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News! — !!!!Urgent — !!!Upcoming — !!Recent — !News —
numeric — 24 — 48 — 49 — 50 — 297 — 298 — 300 — 301 — 311 —
calendar — 1314 — 1339 — 1918 — 1937 — 1939 — 1969 — 1973 — 1974 — 1975 — 1976 — 1977 — 1978 — 1979 — 1982 — 1984 — 1985 — 1986 — 1987 — 1990 — 1992 — 1994 — 1996 — 1997 — 1998 — 1999 — 2000 — 2002 — 2003 — 2005 — 2006 — 2008 — 2009 — 2026 — 2074 — 2120 — 2870 —
Alan — Alan Carter — Alan and... — Alan and Regina — Alan and Sandra — Alan in Temporary Command — Alan's Missions — Alan's Occasional Shoot First Tendency —
A — Aarchon — The AB Chrysalis — AC — Aestheria — Aleksandr — Alex Scott — Alien — Alien Peoples — Aliens in Moonbase Alpha — Alien Technology — Alien Writing — Alien-Built Spaceships — All that Glisters — Allan — Alpha — Alpha Child — Alpha Facilities — Alpha Facilities Chart in Hallway — Alpha Moonbase — Alpha Observed — Alphan Technology — Alphan Vehicles — Alphan Weaponry — "Alphans" — Alphans — Alternate — Anderson — Annette Fraser — Another Time, Another Place — Anthony Verdeschi — Anton Gorski — Apollo 11 — Archanons — Archon — Area B7 — Area One — Area Two — Arra — Artifical Heart — Astro 7 — ATAP — Atheria — Atomic Dispersal — Austin — Australia —
B — B2 — B4 — Barry Gray — Barry Morse — Bartlett — Beautiful Friendship — Benes — Ben Vincent — Bernard — Betha — Betha vs. Delta — Betha vs. Delta: Battle of the Wandering Moon — Bethan Gunship — Bill Fraser — Birds — "Black Sun" — Black Sun — Black Sun Lifeboat Eagle — Blessed — BM — Bob Brooks — Bob Kellett — Books — BOW — Brain or Mind Damage — "Breakaway" — Breakaway (book) — Breakaway (episode) — Breakaway: Helena and Victor Visit Area Two — Breakaway: John and Victor Visit Area Two — Breakaway (quotes) — Breakaway (event) — Brian Blessed — The Bringers of Wonder — The Bringers of Wonder (part one) — The Bringers of Wonder (part two) — Brooks — Byrne — Bubblegum Cards —
Cons —
C — Calendar Years — Capt. — Captain — Captain Carter — Card Games — Carter — Cast and Characters (Regular and Semi-Regular) — Cast by Episode — Catacombs of the Moon — Catherine Schell — Catherine Schell Roles in General — CC — Century 21 — Charles Crichton — Charles Woodgrove — Chemical Elements — Chief Commissioner Theia — Chief Engineer — Child(ren) on Alpha — Chlorine — Clea — Clive Kander — Collision Course — Cmdr. — Comlock — Comm. — Command Center — Command Conference — Command of Alpha — Commander — Commissioner — Commissioners (Alien) — Commissioners (Human) — Commissioner Simmonds — Commlock — Commlocks Lost or Destroyed — Communication Interference — Connor — Conway — COTM — Countries — Couples — Crawford — Crichton — Crom II — Croton Crew — Croton Ship — CS — CW —
D — DAB — Dave Reilly — David Tomblin — David Kano — DD — Death's Other Dominion — Delta — Derek Wadsworth — Derelicts — Desertion — Dione — Directive Four — Doctor — DOD — Dorca — Dorcons — The Dorcons — "Dorzak" — Dorzak (character) — Dorzak (episode) — Dotrice — Dragon's Domain —
Eagle — Eagle — Eagle 1 — Eagle 2 — Eagle 3 — Eagle 4 — Eagle 5 — Eagle 6 — Eagle 7 — Eagle 10 — Eagle 11 — Eagle 12 — Eagle 14 — Eagle 26 — Eagle 28 — Eagle 29 — Eagles in Episodes — Eagle Parts (Other) — Eagle Sections — Eagles Lost or Damaged — Eagles Stolen or Hijacked — "Eagle Transporter" —
Episode List — Episodes (with Writer, Director , Loss/Gain, Days After Breakaway Information) — Episodes (Compact Form, w/ Writer, Director , Days After Breakaway Information) —
Episode... — Episode Capsules — Episode Directors — Episode Writers — Episode Titles Poem — Episodes Directed by Bob Kellett — Episodes Directed by Charles Crichton — Episodes Directed by David Tomblin — Episodes Directed by Ray Austin — Episodes Directed by Tom Clegg — Episodes Directed by Val Guest — Episodes Written by Anthony Terpiloff — Episodes Written by Charles Woodgrove — Episodes Written by Christopher Penfold — Episodes Written by Donald James — Episodes Written by Elizabeth Barrows — Episodes Written by Johnny Byrne — Episodes Written by Terence Feely —
E — Earth — Earth's Solar System — Earthbound — Earthquakes — Energy Screen — Emma Porteous — Ernst Linden — Ernst Queller — Etrec — Eva — Eva (Y2) — Exercise —
F — Federated Worlds of Sidon — FF — Flammon — Fora — Force Field — Force Fields on Psychon — The Forsaken — Fraser — Fred Freiberger — Freiberger — Fungus — Fungus in JTW —
G-I — Garforth — Geiger Counter — Gerald Simmonds? — Golosians — Gorski — Gray — Greek Alphabet — "Guardian of Piri" — Guardian of Piri (computer) — Guardian of Piri (episode) — Guest — Guido Verdeschi — GW — Haines — Hand-Held Scanners — Hawk — Helena Russell — Helena and... — Helena Injured or Ill — Helena's Missions — Hobbies, Recreation, Socialization — Holographic Projection — Home — HR — Human-Built Spaceships — Hydroponics — Hydroponic Experimental Section — Illness — Immortality — Instant Transport —
John — John Koenig — John Koenig Injured — John and... — John and Dione — John and Elizia — John and Helena — John and Helena's First Kiss — John and Jean — John and Maya — John and Maya in NANE — John and Sandra — John and Vana —
J-K — Jack Bartlett — Jammers — Jarak — JB — Jim Haines — JK — Joan Conway — Johnny Byrne — Journey to Where — Justice — Kander — Kano — Kellett — Kelly and Melita — Kendo — Kerak — Kevin Connor — Koenig —
L — L Picard — Laser Batteries — The Last Enemy — Launch Pad 10 — Lee H. Katzin — Lee Russell — Lew — Lew Picard — Life Support — Lightning — Linden — Living Quarters — Living Rock — Lok — Lottery — Love Triangle — Love Triangle: Sally Martin, Mark Sanders, Carolyn Powell — Love Triangle? Shermeen W., Tony Verdeschi, and Maya — LQ12 — LSRO — Luke and Anna — Lunar Science and Research Organization? — Lyra —
Maya — Maya — Maya and... — Maya as a Metamorph — Maya as a Pilot — Maya on Psychon — Maya on Alpha — Maya on Watch Duty — Maya's Missions — Maya's Relatives — Maya's Scanner — Maya's Transforms (Intro) — Maya's Transforms (by Episode, in DAB order) — Maya's Transforms (by Lifeform) — Maya's Transforms (by Episode, Compact List) — Maya's Transforms (Miscellaneous) — Maya's Transforms (Conclusions) —
M — Magazines — Magus — Magus's Abilities — Main Computer — Main Mission — Malic — Mama Verdeschi — The Mark of Archanon — Married Couples — A Matter of Balance — Matter of Life and Death — Maurna — MBA — Meals — Medical Doctor — Medical Personnel — Medical Section — Mentor — Mentor's Spaceship — Merlin — Merton — Message from Moonbase Alpha — Merchandise — Note Cards — Meta — "Metamorph" — Metamorph — The Metamorph — Meteorology — MFMBA — MGK — Michelle Osgood — Mike Baxter's Quarters — Milgonite — Mind Control — Miss Maya — Mission of the Darians — MM — MMBA — MOLAD — Molecular Transformation — Moon — Moon in Orbit or Passing by Planets — Moonbase Alpha — Moonbase Alpha Damaged — Moonbase Alpha Temperature — Moonbuggy — Moons — Movies — Multiple Roles — Murder or Attempted Murder — Mushroom — Music — Music on Moonbase — Mutiny —
N-O — NANE — Near-Instant Transport — Neuro- Pulsonic Jammer — New Adam New Eve — New Earth — Nostradamus — Novels and Novelizations — Novels and Novelizations from 1970's — Novels and Novelizations from 1970's (Authors) — Novels from the 1970's (German Titles) — Nuclear Charges — Nuclear Waste Storage — Officers — OMOH — On Watch — One Moment of Humanity — Osgood — Osgoods — Operations — Operation Exodus — Operation Exodus in ATAP — Operation Exodus Strongly Considered or Initiated — Operation Shockwave — Operatives — Orbital Satellites — Outdoor Shoots — Outdoors —
Population — Population — Population (as best known before the Breakaway) — Population (Breakaway Event and After) — Population... — Population at the Breakaway — Population in "Last Enemy" — Population at Arkadia — Population at Psychon — Population at Entra — Population Statistical Speculation — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 1a — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 1b — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 2a — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 2b — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 3a — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 3b — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 4a — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 4b — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 5a — Population Statistical Speculation Scenario ρ1 — Population Statistical Speculation (Summary Table) —
Pop.: M/F — Population: Male / Female Balance — Population: Male / Female "Early Balance" Scenario — Population: Male / Female "Balance Shift" Scenario — Population: Male / Female "Late Balance" Scenario — Population: Male / Female Balance Conclusions — Population: Male / Female Imbalance — Population: Male / Female "3 / 2 Imbalance" Scenario — Population: Male / Female "2 / 1 Imbalance" Scenario — Population: Male / Female "7 / 3 Imbalance" Scenario — Population: Male / Female "5 / 2 Imbalance" Scenario —
P — Papa Verdeschi — Partial Metamorphosis — Pasc — Patrick Osgood — Paul Morrow — Paul and... — Paul and Sandra — PE — Periodical Fanzine — Pete Garforth — Peter Medak — Peter Porteous — Peter Rockwell — Porteous — Petrov — Picard — Pierce Quinton — Pilots — Planet — Planetary Moons — Planets Forming or Re-born — Planets Destroyed or Vanished — Powys Media — Pre-Emptive Strikes — Pre-Emptive Strikes in "The Last Enemy" — Prentis Hancock — Protein — Product Enterprise — Psyche — "Psychon" — Psychon — Psychon Destroys Eagle 1 — Psychon's Moon — Psychons —
Q-R — Quakes — Quarters — Queller — Queller Drive — Quinton — Rain — RATM — Ray Austin — Ray Gun — Recreation — Reilly — Rena — Rescue Eagle 4 — Reset — Retha — Ring Around the Moon — "Ring Around the Moon" — Robert Lynn — Rockwell — Roles — Romance — Roy Dotrice — The Rules of Luton — Russell —
S — Sahala — Sanctuary — Sanderson's Survey Team — Sandra Benes — Sandra and... — Sandra on Watch — Sci-Fi Channel — Servant of the Guardian — Satazius — SB — Schell — Science Advisor — Science Officer — Score — Scott — The Seance Spectre — Section — Section Personnel — Section Personnel: Reconnaissance — Section Personnel: Technical — Security Section — Seed of Destruction — SFC — Side Booster — Sidon — Simmonds — Simon Magus — Sleep Agent — Sleeve Color — Snow — Socialization — Soundtrack — Soundtrack Composers: Robert Farnon — Soundtrack Composers: Roger Roger, George Teperino — Soundtrack Composers for Year One — Soundtrack for Y1 — Soundtrack for Y1 by Fanderson — Soundtrack for Y2 — "Space Brain" Pre-Emption Discussion — Space Report — Space: 1999 — Space: 1999 on the Sci-Fi Channel — Spaceship — Spaceship Graveyard — Spacesuit — Spazio 1999 — Sports and Exercise — Standing Stock Still — Star Warp v1#2 — Starlog — Starlog #1 — Starlog #2 — Staser — Steve Abrams — Stewart Jackson — Stun Gun — Supreme Commander Talos — Suspended Animation —
T — Talos — Tanya Aleksandr — Taybor — The Taybor — Taybor's Perfume and Pendant Ruse — Technology — Techlab — Ted Clifford — Ted and Tanya? — Terra Nova — Terra Nova Second Mission — Temporary Command of Alpha — The Testament of Arkadia — Texas — Texas City — The Lambda Factor — Theia — Thuleans — Time Warp — Time Warp in DOD — Time Dilation — Tim Mallett — Titles of Authority — TOA — Tom Clegg — Tom Graham — Tomblin — "Tony" — Tony Cellini — Tony Cellini Steals Eagle 1 — Tony Allan — Tony Verdeschi — Tony and... — Tony and Helena — Tony and Maya — Tony and Maya in JTW — Tony and Maya in βC — Tony in Temporary Command — Tony Injured — Tora Mutiny — Tora Mutiny Assaults — Transbeamer — Travel Tube — Travel Unit — Transmorph — TT — TV — TV Zone — TV Zone #42 —
U-Z — Ultima Thule — United States of America — United States of America in 2120 — Val Guest — Varda — Verdeschi — Verdeschi Brothers — Verifiable Gains — Verifiable Losses — Verifiable Personnel Gains — Verifiable Personnel Losses — Victor Bergman — Victor's Missions — Voyager's Return — Voyager — Voyager 1 — Voyager 2 — Wadsworth — War Games — Woodgrove — Wrecked Alien Ships — Y1 — Y2 — Y3 — Year 1 — Year 2 — Year 3 — Year One — Year Two — Year Three — Yesta — Zantor — Zienia Merton —

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    24 What
  • Number of episodes in each of the two broadcast seasons.
    • 48 What
  • Number of episodes in the two broadcast seasons.
    • 49 What
  • Number of episodes if the short "Message from Moonbase Alpha" is considered canon.
    • 50 What
  • Approximate length, in minutes, of S19 episodes. At least two Y1 episodes were 50.5 minutes, including starting and end titles. Have not checked length of other episodes.
    • 297 What
  • A population figure cited at the beginning of "The Metamorph" (Y2). See Population at Psychon.
    • 298 What
  • A population figure cited in "Devil's Planet" (Y2). See Population at Entra.
    • 300 What
  • A round number figure for the approximate population of Alpha in the series.
  • Approximate age of the Exiles from Golos, due in part to a form of suspended animation.
    • 301 What
  • Lower bound to the population of Alpha at Arkadia, before Luke and Anna desert. (Helena refers to there being "over 300" people.) See Population at Arkadia
    • 311 What
  • A population figure cited in "Breakaway", and perhaps representing the population of MBA after a few mysterious deaths, but shortly before the Breakaway event. See Population at the Breakaway.
    • 1314 Real
  • June: Battle of Bannockburn in British Isles, Scots defeat an English army in this battle. Referenced in JTW.
    • 1339 Story
  • JTW: John, Alan, and Helena end up in Scotland, New Year's Eve (old calendar, presumably -- Spring?), 1339.
    • 1918 Real
  • June 10: Barry Morse born.
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    1937 Real
  • 10/09: Brian Blessed born (according to IMDB).
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    1939 Real
  • 07/29: Hildegard Neil born (according to IMDB). She played Elizia in "Devil's Planet" and is the wife of Brian Blessed
    • 1969 When
  • Apollo 11 (first manned moon landing).
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    1973 Real
  • Filming began in November (according to The Catacombs).
  • Much of Y1 soundtrack made.
    • 1974 Real
  • Most of Year One filmed.
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    1975 Real
  • Filming of Y1 finished in February (according to The Catacombs).
  • Fall(?): Y1 is first broadcast.
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    1976 Real
  • All of Year Two filmed.
  • Fall(?): Y2 is first broadcast.
  • Compilation movie "Spazio 1999" (first of these)
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    1977 Real
  • End of main broadcast run of the series, in most places.
    		•
    1978 Real
  • Compilation movie "Destination Moonbase Alpha"
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    1979 Real
  • Compilation movie "Alien Attack"
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    1982 Real
  • Compilation movie "Journey Through the Black Sun"
  • Compilation movie "Cosmic Princess" (last of these)
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    1984 Real
  • April: Barry Gray died.
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    1985 Story
  • (Verify:) Fictional Voyager 1 mission launched (as noted in "Voyager's Return").
    • 1986 Story
  • Uranus mission launched. Crew hit a proton storm that nearly causes their break-up, but they end up on a planet they call Ultima Thule, where they settle, where they find immortality -- at a price. Situationally-implied time dilation or time warp to either the Thuleans or Alphans, since the former have been there for 880 years. (DOD)
    • 1987 Story
  • Dorfman perfects an artificial heart. (COTM)
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    1990 Story
  • Dorfman perfects an artificial heart. (COTM)
  • The wayward Uranus mission crashes on Ultima Thule? See Time Warp in DOD.
    • 1992 Real
  • Fall: Sci-Fi Channel began re-running S19.
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    1994 Story
  • Prof. Victor Bergman discovers planet Ultra.
  • Astro 7 mission lost after arriving at Jupiter, "five years" before events in MOLAD (year is thus approximate). The crew, including Lee Russell.
    • 1996 Story
  • March 9 (?): Upcoming Ultra Probe to be captained by Tony Cellini.
  • June 6: Ultra Probe mission launched from the interplanetary space station, at 1200.
  • A star mission comprising a mothership and four Swifts was launched, led by Captain Michaels. There was a communication break, and the mission lost, until years later when the drifting Moon ran across one of the Swifts (and later the mothership) near and on Planet D, ~1150 DAB.
    • Real
    1997 Story
  • February? (approx?): Ultra Probe mission reaches Ultra.
  • August? (approx?): Ultra Probe survivor Tony Cellini makes it back to Moonbase Alpha.
    • 1998 Story
  • Boston Red Sox win World Series 4-3 against St. Louis Cardinals, according to Dr. Logan. (J2W) Last time they won befire "all competitive sports were banned in the year 2026."
    • 1999 Story
  • September 9: Aside from flashbacks, the point in time when the events in the series began.
  • September 13: the Breakaway event.
  • September 15: the International Lunar Finance Committee (ILFC) was to have met regarding the Meta Signal and the Meta Probe.
    • 2000 Story
  • The apparent timeframe of "Voyager's Return", given 1985 is mentioned as being fifteen years before -- assuming Victor wasn't rounding a little.
    • 2002 Real
  • Resurrection, by William Latham, the first S19 novel published by Powys Media. First officially licensed novel since 1970's?
  • July: Tony Anholt (played Tony Verdeschi) passes away.
    • 2003 Real
  • The Forsaken, by John Kenneth Muir, published by Powys Media.
    • 2005 Real
  • Eternity Unbound, by William Latham, published by Powys Media.
  • Survival, by Brian Ball, published by Powys Media.
    • 2006 Real
  • Space: 1999 Year Two (The Omnibus), by Michael Butterworth, published by Powys Media.
    • 2008 Real
  • Feb. 02: Barry Morse passes away at age 89.
  • Apr. 03: Johnny Byrne passes away.
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    2009 Real
  • ????: (Unverified:) Derek Wadsworth dies?
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    2026 Story
  • All competitve sports banned on Earth, according to Dr. Logan. (J2W)
    • 2074 Story
  • Approximate earliest arrival of the Kaldorian ship (the one which visited the Moon) was to reach Earth. It is possible that time dilation (what already may have occured on Alpha) may have delayed this somewhat beyond 2074.
    • 2120 Story
  • Year on Earth when Texas City on Earth makes contact with Alpha to attempt to transport the Alphans to Earth. Time dialation has been occurring during the Moon's journey. (J2W)
    • 2870 Story
  • The year (by Earth calendar) it is for the Thuleans when the Alphans arrive. Either one group or the other went through a time warp. It is the original Uranus mission members who are alive (and apparently immortal) there, having been there for 880 years (implying since 1990 by their calendar).
    • Alan
    Carter    		 a.k.a.
  • Captain Carter
    • Summary
  • Chief Eagle pilot of Moonbase Alpha, and the third-in-command of the base after the Breakaway event.
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  • Expert Eagle pilot, and the go-to pilot in many missions.
  • Is an officer, based on frequent inclusion in command conferences or other key discussions, and on his having temporary command of Alpha on at least one occasions where the commander and his second-in-command (Paul or Tony) were off-base or out of commission (thus, Alan is third-in-command).
  • Attends command conferences in at least the following (probably very incomplete list): "Earthbound".
  • Called by first or last name roughly equally.
  • Generally a genial person, very well-liked, but also military as well. Willing and ready to go into combat (Eagle, hand-to-hand, etc.). His actions are usually sensible on such occasions, but left to his own devices, is known to sometimes has a "shoot first and ask questions later" tendency.
  • From Australia.
  • Good with children: Jackie Crawford (who is, unbeknownst to everyone, Jarak in disguise -- "Alpha Child"); Etrec (in MOA).
  • Plays soccer or rugby? (check "Archanon" and/or BOW1)
  • Likes to sing. (in JTW and MOA, at least).
  • Suffered a number of crashes, all(?) apparently due to non-pilot causes.
  • Displays intense loyalty towards Alpha and the Commander (perhaps another personality/military-based trait?), usually a strength, but (verify:) occasionally a drawback when it goes to the point of blindness.
  • Perhaps the sole direct and surviving human witness of the flaring of the Breakaway explosion from early, individual, "small"-scale explosions through chain reaction into massive nuclear brilliance. Even from high orbit, he has to put up his hand to shield his eyes.
  • Rather than turning away from the Moon when he arguably perhaps had a chance to do so and escape to Earth, he stays with the Moon and tries to make contact with Alpha, repeatedly, until successful, then lands on Alpha. Whether or not he could have made a successful return to Earth if he turned at the start of Breakaway is not known, but it apparently did not enter his mind to try.
  • His grandfather was a footballer who played in a major game where Australia beat Great Britain in 1963. Alan has the game ball, signed by Harrison, a friend of Alan's grandfather.
    • Injured
  • RATM: Knocked unconscious after Eagle 3 is hit by a force field generated by Tritonian probe. Eagle 3 crashes on the Moon. His co-pilot, Donovan, is killed.
  • MOA: stunned by apparent force field around the chamber holding Pasc and Etrec. In pain, falls unconscious, comes to on site with no apparent after-effects. Later, choked and struck unconscious by Pasc, in TechLab 3.
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  • Alan and... (romance)
  • Cast
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    Alan and... Intro Alan Carter and relationships (or potential relationships) of romantic interest (at any level). The List is in roughly chronographic order.
    List
  • Jeanie: a girlfriend left behind on Earth (per BOW2).
  • Regina Kesslann (yes and no)
  • Tanya: only evidenced by one episode ("The Last Sunset")?
  • Makes initial passes at "Diana Morris" and "Louisa" in BOW1?
  • Sandra?
  • Sahala: "You are very easy to be with, and you are kind." Alan is the only one to give Sahala a chance after Sahala has shot Maya. "She has gotten to me"? They share two kisses at the end of the episode.
    • Alan and
    Regina    		 Intro Alan and Regina Kesslann^ as a couple / non-couple in two different timelines.
    Details
  • Their alternates (in ATAP) were married, but she was left a widow about five years before dying herself.
