Voyager's Return
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 Year 1 - Episode 12 
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| Belgium (Flemish) |
De Terugkeer van reiziger |
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| France/Canada |
Le retour du Voyageur |
The Return Of Voyager |
| Germany |
Der Mann, der seinen Namen änderte |
The Man Who Changed His Name |
| Italy |
Il ritorno del Voyager |
The Return Of Voyager |
| Japan |
Space Destroyer, Nuclear Bomb Ship
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| Netherlands |
Terugkeer van een ruimteverkenner |
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| Portugal |
O Regresso do Viajante |
The Return Of The Traveller |
| South Africa | Voyager Se Terugkeer |
Voyager is Coming Back |
| Spain |
Regreso de los viajeros |
Return of the travellers |
| Sweden |
Resenären |
The Traveller |
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Grim danger emerges from the past. Moonbase Alpha is threatened with destruction from an unmanned spacecraft sent up from Earth many years earlier, with tragedy in its wake. Even worse lies ahead from outer space victims seeking revenge.
- Shooting script 29th July 1974, revised 31st July. Filmed 7th August to 21st August
- The second episode with Martin Bower models. The designs of the Voyager and Sidon ship were a collaboration with Brian Johnson.
Library track: from Thunderbird 6 by Barry Gray
- Fast neutrons are neutrons with energy in excess of 0.1 MeV, produced from nuclear fusion.
- Sidon is a port in Southern Lebanon, and was one of the chief cities of the Phoenician empire, 1200-650 BC.
They are in 2000 (1985 is 15 years ago).
2 fatalities, Ernst Queller, Abrams.
Alpha Technology:
- We learn an entire scientific community died from the Voyager 2 disaster. According to the script, this was another lunar colony (Moonbase Beta?)
Eagle 1 (Alan); 2 (Abrams, destroyed); 4,5,6,9,10 (defence flight)
None. We learn several planets from the Federated Worlds Of Sidon were poisoned.
Aliens:
Archon, Chief Justifier of Sidon. Humanoid.
- Close-up shots of the Voyager engines show drops of condensation falling from the gas jet (watch the nozzle carefully).
- Linden was originally named Lander and Linder. Queller is named after Edward Teller, the Hungarian-American scientist known as the "father of the H-bomb", and based on Wernher von Braun, the German scientist who led the development of the V2 and Saturn V rockets, and who was forced to defend his involvement with the Nazi war effort by citing the innate impartiality of science.
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