maya!

Maya!

How is she, John?

- Don't know yet, Tony.

Maya!

Open up!

Maya, Maya.

The door is jammed.

Open with the manual.

- I'm trapped.

We've got four and a half minutes, Maya.

- I can't reach the controls.

- Four minutes.

They're not gonna make it.

John, lean on it.

- The moon has changed course.

We're no longer on collision course with Taura.

Well, what do you think?

- Looks good.

Never seen so many bored people in all my life.

- Doctor, how much longer?

- At least another hour and a half.

Oh come on, it's not bad.

In fact, they're quite nice.

Particularly if you have an eye for nature.

As I say, if you have an eye for nature.

- You think your system will work?

- Principle's perfectly valid.

Saturation equals boredom.

- Well it figures, you show them trees, meadows and streams

until they can't stand another blade of grass, right?

Whoa.

- Yeah well, as you said,

if you like nature, Doctor.

- So I did.

- Well you said choose something

from the picture library, right?

That is what I call choice.

Oh, mother.

My mother was never like that.