  • On the main-timeline Alpha, however, Regina and Alan have no relationship; but her memories/perception are suddenly crossed after the one reality splits into two, and she throws herself into his arms twice, frantic and having to be rendered unconscious by Helena the first time, and dying in Alan's arms the second time.
    • Alan and
    Sandra    		 Intro Alan and Sandra as a potential couple.
    Examples
  • "The Full Circle": Alan perhaps shows some possible hints of interest in Sandra. Nothing major, but enough to make her glance at Paul, like: Don't worry, I don't think he's serious, and even if so, I'm not interested. This interpretation may be a stretch on the editor's part, but the editor is not the only one who has noticed a seeming bit of interest on Alan's part. Even if so, it is just a hint. However, aside from that, once on Retha, and Sandra is kidnapped by cavepeople, Alan is very much keen on rescuing her, and upon tracking her down and finding she's about to be killed by a cavewoman, aims his laser to kill the cavewoman, but himself is stunned by John, who knows the cavewoman is actually a regressed Helena.
    • Alan in
    Temporary
    Command    		 Intro Example(s) where Alan is in temporary command.
    Examples
  • OMOH (515 DAB): not actually shown in command (?), but presumably was, given John and Tony off were base (as were Helena and Maya) and on Vega.
  • NANE (1095 DAB): Given command by Cmdr. Koenig before he, Tony, Helena, Maya, and Magus board Eagle 4 to explore New Earth. When the Eagle simply vanishes from the pad, Alan decides it must be on the planet, and subsequently makes two unsuccessful attempts -- prevented remotely by Magus -- at a rescue (in Eagle 1).
  • "Space Warp" (1807 DAB): When John and Tony are left on the other side of a space warp from the Moon, Alan is in charge, and is confronted by damage repair and the sudden appearance of a rampaging creature he soon orders to be "kill[ed] on sight" -- only to quickly change his order when he is alerted by Helena that the creature is an ill and delusional Maya. He and Helena then work together to limit -- as best as they can -- and eventually capture Maya. He also decides to send out an Refueling Eagle partway back along the Moon's route, in case John and Tony make it through the warp, in which case they'll need refueling to get the rest of the way back to Alpha.
    • Alan's
    Missions    		 Intro A partial List of missions in which Alan participated, split by season. He is almost always the Eagle pilot, though some cases where he is not may be noted.
    Year One
  • "Breakaway":
  • "Black Sun": piloting the lifeboat Eagle.
  • "Alpha Child"(?): against the alien ships arriving?
  • "The Last Sunset": two missions?
  • "Collision Course"
  • "Death's Other Dominion"
  • "The Full Circle"
  • "War Games"
  • "The Last Enemy": tries to launch in defense of Alpha, but the Satazius is blocking this; later is able to launch to assess damage to the same alien ship.
  • "The Internal Machine"
  • "Mission of the Darians"
  • "Dragon's Domain"
  • TOA
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph"
  • "The Exiles" (?)
  • "All that Glisters"
  • "Journey to Where": not an Eagle flight, but as one of the three sent first to Earth.
  • "New Adam New Eve": attempts a rescue mission, but blocked by Magus.
  • "The AB Chrysalis"
  • "Seed of Destruction": first trip to the asteroid.
  • "Bringers of Wonder" (both parts): believes he is on a "pilot ship" to Earth, but is actually flying an Eagle, being controlled by aliens.
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
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    Alan's
    Occasional
    Shoot First
    Tendency    		 Intro Alan Carter, when left to his own devices in strange or high-stress situations, has an occasional "shoot first and ask questions later" tendency, either in direct or indirect actions. In other cases, where he is not on his own, but is asked an opinion, it may come out with the same tone as well, in some cases.
    Comments Note, however Alan's apparent military background (rank: Captain), where quick decisions away from -- or too short a time for -- command feedback can become inevitable at times, so the trait could be from a combination of factors, including training. Such a tendency can be needed in many intense circumstances, yet can make for some "rough edges" at times, however, when he is on his own or thrust into a leadership role.
    Examples
  • "The Full Circle": wants to shoot John(?)/caveman, but his aim is deflected by Victor hitting his arm.
  • "The Full Circle" (again): wants to shoot (to kill) a cavewoman as she aims to kill Sandra, but is stunned by John after the latter is warned (by Victor) that "Carter's down there with a ray gun." What Alan did not know is that the cavewoman is actually Helena.
  • "Space Brain" pre-emption discussion.
  • "Space Warp": while he is in temporary command, a rampaging alien creature suddenly appears on Alpha, seemingly from nowhere. Alan orders it to be "kill[ed] on sight", only to be warned by Helena that the creature is an ill and delusional Maya. He changes his order moments before she confronts security guards, and otherwise handles the crisis calmly.
    • Counter
  • "Dorzak": Alan is willing to give Sahala a chance, despite several reasons not to, starting with...: Sahala, seemingly unprovoked, attacks Maya on sight. Even though Alan's loyalty is to Maya, (speculation follows) perhaps he (unconsciously?) recognizes a reflection of his own tendencies, and believes there just has to be some reason Sahala felt she had to staser Maya on sight. Yet Alan's loyalties are clear, for when Sahala later attacks a guard and grabs his stun gun, sets it to kill, and points it (mainly) at Maya, Alan strips the gun from her hand, and gives her a rather stern look as she is taken away. Yet he still continues to support her otherwise, and Sahala is later proven correct (regarding Dorzak, not Maya).
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  • Pre-Emptive Strikes
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    Aarchon Who Chief Justifier of the Federated Worlds of Sidon. Played by Alex Scott.
    Episodes
  • "Voyager's Return"
    • Warnings
  • The name of Aarchon is not to be confused with the title of the leader -- The Archon -- of a different alien people (the Dorcons). Neither is to be confused with the aliens called Archanons.
    • The AB
    Chrysalis    		 a.k.a.
  • AB Chrysalis
  • The A B Chrysalis (e.g. on DVD from A&E)
  • ABC
  • TABC
    • Definition 11th episode of second season, 35th overall. Written by Tony Barwick (who also wrote OMOH). Directed by Kevin Connor.
    AC See Alan Carter
    Aestheria See Atheria
    Aleksandr See Tanya Aleksandr
    Alex Scott Who Guest actor who played Aarchon in "Voyager's Return".
    Alien Categories
  • Alien Peoples
  • Alien Technology
  • Alien-Built Spaceships
  • Aliens in Moonbase Alpha
  • Alien Writing
    		•
    Alien
    Peoples    		 Intro List of sentient alien peoples/races/species seen or referenced in the series. Some visited/invaded/lived on Alpha, some were encountered in space, and some were only referenced.
    Named
  • Archanons ("the Peacebringers" according Pasc): "borderline human norm" according to Helena.
  • Atherians (from "Collision Course")
  • Croms (sp?), inhabitants of Crom II: referenced in MOA.
  • Crotons (from "Dorzak"): nearly overwhelmed by Psychons led by Dorzak; but the Crotons gained the upper hand.
  • Darians: (what is their original planet?)
  • Dorcons
  • Ellnans (or are they now Entrans?): from Ellna, but that planet's sentient people have died, leaving only survivors on Entra.
  • Golosians
  • Kaldorians ("Earthbound")
  • Kalthons: unseen, original form unknown
  • Pinvithian (sp?): for example, Taybor.
  • Pirians: extinct, not seen, form unknown
  • Progrons ("End of Eternity"): immortal humanoids.
  • Psychons: humanoid, with metamorphic abilities and unusual eyebrows; genetic compatibility with humans uncertain. One becomes an Alphan.
  • Sidons ("Voyager's Return")
  • Sunims (sp?)
  • Tritonians: form unknown, planet destroyed some time before (from RATM)
  • Vegans
  • Zennites: humanoid, with varying skin colors (e.g. silver, gold); psychic.
    • Unnamed?
  • The aliens from Bringers of Wonder: giant, slow-moving, psychic blobs.
  • chlorine breathers from "AB Chrysalis": human(oid) in shape, but breath Cl and spend part of their lifecycle in chrysalid form.
  • beings "mutilated" by genetic experiments of Magus: original form and name unknown?
  • species of energy being known by the example in "Immunity Syndrome"
  • Jarak's people: true form unknown? Jarak and his splinter faction tried to hide from pursuers by taking over forms of Alphans.
  • aliens from "War Games": humanoid, but apparently not human; with somewhat large heads.
    • Unclear
  • Arkadians: ancestors of at least some Earth humans? Luke and Anna claim more. Extinct on their original world of Arkadia.
  • Whatever Lee Russell has become -- or perhaps more accurately, whatever this mirror image (in a manner of speaking) actually is?
  • Space Brain
    		•
    Aliens in
    Moonbase
    Alpha    		 Intro Despite a number of alien encounters, there were only some where aliens actually entered Moonbase Alpha. This entry only counts actual presence of the individual(s). It does not count the various other beings Maya transformed into.
    Year One
  • Kaldorians: Five survivors, including Captain Zantor, were temporary guests of the Alphans. Capt. Zantor ended up becoming a hostage of Commissioner Simmonds.
  • Servant of the Guardian of Piri (actually an android)
  • Alien energy being in "Force of Life" (its whole being was present).
  • Jarak and Rena: tried to replace Alphans with own people.
  • Balor of Progron: asked for sanctuary but soon displayed his psychotically murderous nature and was blown out an airlock.
  • Dione: demanded sanctuary, was reluctantly granted it; but it was a ruse on her part.
    • Year Two
  • Maya: a Psychon who became a permanent resident Alphan.
  • Cantar and Zova
  • Zamara
  • Taybor
  • Pasc, Etrec, and later Maurna, all Archanons. The first dies on Alpha.
  • Magus
  • Kalthon crystaline "reflection" of Koenig
  • Alien robot creature in "Beta Cloud"
  • Aliens in "Bringers of Wonder"
  • Sahala, Yesta: the latter dies on Alpha.
  • Dorzak (another Psychon)
  • Dorcons: Consul Varda and several of her guards, as a small tactical invasion/strike force.
    • Notes
  • Vindrus is a borderline case, not counted here; though the Editor may reconsider at a later point.
    • Conclusions
  • Some were guests: Kaldorians, Crotons, Taybor. The latter two were guests after some Alphan hesitation. One Croton ended up becoming a prisoner for a time, after attacking an Alphan. The Taybor betrayed his welcome by kidnapping Maya.
  • One became a permanent resident (welcomed even before she stepped foot on Alpha): Maya.
  • Three more could have potentially become residents if they had not other, hostile plans in mind: Balor, Dione, Dorzak.
  • Another group (Exiles) asked for all (53) of them to settle on Alpha, but were initially refused, until an agreement was made, which the two initially awakened Exiles betrayed.
  • Others were outright invaders: Servant, Jarak and Rena, Zamara, Kalthon crystal being, Beta Cloud robot, BOW aliens, Dorcons. A few of these were in initially friendly guise.
    • Alien
    Technology    		 Intro List of various forms of alien technology seen in the series. Alphans do have versions (probably comparatively primitive) of some of these sorts of technology, but do not have many of them. Alphans probably do obtain a few examples (mostly damaged) of a few of these, as noted below.
    List
  • Android: several examples masquerading as Vegan people in OMOH; Servant of the Guardian of Piri.
  • Atomic Dispersal (Magus)
  • Biological Computer (excluding androids): one (sole?) example was Psyche.
  • Computers (non-biological): various (Note: Alphans have some too).
  • Decomposing to atomic level (same as Atomic Dispersal?): Tritonians (in RATM) are able to decompose objects to their constituent atoms and move them, not as instantaneously as others.
  • Force fields (Note: Alphans have some too).
  • Holographic Projection (various)
  • Hypnotizing via device (e.g. Taybor against Maya).
  • Hyperdrive(?), an interstellar drive (Taybor)
  • Immobilizing ability that made Alphans stand stock still.
  • Jammers
  • Lasers? (humans have too)
  • Light Decelerator (the source of the abilities of Magus)
  • Magnetic Field Cocoon (Magus)
  • memory-enhancing devices that Taybor scatters around Alpha. (NAME????)
  • Meson Converter: multiple purposes (Dorcons)
  • Missiles (something humans had back on Earth): could some slight missile fragments have survived the explosion of the missiles?
  • near-instantaneous transportation (Earth also develops this via neutrinos(?))
  • Neuro-Pulsonic Jammer, of which Alpha probably ends up keeping one or two examples.
  • Photon Drive: a propulsion system on the Croton ship.
  • Pods (more missile-like than ship-like): 53 pods holding Exiles; 2 pods remain on Alpha (1 slightly damaged); remaining 51 pushed back on original course.
  • robots: one example in "The Beta Cloud" (which after it was deactivated was presumably studied by the Alphans)
  • space warp detector? ("Space Warp") Kept by Alphans.
  • Spaceships (various), several of which are destroyed on or near the Moon.
  • Staser
  • Stasis Chamber (covered with what was assumed to be a force field) that Pasc and Etrec were put in, along with its controlling "power unit" (in MOA). The chamber was badly damaged. The power/control unit was retrieved intact. Unknown what became of either technology.
  • Suspended Animation (various)
  • other means (if not named earlier) of interfering with Alphan systems such as computers or Eagles, such as seen in: "The Last Enemy".
  • means of suppressing Psychon metamorphic abilities, including being able to force reversion.
    • See Also
  • Aliens
    		•
    Alien
    Writing    		 Intro Cases where alien letters/symbols/words (i.e. writing) was seen. Some unclear cases may be included (with a question mark).
    Examples
  • "Space Brain": the title being sends these symbols in a rapid stream which causes a hyper-interlacing pages to appear on Alphan commscreens. At first, it is puzzling, and they do not discern the intent immediately.
  • EOE: The three very complex-looking block(?) symbols on the outside of both the inner and outer airlock doors to Balor's cell on an asteroid.
  • Flammon
  • The patterns(?) on Pasc's headband and maybe even clothing?
    • Alien-Built
    Spaceships    		 Intro A List of spaceship types designed by aliens. This list does not include count alien missiles or small/simple probe ships.
    List
  • The Satazius: a collosal Bethan warship; destroyed on the Moon, near Moonbase Alpha.
  • An unnamed Deltan warship: destroyed on the Moon, near Alpha.
  • Kaldorian ship flown by Captain Zantor.
  • Gwent
  • Various alien spaceships in two spaceship graveyards, one accumulated in space by the Dragon, one accumulated on Psychon by Mentor.
  • The Daria. Called a ship. (from MOTD)
  • Mentor's spaceship: sometimes hidden, via artificial molecular transformation, as a rock formation or turned into a ball of light. Presumably destroyed with Psychon.
  • Sidon spaceships (3): all destroyed while approaching the Moon, by Voyager 1.
  • Jarak's splinter people's ships (4): all destroyed on or near the Moon. ("Alpha Child")
  • The massive spaceship persuing those in the prior point above. Later, an image of this spaceship is apparently pulled from the Alphans' minds by the aliens in "War Games" -- along with images of the human-built Hawks.
  • Arra's spaceship
  • Archanon ship
  • The Menon: a Betanon Scout Cruiser previously flown by Captain Duro, but now a damaged derelict; towed to Alpha.
  • The Croton ship.
  • Dorcon probe ship.
  • The Dorcon flagship, destroyed near the Moon.
    		•
    All that
    Glisters    		 a.k.a.
  • ATG
    • Definition The 4th episode of Y2, 28th overall. Written by Keith Miles (his only episode). Directed by Ray Austin.
    Timeframe
  • 563? Remote scanners remotely pick up signs of milgonite.
  • 565: Helena quotes this in her log (voiceover) at the beginning of the episode. It is not clear how long from the point of her recording, to the landing.
  • Once landed, all action takes place in a little over three hours.
    • Summary Milgonite, needed for the life support system, is detected on a planet by Alphan scanners. Eagle 4, piloted by Alan Carter and John Koenig, with Tony Verdeschi, Helena Russell, Maya, and Dave Reilly, heads there, but instead of Milgonite, a mysterious rock formation is discovered. A piece is carved out, but soon kills Tony, only for it to be discovered he is not dead, but taken over by what turns out to be the living rock.
    Allan See Tony Allan
    Alpha See Moonbase Alpha
    Alpha
    Child    		 a.k.a.
  • Fiocco azzurro su Alpha (Italian)
    • Definition The tenth episode of Y1 of the series. Written by Christopher Penfold. Directed by Ray Austin.
    Summary The first child born on Moonbase Alpha, Jackie Crawford, abruptly grows from a baby to the equivalent of a five-year-old, shocking everyone. Many are still welcoming, while his mother, Sue Crawford, rejects him, and Commander Koenig grows suspicious. The child himself starts showing some sinister signs almost completely out of sight of others. While something is approaching Alpha, Jackie transforms again, this time into an adult, clearly alien, who calls himself Jarak. Alien spaceships arrive, Jarak kills Sue Crawford, and another alien, Rena, takes over Sue's form. They drive the rest of the Alphans towards death, so the beings in the spaceships can take over Alphan form, to hide from pursuers; but just as this is happening, an alien warship appears and destroys the four spaceships of Jarak's people. Jarak and Rena attempt to plead sanctuary, but the alien warship creates an energy beam that drives Jarak and Rena out and restores Sue Crawford and her baby.
    Details
  • A statement is made that life support is precarious.
  • Sole, and brief, appearances of Joan Conway.
    • Links
  • Episode Guide at the Catacombs.
  • Transcript at The Catacombs.
    • Alpha
    Facilities    		 Intro List of facilities of Alpha that were mentioned (in written or verbal form) and/or shown.
    List
  • Main Mission
  • Command Center
  • Protein Production Unit ("Seed of Destruction")
  • Protein Stores
  • Nuclear Generating Areas (4? -- one damaged or destroyed) / Reactors
  • Eagle Pads
  • Eagle Hangars
  • Water Recycling Plant
  • Hydroponics
  • Solarium (2?)
  • Restaurants
  • Power Distribution (stations?)
  • Supply Depots
  • Observation Room
  • Living Quarters
  • Medical Center
  • Weapons Section?
  • Gymnasium
    • See Also
  • Alpha Facilities Chart in Hallway
    		•
    Alpha
    Facilities
    Chart in
    Hallway    		 Intro In "Seed of Destruction", in the scene fragment just before and after Maya transforms into Cranston, near the Observation Room, she is standing by a chart of Alpha locations by base region and/or level. This was located at a hallway junction, where the wall curves from one hallway into the one to the right. The locations the Editor was able to discern are Listed below in mixed case (they were listed in ALLCAPS in the episode). The chart seems to have levels as columns and facilities (listed below) as rows, with radial slices of Alpha color-coded.
    List
  • Power Distribution
  • Reconnaisance Section
  • Reactors
  • Restaurants
  • Sola(?) Energy Plant
  • Solarium 1
  • Supply Depots
  • Security
  • Solarium 2
  • Travel Tube Depots
  • Technical & Engineering
    • Notes
  • The same or similar chart is seen in at least one Y1 episodes (maybe RATM?) as well, but from too far away to discern any particular words. Same for "The Metamorph".
    • Alpha Moonbase See Moonbase Alpha
    Alpha
    Observed    		 Intro At various times, it is found aliens have been observing Moonbase Alpha and/or the Alphans for some amount of time prior to an encounter. This does not include occasions where the Moon is observed for some hours or days before the encounter, but implication of a much longer period of time, or where an alien sits and watches from close by for some time before revealing his/her presence.
    Examples
  • "The Last Sunset" (Y1): the people native to Ariel "have been watching the progress of your world since the beginning of time." The "world" is presumably Earth, but the clear implication is they've been watching the Moon as well.
  • "The Taybor" (Y2): Taybor has been "scanning" them for "some little time," enough to know who (e.g. -- and by how he calls them) Commander Koenig, Doctor Russell, Mister Verdeschi, and Maya are. He also transfers several objects into Alpha just before he finally brings his ship into view.
  • NANE: Magus has "been monitoring [the Alphans] for a long time" and has "worked out the pair bonding in great detail" regarding the four Alphans (John, Helena, Tony, and Maya) he previously invited and trapped on the surface. He shows a lot of knowledge about Earth and claims to be several names familiar from Earth history.
    • Alphan
    Technology    		 Intro A List of various forms of technology the Alphans had at their disposal at some point.
    List
  • Various vehicles.
  • Various weapons.
  • Various scanners, many hand-held.
  • A large, technological base extrapolated from mid-1970's technology, meant to display an interpretation of late 20th Century, early 21st Century technology. This point will probably be expanded into specifics at a later time. (EXPAND)
  • The Bergman Shield, a type of force field.
  • Computers
  • Commlocks (hand-held communications devices)
  • Artificial gravity, for MBA and Eagles, but not elsewhere on the Moon's surface.
  • Other scientific advances made on Alpha after Breakaway.
  • Alien technology they were able to salvage or obtain from alien wrecks, or by other means, as well as any from Maya. No specific point was made on this in the series, yet devices of alien origin did appear at later time.
  • Artificial hearts
    		•
    Alphan
    Vehicles    		 Intro A List of vehicles the Alphans had.
    List
  • Numerous Eagle spaceships
  • Travel Tube intra-moonbase rapid transit system
  • Moonbuggy (used on the Moon and sometimes on planets)
  • Laser tanks (converted from another purpose?)
  • Re-Entry Glider
  • Voyager 1 (briefly)
    		•
    Alphan
    Weaponry    		 Intro A list of weaponry available for use by the Alphans in defending themselves on base or on missions. The list is in order of presumed power.
    List
  • Stun Gun
  • Laser rifle
  • Eagle laser
  • Laser batteries
  • Nuclear devices
    		•
    "Alphans" Meanings
  • The personnel/residents of Moonbase Alpha as seen in the series and related works.
    • Alphans a.k.a.
  • "Creatures of the Moon" (as called by the Servant of the Guardian of Piri)
    • Definition The people of Moonbase Alpha after Breakaway. Initially, all are Terran humans born on Earth but separated from that world upon the Moon's Breakaway. After Breakaway, Jackie Crawford was born on base. Some time after that, Maya, a Psychon humanoid, joined the Alphan people.
    Notes
  • The term "Alphan" apparently did not emerge until after Breakaway, when ~300 humans were essentially cut off from the Terran homeworld, and were thus no longer really representatives of Earth but of their own adrift planetoid, and thus gained their own increasingly distinct identity.
    • Alternate a.k.a.
  • parallel universe (for reality/timeline)
  • doppelganger (for character)
    • Definition A word often used in this KB to refer to alternate realities/timelines, and/or the characters who "reside" in them. This page lists canon (e.g. ATAP) and may list some non-canon alternates, the latter from books where alternates are clearly defined.
    Anderson Definition Surname of two producers of the series. They were married since 1962 (IMDb), but divorced between (?) filming of Y1 and Y2.
    List
  • Gerry Anderson: executive producer.
  • Sylvia Anderson: producer of Y1.
    		•
    Annette
    Fraser    		 a.k.a.
  • Annie
    • Summary Woman in Service Section, seen standing at computer walls in Command Center. Married to Bill Fraser two months prior to the Psychon encounter.
    Details
  • Faints in shock at capture of Bill by Mentor, recovers quickly and then wishes to leave Medical Center. Reacts strongly when she finds out about Directive Four, but finds some strength to watch that Eagle's approach to Psychon.
  • Wears a yellow sleeve (Service).
  • Long, blond hair.
