The spaceship is colossal.
From Moonbase Alpha, it appears to be at least fifty miles long and two miles wide. From it come signals which,
when decoded, appeal repeatedly for help: "Emergency! Emergency! This is the Commander of the Spaceship Daria. A major
catastrophe has occurred. Large areas of our ship are devastated. We who survive will perish without urgent medical
and material help..."
Commander Koenig immediately orders a mercy flight, taking with him Professor
Bergman, Doctor Helena Russell, Alan Carter, Paul Morrow and Security Man Bill Lowry.
They enter a bewilderingly strange world of startling contrasts.
One part is in the charge of the agelessly beautiful Kara and the ship commanded by a man named Neman. The vast spaceship
set out 900 years ago from its own dying world in search of a virgin planet where the Darian civilisation would begin again.
But a nuclear disaster struck early on in the voyage and the emergency signal was automatically triggered off and has been
broadcasting ever since.
There are now only 14 true Darians left, but in another
part of the spaceship, in what has become a wilderness, are descendants of the original survivors who had been left
to die. These degenerate creatures, mutant and savage, worship at a shrine dominated by a picture of their god,
and are led by one they called Hadin.
To their horror, Koenig and Bergman discover from Kara the secret of the
Darians who have survived in their original form. Their existence relies on a form of cannibalism, their lives preserved
by transplant surgery, their food supplies from recycling plants using human fodder.
They have tricked the barbarians into supplying that fodder. And Koenig reaslises that an offer
to provide new hope for the Alphans by leaving the moon and joining the Darians on their flight to a new planet can mean only
one thing - more human fodder is needed. He realises, too, that Helena and the other Alphans with her are in acute danger
...
Episode synopsis taken from Guide Book provided with the Digitally Restored Network/Granada
Ventures Series One Box Set
Copyright Granada Ventures
