Moonbase Alpha Status Report: 1807 days after leaving Earth
Orbit
A derelict spaceship appears in Alpha's third quadrant, and Commander John Koenig
and Tony Verdeschi set off in Eagle 1 to investigate. At the same time, Maya develops a high fever and becomes
dilirious, crying out to her father and imagining that she trying to rescue him from the now extinct planet of Psychon.
Doctor Helena Russell, concerned over Maya's health, asks Alan Carter to contact Eagle
1 and ask them for an estimated time for their return. As Alan speaks to John Koenig, Alpha is suddenly overtaken
by a huge wave of destructive power. John and Tony watch helplessly from their Eagle as the Moon disappears
from their screens.
Once the destructive wave has passed, Sandra Benes tries
to locate Eagle 1, but she cannot make contact. She tells Alan that they have moved five light years from their
previous position in space, and there is no chance of the Commander making his way back to Alpha unless he can find a
window in the Space Warp.
Maya tells Helena that she is beginning to lose molecular control and she she doesn't know what will
happen. She begs Helena to put her in restraints, which Helena reluctantly does.
Alan Carter tells Helena that they have gone through a space warp and they are five light years away
from their last position. Helena joins Alan and Sandra in Command Centre and finds out that John's chances of finding
the same door in space and making it back to Alpha are astronomical.
When Helena returns to Medical Centre she finds that Maya has broken free of her restraints and
has transformed into a strong creature. The creature attacks Helena and renders her unconscious. Alan and
Sandra receive messages from all over Alpha reporting that the creature has attacked them. He issues an order to
security to kill the creature on sight.
Doctor Ben Vincent finds Helena unconscious on the floor of the Medical Centre. She tells him
that Maya has transformed into a creature, and Ben Vincent tells her that Alan Carter has issued an order to kill the creature
on sight. Helena contacts Alan and tells him that the creature is Maya, so Alan re-issues an order to stun the creature
instead.
Helena Russell and Ben Vincent prepare a tranquilliser dart to use on Maya, but they are unsure of
exactly the right dosage to use. A security guard reports that the creature (Maya) is making its way to the travel
tube. Helena tells Alan that when Maya was dilirious she was hallucinating that her father was still alive on Psychon and
she had to save him. She says if Maya makes her way to an Eagle she will be going on a one way trip to a planet that
no longer exists.
Helena and Alan catch Maya just as she is about to enter the travel tube, and Alan fires the
tranquilliser dart at her but it fails to stop her. He then cuts off the power to the travel tube, trapping the creature
(Maya) underground.
The creature (Maya) breaks out of the travel tube and makes her way
to Eagle 4. The creature retracts the boarding tube so that no one can get to the Eagle. Instead, Alan brings
the Eagle down from the launch platform to the underground hangar. The creature (Maya) attempts to take off whilst in
the underground hangar, and causes the Eagle to flip over and burst into flames.
The creature (Maya) is rescued from the Eagle and taken to Medical Centre
where Helena Russell tries to operate, but she is unfamiliar with the creatures anatomy. Helena pleads with the
creature (Maya) to revert but instead of reverting back to Maya the creature transforms into a Psychon male.
The Psychon male fights to get out of the Medical Centre, and Alan summons security. The security guard stuns the Psychon
(Maya) who collapses, and then transforms into another creature.
Meanwhile, John and Tony dock onto the derelict spaceship and check the
power room to see if the ships fuel supplies are adaptable to their Eagle. John finds a databank which he manages to
access.
Tony and John listen to a message from Captain Duro of the Space Ship
Menon, in which he describes his ships search for entry through the space warp. He says they were unscuccessful
but he is recording this message so that if any other intelligent life arrives in this area they will be able to find
the correct co-ordinates to pass through the space warp.
Captain Duro's message tells them that the correct data must be fed into their onboard computer,
and the correct co-ordinates will be obtained by connecting the space warp locater to their onboard computer's navigational
programmer. Tony and John search the derelict ship for the space warp locater.
Security inform Alan Carter that they have located the creature (Maya) at airlock 7, and it is trying
to get out. Helena, Alan and two security guards rush to airlock 7 and Helena says if the creature breaks through the
airlock explosive decompression will wipe out everyone in that section of Alpha.
Helena orders computer to open the inner door to airlock 7, trapping the creature between the inner
door and outer door of the airlock. She explains to Alan that if they use an anaesthetic gas in that confined area it
should have an immediate effect. They fill the airlock with anaesthetic gas but it has no effect on the creature, which
succeeds in breaking out of the airlock onto the lunar surface.
Alan Carter and Helena Russell need to find the creature (Maya) and bring her in before she transforms
back into Maya and is unable to survive without oxygen on the lunar surface. They go onto the lunar surface in
a space buggy, and Alan manages to defeat the creature (Maya), who is then brought back to the safety of Alpha .
John and Tony link up the space warp locater to Eagle 1's computer according to Captain Duro's
instructions. Eagle 1, still docked with the derelict space ship, head into the space warp. Inside the Eagle,
Tony and John are thrown around as they enter the space warp, but they come safely out the other side.
As Eagle 1 penetrates the space warp, Maya begins to rapidly cycle through all her transformations
before finally reverting to Maya and recovering from her fever.
In Command Centre Sandra Benes tells Alan that sensors are picking up an enormous
disturbance from the area where the refuelling Eagle is standing by incase John and Tony need help. Suddenly, Alan spots
Eagle 1 on the big screen, and relays the good news to Helena.
Episode synopsis copyright Jeannine Hochet