    • Stories
  • "The Metamorph"
    • Links
  • Screencaps and brief sound clips elsewhere here at Metaforms.
    • Another Time,
    Another Place    		 a.k.a.
  • ATAP (common in discussion)
  • #1f (Editor's non-official episode counter)
    • Definition The 6th episode of the series. Written by Johnny Byrne. Directed by David Tomblin. Main guest artists/stars: Judy Geeson.
    Summary
  • Split of the Moon, Alpha, and Alphans. The dopplegangers (alternates) are encountered shortly later in the episode; they have experienced considerably more time, and have settled on an Earth otherwise devoid of human life.
    • Details
  • Alternate Earth as well?
    • Links
  • Episode Guide at The Catacombs.
    		•
    Anthony Verdeschi See Tony Verdeschi
    Anton
    Gorski    		 a.k.a.
  • Commander Gorski
    • Who The eighth commander of Moonbase Alpha.
    Details
  • Was in command of Moonbase Alpha at least as early as 1996 (according to DD).
  • According to Prof. Bergman, Gorski was not relaying much of Dr. Russell's findings to Earth just prior to Breakaway, and is thus partially responsible for a cover-up.
  • Relieved of command of MBA late in the evening of Sept. 9, 1999, with Cmdr. Koenig directly succeeding him. Koenig was later known to be the ninth commander (cited in "War Games"), thus making Gorski the eighth.
  • Is "very flexible" -- implying he's politically nimble enough to find himself another role (in the ILC?).
  • Likes to grow plants -- or at least has some supplies for such that he left behind when leaving Alpha. Cmdr. Koenig later finds and uses at least part of the supplies. (All as referenced in "Dragon's Domain").
    • Episodes
  • "Breakaway" (seen briefly, mentioned a few times)
  • "Dragon's Domain" (not seen? mentioned a few times, first name given)
    		•
    Apollo 11 a.k.a.
  • A11
    • Definition Name of the real-life mission which landed human beings on the Moon for the first time. The lander portion was named The Eagle, so it seems the Eagle fleet was named after this lander.
    Archanons Who Alien people, known as "The Peacebringers" but who are sometimes infected with a virus known as the Killing Sickness, for how it turns its victims into killers. The Archanons mark a Flammon symbol to the forehead to indicate when the danger is emerging.
    Details
  • "The Peacebringers" name is claimed by Pasc, and apparently of "legends" known to Psychons as well.
  • "Borderline human norm" according to Dr. Russell.
  • Cannot lose much blood, and this in fact prevents them from treating the disease, as they know the cure but it involves this process.
  • Use a flammon symbol.
  • Unverified: Hairstyles, clothes, and makeup resemble ancient Mesopotamian.
  • As pronounced by Pasc, the 'ch' sound in "Archanon" is drawn out, thick, rather than an abrupt 'k' sound (i.e. not pronounced like "Arkanon"). Most Alphans, however, go with the simpler "Arkanon" sound when saying the word.
    • Examples
  • Pasc: apparent commander of a peacebringing mission to Earth, infected with the Killing Sickness, and is left in a stasis chamber.
  • Lyra: his wife, who takes command after killing breaks out.
  • Etrec: their son, who also has to be left in a stasis chamber due to the Killing Sickness infecting along the male line.
  • Maurna: descendent of Lyra's line, who comes to Alpha after the Archanons become aware Pasc and Etrec's stasis chamber has been opened.
  • Lok (mentioned): killed by Pasc.
  • Kerak (mentioned): ditto.
    • Speculation
  • Did an even earlier visit by Archanons inspire the ancient Mesopotamians? The "thousand years" that is mentioned regarding Pasc does not add up to this, but it is unclear how that number was reached (or if Archanon years are much longer), so perhaps Pasc's team itself was there thousands (plural) of years ago? Or perhaps there is no connection at all, or misinterpretation of the clothing and hair styles.
  • Are they just another race familiar with the Flammon symbol from other sources, or are they the source? It seems more likely they are just familiar with it. See Flammon for more detail and speculation.
    • Episodes
  • "The Mark of Archanon"
    		•
    Archon Definition Title of the Supreme Leader of the Dorcon Empire. Called "The Archon" in reference.
    Examples
  • Otherwise unnamed Archon, played by Patrick Troughton. Attempted to secure "immortality" via a organ transplant from an unwilling Maya, who his Consul, Varda, captured from Alpha. On the surgical table, before surgery began, the Archon was killed by his nephew, Malic, who coveted the throne and the chance of immortality.
  • Malic promptly claimed the title, but lived for only a very brief time afterwards.... He proceeded to shoot Varda after Koenig convinced Varda of Malic's guilt in killing the former Archon. As Varda collapsed, a stray shot from her weapon damaged the Meson Converter, which led to the destruction of the Dorcon flagship, presumably with Malic on board.
    • Episodes
  • "The Dorcons"
    • Warnings
  • The Archon is not to be confused with an individual, named Aarchon, of a different alien people. Neither is to be confused with the aliens called Archanons.
    • Area B7 See Nuclear Waste Storage
    Area One See Nuclear Waste Storage
    Area Two See Nuclear Waste Storage
    Arra a.k.a.
  • Arra, Queen of Atheria
    • Who Queen of a people who have been expecting the Alphans for "millions of years" and who herself has been "waiting a long time to meet" John Koenig, is overseeing the final stages leading up to Mutation of her people to a new, utterly different, and then immutable form via trying to ensure her planet, Atheria touches the Moon.
    Details
  • Veiled in black initially, before showing her aged yet regal face and white hair.
  • Either she, or someone unseen of her people, flies a large spaceship which "swallows" Koenig's Eagle, leading to their meeting.
  • On her ship, sits on a throne (the prop is seen again in somewhat different forms at least twice more). The ship appears rather dusty and full of cobwebs, showing the ship's age and apparent disuse, as if her people (or at least her, if this is her flagship) have not been active in space for awhile (involved in final pre-Mutation preparations?).
  • Ability to hear and transmit thoughts, as well as the "unthinking calculations" of Main Computer.
    • Episodes
  • "Collision Course"
    		•
    Artifical
    Heart    		 Who
  • Prof. Victor Bergman, apparently from some point before Breakaway.
  • Michelle Osgood, starting from some point near or just after 1196 DAB.
    • Notes
  • Victor's artificial heart is noted as being a bit slow to respond to physiological stimuli.
  • Victor's is drained of power at least once (in "Infernal Machine") and restarted with 3000 volts.
  • Medical Section has several failed attempts getting one working for Michelle before finally getting some tiranium and being able to get it working, after which it was implanted in her.
  • It is unclear if the two are of the same type. Dorfmann(sp?) is mentioned in one case?
    • Astro 7 Summary Mission that Lee Russell was on when the mission was lost in 1994, only for a "reflection" of him to appear on a planet dubbed Terra Nova.
    ATAP See "Another Time, Another Place"
    Atheria a.k.a.
  • Aestheria: ITC promotional material misspelling, sometimes repeated elsewhere as a result.
  • Astheria: another mistaken version midway between the Aesteria mistake and the intended Atheria.
    • Summary
  • Planet which is discovered to be on a collision course with the Moon. The homeworld of Arra, Queen of Atheria, and her (otherwise unseen) people. Atheria disappears at the moment of contact with the Moon, as it(?) and her people "mutate" to another form.
    • Details
  • Alphans briefly consider evacuating to the far side of the planet from where the lunar collision would occur.
    • Episodes
  • "Collision Course"
    • See Also
  • Planets Destroyed or Vanished
    		•
    Atomic
    Dispersal    		 Definition A process Maya concludes Magus has used on Eagle 4 to make it appear to vanish in front of her, John, Helena, and Tony (on New Earth, in "New Adam New Eve").
    Notes
  • The Eagle re-formed shortly after Magus was trapped away from the light needed to power his technology.
    • Quotes
  • Maya (referring to vanished Eagle): "it's still there somewhere, only... only he's exerting some power to disperse its particles. Like... powder dissolving in a liquid."
    • Austin See Episodes Directed by Ray Austin
    Australia Intro A country of origin for at least one Alphan, as stated or strongly implied.
    Who
  • Alan Carter, as stated by him in "Dorzak" (and strongly implied through series previously).
  • Andy "Bluey" Johnson? (maybe not, apparently the term "Bluey" can be Australian slang/nickname for someone with red hair, which Johnson has)
    • B2 See Bridge Two
    B4 See Bridge Four
    Barry
    Gray    		 Who Composer (and conductor?) of the score/soundtrack for Y1.
    Details
  • Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
  • Composed the music for many Gerry Anderson series.
  • Died in April 1984.
    		•
    Barry
    Morse    		 Who Actor who played Prof. Victor Bergman in the first season.
    Details
  • Born 1918/06/10 in London.
  • Married Sydney Sturgess in 1939. They were married 60 years until she died of Parkinsons disease in 1999.
  • Extensive acting in radio, television, movies, and stage.
  • Had great appreciation for the plays of George Bernard Shaw.
  • Best known roles arguably Lt. Gerard in The Fugitive in the mid-1960's, and Victor Bergman in Space: 1999 in the mid-1970's.
  • Supported various charitable organizations, including for research into cure for Parkinsons disease.
  • Voiced of the audiobook version of the Powys Media novel Resurrection, which has a planned release of 2010/05/07.
  • Died 2008/02/02 (age 89).
    • Notes
  • This Space: 1999 Knowledgebase page is dedicated in memory of Barry Morse. See the KB intro page.
    • See Also
  • Cast
    • Links
  • Official Website
  • Eagle Forum memorial thread
  • In Memorium by fans
  • Obituary in Globe and Mail (Canada)
  • Obituary in The Independent (U.K.)
  • New York Times obit
  • CNN obit (misspelled the character name, which was Lt. Gerard, not Girard)
  • Obituary at The Guardian (Guardian Unlimited Arts) website
    		•
    Bartlett See Jack Bartlett
    Beautiful
    Friendship    		 Statement A phrase Maya used to describe her relationship with Tony, at least at one point.
    Stories
  • "A Matter of Balance" (Y2, ~1702+ DAB). She uses this (see Quotes) with him, in the presence of others, but with no further definition or description, while expressing no interest in spoiling it. This was in a semi-humorous context, but was an apparently honest description, however cryptic.
    • Quotes
  • Maya, after refusing Tony's latest brew: "No thanks, I'd hate to ruin a beautiful friendship."
    • Benes See Sandra Benes
    Ben Vincent a.k.a.
  • Dr. Ben Vincent
    • Who An Alphan doctor who is first seen in Y2.
    Details
  • "Space Warp": He and Helena debate/argue treatment for Maya while she is in another, injured form and not reverting.
  • Perhaps grew up, lived, or vacationed in California, or is at least a fan of that state, based on a response in BOW2.
    • Bernard See Eric Bernard
    Betha Definition One of two planets around a single star that the Moon passed.
    Episodes
  • "The Last Enemy"
    • Details
  • From the perspective of the Alphans, Betha was on the left-hand side of its sun.
  • A mostly blue and blue-green shaded world, with some black patches.
  • At least one Bethan installation is located in a a rugged and semi-barren area.
  • The Alphans quickly determine it is inhabited, then detect the approach of a collosal gunship they later find out is named the Satazius.
  • In a constant and long-standing state of war with Delta, which is on the other side of their common star.
    • Betha vs.
    Delta    		 Intro Two planets, Betha and Delta, which have been in a constant and long-standing state of war with each other, with at least sporadic, opportunistic battles.
    Details
  • Their war is complicated by the planets being on opposite sides of their common star.
  • Previously tried to use an asteroid as a platform for missile-bearing gunships, but the asteroids were "too small" (?) for that purpose.
  • The Moon crossing through provides a ready-made gun platform, and a new battle ensues.
  • All five Bethans seen, including a Commander and military leader, were female. The sole Deltan seen, a military leader, is male.
    • Speculation
  • Is Betha a world run by women and Delta one run by men? There are too few people of either planet, especially Delta, who are seen in the episode, so it is difficult to draw conclusions; but (speaking story-wise) perhaps they had common origins at one point, but took different paths on the two planets. There is no stated evidence about this, just the visual points mentioned here, except.... An early script was named "The Second Sex" (according to The Catacombs episode transcript). Perhaps earlier scripts had more of a battle of the sexes theme that was lessened later -- but the Editor does not know. The meaning of what was on the screen is difficult to gauge.
    • Episodes
  • "The Last Enemy"
    • Quotes
  • Dione, in response to a question from Helena: "We have always been at war"
    • Betha vs.
    Delta:
    Battle
    of the
    Wandering
    Moon    		 Intro Details of a battle, centered on the Moon, between Betha and Delta, in their long-running war. Presented in this entry as being in three stages. "Round 1" is mentioned in the episode; the others are separated by the Editor. This entry's title -- "Battle of the Wandering Moon" -- is one given by the Editor as an entry title only; it was not uttered in the episode (though Dione did use the phrase "wandering moon").
    Round 1
  • The Bethans realize the traveling Moon, wandering through the star system common to them and their enemies, will make an excellent gun platform, away from the sun that interferes with other battles in the war.
  • They plan a pre-emptive strike, and launch the gunship Satazius to the Moon, suppress Alphan defenses, lands, and carries out that strike against Delta.
  • Delta launches a missile attack towards the origin of the Bethan attack, missiles on random trajectories near Alpha. One strikes the Satazius, knocking it out.
  • An escape craft leaves the Satazius, and still without communication, lands on Launch Pad 10. Koenig decides to bring it down to the hangar, to find out more about what is going on. On board is Dione, the commander of the Satazius, who says she is the sole survivor of her ship. She demands sanctuary. This is initially denied, but she talks her way into it.
  • While she is talking with the command staff, even offering to send Bethan reinforcements to "protect Alpha" (disbelieved by Koenig), a Deltan gunship approaches Alpha, lands nearby, and launches an attack against Delta.
  • Betha then launches missiles towards the Moon. The first volley strikes but does not knock out the Deltan gunship.
  • Dione tries to charm and wile John, even offering to let the Alphans settle on the planet. He is not convinced, and seems a little repelled by her attempts at charm, though he plays along a little.
  • The Deltan gunship starts firing missiles again.
  • Betha launches another missile, which scores a direct hit on the Deltan ship, destroying it.
    • Ceasefire
  • Now "back to square one" with the Bethan ship knocked out and the Deltan one destroyed, John decides to try negotiating a cease fire, which Dione appears surprised at. Victor whispers to John (and Helena) they only need about four hours of time before the Moon is likely out of range and of no use to either side.
  • Kano establishes contact with the Deltan Supreme Commander, Talos. Koenig convinces Talos to put the request before their Praesidium. Dione, using Kano's equipment, makes contact with Chief Commissioner of Bethan Defence, Theia. She agrees to a cease fire and to discuss terms. A Deltan term is that it be policed, and Koenig offers to do so. Talos also wants to launch a second gunship of theirs into orbit around their planet, just in case the cease fire breaks down.
  • The Alphans discuss Dione's offer of settlement on Betha further. John thinks it does need to be discussed, but Helena and Victor are arguing against it.
    • Round 2
  • Dione disappears from quarters, transported to her escape craft, which returns to the damaged Satazius, puzzling the Alphans.
  • The Satazius re-activates and launches a new attack on Delta. It was playing possum, having waited for a nearby missile strike and activating carefully-prepared charges on Satazius for some controlled damage to give the appearance of being knocked out, and gain time for a new attack when there would not be enough time for the Deltans to bring a new gunship to the Moon.
  • Talos feels Koenig broke his word. The cease fire is ended. Talos indicates the gunship and Alpha will be destroyed, then demands the coordinates of the Bethan gunship, and threatens to bombard Alpha at intervals until the gunship is destroyed or its coordinates are given up. To prevent the latter, Dione threatens a direct strike on Alpha by her gunship.
  • Deltan missiles are launched, hitting Alpha and doing damage.
  • Koenig contacts Dione and indicates he is coming out to the Satazius, seemingly looking (to Alphan and Bethan alike) that he is abandoning Alpha. When Victor breaks the signal, Koenig tells the Alphans it is a ruse, says that Technical should prepare for action.
  • The Satazius launches more missiles at Delta.
  • A moonbuggy carrying Koenig drives towards the Satazius, Koenig trying to convince her to stop the attack. She has no interest in letting him on board, but does otherwise seem a little concerned about his well-being.
  • Delta launches more missiles towards Alpha. While those are in flight, the Satazius launches more missiles at Delta, continuing the bombardment she hopes will knock out the rest of their defenses.
  • Koenig pleads, for the last time, for Dione to stop firing. The Satazius continues firing.
  • While Dione again indicates Koenig will not be allowed aboard, the moonbuggy get underneath an overhanging part of the gunship, where the Bethan guns cannot fire. The moonbuggy's passenger's helmet falls off, but there is no one inside. It is an Alphan ruse, and Koenig is speaking from his office in Alpha. The moonbuggy is carrying a powerful weapon, which explodes, destroying the Bethan gunship.
  • Alpha contacts Delta to indicate the ship is destroyed, and contacts Talos to request the Deltan missiles still on approach to be auto-destroyed, which is done. The battle is over.
    • Conclusions
  • The Deltan gunship is destroyed with its entire crew.
  • The Bethan gunship Satazius is destroyed with its entire crew, including Dione.
  • The two alien gunships become additional alien wrecks on the Moon. The Deltan ship's missile battery is later converted to a housing for an Alphan laser(?).
  • Numerous exchanges of missiles, often more than one of each of these: Satazius to Delta, Delta to the Moon, and Betha to the Moon.
  • Numerous missiles hit all targets, Delta, Satazius, Deltan gunship, Alpha, the Moon in general, and Betha.
  • Parts of Alpha are damaged.
  • Among Alphans, five cases of middle ear damage, but fortunately no fatalities.
  • Alphans lose a moonbuggy and spacesuit, both used in the Alphan's sole direct (and apparently the only truly decisive) strike in the whole battle.
    • Bethan Gunship See Satazius
    Bill
    Fraser    		 Summary Eagle pilot, operative seen several times at consoles in Command Center, married to Annette Fraser, who is apparently another operative.
    Details
  • Survived Psychon after being in first Eagle (namely Eagle 1) captured by Mentor.
  • Wears a red sleeve, perhaps hinting at prior, unseen (to the viewer) duties in Main Mission. In "AB Chrysalis", he starts the episode at a Command Center console.
  • Not adept with setting up electrical systems. ("Beta Cloud")
    • Episodes
  • "The Metamorph": exploring for minerals in Eagle 1; captured by Mentor of Psychon. His co-pilot eventually dies there on Psychon. Returns to Alpha on Eagle 4.
  • "The Taybor": sent out in a Moonbuggy with another Alphan to look for any sign of Taybor's ship after Taybor takes John for an unannounced trip into hyperspace. The two in the moonbuggy have to flee for their lives when Taybor's ship starts returning into its previous location.
  • "The Mark of Archanon"?
  • "Brian the Brain"
  • "The AB Chrysalis" (?)
  • "A Matter of Balance"
  • "The Beta Cloud": one of the few unaffected by illness, aides Tony, Maya, and Sandra. Injured?
  • "Devil's Planet"
  • "Immunity Syndrome": flies an Eagle carrying the Re-Entry Glider to the planet.
    • See Also
  • Cast
    		•
    Birds Intro Birds were seen a number of times in the series. Some were molecular transformations of Maya, but Others were seen as well.
    Maya
  • Dove: "Metamorph" (for fast movement) and "Dorcons" (attempt to flee that was blocked).
  • Kestrel: "Metamorph" (escape attempt), and twice in "Luton" (search, obtain water).
  • Parrot: OMOH (copies one already on Vega).
  • Owl: NANE (survey).
    • Others
  • Parrots: MOLAD, OMOH.
  • Dove(s) seen at least once in a cage on Alpha (in Recreation Center in MOA at least).
    • See Also
  • Maya's Transforms (by Lifeform)
    		•
    "Black Sun" Meanings
  • Title of an episode.
  • Reference to the central feature of that episode (see prior point), a spatial object sometimes called that in the 1970's, but more commonly known nowadays as a black hole. (Curiosity: A song, unrelated to S19, was titled both ways: "Black Hole Sun")
    • Black Sun Intro 3rd episode of the first season. Written by David Weir (his only episode). Directed by Lee H. Katzin, who also directed "Breakaway" (his only two episodes).
    Summary After finding an erratic asteroid, the Moon changes course, drawn towards an unusual astronomical phenomenon. An Eagle is sent, but it and its pilot are sucked in. They realize they are dealing with a black sun, and have little time. A modified Bergman Shield is set up and demonstrated; but among the officers, there is little hope it will really help. A lifeboat Eagle is launched in the opposite direction. Alphans share what they think may be final moments, then inside, find themselves undergoing a strange and wonderful experience, inc. talking with something they find difficult to classify. They survive, do not recall what happened inside, and discovered the survival ship has appeared above them too.
    Details
  • Eagle 1, with Mike Ryan as pilot (apparently the sole occupant) are sucked into the Black Sun, and are lost. He does not reappear later (like the lifeboat Eagle did), so he perhaps died.
  • The influence of the Black Sun is drawing Alpha power, and the base becomes cooler. At one point, Victor clears frost off a window.
  • Victor gets receives an electrical jolt; Helena feels his mechanical heart saves his life.
  • Computer put on Essential Services Program (minimum capacity).
  • Paul Morrow is on watch at least once. Also, he puts David Kano on watch at one point.
  • Alpha News Service is broadcasting some updates, but eventually shuts down.
    • Quotes
  • Mike Ryan (regarding the title object): "It's round... it's huge... it's black. Boy, is it black."
  • Helena Russell (regarding new Bergman Shield): "It's ingenious."
  • Victor Bergman (in response): "It's insane."
  • David Kano: "Alpha cannot survive without Computer."
  • John Koenig (in response): "Is that a fact?"
  • Victor to John, regarding their "extraordinary" survival: "Oh, I don't know exactly.... I, I, I, I'm a scientist, I don't know anything about God; but, no, ah... a sort of... 'cosmic intelligence' is what I've got in mind."
  • Victor to John: "Sixty year old brandy. I've been saving it for ten years. Just waiting for a proper occasion to celebrate. Well, not everybody might think this was a celebration; but it is to me."
  • John to Victor, starting a toast: "To everything that might have been."
  • Victor to John, finishing the toast: "To everything that was."
  • Tanya: "Paul. Mind if I share the music with you?"
    		•
    Black Sun
    Lifeboat
    Eagle    		 a.k.a.
  • survival ship
    • Intro Lists the personnel and bit of personal politics regarding the lifeboat Eagle in sent in the opposite direction from the Black Sun.
    Quotes
  • Alan Carter: "Well, I should be one of those six, Commander. Because if anyone could get them somewhere... I can."
  • John Koenig: "It's been fuelled, and equipped with supplies to carry six persons; three men and three women."
  • John Koenig: "I've instructed Central Computer to select the people most likely, in every way, to ensure the survival of mankind in space."
  • John Koenig: "This list is final."
  • John Koenig: "If you're careful you have supplies enough for five weeks. If there's anything out there that can help you, then together..you'll find it. If not..."
    • Men
  • Astronaut Alan Carter
  • Flight Engineer George Osgood
  • Communications Controller Toshiro Fujita
    • Women
  • Doctor Helena Russell
  • Data Analyst Sandra Benes
  • Professor Angela Robinson (Service Section)
    • Details
  • Alan seems upset about the lifeboat Eagle (see first of Quotes) and that he is not aboard; but he soon finds out he is on the list.
  • Helena seems upset that John will not be onboard. Victor tries to indicate to her that John would have never gone. She argues with John that she can be replaced by Dr. Bob Mathias (Note: doctor-doctor exchange, though in her haste (?), she apparently does not consider the change to the male/female balance). He indicates it is not the time the time for a noble gesture, she argues she's not being noble, swallows her next words, then says it's her life.
  • In the end, it is that group that leaves on the Eagle, in the opposite direction from the black sun. When the Moon plunges into the black sun, effects similar to what the Alphans on base experience. The Eagle fades out, and at some point after the Moon comes out the other side, the Eagle appears above it.
    • Comments
  • Alan's points (first point in Details above) seem out of character. It was probably not intended to sound whiney, yet does.
    • Blessed See Brian Blessed
    BM See Barry Morse
    Bob Brooks See Episode Directors
    Bob Kellett See Episodes Directed by Bob Kellett
    Books Intro Various Space: 1999 books have been written. This entry lists some as category links to more details listings, some as Categories without further information yet, and some may be just lists of miscellaneous (as yet uncategorized) Titles.
    Categories
  • Novelizations and Original Novels
  • Annuals: produced for a few years in the 1970's
  • Picture Books (e.g. the rare item sometimes referred to as the Japanese Picture Book)
    • Titles
  • The Making of Space: 1999 by Tim Heald (1976, Ballantine)
  • The Future Is Fantastic by Robert E. Wood (2001, Trafford)
  • UFO / Space: 1999 by Chris Drake (1994, ITC and Boxtree)
    • See Also
  • Merchandise
    		•
    BOW See "Bringers of Wonder"
    Brain
    or Mind
    Damage    		 Intro List of individuals or groups who suffered significant, permanent, or fatal brain/mind damage. Concussions or painful mind probes are not counted in this entry.
    List
  • Several (~9?) astronauts in the time leading up to Breakaway. Most or all are fatalities (could be kept alive, but only by machines, otherwise completely dead, and are eventually unhooked).
  • Regina Kesslann^. Fatality (in two realities).
  • Ted Clifford: attacked by the Tritonian probe, some parts of his brain are expanded, others destroyed. Fatality.
  • Ray Torens: most of mind is drained by Psyche, Mentor's biological computer, under the latter's instruction/control. What remains of Ray is forced to work in the mines. This does not kill him directly, but he dies when the mine ceiling collapses during the final destruction of Psychon.
  • Carolyn Powell: in losing a face-off of wills against John Koenig while she is displaying strong telepathic/telekinetic abilities, under the influence of the Lambda Variant, she loses, her rage is turned back on herself (?), and her mind is wiped to the point she is like a child, and will have to learn everything again. This is apparently mental damage more than brain damage?
  • Tony Verdeschi: mind damage, driven mad by the "Immunity Syndrome" Being, later healed by the same being.
    • See Also
  • Mind Control
    		•
    "Breakaway" Meanings
  • The Breakaway event.
  • Title of the first episode of the series.
  • Title of the first novelization, which included the first four episodes.
    • Breakaway
    (book)    		 Summary Novelization of the first four episodes of the series. Novelized by E.C. Tubb. Order of Episodes listed below is as novelized.
    Episodes
  • "Breakaway"
  • "Matter of Life and Death"
  • "Ring Around the Moon"
  • "Black Sun"
    		•
    Breakaway
    (episode)    		 Intro The pilot/premiere episode of the series. Written by George Bellak (his only episode). Directed by Lee H. Katzin.
    Summary A series of mysterious illnesses and deaths on Moonbase Alpha prompts a new Commander, John Koenig to be posted there, to oversee determining what the "virus" is. Radiation in one of the nuclear disposal areas is suspected, but none is being found, even while preparations continue for the Meta Probe. However, more astronauts are dying, and a new kind of radiation is suspected. Area One suddenly goes up in a moderate firestorm, prompting Koenig to declare an emergency. They attempt to break up and disperse Area Two, which is 140x more massive, but it is futile. A far more massive explosion ensues, which propels the Moon out of orbit and into interstellar space (an event called Breakaway). Koenig decides a direct return to Earth is riskier than trying to survive on the Moon with an essentially intact base, and into deep space they fly, already with hopes of finding a planet.
    Timeframe
  • Starts on 1999/09/09.
  • Ends on 1999/09/13.
    • Plot
  • Radiation check of Nuclear Waste Disposal Area Two finds no signs of radiation, but Nordstrom goes mad, and gets himself killed.
  • Meanwhile, John Koenig is being ferried to Alpha on Eagle 2. In flight, he receives a call from Commissioner Simmonds, final approval for his posting as Commander. Spacefarer 9 has gotten the first good photos of Meta.
  • Eagle 2 arrives at Alpha, greeted by Prof. Victor Bergman, who informs John the illness situation is much worse than John has been led to believe, and that it is not a virus. It looks like radiation, but none has been found so far. The problem could affect the launch of the Meta Probe, which has no margin for error given Meta is only going to be in range for a short time. Cmdr. Gorski has been refusing to allow Dr. Helena Russell to report her findings. Victor advises John to meet Helena.
  • She too believes it is not a virus, and reports it is a form of brain damage and they're not going to recover. She reports the ninth man died that morning, out of eleven cases. All of the nine worked at Area Two, but two Meta Probe astronauts are sick. She cannot guarantee the backup crew will remain fit, since they may have been exposed to the unknown factor. The two currently dying are Eric and Frank.
  • John meets with Capt. Alan Carter, regarding the possibility of using the backup crew ready for the Meta Probe.
  • Koenig calls Simmonds, and succeeds at getting a temporary halt in nuclear shipments, and speaks bluntly about the pilots, wondering why Simmonds lied to him, and finds out it is because of an upcoming International Lunar Finance Committee meeting regarding the Meta Signal and Meta Probe, and that the true news would rattle the ILFC.
  • John and Victor visit Area Two for more direct radiation checks, but they are negative, casting doubt on Helena. Their pilot, Collins, goes crazy with the same illness, and they scuffle with him and eventually prevail.
  • Koenig orders Ouma to search for correlations between flight patterns and those who have suffered problems. Meanwhile, Frank Warren has died at 13:28. Eric Sparkman is brain dead (as reported by computer); Dr. Russell removes him from life support. Koenig breaks the news to Carter, and tells him to forget the Meta Probe, until conclusions can be made.
  • Ouma discovers there were blank-outs in the automated records of Eagle flights as Collins (and others?) pass over Navigation Beacon Delta on the farside, near or at Area One. Various astronauts passed by that way in flight/training patterns. Controller Paul Morrow has Data Analyst Sandra Benes run some checks, and she reports a steep rise in heat at Area One, still without other radiation. Their cameras are quickly burned out.
  • John checks Area One for readings, in an Eagle, which suffers disruption from an expanding magnetic field, and crashes not far away. Area One goes up in what Victor soon calls a magnetic subsurface firestorm, a new phenomenon.
  • Paul remotely controls an Eagle to check out Area Two. It displays no magnetic disturbances initially, then a violent surge which disrupts the Eagle, crashing it. Realizing Area Two amounts to "the biggest bomb man's ever made", Koenig issues Emergency Code Alpha One to Simmonds, which prompts the latter to come to Alpha in Eagle 1 (VIP pod) after Koenig did not respond to further queries.
  • Heat is starting to rise in Area Two now, which is 140x larger than Area One. Simmonds asks whether it would burn itself out like Area One, but question is moot, because it is so large the entire Moon is in effect sitting on top of it. Victor suggests breaking the pile to disperse it, but warns time is limited.
  • Soon, all of Alpha's Eagles are committed. Carter is ordered to take Eagle 1 up into orbit to observe. Magnetic levels, fluctuating earlier, are starting to hold steady, and an optimistic Simmonds is going to send a communiqué. Koenig is not so optimistic.
  • Just then, Area Two starts exploding, leading a series of blasts culminating in a critical reaction and a massive explosion which in a minutes-long burn, acts as a giant engine, pushing the Moon out of orbit, causing damage, throwing people about, and pinning them to the floor. Carter is in pursuit, calling out to an initially-unresponsive Alpha, though Main Mission can hear his description of the event. See Breakaway Event for detail.
  • Carter makes it to the base, while damage reports start coming in, and a check of Master Computer over Contingency Plan Exodus results in information on too many indefinite variables to plot a return course. "Human Decision Required." John makes the decision to remain on Alpha, where they can sustain themselves, rather than a highly unlikely return to Earth.
  • Alpha picks up a signal, with an image, from the Mars Satellite, then later a news report from GTV, which mentions earthquake damage there. Earth doubts the 311 on MBA survived. Space Dock was also hurled out of orbit. Alpha loses that transmission, only to pick up the Meta Signal, which gives them some hope of settlement.
    • Details
  • The voice of the Eagle 2 pilot is that of the actor Shane Rimmer, who also played Kelly in "Space Brain." It is not clear if it is intended as the same character (the Editor would have to review Kelly's Alpha role).
  • On Eagle 2, a woman walks into the passenger pod with coffee for the commander, seemingly echoing a similar scene from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" (one interesting contrast is that the woman in S19 can walk comfortably in artificial gravity, while the one in "2001" needed Velcro-style(?) slippers in zero-G.
  • Victor hands John a commlock on the latter's arrival on Alpha (scheduled 2335 Lunar Time). It seems commlocks are specific (or specifically programmed) to Alpha.
  • There are implications Victor had not planned on being on Alpha up through 09/09, but got "caught up" (apparently with investigating the "virus infection").
  • John obviously knows Victor very well, as well as Benjamin Ouma, Paul Morrow, a Main Mission operative (?) named Michael, but not Tanya Aleksandr, who introduces herself.
  • The first meeting of John and Helena is somewhat fractious, her probably not trusting him much after the prior commander didn't listen to her, and though he tries to break the ice, isn't entirely successful.
  • The illness causes tissue disruptions (seen often in the face) and often clouding of at least one eye, like a sudden cataract. The isolation ward is bathed in blue light (reason unknown?).
  • When John talks to Alan for the first time in this episode, a hangar is visible behind them. Visible to the right are 4 Eagles with their side facing and 3 Eagles facing forward even further back, with 1 facing forward in the middle, 1 being ferried in the foreground, at least 4 side facing on the left, and at least 2 facing forward in the left back. That totals at least 15, though more might be obscured or have been missed by the Editor.
  • Area Two had a newer Centigrade(?) containment system than Area One.
  • To break up the pile, Eagles are being converted to the Winch pod and sent out, with six of them arriving in the area initially. They set to work, uncovering individual containment units and pulling out canisters, with a magnetic device hanging from the winch, lifting out containers and flying them at some distance, where they are released. Detailed directions are coming from Paul. Some Eagles have to return due to disruptions to their equipment.
    • Notes
  • An earlier version of the script had several early names: "Zero G", "The Void Ahead", and "Turning Point".
  • Used with other episode(s) into two compilation movies in 1976 and 1982.
  • In 2010, audio tapes of some cut scenes of this episode surfaced, and were posted to YouTube, with transcripts and commentary at the Catacombs. See Links.
    • See Also
  • Breakaway Quotations
  • Pre-Breakaway Population
  • Breakaway Population
    • Links
  • Breakaway Lost Scenes (at The Catacombs)
    		•
    Breakaway:
    Helena and
    Victor
    Visit
    Area Two    		 Intro Details of the first scene of the "Breakaway" episode.
    Details
  • On the "Dark" (far) side of the Moon, on Sept 9th 1999, a radiation check is going to be run at Nuclear Waste Disposal Area Two.
  • Jim Nordstrom and Steiner, approach a laser barrier and temporarily turn one segment off to enter the area.
  • They are being overseen by Professor Bergman and Doctor Russell, who are in the Monitoring Depot.
  • In the meantime, Eagle 14 is unloading more canisters nearby.
  • Nordstrom or Steiner is using a hand-held Geiger Counter, which finds no sign of extra radiation.
  • Nordstrom goes mad, attacking Steiner and trying to escape Area Two, running into the laser barrier and damaging his helmet against a rock. He dies (implied by the scene but verified later).
    • Notes
  • Meanwhile, John Koenig is approaching the Moon in Eagle 2.
    • Breakaway:
    John and
    Victor
    Visit
    Area Two    		 Intro Details of a scene partway through the "Breakaway" episode.
    Details
  • Cmdr. Koenig has himself and Prof. Bergman shuttled to Area Two.
  • As they chat in the passenger pod, their pilot, Collins, passes Area One, using the nearby Navigation Beacon Delta as a turning point. Collins starts looking slightly twitchy at that point.
  • They arrive at Area Two at the same time as a moonbuggy. The three from the Eagle arrive in the Monitoring Depot, while those in the Moonbuggy, Jackson and Ellis, start the new radiation checks. There are no signs of problems, casting doubts on Russell's theory of some form of radition sickness.
  • When they are about to leave, Collins goes crazy, trying to get out of the post by busting a window, and scuffling with John and Victor until a security guard arrives, who also scuffles. The latter's stun gun flies across the room, and Koenig(?) picks it up and stuns Collins.
  • The three(?) drag Collins out of the immediate room and close the door, just seconds before the compromised window explodes, exposing that room to cold vacuum.
    • Breakaway
    (quotes)    		 Intro Key quotes from the "Breakaway" episode. Some quotes adapted from The Catacombs.
    Quotes
  • Simmonds to in-transit John Koenig: "... your job is to put man on Meta."
  • Victor Bergman to arriving John: "Things are far more serious than I suspect you've been told."
  • Victor to John, about Dr. Helena Russell: "Commander Gorski refused to let her report any of her findings."
  • Koenig: "Simmonds, why did you lie to me?"
  • Simmonds, in reply: "You mean those men are no better?"
  • Koenig, in response: "No. They're no better. They're not going to get any better and you know it."
  • Koenig to Alan Carter: "You were told lies. They died of an illness no one can understand. Earth Command wanted you to think it was a temporary set back."
  • Koenig, thinking to himself about Meta mission: A giant leap for mankind. It's beginning to look like a stumble in the dark.
  • Koenig to Russell, in Medical Center, after his Eagle crashed in Area One: "Well, I told you there was nothing wrong with me, I walked away form it, there's no damage."
  • Russell, in reply: "Commander.... That is not the kind of damage I'm looking for. [....] We're looking for answers, Commander. Not heroes."
  • Koenig, in response: "I didn't know you cared."
  • Victor, to John and Alan: "I think we're facing a new effect, arising from the atomic waste deposited here over the years. Magnetic energy outputs of unprecedented violence."
  • John, to Controller Paul Morrow, after a remote-controlled Eagle crashes in Area Two due to a magnetic surge: "Paul. Contact Commissioner Simmonds immediately. Pass Emergency Code Alpha One." Then to Helena: "You were right, Doctor. It was radiation. Magnetic radiation. Now we're sitting on the biggest bomb man's ever made."
  • Simmonds, prematurely optimistic about breaking up Area Two pile: "Well done. Now, I have to issue a communiqué sooner or later. Well, it'll give us more time to consider our next move. You see, John--"
  • Koenig, interrupting: "I see men risking their lives to avert disaster -- total disaster. Now, wake up, Commissioner. If this goes wrong there won't be anybody to issue a communiqué. There will be no survivors."
  • Paul, immediately after the above: "Commander! It's going up!"
  • Alan, to Alpha: "The Moon is going out of the Earth's orbit. That explosion... it has pushed us out of the Earth's orbit."
  • Paul: "Can we make it back to Earth?"
  • Main Computer, after listing various negative factors: "Human Decision Required"
  • John: "As you know, our Moon has been blasted out of orbit. We have been completely cut off from planet Earth. As we are, we have power, environment, and therefore, the possibility of survival. If we should try to improvise a return to Earth, without travel plots, without full resources, it is my belief that we would fail. Therefore, in my judgement, we do not try."
  • Koenig: "September Thirteen, Nineteen Ninety-Nine. Meta signals increasing. Yes, maybe there."
    • Breakaway
    (event)    		 Summary The catastrophic event on September 13, 1999 which propelled the Moon out of Earth orbit and into the galaxy and beyond, carrying Moonbase Alpha and its 300+ personnel.
    Details
  • Area One already blew itself out in a magnetic subsurface firestorm. Area Two is starting to show precursor signs of a similar event, but it is 140x the size, and fear is of a far more disastrous event.
  • The Alphans are, at Victor's suggestion, trying to break up the concentrated pile of nuclear waste at Area Two, which itself continues to show some signs but is holding somewhat steady.
  • Abruptly, electrical discharges start shooting out, and a series of explosions begin, which proceed over the course of 20 seconds to involve Area Two and beyond, killing at least four pilots in two Eagles.
  • The explosions go critical, creating a single, far more massive explosion which in a minutes-long burn acts like a massive nuclear engine and proceeds to propel the Moon out of orbit, causing moonquakes (and earthquakes), throwing people about and then pinning them to the floor.
  • Alan Carter, previously ordered to observe proceedings from orbit, sees much of this. He is perhaps pulled along with the Moon, but also has to struggle to keep up, even as he calls Alpha, with more and more concern as they do not respond initially, while also reporting on the effects.
  • Alpha's artificial gravity (AG) is able to start compensating when the Breakaway acceleration slows to 3G.
    • Timing (Starts at 40m30s mark in the A&E copy of the episode. All times shown below are relative to that point. Timing reflects what is literally shown on screen, which may or may not reflect "true" timing. The Editor will use it as if it is the "true" timing, however.)
  • 0m00s: Area Two starts "going up."
  • 0m08s: an Eagle, struck by electromagnetic discharges, explodes.
  • 0m14s: Koenig starts ordering an abort to the Area Two mission. Paul starts relaying the order.
  • 0m17s: the "immediately" in Paul's "... return to base immediately...."
  • 0m23s: first true non-Eagle explosion at Area Two.
  • 0m28s: early stages of forming blasts catches up with another Eagle.
  • 0m30s: blasts reach the Area Two Monitoring Depot.
  • 0m42s: blasts already visible as a very bright spot on the Moon's limb from Alan's perspective.
  • 0m44s: blasts abruptly go critical into one massive blast that forces Alan, in space, to shield his eyes.
  • 0m48s: false dawn of huge blast rises above Alpha's horizon.
  • 0m49s: moonquakes hit Alpha.
  • 0m50s: Paul orders all sections to be sealed.
  • 0m52s: Quake causes damage, starts hurling people about.
  • 1m04s: Moon visibly starting to leave Earth orbit.
  • 1m10s: People pinned to the floors.
  • 1m27s: Victor realizes, "We're moving!"
  • 1m39s: Meta Probe and an Eagle thrown from their lunar orbit space dock.
  • 1m43s: That space dock explodes.
  • 1m48s: Carter being pulled along and/or pursuing the Moon.
  • 1m52s: Carter starts trying to raise Alpha.
  • 2m02s: Carter reports to Alpha that the Moon is leaving orbit.
  • 2m18s: Koenig starts struggling over to a console.
  • 2m25s: Earth already shrinking behind the Moon.
  • 3m22s: Koenig contacts Carter.
  • 3m30s: Koenig reports there are (still) tremendous G-forces.
  • 3m36s: Koenig reports they seem to be decelerating.
  • 3m45s: People are able to start picking themselves up.
  • 3m58s: Main power returns as people get to their feet.
  • 4m04s: Victor reports they're down to 3G's and that artificial gravity is compensating.
    • Conclusions
  • The first true explosion isn't until 0m23s. It doesn't go critical and turn into the truely massive explosion until 0m44s. Once that happens though, the Moon is accelerating for at least 3m20s, until the 3G point, and presumably for at least several more seconds.
    • Speculation
  • Acceleration may have still been occurring after the 4m04s mark, but was apparently fast declining and likely didn't last much longer.
  • The human body can take up to about (needs verification) 7-10G before falling unconscious. If AG was having a subtractive effect during this crisis, Breakaway acceleration could have been as high as 10-13G(?).
  • Other pilots helping break up Area Two were running cycles between Area Two itself and drop-off points away from the immediate area, and were probably not all in the immediate Area itself. If the others immediately started fleeing then, or even on sight of the first blasts, perhaps they had time to escape before the blasts went critical. That close to the Moon, they probably got pulled along.
  • If most or all of the others did not escape, that would have been a huge hit to Reconnaissance Section at the start of their journey.
  • The lunar space dock is destroyed. Another space dock was hurled out of Earth orbit, apparently leaving Earth unable to mount any rescue attempt (the Alphans have already concluded they themselves cannot make a return attempt).
    • Statements
  • The Editor considers there to be "only" four Verifiable Losses due to the Breakaway event, namely the four pilots mentioned at 08 and 28 seconds.
    • Results
  • Moon with 300+ people propelled out of Earth orbit and the solar system altogether.
  • At least four pilots dead in at least two destroyed Eagles.
  • A space dock in lunar orbit is destroyed, presumably with loss of life. The Meta Probe and other Eagle, docked there, were hurled away moments before (perhaps destroyed too?).
  • The abrupt movement of the Moon out of orbit triggers earthquakes along the San Andreas faults in the United States, and in Yugoslavia and southern France, causing "enormous damage to life and property."
  • Some damage to Moonbase Alpha.
  • Simmonds sustains a head laceration. Lew (not Picard) is knocked unconscious in Main Mission. Almost everyone was hurled about, presumably causing at least bruising in many. All (except Carter) were pinned to the ground for a time.
  • All prior relationships with people still on Earth were permanently severed. Note: There were some illusionary get-togethers in "Bringers of Wonder".
  • Everything else that follows within the Space: 1999 series.
    • Episodes
  • "Breakaway"
    		•
    Brian
    Blessed    		 Who An actor who played two guest Roles in the series.
    Details
  • Born in 1937.
  • Husband of Hildegarde Neil, who played Elizia in "Devil's Planet"
  • Some non-S19 (Other) roles are listed here as well.
    • Roles
  • Cabot Rowland (in DOD in Y1)
  • Mentor (in "The Metamorph" in Y2
    • Other
  • 1973: "Arthur of the Britons" (as Mark of Cornwall)
  • 1976: "I, Claudius" (as Augustus)
  • 1980: "Flash Gordon" (as Vultan)
  • 1991: "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" (as Lord Locksley)
    • See Also
  • Multiple Roles
    		•
    The Bringers
    of Wonder    		 a.k.a.
  • Bringers of Wonder
  • BOW
  • BoW
    • Definition
  • Generic name for the two-part episode (i.e. two-episode story) in Y2. Written by Terence Feely. Directed by Tom Clegg.
    • Statements
  • This was the only two-episode story in the series.
    • Episodes
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 1)"
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 2)"
    		•
    The Bringers
    of Wonder
    (part one)    		 a.k.a.
  • BOW1
    • Definition The 17th episode, in production order, of Y2. The 41st episode overall of the series. First part of the two-episode The Bringers of Wonder story.
    Summary A wild Eagle ride lands a delusional Koenig in Medical Center, hooked up to a brain therapy device. A Superswift approaches Alpha, a mission from Earth to rescue the Alphans, with everyone on board being family and friends of a number of Alphans. Yet they start doing strange things, including trying to drive an Alphan into killing Koenig, who survives the attempt and wakes up. He sees the newcomers not as humans, but as hideous aliens. His reaction to them appears psychotic, landing him back in Medical Center and in further peril, while three Alphans launch towards Earth.
    Plot Commander Koenig becomes delusional during an Eagle flight, eventually crashing his Eagle. Dr. Russell hooks him up to a cerebral wave machine. A ship approaches, a Superswift, and it lands. Guido Verdeschi, the brother of Tony Verdeschi, appears. It is a mission from Earth to rescue the Alphans. The ship reveals a number of family and friends of several Alphans. They immediately start catching up, and planning for return, yet... the newcomers start doing strange things.... One seems to control an Alphan into trying to kill Koenig while the latter is still on the brain complex, while another tries to block Dr. Vincent from realizing the danger. John is saved, eventually wakes up, and is informed of the good news, but when brought to Command Center, sees hideous alien creatures. His reactions appear psychotic to everyone else, and Helena is eventually driven to stunning him. Clive Kander also sees the aliens in true form, on a recording, but is driven to actions which lead to his death. Soon after, a pilot ship is launched from the Superswift, to return a first wave of what Tony thinks are randomly-chosen names, but which are actually names put into his mind, of Alan Carter and two nuclear physicists, Ehrlich and Bartlett. John later awakes, tries unsuccessfully to convince Tony that the Alphans are being manipulated, and ends up sedated. John later awakes in restraints, while a huge, blob-like alien appears poised to kill him, while other aliens are shown on the surface of the Moon.
    Details
  • Clive Kander is reviewing what he recently filmed of Koenig's crashed Eagle and the arrival of the Superswift's crew. He sees hideous aliens, and reacts, but is driven mad by Guido and Dr. Shaw, which Kate reports to Maya, who is on watch. She, Tony, Alan, and others arrive and try to intervene, which stretches Guido's and Shaw's ability to "control all of them." but Kander's actions lead to a fire that kills Kander.
    • See Also
  • The Bringers of Wonder (part two)
    		•
    The Bringers
    of Wonder
    (part two)    		 a.k.a.
  • BOW2
    • Definition The 18th episode, in production order, of Y2. The 42st episode overall of the series. Second part of the two-episode The Bringers of Wonder story.
    Summary John survives another attempt on his life, and convinces Maya he might be right. She undergoes the same treatment as him, and sees the aliens for what they are. Transforming into one, she finds out they intend to blow up a nearby waste dump and feed off the energy, which will destroy Alpha. Helena comes up with a way to snap the mind control, but Alan and two others, setting up the nuclear trigger, are still under alien influence, but that is whittled down one still-affected Alphan at a time, until the aliens are left with nothing, and fade away.
    Plot Helena and Maya walk into Medical Center, and what John sees as a hideous alien backs off and leaves the room. The two women try to convince John, while he tries to persuade Maya with logic. He is partially successful, enough that she is willing to try the cerebral complex. Helena, with enough doubt growing too, applies it. When Maya re-awakens, she sees the same aliens John does. Meanwhile, the pilot ship lands, those aboard thinking they are on Earth, but are actually at nuclear waste domes on the Moon. John convinces Maya to transform into an alien, and she finds out they wish to force Alan and the nuclear physicists to blow up the nearby dumps, for the huge dose of radiation the aliens, who are starving, need to survive. This will destroy the Alphans. John tries to get to an Eagle, but is intercepted and stunned by Tony, who returns him to Medical Center, leaving behind a guard. Maya stuns the guard. John awakens, and he and Helena discuss how to quickly get the Alphans to see the danger. White noise started from Command Center is the answer, and it brings everyone out of the psychic influence, to their horror at what they now see around them. The aliens vanish from the base, but now all are at the waste dump (Area B7), concentrating on Carter's group. John, Tony, and Maya fly in Eagle 1 to intercept Carter and Ehrlich, who are on their way to return a nuclear trigger to Bartlett, while Helena remains on Alpha to control things there. Multiple steps by the whole command/officer team whittle down the amount of control the aliens have, the final confrontation being between John and Alan, the former prevailing, dooming the aliens, who have some parting words (see Quotes) before they and their ship disappear.
    Details
  • Maya is eventually semi-convinced by logic on three main factors, which either John suggests to her and/or she starts wondering about: everyone being friends/family of Alphans; details of Kander's death; and the likely time dilation problem.
  • Carter, Ehrlich, and Bartlett think they have landed in the New York City area, have met up with their girlfriends or family, have gone to a hotel or are at home, are driving around in the woods in a dune buggy, etc. All are images masking their real location and what they are really doing.
  • Maya stuns the guard using a gun she retrieves from a drawer in Medical Center. Speculation: It is evidently there as a precaution, perhaps after earlier incidents in Medical Center, and is perhaps only known to officers; though why it is not remembered by Tony is not clear (slipping his mind while under alien influence, perhaps, especially since the alien's influence is shown as limited, and may leave odd gaps?).
  • Applying the brain complex to everyone on Alpha would take too long, but Helena thinks a sonic blast of white noise could block the pathways in the brain the aliens are using. This is a medical technique, in the form of a data card, but which in this case must be started from Command Center.
  • As John, Helena, and Maya advance towards CC with the white noise card, Helena and Maya are in the lead, the latter with a stun gun. A guard appears behind them, but Koenig appears behind him and stuns the guard, whose stun gun is found to be set on kill.
  • After Koenig is lowered to intercept the moonbuggy (which Carter and Ehrlich see as a dune buggy which is also carrying their girlfriends), there is a fight, while Maya is lowered and then transforms into a vacuum-tolerating larren. Carter escapes on the moonbuggy with the trigger while Maya tends to Ehrlich, whom she/larren injured. John pursues the moonbuggy on foot to the waste dome, which has been sealed. He uses the moonbuggy to break through, which takes time.
  • Helena eventually has to knock out everyone else on Alpha, using anaesthetic^ "contact gas," to block the aliens from obtaining psychic energy from the 300 there.
  • Inside a waste dome, Koenig has to fight Bartlett. After Helena knocks out the rest of the Alphans on base, the aliens lose most control over Bartlett, but force him to the sidelines while concentrating their remaining mental energy on Carter. John and Alan fights, until the former knocks out the latter and removes the atomic trigger from the core, dooming the aliens.
  • The aliens have been using and extrapolating from happy memories, as a means of manipulation, yet also as the sole form of mercy they are intending to show the Alphans, though they are like genius vultures in every other way. See also Quotes below.
    • Quotes
  • Maya, after returning from a metamorphic masquerading as an alien (and having trouble reverting from its form): "Don't ever ask me to do that again. They have the minds of geniuses and the instincts of vultures."
  • Alien (much later, after Koenig prevails): "You are a truly primitive organism, Commander. We could have given you an eternity of happiness in an instant of time. Now your life will be what the life of your species has always been... cruel and futile."
  • Koenig, in reply: "It's better to live as your own man than as a fool in someone else's dream."
    • See Also
  • The Bringers of Wonder (part one)
    		•
    Brooks See Episodes Directed by Bob Brooks
    Byrne See Johnny Byrne
    Bubblegum
    Cards    		 Intro At least one company (Donruss?) produced a set of bubblegum cards, one being a set of 66 which had sometimes off-kilter captions.
    Links
  • Space 1999 at Bubblegum-Cards.com
    • See Also
  • Merchandise
    		•
    Calendar
    Years    		 Intro Events, real or fictional, related to the series. Any decade which has a year represented will have its own row. Decades without a year entry will be represented by a single dot. The dots will give an idea of the timescales in between entries. Whole centuries without year entries will be grouped as ten dots.
    Table
    1310's 1314
    .
    1330's 1339
    ...... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .
    1910's 1918
    .
    1930's 1937 1939
    ..
    1960's 1969
    1970's 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
    1980's 1982 1984 1985 1987
    1990's 1990 1991 1992 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999
    2000's 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009
    2010's
    2020's 2026
    ....
    2070's 2074
    .
    2090's
    ..
    2120's 2120
    ....... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ........
    2870's 2870
    Capt. See Captain
    Captain a.k.a.
  • Capt.
    • Intro A List of individuals who had the title of Captain in the series, or could perhaps be considered such even if not so-named.
    List
  • Capt. Alan Carter, chief Eagle pilot
  • Capt. Zantor, a Kaldorian (humanoid alien), in "Earthbound"
  • Capt. Tony Cellini, commander of the Ultra Probe.
  • Perhaps John Koenig in 1996 and 1997? (in "Dragon's Domain")
  • Capt. Duro, of the Menon (a Betanon Scout Cruiser)
  • Sahala(?): Perhaps in charge of the Croton ship, but that title is not used.
    • Captain Carter See Alan Carter
    Card
    Games    		 Intro Instances of playing card games, as a recreational and/or social activity, on Moonbase Alpha.
    Examples
  • Poker (as identified in a Catacombs transcript): Smitty and others are playing in the final hour(s) approaching the "Black Sun". The same transcript identifies the location as Smitty's quarters.
  • Three-dimensional solitaire: something Maya is introducing (in "Beta Cloud") to Tony while he is in traction, recovering from broken bones in Medical Center. It is not known if this is an variant she invented on Alpha or was pre-existing.
    • Carter See Alan Carter
    Cast and
    Characters
    (Regular and
    Semi-Regular)    		 Intro A Table of the regular and semi-regular cast of Space: 1999.
    Details
  • Regulars are those who appeared in more than one half of at least one season's episodes in a reasonably prominent role. The first four listed were credited directly in the opening theme sequence of one or both seasons.
  • Semi-regulars are those who appeared in at least a few episodes of at least one season, in at least a mildly-prominent role.
  • Other characters appeared in many episodes but in background or extremely brief roles (e.g. guards) are not listed in this entry.
  • The boundary points are admittedly somewhat arbitrary.
  • The 'Episodes' column of the Table (and *Notes as well) does not count "flashback footage" (from prior episodes) as an actual appearance, Blank cell in 'Episodes' column means verifiably no appearance in that Year; just a question '?' mark means the Editor is not sure whether there were any appearances.
    • Table
    Actor / Actress Character Episodes
    ML Martin Landau Cmdr. John Koenig J JK all? 23? *
    BB Barbara Bain Dr. Helena Russell H HR all? all?  
    BM Barry Morse Prof. Victor BergmanV VB all?  
    CS Catherine SchellMaya M M 23 *
    NT Nick Tate Capt. Alan Carter A AC all? most? *
    TA Tony Anholt Tony Verdeschi T TV 21? *
    PH Prentis Hancock Paul Morrow P PM most?  
    CJ Clifton Jones David Kano K DK most?  
    ZM Zienia Merton Sandra Benes S SB most? 11 *
    AP Anton Philips Dr. Bob Mathias B BM many? 2  
     Suzanne RoquetteTanya Aleksandr  TA 16?  
     John Hug Bill Fraser  BF 9  
     Jeffrey Kissoon Ben Vincent  BV 7  
     Yasuko Nagazumi Yasko Y Y 8  
     Peter Porteous Petrov  P 3  
     Sam Dastor Dr. Ed Spencer  ES 3  
     Alibe Parsons Alibe  A 3  
     Sarah Bullen Kate  K 16? 7  
     Barbara Kelly voice: Main Computer   a few??  
     Albin Pahernik some Maya creatures    some  
    * Notes
  • Alan did not appear in the following (at least): "Brian the Brain", "Devil's Planet" (except by flashback?)
  • John did not appear in the following (at least): "Dorzak".
  • Tony did not appear in the following (at least): "The AB Chrysalis" (reverify?), "Devil's Planet" (reverify).
  • Maya did not appear in the following: "Devil's Planet" (except by flashback).
  • Sandra also appeared in the following: "Message from Moonbase Alpha"
    • Misc
  • Catherine Schell did appear as a guest character in a single Y1 episode, but as a different character than Maya, namely the Servant of the Guardian of Piri. This appearance does not count in this entry.
    • See Also
  • Cast by Episode
    		•
    Cast by
    Episode    		 Intro Cast by appearance within each episode.
    Warnings
  • This entry is still under initial development, and still contains many question marks, even for Table cells where the reader might not have any question at all, as it turned out to be simpler for the Editor to initially clarify the entries for secondary/tertiary cast than many of the primaries.
    • Details
  • Character abbreviations are listed in the 2-letter column in the Cast entry. Some abbreviations may be to direct entries about that character.
  • In the main part of the chart, blank is no appearance, ? is unknown, + is marking presence without quantifying, while the numbers 1-4 refer to how prominent a role, from minor to major (the number is an admittedly subjective judgment, and at the moment, could be initial snap judgments that may be modified over time).
  • At this point, there are still a lot of question marks, until the Editor can think about or check the combination (there are hundreds!).
  • ## blocks each bind two episodes filmed more or less concurrently, where some main characters may have appeared predominately in one of the pair and little or not at all in the other of the pair.
  • Flashbacks of clips of prior episodes (e.g. those in "Devil's Planet") do not count; flashbacks which add something new of the past (e.g. those in "Dragon's Domain") do count.
  • A reference to a character not seen or heard (e.g. to Paul in "Infernal Machine" or to Tony in "AB Chrysalis") will not be counted.
    • Table
    Epi-
    sode
    Count    		 Episode
    Title (some
    abbreviated)    		 Character (Initials)
    J
    K    		 H
    R    		 V
    B    		 M A
    C    		 T
    V    		 P
    M    		 D
    K    		 S
    B    		 B
    M     		T
    A    		 B
    F    		 B
    V     		Y
    P     		E
    S     		A
    		 K
    **** YEAR ONE ****
    1a/01 Breakaway 444 4 3 3++
    1b/02 MOLAD 44+ ? ?????
    1c/03 Black Sun +?4 + +???+
    1d/04 RATM ?+? ? ????+
    1e/05 Earthbound 44+ ? ????+
    1f/06 ATAP 44? ? ????+
    1g/07 Missing Link 4?? ? ??+?+
    1h/08 Guardian of Piri 4+? ? ??+?+
    1i/09 Force of Life ??? ? ????+ +
    1j/10 Alpha Child 444 ? ??+?+ ?
    1k/11 The Last Sunset ?4? 4 4?4?+ +
    1l/12 Voyager's Return ??? ? ????? +
    1m/13 Collision Course 4?? 4 ????+ +
    1n/14 DOD 444 3 ???++ +
    1o/15 The Full Circle 44? 4 ??4+? +
    1p/16 End of Eternity 4?? ? ???++ ?
    1q/17 War Games 4?? + ??4++ ?
    1r/18 Last Enemy 4+? ? ???~ +
    1s/19 Troubled Spirit ??? ? ??? + +
    1t/20 Space Brain ??4 ? ???++ ?
    1u/21 Infernal Mach. 44? + ??~ ?
    1v/22 Mission/Darians ?4? ? ??? ?
    1w/23 Dragon's Domain +4? ? ???+? ?
    1x/24 TOA 4?? ? ???+? ?
    **** YEAR TWO ****
    2a/25 The Metamorph 44 444 3+ 4 2 +
    2b/26 The Exiles 4? +?? ++ + +
    2c/27 OMOH 44 2?4 + +
    2d/28 All that Glisters 4? 4?4
    2e/29 Journey to Where 44 34? ++ +
    2f/30 The Taybor 4? 44? +++ +
    2g/31 Rules/Luton ##
    ##    		4? 4?+ +
    2h/32 MOA 14 144 1 2
    2i/33 Brian the Brain 4? +?? + +
    2j/34 NANE 4? 434 +
    2k/35 AB Chrysalis##
    ##    		4? 44? + + +
    2l/36 COTM +? 1?4 + 4
    2m/37 Seed/Destruction 3? 4++ + +
    2n/38 The Beta Cloud 2? 4?4 4 4
    2o/39 MOB ##
    ##    		4+ 4 + +
    2p/40 Space Warp 44 444 + + +
    2q/41 BOW1 44 ++? 4 4 +
    2r/42 BOW2 44 ++? + 1
    2s/43 Lambda Factor 4? +?? +
    2t/44 Seance Spectre 4? +?? +
    2u/45 Dorzak ##
    ##    		 4 +4? + +
    2v/46 Devil's Planet 4? ?? 4 ++
    2w/47 Immun. Syndrome 4+ ++? + ++
    2x/48 The Dorcons 4+ 4+? +
    Notes
  • Maya in "Space Warp": spent a lot of time in alter forms, but as it was her character, counted as a 4.
  • Sandra was the only character to appear in MFMBA (many others appeared in flashback, but are not counted, per Details).
    • See Also
  • Episode List (Full Form)
  • Episode Capsules
    		•
    Catacombs
    of the Moon    		 a.k.a.
  • COTM
    • Definition The 12th episode of Y2; and 36th episode overall. Written by Anthony Terpiloff and directed by Robert Lynn.
    Summary Michelle Osgood is dying of a heart ailment and needs an artificial heart transplant, but that requires some tiranium metal for it to work properly. Her husband, Patrick Osgood is the chief engineer in charge of the search in The Catacombs underneath Alpha. He, however, has been seeing visions of fire, which he interprets as Alpha's destruction. Stressed on multiple fronts, he reacts poorly, lashing out at friends and others, getting himself injured, donning an explosives vest to get a weak Michelle out of Medical Center to "safety" in The Catacombs, where they are tracked down. Finally, Helena persuades a reluctant Tony to release a little of Alpha's critical store of tiranium, an artificial heart ends up finally working, and she has life-saving surgery.
    Details
  • 1196 DAB close to the beginning of the episode.
  • Michelle Osgood is dying, and needChief engineer in charge of the search for tiranium (scarce metal needed for medical and life support) is Patrick Osgood, husband of the dying woman.
  • Tony is in temporary command for much of the episode as John is checking out space ahead of Alpha.
  • Sandra is on watch at least once in this episode.
  • Maya is seen little in this episode. Dressed in some light casual clothing, she happens across Tony and Pat fighting, the latter trying to use a stun gun on the former. She transforms into a dog and bites Pat; he gets away, bloodied, later collapsing in the Solarium(?). Later, she is called on by Tony to track the Osgoods in the Catacombs, shows up in a jumpsuit, and transforms into a tiger.
  • As the heat climbs, most Alphans end up in lighter clothing, in some cases very light. This includes most or all of the officers seen.
  • Alan is not seen in this episode.
    • Comments
  • There is a firestorm of sorts, partially verifying Patrick's visions, but only to a point. He saw (or interpreted) much worse results than actually occurred, though there was nonetheless damage to Alpha. However, his exaggerated responses frequently put others in danger, including his best(?) friend and especially his wife (creating more stress in her, prompting her into more physical activity while she was weak, and exposing her to further dangers in The Catacombs). After this episode, how much responsibility might he be granted in the future?
    • Catherine
    Schell    		 a.k.a.
  • Catherina Schell von Bauschlott
  • Catherina von Schell
  • CS
    • Who An actress who played two separate characters, one in each season.
    Roles
  • Servant of the Guardian of Piri in an episode of Year One of Space: 1999.
  • Maya, an alien welcomed as member of Alpha in Year Two of Space: 1999. One of her best known roles.
    • Biography Catherine Schell was born Catherina Schell von Bauschlott, to a baron(?) in Hungary, before her family escaped the Communist takeover, and renounced their titles (on emigrating to the U.S.), when she was only a few years old. She grew up in the United States and later Munich, then went into acting, primarily in British productions, but also other (mostly European) productions. Met William Marlow^, an actor "Amsterdam Affair" (1968 movie), and they later married (and divorced). She was initially known as Catherina von Schell, before changing it to Catherine Schell. She is probably best known for roles as Maya in Space: 1999, and as Lady Litton in "Return of the Pink Panther." After three decades in the movies and television, she (mostly) retired from acting to write and to run a bed and breakfast in the French countryside, with her second husband (he died in 2006 or so).
    News!
  • 2010/02/03: Announcement from Journey to Where con's organizers that she is scheduled to appear as a Guest of Honor at that convention.
    • See Also
  • Catherine Schell Roles in General
  • Multiple Roles
  • Cast
    • Links
  • Catherine Schell Career Shots
  • Catherine Schell Website (indicates it is official?).
  • Information about a B&B(?) she runs (page from ~2000±2)
    		•
    Catherine
    Schell
    Roles in
    General    		 Intro Some of the better-known acting roles of Catherine Schell in general. Her two S19 roles are highlighted in yellow in the Table. Her two generally best-known characters are highlighted in orange. In the case of TV Series, Year is of the initial release of the episode(s) she was in.
    Table
    Year"Movie" (if 2-column; or...)Character
    TV SeriesSeasons / Episodes
    1964"Lana: Queen of the Amazons" Lana *
    1968"Amsterdam Affair" Sophie Ray *
    1969"Moon Zero Two" Clementine Taplin *
    1969"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" Nancy *
    1972"Madame Sin" Barbara *
    1972The Adventurer whole series? Diane *
    1974"The Black Windmill" Lady Julyan
    1975Space: 1999 "Guardian of Piri"The Servant
    1975"Return of the Pink Panther" Lady Litton (Claudine)
    1976Space: 1999 second season Maya
    1978Return of the Saint "Imprudent Professor" Samantha
    1979"The Prisoner of Zenda" Antoinette *
    1979Doctor Who (DW) "City of Death" Countess Scarlioni*
    1980The Spoils of War 8 episodes Paula Brandt
    1983"On the Third Day" Clarissa Hammond
    1987"On the Black Hill" Lotte Zons
    1988"The Border" (a.k.a. "Escape" in U.S.) Melena Lotskova
    1990Wish Me Luck third season (8 eps) Virginia Mitchell *
    1991Lovejoy "Raise the Hispanic" Frances Beauchamp
    1994The Wimbledon Poisoner (TV miniseries) Mrs. Gunther
    * Notes
  • "Lana...": First movie. According to interview(s), found this to be an unpleasant experience, and nearly quit acting.
  • "Amsterdam...": with William Marlowe, who later became her first husband.
  • "OHMSS": Briefly a 'Bond Girl' in a movie that some argue is the best of the series.
  • "Madame Sin": starring Bette Davis, Robert Wagner.
  • The Adventurer: with Gene Barry, Barry Morse -- the latter also in S19.
  • "... Zenda": her second role in a movie with Peter Sellers ("Return of the Pink Panther" being the other).
  • DW "City of Death": Most popular episode of the series?
  • Wish...: This series had 7-8 episodes (each an hour long) per season.
    • Links
  • Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page
    		•
    CC Meanings
  • Charles Crichton
  • "Collision Course" (episode)
  • Command Center
    		•
    Century 21 a.k.a.
  • C21
    • Definition Magazine which had focus on Gerry Anderson series.
    Timeframe 1990-1993
    Statements
  • One issue had "Space 1999 The Merchandise"
  • Produced by Engale Marketing
    • See Also
  • Merchandise
    		•
    Charles Crichton See Episodes Directed by Charles Crichton
    Charles Woodgrove See Fred Freiberger
    Chemical
    Elements    		 Intro A number of the fundamental chemical elements are mentioned in various contexts. The list is in order of atomic number (listed in parentheses).
    List
  • (01) Hydrogen?
  • (06) Carbon?
  • (07) Nitrogen?
  • (08) Oxygen
  • (17) Chlorine
  • (22) Titanium: "The Metamorph" at least
  • (74) Tungsten: "AB Chrysalis" (as part of an alloy Maya speculates is present...)
  • (78) Platinum: "AB Chrysalis" (ditto, ...on a moon of the chlorine planet)
    		•
    Chief Commissioner Theia See Theia
    Chief
    Engineer    		 What A title held by several Alphans, each apparently chief of a different engineering discipline (either that or there was a lot of turnover).
    Who
  • Patrick Osgood (in COTM): apparently in charge of the search for tiranium in the Alphan mines. Perhaps chief engineer of mining operations? He does have explosives experience as well. The Catacombs indicates the following: "'chief engineer of life support' Osgood." However, the editor of this KB is not clear where this the inner quotation comes from, as the dialog does not seem to imply this directly so much as being in charge of the search for tiranium.
  • Pete Garforth (in "The Lambda Factor"): Maintains Eagle components, and is an Eagle test pilot as well. Has worked with Eagles for a long time. He is called to the Maintenance department. Knows metals and atomic motors. Speculation: Chief Eagle Maintenance Engineer perhaps?
    • Child(ren)
    on Alpha    		 Statements
  • The only verifiable child born on Alpha was Sue Crawford's son, called Jackie by the Alphans who "adopted" him after Sue rejected him due to his abnormal growth, induced, without the Alphans' knowledge, by an alien presense inside him. He was later restored to the form of a newborn.
  • However, several Population numbers in both Y1 and Y2 suggest more children were born. See the See Also items for some episodes where the numbers suggest this, and one of several numerical scenarios as well.
    • Notes
  • An alien child, Etrec, was on Alpha for a short time (in "The Mark of Archanon"), along with his father, Pasc.
  • For a few seconds (in "Seance Spectre"), Maya was transformed into a Psychon child, perhaps herself at a young age. This was not on Alpha, but elsewhere on the Moon, at Area B7(?), inside an Eagle.
    • See Also
  • Population at Arkadia
  • Population at Psychon
  • Population at Entra
  • Population Statistical Speculation Scenario 1a
    		•
    Chlorine a.k.a.
  • Cl (though not shown as such in the series, to the best of the Editor's knowledge)
    • Intro Chemical element (#17) mentioned at least twice in the series, obviously as chlorine gas (Cl2), which is deadly poison to most life.
    Episodes
  • "AB Chrysalis": Unnamed planet encountered has significant chlorine in its atmosphere, and its native people breathe it. Rash action by Alan strands him in a room full of chlorine. Maya transforms into a chlorine-breathing creature from Kreno to rescue him.
  • "Beta Cloud": Maya suggests to Tony that they fill the Hydroponic Experimental Section with chlorine, and Tony lures the invader in there remotely, in what turns out to be a futile effort to kill it (the Alphans later discover it is robotic).
    • Clea See Croton Crew
    Clive
    Kander    		 Who Records technician (Technical section). Used a very compact video camera which records onto small memory squares. Clive was intentionally driven mad by the aliens in the episode, filled the records lab with oxygen, and a spark ignited the oxygen and burned him. Pronounced dead at the scene (from burns and/or inhalation, presumably). Actor: Nick Hobbs.
    Episodes
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 1)"
    • Commentary
  • Huh, do the video record cards he used remind anyone else of some types of memory cards which became popular in the 2000's?
    • Collision
    Course    		 a.k.a.
  • CC
    • Definition The 13th episode, in production order, of Y1. Written by Anthony Terpiloff. Directed by Ray Austin.
    Summary The Alphans blow up an asteroid on a collision course with the Moon, only to discover a large planet is following behind, also on a collision course. trying to use more nuclear charges between planet and Moon in an attempt to alter course. Yet the planet shows some signs of potential inhabitability, to which they could evacuate to the far side from the Moon's collision point and hope the planet can survive the hit. Koenig decides to take an exploratory mission, but a large alien ship appears and captures his. He meets Arra, Queen of Atheria, who has been "waiting a long time to meet" him, and whose people have been expecting the Alphans for "many millions of years." She prophesies a grand destiny for the Alphans, and "mutation" of her race to another form. For this to happen, Koenig must allow the Moon to collide with Atheria. Though with a little reservation, he accepts this; but he -- and an Alan whose mind was previously touched by Arra's -- are considered under the influence of radiation sickness, and confined.
    Details
  • Action takes place over approximately five days: Collision with Atheria is quoted at 105 hours, and this is at least a few hours after the episode starts.
  • The course alteration attempt is labeled Operation Shockwave. The existing Operation Exodus is considered -- though that name is not mentioned.
  • Planet is perhaps inhabitable, but somewhat on the cool side, at +10 to -30C as a typical range.
    • Quotes
  • Victor, regarding planetary collision course: "Well... I've been thinking."
  • John, in response: "It's the best news I've had today."
  • Arra, regarding the Alphans: "You shall continue.... Your odyssey shall know no end. You will prosper and increase in new worlds, new galaxies. You will populate the deepest reaches of space."
    • Biblio
  • At least some quotes are adapted from an episode transcript at The Catacombs.
    • Links
  • Episode Guide at The Catacombs.
    		•
    Cmdr. See Commander
    Comlock See Commlock
    Comm. See Commissioner
    Command
    Center    		 a.k.a.
  • CC
    • Definition Primary command location starting in Y2. Significantly smaller than Main Mission, and evidently located at a deeper level within the base.
    Command
    Conference    		 Definition A meeting of the commander with some or all of his officers, usually (always?) in the commander's office in Y1.
    Examples
  • MOLAD: Discuss the initial findings on: Lee Russell (or more accurately, whether or not it is him), Terra Nova, and potential Operation Exodus. Attended by John Koenig, Paul Morrow, Alan Carter, David Kano, Sandra Benes, and Victor Bergman; but not by Helena Russell (presumably due to her watching the medical state of the unconcious Lee, the two pilots, and perhaps a conflict of interest?).
  • "Earthbound": John Koenig, Paul Morrow, Alan Carter, Helena Russell, Commissioner Simmonds. It is just wrapping up when the scene starts, until Simmonds objects, saying how he is "shocked" they are not trying hard enough to return to Earth. John: "Our priorities are survival, and the search for an alternative place to live."
  • "Guardian of Piri": An initial one features an argument between David Kano and Alan Carter over how much to trust Computer.
  • GOP (again): A later, off-kilter one, during the time of the Guardian's clear influence over the Alphans, is attended by at least Paul, Helena, (Kano?,) Sandra, Victor, and a Security Section representative -- but not initially by John, who stumbles upon it later.
  • "War Games": the severity of the damage (later reset) is laid out by the officers.
  • "Troubled Spirit": John, Alan, David, Helena, Paul, Victor, Sandra -- after the death of Dr. James Warren.
    • Speculation
  • Though no formal conferences took place "on screen" in Y2 it is possible some took place "off screen" in some nearby room, even while some discussions usually done in Command Conferences in Y1 simply took place in Command Center in Y2.
    • Command
    of Alpha    		 Intro Individuals in command (permanent, temporary, or attempted) of Alpha at various times.
    List
  • Actual Commanders of Alpha, of which John Koenig is the ninth.
  • Subordinates who were in temporary command while the Commander was on a mission or incapacitated.
  • Carolyn Powell attempted a lone take-over ("The Lambda Factor"), even taking the command chair in Command Center, but lost a battle of wills against Koenig.
    • Commander a.k.a.
  • Cmdr.
    • Intro A List of known individuals who had the title of Commander in the series, of Moonbase or of Other things. Regarding Moonbase Alpha, there were seven prior commanders, but their names are not known.
    Moonbase
  • Cmdr. Gorski, the eighth commander of Moonbase Alpha before being suspended (by whom?) and replaced by John Koenig.
  • Cmdr. John Koenig, the ninth commander of Moonbase Alpha, starting September 9, 1999. Is on-base when the Moon is blasted into interstellar space.
    • Other
  • Dione? Not called Cmdr. Dione, but is referred to as commander of the Satazius.
  • Pasc, of an Archanon that reached the Moon but unraveled, with fatal results, when he fell ill with Killing Sickness virus, and was subdued and left in a stasis chamber.
  • Lyra, Pasc's wife, after she is forced to replace him and leave him -- and their son Etrec -- on the Moon due to the illness.
    • See Also
  • Command of Alpha
    		•
    Commissioner a.k.a.
  • Comm.
    • What A title used for certain characters in the series. Some were Terran human, some Aliens.
    See Also
  • Commissioners (Human)
  • Commissioners (Alien)
    		•
    Commissioners
    (Alien)    		 Intro Alien characters with the title Commissioner.
    Examples
  • Commissioner Theia of Betha. The title was technically Chief Commissioner, but Koenig referred to her as Comm. Theia. This role was of oversight of defense forces, but (uncertain:) she herself may have been considered civilian.
    • See Also
  • Commissioners (Human)
    		•
    Commissioners
    (Human)    		 Intro Commissioner is the title for a type of civilian authority on Earth, more specifically (in the series) the lead of Earth's space program.
    Examples
  • Commissioner Dixon: pre-Breakaway (as shown in DD).
  • Commissioner Simmonds
    • See Also
  • Commissioners (Alien)
    		•
    Commissioner
    Simmonds    		 a.k.a.
  • Comm. Simmonds
  • Gerald Simmonds? (The Editor was told at one point Gerald was his first name, according to some source. Speculation: a writer's guide? The Editor has not yet been able to confirm such for this knowledgebase.)
    • Who Representative of Earth authority (i.e. the ILC?) on the Moon. In charge by September 9, 1999. Heads to Moonbase Alpha after Cmdr. Koenig issues "Emergency Condition Alpha One" (?), and is on-base when the Moon breaks from Earth orbit. He later extorts(?) his way onto an alien (Kaldorian) spaceship on its way to Earth, but was not properly scanned into a matrix maintained by the ship's computer, and did not go into proper suspended animation. He woke back up, trapped in a chamber at the beginning of a 75-year final journey. He presumably died some days into it.
    Details
  • Was covering up the severity of astronaut deaths on MBA, even to the new commander, in an attempt to get the Meta mission launched.
  • Though he retains his title after Breakaway, it has no real meaning or authority at that point; but he was still included in some high-level interaction (see next point).
  • Attends command conferences in at least the following: "Earthbound".
  • Apparently collects butterfly specimens (see in the background in one communication with John in "Breakaway", at about 14:30-16:30 in an uncut version).
    • Notes
  • Simmonds is counted as a verifiable loss not for his presumed death but from his dereliction from Alpha.
    • Episodes
  • "Breakaway"
  • "Earthbound"
    • See Also
  • Commissioner
  • Cast
    		•
    Commlock a.k.a.
  • Comlock
    • Definition A personal, hand-held communication device which each member of Moonbase Alpha has. Used on Alpha and missions. One major piece of Alphan technology. It has various Parts.
    Parts
  • Compact video screen
  • Keypad
  • Picture ID of owner
  • Camera
  • Antenna
    • Details
  • Seen being put in what appears to be a charger, which cradles the lower half but still allows a video image to appear.
  • A number of them were lost or destroyed over the course of the series.
  • Commlocks were among the Alphan devices subject to jamming by aliens.
    • Commlocks
    Lost or
    Destroyed    		 Intro Incomplete, partially speculative lists, most still needing verification, of commlocks that are Destroyed on Alpha or on missions, or Lost from Alpha, for whatever reason. The ones Lost may have been taken or later recovered by non-Alphans.
    Lost
  • "Earthbound": Koenig's commlock, stolen by Simmonds and removed from the base. It is the means by which Simmonds discovers he is still near the Moon, that he is not going to be in suspended animation for the seventy-year journey to Earth.
  • TOA (?): Luke and Anna's commlocks?
  • "The Exiles"(?): (highly uncertain:) Zova and Cantar given commlocks? If Cantar had one, perhaps taken back by Tony or Helena?
  • "Journey to Where"(?)
  • "Rules of Luton": (unverified) Koenig loses his commlock?
  • "Devil's Planet": the two carried by Koenig and Blake Maine (or was the latter destroyed?).
  • "The Dorcons"(?): (unverified:) Did the Dorcons confiscate the commlocks of Maya and John?
    • Destroyed
  • "Force of Life" (?): Zoref's?
  • "Voyager's Return" (?): Ernst Linden's?
  • "Mission of the Darians" (?): Bill Lowry's?
  • "Dragon's Domain" (?): Tony Cellini's?
  • "The Metamorph": (all unverified) Picard's for sure, when he was vaporized. (The rest allowed to keep theirs, but jammed?)
  • "Seed of Destruction" (?): Koenig's taken by fake and destroyed with the fake Koenig?
  • "Immunity Syndrome": Tony, driven mad by contact with the being on the planet several teams are exploring, crushes his commlock. It is later found as part of a "trail" leading to Tony. Commlock presumably beyond repair. Editor is not sure if the other Alphans kept it (evidence/salvage value?), however.
    • Communication
    Interference    		 Intro Aliens often interfered with (or hacked into) Alpha communications systems, for good or ill intent. This does not count communications established in the normal way, via hails from one side or the other.
    List
  • Space Brain: not really; more an attempt to communicate.
  • Mentor: though he does hail via Big Screen, he also shows up on a lot of monitors throughout the base (which does not seem normal to the Editor), and prevents communications with Eagles not long after they are captured.
    • Connor See Episode Directors
    Conway See Joan Conway
    COTM See Catacombs of the Moon
    Countries Intro Some Earth countries are stated by name, shown, stated as a character's origin, implied as a character's origin, or otherwise indicated in some source or another. List ongoing.
    List
  • Australia
  • England
  • France: the southern part suffers a major earthquake after the moon breaks from orbit.
  • Ireland: home country of Dave Reilly.
  • Italy: home country of Tony Verdeschi and apparently a number of other Alphans as well.
  • United States
  • Yugoslavia: suffers a major earthquake after the moon breaks from orbit.
    • Couples Intro Several couples are listed below. This can include any sign of two perhaps being in a relationship, either Pre- or Post-Breakaway (BA). Any relationship, however brief, may be Listed here. Attempts by Magus (and others?) to force individuals into couples are not listed in this entry, however. Though there are three separate lists below, the names all procede (very) roughly in order of formation, but for convenience are split into three lists: Y0 (pre-Breakaway), Y1, and Y2 -- though the lines in some cases really are not that clear (did some relationships seen in Y1 start before Breakaway, or seen in Y2 start in Y1 or before?).
    Y0
  • John Koenig and Diana Morris: "childhood sweethearts" (met at M.I.T.?); but he now refers to her as "that barracuda."
  • John and Jean: married. She died in the 1987 war.
  • Lee and Helena Russell: married, he went MIA, was found (or a "reflection" of him), then lost again, permanently.
  • Alan Carter and Jeanie: dating before Breakaway.
  • Ben Vincent and Louisa(?): engaged, but forced apart due to Breakaway.
  • Peter Rockwell and Sandra Benes: engaged, but forced apart due to Breakaway.
    • Y1
  • Mike Ryan and Sandra Benes: Appears to be the start of a relationship between them (in "Black Sun"), but he dies.
  • David Kano and Angela Robinson? They hug briefly in "Black Sun", but it could just as easily be a platonic gesture between good friends.
  • Kelly and Melita: married.
  • Anton and Eva Zoref: married.
  • Paul Morrow and Sandra Benes.
  • Alan Carter and Tanya Aleksandr: apparently only briefly (holding hands and such in "The Last Sunset").
  • Dan Mateo and Laura Adams: kiss briefly. Both die within a short time of each other. ("The Troubled Spirit")
  • John Koenig and Helena Russell.
  • Luke Ferro and Anna Davis
  • Bill and Annette Fraser: married about two months before the Psychon encounter.
    • Y2
  • Patrick and Michelle Osgood: married by the time of COTM.
  • Tony Verdeschi and Maya.
  • Mark Sanders and Sally Martin: previously dating, apparently engaged, before Carolyn Powell makes moves on Mark, and the relationship breaks up. (One part of a love triangle; see next point too).
  • Mark Sanders and Carolyn Powell: dating after Carolyn makes moves on Mark (see prior point). He later suspects Carolyn of Sally's death, and breaks up with Carolyn. See subsequently murders him.
  • Eddie Collins and Shermeen Williams? They seem to have had some background before she develops a crush on Tony Verdeschi. After that fails, her words suggest her interest has returned(?) to Eddie. (MOB)
  • Greg Sanderson and Eva? Helena believes Eva is in love with Greg, and Greg and Eva often act together.
    • See Also
  • Married Couples (a subset of the above who were married at some point).
  • Love Triangles
    		•
    Crawford Intro
  • Surname of three related individuals seen or mentioned in "Alpha Child" (Y1).
    • List
  • Sue Crawford, widowed some months before.
  • Jack Crawford, her husband, who died months before the episode began.
  • Jackie Crawford, their son, born at the start of the episode.
    • Crichton See Episodes Directed by Charles Crichton
    Crom II Definition A world apparently visited by the Alphans at some point between Breakaway and 640 DAB. (The latter date being when Pasc and Etrec were found.)
    Statements
  • Flammon symbols were located in places of potential danger, the symbols placed by some "god-like race" as a warning.
    • Speculation
  • Two Alphans, Tony and Helena briefly discuss their knowledge of the Flammon in such a way that makes it seem their knowledge is first-hand, rather than read in a report written by other Alphans who went there, or from another source altogether such as Maya.
  • If Tony and Helena were indeed on Crom II, it could have been in Y2 timeframe before 640DAB, but it could have also been in a Y1 timeframe, if Tony was already participating in off-Moon missions, either "unseen" on one of the main Eagles or on an unseen or unmentioned support Eagle.
    • Stories
  • MOA: reference.
    		•
    Croton
    Crew    		 Intro The Croton ship which approaches the Moon initially has a crew of three (excluding the prisoner Dorzak), but various losses whittle this down to one. The crew members as Listed below.
    List
  • Sahala: the captain(?), or at least the only crew member left in full capacity by the time the ship reaches Alpha.
  • Yesta: injured in flight by Clea, dies on Alpha after post-surgical psychic attack by Dorzak.
  • Clea: falls in love with Dorzak, frees him, injures Yesta; and then, in guilt, throws herself into space.
    • Croton
    Ship    		 Definition An unnamed spaceship carrying Dorzak into exile.
    Details
  • Has a Photon Drive
  • Large vertical design.
  • Approaches the Moon with a crew of three, but various losses whittle this down to one.
  • Its apparent captain is Sahala.
    • Episodes
  • "Dorzak"
    		•
    CS See Catherine Schell
    CW See Fred Freiberger (Charles Woodgrove)
    DAB Stands For Days After Breakaway
    a.k.a.
  • Days after leaving Earth's orbit
    		•
    Dave
    Reilly    		 Summary
  • An Alphan geologist, apparently from Ireland, but with a fascination with the state of Texas (in America). Light-hearted and witty, yet can turn serious very quickly.
    • Details
  • Dubbed the "Irish Cowboy" by Alan or Tony.
  • Has at least two ex-wives -- or perhaps an ex and one left behind at Breakaway. The former sounds more likely, however: "The rocks understand me.... Me wives never did, but the rocks do."
  • Makes a pass at Maya, who looks surprised, either not understanding the action, not knowing how to respond to or against it, or brushing it off in her own way. A few minutes later, seated as a passenger next to her, and eyes her during the landing. Later, when her concern for Tony is clear, he does express his sympathy about Tony's plight, directly to her.
    • Stories
  • "All that Glisters": flew with the team to the planet.
    		•
    David Tomblin See Episodes Directed by David Tomblin
    David
    Kano    		 a.k.a.
  • Kano (rarely called by his first name)
    • Who Technical Section leader, an officer, and Alpha's computer expert in Y1.
    Details
  • Replaced Benjamin Ouma? Ouma was only seen in first episode.
  • In Main Mission, he is often seen at the rotating desk in the middle of the arrangement of other consoles.
  • Seems to be an officer, based on his duties, leadership abilities, and inclusion in group meetings with the Commander. Leader of Technical Section?
  • Has a mechanical computer interface implant in his skull, which is used at least once in series (namely GOP).
  • At least one source indicates he is from Jamaica, but that may not be canon.
  • An Eagle pilot (e.g. "The Full Circle").
  • Given temporary command at least once: MOTD.
  • Thrown half-way across Main Mission in RATM.
  • Injured by Luke Ferro who uses a stun gun as a blunt instrument against Kano's head. Recovers almost immediately. TOA
  • Is completely absent from sight and mention in Y2, leading to lots of speculation on his possible fate. (Absence of the character, along with several others from Y1, was also controversial.)
    • See Also
  • Cast
    		•
    DD See Dragon's Domain
    Death's
    Other
    Dominion    		 a.k.a.
  • DOD
    • Definition The 14th episode of the first season. Written by Anthony Terpiloff and Elizabeth Barrows. Directed by Charles Crichton.
    Summary The Moon approaches an icy planet and hears the voices of humans lost 14 years before, sending a mixed message of warning and welcome to Ultima Thule. John, Victor, Helena, and Alan visit the planet, and discover the Uranus mission astronauts have been living there 880 years without any signs of aging -- apparent immortality. Alphans may have the same opportunity, but realize there are prices -- including one ultimate price.
    Statements
  • The inadvertant colony's people are now called Thuleans.
    • Links
  • Episode Guide at The Catacombs.
    • Delta Definition One of two planets around a single star that the Moon passed.
    Episodes
  • "The Last Enemy"
    • Details
  • From the perspective of the Alphans as they passed through the alien system, Delta was on the right-hand side of its sun.
  • A mostly red-shaded world, with a few black smudges.
  • The Alphans soon determine it is inhabited, after the Bethan gunship, now sitting on the Moon, launches an attack on Delta, and Delta responds.
  • In a constant and long-standing state of war with Betha, which is on the other side of their common star.
  • The Deltans also send a missile-bearing gunship to the Moon. It is destroyed by Bethan missiles. The name of that gunship is unknown, and none of its crew were seen by Alphans during the attack.
  • Only one individual, a human-appearing male, Supreme Commander Talos, was seen by the Alphans during the battle.
    • See Also
  • Greek Alphabet
    • Derek
    Wadsworth    		 Who Composer and conductor of the Year 2 score.
    Details
  • Born in 1939.
  • Died in 2008 (early December?)
    		•
    Derelicts Intro Different types of objects, particularly ships, known to be left behind on the Moon for some reason or another.
    List
  • Alien wrecks
  • Apollo descent modules and sundry equipment/rovers/flags.
  • Possible Eagle wreckage, if not all hulls recovered for repair or recycling.
    • Desertion Intro A few Alphans permanently left the base by force.
    List
  • Commissioner Simmonds forced his way onto a Kaldorian spaceship that was on its way to Earth. This action included threatening Alpha. The Kaldorian captain, Zantor, who allowed himself to be taken hostage by Simmonds, decided to allow Simmonds on board, despite the former calling the latter (verify:) "diseased." The spaceship launched. However, given the circumstances, Simmonds had not been scanned into the ship's (verify:) "matrix" for suspended animation needed for the 75-year journey to Earth, and he woke up in what amounted to a prison of his own making, doomed to die soon of (probably) thirst.
  • Luke Ferro and Anna Davis: stole supplies, held Dr. Russell hostage, stole an Eagle and moonbuggy; all to try settling and repopulating planet Arkadia after both experienced visions there. They became a colony, fate unknown, of the Moon. (in TOA)
    • Notes
  • Desertion could have also included those disappearing more quietly from base, of their own accord, without leave -- but no such incidents known.
    • Dione Who Commander of the gunship Satazius, from the planet Betha.
    Summary She played central roles in a Moon-based battle between Betha and Delta, and interacted heavily with the Alphans as part of the strategy within the battle. She was killed in battle by the very Alphans she had trapped in the middle of the battle.
    Details
  • Commanded by Theia.
  • Apparently gained some degree of respect for the alien Moonbase Commander, John Koenig, even caring somewhat about his welfare while still not wanting him to board her ship.
  • Very dark, straight hair, to upper shoulders.
  • Brown eyes.
  • Fillings in some of her teeth.
  • Wore a white dress, until she came to Alpha in a black outfit and helmet reminiscent of human "biker chicks."
  • At one point, seen playing what appears to be a recreational game.
    • Links
  • Catacombs: image 1, image 2
    • See Also
  • John and Dione
    		•
    Directive
    Four    		 Definition A command-level coded signal directive to attack the location the order is sent from.
    Used
  • Cmdr. Koenig to First Officer Verdeschi to destroy Psychon, despite the former and several other Alphans being on Psychon. Tony sends a nuclear-packed Eagle, but Maya and Mentor detect the subterfuge, and destroy the Eagle short of Psychon. The attempt disgusts Maya to the point of confronting Koenig, allowing him to try -- successfully this time -- to convince her to find out what Mentor has been up to.
    • Notes
  • The signal is apparently arranged solely between the commander and the first officer, for none of the following recognize its meaning, despite being officers and within earshot: Alan Carter, Helena Russell, and Sandra Benes.
    • Doctor Meanings
  • Medical Doctor
  • Presumably a title held by some non-medical members of this scientific base; i.e. anyone(?) with a PhD. The Editor is not sure if the title was actually used for this category, however.
    • DOD See Death's Other Dominion
    Dorca See Dorcons
    Dorcons Summary An alien people originating from the planet Dorca (VERIFY) who have created a powerful empire. They are the enemy the Psychons fear the most. Dorcons appear generally human, have considerably powerful technology, and are ruled by the Archon.
    Details
  • Two of their Archons died above Moonbase Alpha while trying to secure a Psychon named Maya, when the attempt was undone by a combination of Malic's machinations to become the Archon, and the Moonbase commander's attempts to rescue his crewmember. The Dorcon flagship was destroyed.
    • Examples
  • The Archon who was killed by Malic.
  • Varda, a Consul, shot by Malic
  • Malic, who died shortly after
  • several soldiers/guards
  • a (female) medical technician
    • Technology
  • Meson Converter, with considerable and varied abilities.
  • Weapons which can detect Psychons, even when in another form, and cause them great pain and drive them into reverting.
    • Episodes
  • "The Dorcons"
    		•
    The Dorcons Definition The 24th episode of Y2; the 48th and final episode of the original broadcast series. Written by Johnny Byrne. Directed by Tom Clegg.
    Plot
  • An alien probe ship attacks Maya remotely with an energy beam. A Meson Converter is detected. That ship disappears and is replaced with what Maya now recognizes, to her terror, as a Dorcon warship, which turns out to be the flagship of the Archon, the ruler of the Dorcon Empire. He seeks "immortality" via a transplant of a Psychon's hearty brain stem, which would leave Maya a living husk. He dispatches Consul Varda to capture her. The Alphans attempt to defend Maya, despite her frequent protests of the futility of such action, and pleas to either let the Dorcons take her, or for a fellow Alphan to kill her first. After destruction (including two deaths) is rained down on Alpha, the Commander is forced to surrender the base to the Dorcons. They invade Alpha and capture and remove Maya. After the Dorcons also leave, Koenig jumps into the transport beam, onto the Dorcon ship, where he is promptly stunned and imprisoned. Maya is taken away to be prepared for surgery. However, Malic, the nephew of the Archon, covets the chances to gain the role of Archon and "immortality" all at once, and frees John to serve as a distraction, while Malic himself kills the Archon. Koenig briefly frees Maya, but they are caught back in the Dorcon control room. John implicates Malic in the Archon's death, and manages to convince Varda of Malic's guilt. Malic promptly shoots Varda, but a stray shot from her weapon damages the Meson Converter, which allows John and Maya to escape, and leads to the destruction the Dorcon flagship.
    • Quotes
  • "Resistence is futile" -- a phrase Maya uses to confirm and echo what Varda stated moments before: "The Psychon will tell you how futile it is to resist us."
    • "Dorzak" Meanings
  • Name of an episode of Y2.
  • A Psychon character portrayed in the episode of the same name.
    • Dorzak
    (character)    		 Who A Psychon philosopher poet with powerful long range telepathic projection and contact telepathic reception abilities, who, in the struggle to survive after leaving Psychon some time before its destruction, turns evil and causes chaos among Croton peoples (or more specifically the Norvahns?). He was captured and on his way to exile when the ship, captained(?) by Sahala, encounters Alpha, on which resides another Psychon, Maya. The last argues on Dorzak's behalf, which together with his psychic forcing of another Croton to lie on his behalf, allows him to gain his freedom on Alpha, before Sahala's continued warnings and increasing corroborating evidence start creating concern among more of the Alphans. They in turn eventually convince Maya to confront him. Dorzak captures Maya, Helena, and Sahala, and is plotting his escape, in the form of Maya, when Tony realizes the masquerade and captures Dorzak, who is then re-imprisoned and taken away on the Croton ship.
    Stories
  • "Dorzak"
    • Details
  • At the time of Tony's confronting Dorzak, the latter is forcing Helena to start surgery on Sahala, to remove the latter's Neuro-Pulsonic Jammer, and thus destroy her defense against Dorzak, so he can force Sahala to fly the Croton ship as he wants. Presumably, he was going to keep Maya on board.
  • Has the nascent ability of Psychons for molecular transformation, but does not know how until he forces the knowledge from Maya's mind. He takes her form (forcing her to take his form), in an initially successful attempt at deception that fails when Tony grows suspicious of a possibly metamorphic ruse and undoes it.
    • Dorzak
    (episode)    		 Definition The 21st episode of Y2 of the series; the 45th episode overall. Written by Christopher Penfold. Directed by Val Guest.
    Plot While Commander Koenig is away on an exploratory mission, a Croton ship, broadcasting the Universal Plague Warning Signal gains (with difficulty) permission to land on Alpha. On arrival, Sahala, the female ship captain(?), attacks Maya with a staser, explaining it is because Maya is a Psychon, and a ship of Psychons caused considerable tormoil among Sahala's people. Sahala is confined. Tony does not want to hear any explanation from Sahala, but Alan is willing to give her a chance, and prompts her to bring Maya out of stasis. On board the Croton ship is Dorzak, the primary Psychon instigator, according to Sahala. Maya indicates Dorzak is a philosopher and a poet, and pleads with Tony to speak to him, desperate to talk to someone of her race again. Sahala claims insideous powers from Dorzak; and upon his being brought out of stasis, he uses telepathic projection to force another Croton, Yesta, to give false witness against Sahala, who ends up imprisoned again. Alan still believes Sahala, and even Tony starts having doubts about Dorzak, and finally convinces a very reluctant Maya to transform herself into Sahala's form, to hear Dorzak's own words. She does, and finds the ugly truth about yet another Psychon, and wonders if Psychon nature is flawed. Dorzak, not practiced in metamorphosis, forces his way into her mind to gain the secrets, forces her to molecularly transform into his appearance, and transforms into hers, a metamorphic masquerade of which Tony eventually becomes suspicious. Tony confronts Dorzak and stuns him. The Croton ship, with Dorzak safely back in stasis, leaves, after Alan and Sahala share a kiss goodbye.
    Details
  • Clea fell in love with Dorzak, and her freeing him is what precipitated the crisis on board the Croton ship that brought it to Alpha: though Sahala regains control over her ship, it is not before Clea gives Yesta a head injury, and Clea herself, in remorse, throws herself into space. These circumstances are what prompt Sahala to seek help from Alpha.
  • Crotons developed a defense against Dorzak's "organic psycho waves," in the form of a small brain implant: a Neuro-Pulsonic Jammer. Tony finds one sitting free on the Croton ship (Clea's?), and sends it to Technical Section for analysis, not knowing what it is. Helena removes one from Yesta's brain, also not knowing what it is. Tony talks to Sam (?) from Technical, and they work out what it might be, which is part of what makes Tony more suspicious of Dorzak. After becoming suspicious of Dorzak's masquerade as Maya, but before confronting Dorzak, Tony has Dr. Spencer(?) implant one in his brain, so Tony can be immune to Dorzak.
    • Comments
  • The Universal Plague Warning Signal is presumably known to the Alphans via some post-Breakaway source, such as deciphering some part of the Voyager 1 records, from Maya, or from another alien source.
    • Dotrice See Roy Dotrice
    Dragon's
    Domain    		 a.k.a.
  • DD
    • Definition The 23rd episode, in production order, of Y1 of the series. Written by Christopher Penfold. Directed by Charles Crichton.
    Details
  • Includes numerous flashbacks to Earth and a pre-1999 space mission, providing considerable backstory for several characters, regular and guest.
  • The alien creature is usually referred to, by fans if not in the episode (CHECK), as "the dragon" or "the Dragon."
  • Involves a spaceship graveyard.
  • Tony Cellini appears, and dies, in this episode.
    • Eagle a.k.a.
  • Eagle Transporter
  • Eagle Transporter System?
    • Summary The spaceship type used by the Alphans. A workhorse able to swap pods as per mission dictates, atmosphere capable, equipped with a degree of shielding, as well as artificial gravity.
    Capabilities
  • Spaceflight
  • Atmospheric flight
  • Artificial gravity
  • Shielding (inc. anti-radiation, to some degree)
  • On-board computer (a second in some pods?)
  • As of "War Games" (Y1), some, but not all are laser-equipped. Others are unarmed.
  • Ability to swap pods.
  • Ability to add supplementary boosters, sometimes on the spine (e.g. "Metamorph") and sometimes on the sides of the pod (e.g. NANE).
  • Can (and sometimes was) remote-controlled.
    • Examples
  • Eagle 1
  • Eagle 2
  • Eagle 3
  • Eagle 4
  • Eagle 5
  • Eagle 6
  • Eagle 7
  • Eagle 10
  • Eagle 11
  • Eagle 12
  • Eagle 14
  • Eagle 28
  • Eagle 29
  • Rescue Eagle 4
    • Notes
  • Eagle models of 44", 22", 11", and 5.5" were used in filming the special effects sequences of the series.
  • In an episode of Futurama, an obvious take-off of an Eagle appears. It shoots the last copies of Star Trek (The Original Series) episodes onto a planet, as a way of eliminating the series from human culture.
    • See Also
  • Eagles in Episodes
  • Eagles Lost or Damaged
  • Eagles Stolen or Hijacked
  • Eagle Sections
  • Other Eagle Parts
    		•
    Eagle 1 Intro A frequently used Eagle designation through S19. It is involved in many missions and incidents, which for this entry are split into Y1 and Y2 parts.
    Year One
  • "Breakaway" (Y1): VIP pod. Capt. Carter takes up the Eagle Commissioner Simmonds arrived in, to observe from high orbit as the Area Two pile is broken up. He becomes direct witness (probably the only one) to the actual Breakaway explosion. He keeps pace and catches up with the Moon, landing back on Alpha.
  • "Black Sun": Piloted by Mike Ryan. Normal pod? Pulled part by gravitational forces near a black sun (black hole), with one verifiable fatality. Destroyed.
  • RATM: Last Eagle mission sent to Triton. Normal module (?). John, Alan, Pierce Quinton, and three other guards on board. Alan remains with Eagle. All four guards go with Koenig. All successfully escape sphere's destruction.
  • "Earthbound": sent to initially intercept the incoming Kaldorian spacecraft. Piloted by Alan and a co-pilot. Standard-shaped pod with red/orange stripes (rescue pod?).
  • "Missing Link": normal pod. Returning empty-handed from an exploration of what appears to be a dead world they later find out is inhabited and called Zenno. The Eagle loses power (?) and control and crashes with John, Alan, Victor, and Sandra aboard. All are knocked unconscious, and some are more severely injured, mainly Sandra and, most critically, John. The Eagle's pilot section has to be separated from the rest of it, by explosive bolts, and hauled away by a Cargo Eagle. It is not clear if the Eagle can be repaired or is totalled.
  • "Collision Course": piloted by Alan, suffering from main booster problem, damaged in nuclear blast against asteroid.
  • DOD: The mission to Ultima Thule with John, Helena, Victor, and Alan on board.
  • "The Full Circle": standard transporter pod; sent on further exploration mission of five people (at same time as Eagle 2) after Eagle 6 is brought back without the first landing party. Piloted by Commander Koenig; co-pilot is ????.
  • "Space Brain": doing reconnaisance with two pilots on board: Wayland, Cousteau; it and the pilots are crushed by the Space Brain. Destroyed.
  • "Dragon's Domain": (Unverified:) Tony Cellini attempts and fails to steal Eagle 1 while it sits on Launch Pad 4 at the time; Koenig blocks this by giving an order which leaves the docking tube attached to the Eagle. Later, several people take him on a mission to the spaceship graveyard, where he eventually stole the Eagle (its final fate unclear). See Tony Cellini Steals Eagle 1 regarding the latter situation.
  • TOA: main exploration of Arkadia. Team of eight: John, Alan, Helena, Victor, Luke, Anna, Quinton, another guard (who?).
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph": standard pod; captured by Mentor, destroyed with Psychon with no one on board any longer. See Psychon Destroys Eagle 1 for why the Editor considers this a verifiable loss.
  • "The Exiles": "Eagle Mission 1" (is this same as Eagle 1?), defensive response, but recalled when alien missiles went into lunar orbit.
  • "Brian the Brain": Piloted by Bill during the initial Evacuation phases. When the Swift is detected, Eagles 1 and 2 divert to intercept, then escort the Swift to Alpha.
  • "Rules of Luton": John, Tony, Maya. Eagle develops fault in Oxygen system just prior to landing. John decides they should land so he and Maya can explore while Tony returns to Alpha to pick up another Eagle.
  • MOA: John and Maya flying a survey mission, runs into meteor storm. Standard pod. Laser equipped, using it to destroy at least one meteor.
  • "Brian the Brain": Flown by Bill and Tony with directional guidance by Maya over computer interference. Lands on Planet D ahead of the Swift. Tony and Maya leave and meet up with John in the mothership. John (carrying Maya/mouse) returns to the Swift, Tony back to Eagle 1, which later docks with the Swift to pick up John, Helena, and Maya.
  • NANE: normal transporter pod. Alan attempts a rescue flight to New Earth, but though engines fire, no liftoff occurs. Alan later attempts a launch after extra vertical booster units were attached, but this fails as well, and it is shown that Magus is fighting, from New Earth, and with some strain on his part, against the launch.
  • "AB Chrysalis": One of the numerous Eagles which evacuate Alpha ahead of a predicted shockwave and hide behind the protection of the other side of the Moon. Normal transporter pod. Piloted by Alan, who is sitting in the starboard seat.
  • "AB Chrysalis": Mission to the planet and moons which are found to be the origin of the shockwaves. John, Alan, and Maya aboard. Normal transporter pod again. Stairs are seen on portside at one point.
  • "Seed of Destruction": Tony and Maya steal the Eagle, in order to check out asteroid over doubts of Koenig's words and identity. They find the real Koenig there and rescue him. He takes the Eagle back to Alpha while they try to destroy the Heart of Kalthon (unsuccessfully).
  • "Matter of Balance": first mission to Sunim?
  • "Matter of Balance": hijacked by Shermeen after she uses plant vapors to put Bill Fraser into a trance state and forces him to fly the Eagle and her to the planet. Verify: Later flown back to Alpha by Tony, with Bill (not yet recovered) and Maya on board.
  • "Seance Spectre": Damaged during a crash exploring of Tora, with John and Maya aboard, after the Tora mutineers damage a computer link back on Alpha. Has to be brought back remotely.
    • Comments
  • So far in analysis, seems to be the most common Eagle designation.
  • The Eagle which Alan pilots is often Eagle 1.
  • Several Eagles bearing this designation are destroyed through the series. The designation is clearly reused, either by renumbering other Eagles to be Eagle 1, or if new ones are being manufactured on Alpha.
    • Eagle 2 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Breakaway" (Y1): ferrying newly-installed Cmdr. Koenig from Earth to Alpha. Standard passenger pod?
  • "Earthbound": sent to initially intercept the incoming Kaldorian spacecraft. Standard-shaped pod with red/orange stripes (rescue pod?).
  • "The Full Circle": standard transporter pod, sent on search and rescue mission after Eagle 6 is brought back without the landing party. Alan pilots it; Sandra is in co-pilot seat but apparently only works search-related controls.
  • "The Exiles" (Y2): "Eagle Mission 2" (is this same as Eagle 2?), defensive response, but recalled when alien missiles went into lunar orbit.
  • "Brian the Brain": Part of a group of 6(?) during initial Evacuation phases. When the Swift is detected, Eagles 1 and 2 divert to intercept, then escort the Swift to Alpha.
  • "Matter of Balance": follows Eagle 1 to Sunim after Shermeen has hijacked the latter, forcing Bill to fly her to the planet. Returned to Alpha by John, with Shermeen (now the wiser) on board.
  • "Seance Spectre": John and Maya, so he can set a nuclear trigger. Eagle hit by a laser rifle wielded by Sanderson, leading to Maya being knocked unconscious. She recovers, and they make their escape.
  • BOW2: speculative. Carter, Ehrlich, and Bartlett think they are flying (more as passengers?) in a Superswift's tiny "pilot ship" but are really flying an Eagle. All three individuals are wearing an Eagle 2 patch.
    • Eagle 3 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • RATM: First Eagle sent towards Triton probe. The probe attacks the Eagle with what the Alphans believe is a force field. Both Carter and Donovan are eventually knocked unconscious, and the Eagle blasted back towards the Moon. The Eagle crashes 700 meters from Alpha. Donovan is killed, apparently in the crash. The Eagle seems relatively intact, so it is not clear if this is a lost Eagle.
  • "Dragon's Domain": Ordered to pursue Eagle 1 after the latter is stolen (minus its pod) by Tony Cellini.
  • MOA: did not leave on a mission, but put on standby in case it was needed to rescue John and Maya, who were flying Eagle 1 on a survey mission but running into a meteor storm. Pasc, holding Helena hostage, commandeers Eagle 3, but is blocked from lift-off, and later talked off the Eagle due to his son's self-inflicted injury and Helena's convincing words she can help him.
  • "Seance Spectre": the Eagle Tony (pilot seat), Sandra (co-pilot seat to help with scans), and Helena are aboard during evacuation).
    • Eagle 4 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Missing Link": Rescue pod. Koenig is the only one who mentions the number, but he is out of communication (to put it simply), so he must have been aware Eagle 4 was the Rescue Eagle on standby during Koenig's mission.
  • "Collision Course" (Y1): normal pod; captured and released by Arra's ship.
  • "Space Brain": Rescue Eagle 4?
  • "Dragon's Domain": Ordered to pursue Eagle 1 after the latter is stolen (minus its pod) by Tony Cellini.
  • "The Metamorph": laboratory pod and spine booster unit; sent on science/diplomatic/rescue mission to Psychon with John Koenig, Helena Russell, Alan Carter, and Lew Picard; nearly destroyed in Psychon's destruction; returned with John, Helena, Alan, as well as Maya (a Psychon saved from her own world's end).
  • "The Exiles": normal transporter pod, plus gripping arm; first mission with John, Alan, and Maya returned with one Exile's pod.
  • "All that Glisters": laboratory pod (no spine booster). On board are: John, Tony, Alan Helena, Maya, and Dave Reilly.
  • "Rules of Luton": Tony takes this one out after he has to return Eagle 1 after it developed a fault. He searches for the disappeared planet Luton in Eagle 4, trying to return to John and Maya. He nearly crashes when the planet reappears in front of him.
  • NANE: normal transporter pod. John, Tony, Helena, Maya, and Magus boarded, to fly to the planet; but Magus instead instantaneously transported the entire Eagle there. Later, when the Alphans tried to return to the Eagle, it vanished, which Maya interpreted as atomic dispersal. After Magus was rendered powerless, the Eagle rematerialized, and the Alphans escaped the exploding New Earth.
  • "Seance Spectre": Initial partial approach of Tora by John and Alan.
    • Eagle 5 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Metamorph" (Y2): Combat Eagle 5, only mentioned.
  • BOW2: standard transporter pod. John, Tony, and Maya intercept the moonbuggy being used by Carter and Ehrlich as they, under the mind control of enemy aliens, attempt to set a nuclear trigger (?) to blow up nearby dumps. Maya reports the ground is unsuitable for landing the Eagle, so first John and then Maya winch down.
    • Eagle 6 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Breakaway" (Y1): name mentioned in chatter while trying to break up Area Two.
  • "The Full Circle" (Y1): standard transporter pod; initial reconnaisance^ Eagle flies to Retha with party of seven. Main Mission cannot raise Eagle, but Paul brings it back to Alpha under remote control, returns with one dead caveman later found to be a transformed crew member.
  • "Metamorph" (Y2): Combat Eagle 6, only mentioned.
  • "The Beta Cloud": standard transporter pod. Tom Graham flies out to a mysterious cloud to collect particles for analysis, but does not return when expected, only to return after its fuel should be expended. Graham is not on board; instead, a robotic creature has piloted the craft back, and it proceeds to attack.
  • "Seance Spectre": Alan during evacuation.
    		•
    Eagle 7 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Missing Link": Cargo (i.e. winch) pod. Brought in to haul the pilot module of the damaged Eagle 1, in which lies a critically-injured Koenig (with Alan and Helena on either side), the ~100 miles back to Alpha.
  • (Verify:) "Space Brain" (Y1): standard pod? Flown by Cmdr. Koenig. The "fastest Eagle," used to catch up with the nuclear Eagle when it ceases to respond to commands.
    • Eagle 10 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Collision Course" (Y1): carries a nuclear bomb to asteroid. Shown dropping it off, without incident. Pod: winch system.
  • BOW1 (Y2): taken on an erratic flight by a delusional Koenig, who crashes it into a nuclear waste area dome and onto the Moon. It suffers a fire and damage and is considered "totalled."^ Pod: passenger?
    • Eagle 11 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Collision Course" (Y1): name mentioned; carries a nuclear bomb to asteroid. (VERIFY!)
    		•
    Eagle 12 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Collision Course" (Y1): name mentioned; carries a nuclear bomb to asteroid. (VERIFY!)
    • Eagle 14 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Breakaway": unloading canisters at Nuclear Waste Disposal Area Two while Dr. Russell is at the Area Two Monitoring Depot.
  • "Breakaway" (again): winch, helping break up Area Two. Reports some navigational disturbance. Apparently not enough to pull it out of rotation?
    • Eagle 26 Intro A designation number (arguably) used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Breakaway" (Y1): name mentioned in chatter while trying to break up Area Two? The reference is to "Number 26" however, so it is not perfectly clear, but Paul has been directing nuclear waste canisters to be carried to certain dispersal grids (e.g. Grid C, Grid D), so it likely is an Eagle number reference.
    • Eagle 28 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • Unverified: "The Last Sunset"
    • Notes
  • The Editor also edited/authored a Handy Forms double-sided and laminated 8.5x11+" quick reference guide, which had an erroneous reference to this being the highest Eagle number mentioned. The Editor is currently aware of there being an Eagle 29.
    • Eagle 29 Intro A designation number used for an Eagle in at least one instance.
    Missions
  • "Collision Course" (Y1): name mentioned as it is being shown (on the Big Screen) approaching an asteroid. Pod: winch system, which it is using to carry a nuclear bomb.
    • Notes
  • This is the highest-numbered Eagle of which the Editor is currently aware. There could be more (esp. since it appeared to the Editor that one hangar had at least 12 Eagles. Also, some are called Rescue Eagles, etc. Given the interchangability of pods, the possibility that designation numbers were perhaps not permanent, it is entirely unclear how many Eagles Alpha may have.
    • Eagles in
    Episodes    		 Intro Per-episode list of Eagle designations in episodes, whether the Eagle is shown or only referred to.
    Year One
  • "Breakaway": Eagle 1 (VIP), Eagle 2 (transport), Eagle 6 (winch?), Eagle 14 (two missions: cargo, winch), Eagle 26(?) (if so, winch). Plus: one crashed at Area Two and two others(?) later destroyed there; though some of these unnumbered ones may be the same as some numbered ones. Other missions on Eagles whose numbers not mentioned?
  • RATM: Eagle 1, Eagle 3.
  • "Earthbound": Eagle 1, Eagle 2.
  • "Missing Link": Eagle 1 (crashed), Eagle 4(?) (rescue), Eagle 7 (cargo w/winch).
  • "Collision Course": Eagle 1, Eagle 4, Eagle 10, Eagle 11, Eagle 12, Eagle 29, Rescue Eagle 4.
  • DOD: Eagle 1
  • "The Full Circle": Eagle 1, Eagle 2, Eagle 6.
  • "Troubled Spirit": none
  • "Space Brain": Eagle 1 (destroyed), Rescue Eagle 4?, Eagle 7?. Plus two others whose numbers are not mentioned?
  • "Dragon's Domain": Eagle 1 (ultimate fate unclear), Eagle 2, Eagle 3, Eagle 4.
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph": Eagle 1 (destroyed), Eagle 4, Combat Eagle 5, Combat Eagle 6. Plus: drone Eagle (destroyed), an attack(?) Eagle (destroyed).
  • "The Exiles": Eagle Mission 1, Eagle Mission 2, Eagle 4
  • "All that Glisters": Eagle 4.
  • "The Rules of Luton": Eagle 1.
  • MOA: Eagle 1 (uses laser), Eagle 3 (on pad and commandeered by Pasc).
  • "Brian the Brain": Eagle 1, Eagle 2, four(?) others.
  • NANE: Eagle 1, Eagle 4
  • "The AB Chrysalis": Eagle 1 (at least)
  • "Seed of Destruction": Eagle 1 (at least)
  • "Beta Cloud": Eagle 6
  • BOW1: Eagle 10 (totalled)
  • BOW2: Eagle 2?, Eagle 5
  • "Lambda Factor": none. However, a mention that 3/4 are "non-operational" due to same problems afflicting base, or sabotage.
  • "Seance Spectre": Eagle 1, Eagle 2, Eagle 3, Eagle 4, Eagle 6.
  • "Dorzak": none
    		•
    Eagle
    Parts
    (Other)    		 Intro A List of other aspects of Eagle design.
    List
  • Oxygen Recycling Plant (named in "Seance Spectre")
  • Pressure hull
  • Remote guidance system.
  • Computer system
  • Weapons rack
    		•
    Eagle
    Sections    		 Intro Lists of Basic and Optional portions of an Eagle.
    Basic
  • Pilot module (command module?)
  • A section immediately behind the pilot module, holding some basic equipment (e.g. spacesuits?), mounting for two of the four landing pods, and a partial mounting for a mission pod.
  • Central spine (which extends to the portion before and after in this list).
  • A section at the rear with mounting for other two landing pods, partial mounting for the mission pod, and the main engines.
    • Optional
  • Mission pod: numerous types available.
  • Booster Unit for the spine (e.g. "The Metamorph").
  • Vertical booster units as appeared in NANE.
  • Mounting for Re-Entry glider.
    		•
    Eagles
    Lost or
    Damaged    		 Intro Lists of Eagles destroyed (completely or with salvage potential), major damage, and eventually "minor" damage (little data listed on the last yet).
    Details
  • The Editor treats destroyed Eagles using the "verifiable" benchmark, but there is still a level of interpretation and uncertainty involved, so if a range is presented anywhere, the low end is considered "verifiable."
  • However separating between the columns is sometimes subjective. Thus, this is the Editor's interpretation.
  • "Totalled" = Loss w/SP (Salvage Potential), unless abandoned on a planet, in which case it is CL (Complete Loss).
    • Warnings
  • The Editor is still looking closely at the episodes for all details, including regarding Eagles, so some numbers may be subject to change or addition.
  • "Breakaway" counts are during and post-Breakaway
    • Key
  • Loss = destroyed, permanenly stolen, left behind
  • CL = Complete Loss (i.e. no salvage potential for Alpha)
  • SP = Salvage Potential (destroyed, but perhaps some parts can be recovered)
  • Dama = Damage
  • M = Major (perhaps flyable, or perhaps only useful for salvage)
  • m = minor (incomplete listings)
  • ? = unknown or uncertain
  • ## = large number
    • Table
    EpisodeLossDamaComments
    # Title CL SP M m
    **** YEAR ONE ****
    1a Breakaway 2 0 0
    1b MOLAD 0 0 (see Notes below)
    1c Black Sun 1 0
    1d RATM 0 0 1 ##one crashed; many damaged
    1e Earthbound 0 0
    1f ATAP 0 0 (see Notes below)
    1g Missing Link 0 0 1
    1k Last Sunset 0 1
    1l Voyager's Return 1 0
    1m Collision Course 0 0 1?
    1q War Games 0 0 (see Notes below)
    1t Space Brain 1 0
    1u Infernal Machine 0 2
    1w Dragon's Domain 0-1 0 (see Notes below)
    1x TOA 1 0 stolen by deserters
    6-7 3 2
    **** YEAR TWO ****
    2a Metamorph 2 1 1?
    2j NANE 0 0-1 (see Notes below)
    2p Space Warp 0 0 1-2 (see Notes below)
    2q BOW1 0 1 "totalled"
    2s Lambda Factor 0 0 ##"non-operational": 3/4
    2t Seance Spectre 0 0 1 1
    2v Devil's Planet 1 0
    2w Immun. Synd. 2 0 1?
    2x Dorcons 0 4
    5 6-7 2-3
    (grand totals)
    11-129-10 4-5
    20-224-5
    24-27
    Notes
  • MOLAD: One Eagle blows up with Alan on board (on the planet), and the Eagles on Alpha are breaking down (?), but all of that is reset, so those are not counted in the end.
  • ATAP: A crashed Eagle is seen, but that is from the alternate timeline, not the mainline, and is thus not counted in the Table. Note: the alternates have apparently disassembled all the rest before that crash, for the alternates' bodies were not recovered.
  • "War Games": Several(?) Eagles destroyed during the battles, but all is reset at the end of the episode, so none are counted in the Table.
  • "Dragon's Domain": Tony Cellini detaches the passenger module then later discards the main frame and attaches the pilot module to the Ultra Probe. It seems like these parts are left behind, but it is perhaps possible another Eagle retrieved them. This Eagle is not considered a verifiable loss, but is listed as a 0-1 because it seems like there is a good chance it had to be left behind in their rush to return to the departing Moon.
  • NANE: It is not clear (to the Editor) if the Eagle on the pad is actually destroyed by Magus or if the destruction is an illusion created by Magus.
  • "Space Warp": Maya, while ill, delusional, and in another form, attempted to launch an Eagle while in a hangar, and at minimum damaged at least one or two Eagles. Though the damage was implied to be pretty bad, the Editor cannot be sure any Eagles were verifiably totalled or destroyed (though the one she was in probably was).
    • Conclusions
  • Complete Losses (w/o even salvage opportunity) are 11-12; but if one includes the others that are destroyed/totalled (with some potential salvage opportunity), this increases the count to 20-22 Eagles lost to flight on Alpha.
  • The Editor thus currently considers there to be 20 "verifiable" losses of flyable Eagles to Alpha, in the episodes.
  • If all those with what the Editor calls Major Damage are also counted as unflyable (i.e. if the Alphans are unlucky enough that all of those additional Eagles are "totalled" too), the loss count climbs to 24-27.
    • Eagles
    Stolen or
    Hijacked    		 Intro
  • Eagles were at times stolen, by Alphans or aliens, either while in space or on Alpha.
    • Examples
  • "Dragon's Domain": Tony Cellini attempts to steal (unverified:) Eagle 1 early in the episode, but is blocked from takeoff. Later in the episode, he steals Eagle 1. Final fate of the Eagle is not clear to the Editor, who does not consider it a verifiable loss. Note: Both times, Tony assaults Alan, knocking him out both times.
  • TOA: Holding Helena hostage, Luke and Anna demand an Eagle, and receive it. After they release Helena above Arkadia, and Alan returns to communication range, (reverify:) Pursuit Eagles 3 and 5 are to be sent from Alpha to recapture Luke, Anna, the Eagle, and its equipment, but the Moon abruptly leaves orbit, and the attempt is canceled. This Eagle is thus considered verifiably lost from Alpha.
  • MOA: Eagle 3 by Pasc. Never got it launched due to intervention from Command Center and being talked out of the Eagle, in part due to an injury his son, Etrec, suffered.
  • "The Beta Cloud": The intelligence in the cloud captured Eagle 6, got rid of the pilot, Tom Graham, and directed a robotic creature to fly the Eagle back to Alpha. This Eagle remains on Alpha; i.e. was hijacked and regained.
  • "Space Warp": Maya, taken ill and become delusional, now in another form, and shot with a tranquilizer that is unexpectedly slow to act, gets to an Eagle that's on pad. It is (unverified:) evidently the fastest on Alpha (an assumption based on the other Alphans' fear that if she launches, they'll (unverified dialog:) "never get her back." They attempt to prevent her take-off by lowering the pad and lifting the Eagle into the hangar; but once there, Maya/creature attempts a launch anyway, getting injured and damaging at least her Eagle and some equipment, if not more Eagles.
  • "A Matter of Balance": Shermeen Williams, while under the sway of Vindrus, used a plant (grown under the guidance of Vindrus), to put Bill Fraser in a trance-like state, to fly her, with a portable nuclear generator she stole, to Sunim in Eagle 1.
    • "Eagle
    Transporter"    		 Meanings
  • More formal name for the Eagle-class spaceship.
    • Episodes
    (with
    Writer,
    Director ,
    Loss/Gain,
    Days After
    Breakaway
    Information)    		 Intro Lists of the series episodes, in production order (considered by most, including many fans, to be the official order). The Editor is not sure if any arguments exist regarding this as the true production order. The first two characters in each column is an unofficial episode designator the Editor uses for convenience in various documents such as this. Full episode titles are listed in this entry (for convenience or layout reasons, they are sometimes shortened or abbreviated in some other entries). Losses are where "verifiable."
    Table
    Episode
    Counts    		production loss/gain
    Episode Title WriDir pop.EDAB
    **** YEAR ONE ****
    1a/01/01 Breakaway GB LK -4 2 *
    1b/02/02 Matter of Life and Death JB CC -0 0
    1c/03/03 Black Sun DW LK -1 1
    1d/04/04 Ring Around the Moon Ed RA -2 ?
    1e/05/05 Earthbound AT CC -1 0
    1f/06/06 Another Time, Another Place JB DT -1 0
    1g/07/07 Missing Link Ed RA -0 ?
    1h/08/08 Guardian of Piri CP CC -1 0
    1i/09/09 Force of Life JB DT -4 0
    1j/10/10 Alpha Child CP RA -1+1 0 *
    1k/11/11 The Last Sunset CP CC -0 1
    1l/12/12 Voyager's Return JB BK -2 1
    1m/13/13 Collision Course AT RA -0 ?
    1n/14/14 Death's Other Dominion AT,EBCC -0 0
    1o/15/15 The Full Circle J&P BK -1 0
    1p/16/16 End of Eternity JB RA -2 0
    1q/17/17 War Games CP CC -0 0
    1r/18/18 The Last Enemy BK -0 0 *
    1s/19/19 The Troubled Spirit JB RA -3 0
    1t/10/20 Space Brain CP CC -3 1
    1u/21/21 The Infernal Machine AT,EBDT -5 2
    1v/22/22 Mission of the Darians JB RA -1 0
    1w/23/23 Dragon's Domain CP CC -1 1 0877*
    1x/24/24 The Testament of Arkadia JB DT -2 1 *
    -35+110
    **** YEAR TWO ****
    2a/01/25 The Metamorph JB CC -3+1 3 0342*
    2b/02/26 The Exiles DJ RA -0 0 0403
    2c/03/27 One Moment of Humanity TB CC -0 0 0515
    2d/04/28 All that Glisters KM RA -0 0 0565
    2e/05/29 Journey to Where DJ TC -0 0 ----
    2f/06/30 The Taybor TK BB -0 0 ----
    2g/07/31 The Rules of Luton ##
    ##    		CW VG -0 0 0892
    2h/08/32 The Mark of Archanon LS CC -0 0 0640
    2i/09/33 Brian the Brain JR KC -0 0 1150
    2j/10/34 New Adam New Eve TF CC -0 ? 1095*
    2k/11/35 The AB Chrysalis ##
    ##    		TB VG -0 0 1288
    2l/12/36 Catacombs of the Moon AT RL -0 0 1196
    2m/13/37 Seed of Destruction JG KC -0 0 1608
    2n/14/38 The Beta Cloud CW RL -1 0 1503
    2o/15/39 A Matter of Balance##
    ##    		P&J CC -0 0 1702
    2p/16/40 Space Warp CW PM -0 ? 1807*
    2q/17/41 The Bringers of Wonder (part 1) TF TC -1 1 1912
    2r/18/42 The Bringers of Wonder (part 2) TF TC -0 0 2515*
    2s/19/43 The Lambda Factor TD CC -2 0 2308
    2t/20/44 The Seance Spectre DJ PM -1 0 2012
    2u/21/45 Dorzak ##
    ##    		CP VG -0 0 2009*
    2v/22/46 Devil's Planet MW TC -1 0 2306*
    2w/23/47 The Immunity Syndrome JB BB -4 2 2310
    2x/24/48 The Dorcons JB TC -2 4?2409
    -15+19
    **** YEAR THREE ****
    3a/01/49 Message from Moonbase Alpha JB TM -0 0 *
    -0 0
    (grand totals)
    -50+219
    * Notes
  • 1a: An Earth news report lists 311 people on Moonbase Alpha. See Breakaway Population for analysis.
  • 1j: Addition (birth) of Jackie Crawford.
  • 1r: Koenig mentions there are "about three hundred" people on Alpha. See Population in "The Last Enemy" for analysis.
  • 1w: Only episode of Y1 known to list Days After Breakaway; but unfortunately, it and Y2 dates conflict.
  • 1x: "There are over three hundred people...." See Population at Arkadia for analysis.
  • 2a: Population listed as 297 at the start of the episode. See Population at Psychon for analysis. Addition of Maya at the end of the episode.
  • 2j: It is not clear (to the Editor) if the Eagle on the pad is actually destroyed by Magus or if the destruction is an illusion created by Magus.
  • 2p: Maya, while ill, delusional, and in another form, attempted to launch an Eagle while in a hangar, and at minimum damaged at least one or two Eagles. Though the damage was implied to be pretty bad, the Editor cannot be sure any Eagles were verifiably totalled or destroyed (though the one she was in probably was).
  • 2r: Helena records 2515 DAB in her log; but clearly 1915 would make much more sense. It is not clear whether this is a production mistake or some very subtle reference to the Alphans being under the influence of partial alien mind control.
  • 2u: comment by a Croton ship computer which scanned the Moon: "it is inhabited by some three hundred... people."
  • 2v: Population is mentioned as 298 (revealed during interrogation of Koenig). See Population at Entra for analysis.
  • 3a: A short film considered canon by many.
  • ## blocks bind two episodes which were filmed concurrently, which meant some of the principal cast members had little or no presence in one episode of the pair, and more in the other.
    • Misc.
  • "Movies" were made by assembling some of these episodes via various editing.
    • See Also
  • Episode List (Compact Form)
  • Episode Capsules
    • Links
  • Episode Title Cards
  • Cast by Episode
    		•
    Episodes
    (Compact
    Form, w/
    Writer,
    Director ,
    Days After
    Breakaway
    Information)    		 Intro Compact list of the original 48 episodes, in production order, in compact format, with many episode names shortened or abbreviated. The odd 2515 DAB number for BOW2 is ignored; 1915 probably makes the most sense.
    Table
    Epi
    Ct     		Episode Title WriDir
    **** YEAR ONE ****
    a/01 Breakaway GB LK
    b/02 MOLAD JB CC
    c/03 Black Sun DW LK
    d/04 RATM Ed RA
    e/05 Earthbound AT CC
    f/06 ATAP JB DT
    g/07 Missing Link Ed RA
    h/08 Guardian of Piri CP CC
    i/09 Force of Life JB DT
    j/10 Alpha Child CP RA
    k/11 The Last Sunset CP CC
    l/12 Voyager's Return JB BK
    m/13 Collision Course AT RA
    n/14 DOD ** CC
    o/15 The Full Circle J&P BK
    p/16 End of Eternity JB RA
    q/17 War Games CP CC
    r/18 Last EnemyBK
    s/19 Troubled Spirit JB RA
    t/10 Space Brain CP CC
    u/21 Infernal Mach. ** DT
    v/22 Mission/Darians JB RA
    w/23 Dragon's Domain CP CC
    x/24 TOA JB DT
    Episode Title WriDir DAB
    **** YEAR TWO ****
    The Metamorph JB CC 0342
    The Exiles DJ RA 0403
    OMOH TB CC 0515
    All that Glisters KM RA 0565
    Journey to Where DJ TC ----
    The Taybor TK BB ----
    Rules/Luton ##
    ##    		CW VG 0892
    MOA LS CC 0640
    Brian the Brain JR KC 1150
    NANE TF CC 1095
    AB Chrysalis##
    ##    		TB VG 1288
    COTM AT RL 1196
    Seed/Destruction JG KC 1608
    The Beta Cloud CW RL 1503
    MOB ##
    ##    		P&J CC 1702
    Space Warp CW PM 1807
    BOW1 TF TC 1912
    BOW2 TF TC
    Lambda Factor TD CC 2308
    Seance Spectre DJ PM 2012
    Dorzak ##
    ##    		CP VG 2009
    Devil's Planet MW TC 2306
    Immun. Syndrome JB BB 2310
    The Dorcons JB TC 2409
    **Notes
  • DOD: Written by AT,EB
  • Infernal Mach.: ditto
    • See Also
  • Episode List (Full Form)
  • Episode Capsules
    		•
    Episode
    Capsules    		 Intro Extremely brief episode summaries, most about 4-5 words each, presented solely as brief reminders of what the episode is about. If the title is a link, follow it to see if there is a longer description.
    Table
    **** YEAR ONE ****
    1a Breakaway Moon blasted into deep space
    1b Matter of Life and Death Helena finds missing husband
    1c Black Sun Cannot avoid mysterious forces
    1d Ring Around the Moon Brain-like, planet-sized probe
    1e Earthbound Gentle aliens on way to Earth
    1f Another Time, Another Place Dopplegangers of Alpha(ns)
    1g Missing Link Koenig tested by aliens
    1h Guardian of Piri Computer enforces perfection
    1i Force of Life Man can drain anything's heat
    1j Alpha Child Baby ages rapidly, murderously
    1k The Last Sunset Moon is given an atmosphere
    1l Voyager's Return Earth probe with deadly past
    1m Collision Course Koenig resists saving the Moon
    1n Death's Other Dominion Stray Earth crew are immortal
    1o The Full Circle Alphans meet own Stone Age
    1p End of Eternity Immortal prisoner terrorizes
    1q War Games Battle irreparably damages base
    1r The Last Enemy Moon becomes missile platform
    1s The Troubled Spirit Man haunted by his own ghost
    1t Space Brain Crushing foam protects object
    1u The Infernal Machine Sentient ship, human companions
    1v Mission of the Darians Civilization, barbarism on ark
    1w Dragon's Domain Deadly creature haunts a man
    1x The Testament of Arkadia Past, future hope of dead world
    **** YEAR TWO ****
    2a The Metamorph Computer drains mind; meet Maya
    2b The Exiles 53 missiles contain prisoners
    2c One Moment of Humanity Robots seek human emotions
    2d All that Glisters Living rock takes control
    2e Journey to Where Earth return? Time differences
    2f The Taybor Traveling trader covets Maya
    2g The Rules of Luton Plants rule world, judge others
    2h The Mark of Archanon Dig up violence-infected aliens
    2i Brian the Brain Over-friendly sentient computer
    2j New Adam New Eve "Creator" appears, experiments
    2k The AB Chrysalis Deadly explosions guard planet
    2l Catacombs of the Moon Visions haunt man, dying wife
    2m Seed of Destruction Mirror image of Koenig, energy
    2n The Beta Cloud Alphans ill, rampaging monster
    2o A Matter of Balance Alien seeks reversal of fate
    2p Space Warp Maya sick; John, Tony stranded
    2q The Bringers of Wonder (part 1)Earth sends rescue mission...
    2r The Bringers of Wonder (part 2)... really aliens with a hunger
    2s The Lambda Factor Some Alphans turn psychic
    2t The Seance Spectre Delusional Alphans make turmoil
    2u Dorzak Psychon man declared a "plague"
    2v Devil's Planet Prison moon, dead homeworld
    2w The Immunity Syndrome Alien presence, deadly insanity
    2x The Dorcons Powerful aliens hunt down Maya
    **** YEAR THREE ****
    3a Message from Moonbase Alpha Settle Terra Alpha, call Earth
    Episode
    Directors    		 Introduction A Table of all episode directors by: abbreviation used in main Episodes table; name; and episode count (Y1+Y2=Series).
    Table
    Director Yr Episodes (if only 1-2)
    (if more, click on dir. name)
    123 =
    BBBob Brooks 2 2 "The Taybor", "Immunity Syndrome"
    BKBob Kellett 3 3
    CCCharles Crichton 86 14
    DTDavid Tomblin 4 4
    KCKevin Connor 2 2 "Brian the Brain", "Seed of Destruction"
    LKLee H. Katzin 2 2 "Breakaway", "Black Sun"
    PMPeter Medak 2 2 "Space Warp", "The Seance Spectre"
    RARay Austin 72 9
    RLRobert Lynn 2 2 COTM, "The Beta Cloud"
    TCTom Clegg 5 5
    TMTim Mallett 1 1 "Message From Moonbase Alpha" (#3a)
    VGVal Guest 3 3
    Notes
  • Bob Kellett both wrote and directed "The Last Enemy" -- but his primary contributions to the series as a whole was as a director.
  • In total, Charles Crichton and Ray Austin directed 15 of the 24 Y1 episodes, 8 of the 24 Y2 episodes, and 23 of the 48 originally-broadcast episodes.
  • In total, Charles Crichton and Tom Clegg directed 11 of the 24 Y2 episodes.
    • Episode
    Writers    		 Introduction A Table of all episode writers by: abbreviation used in main Episodes table; name; and episode count (Y1+Y2=Series). The last is fractional for co-written episodes.
    Table
    Writer Y1 Y2 Y3 = Episode(s) or Notes
    ATAnthony Terpiloff 3.01.0 4.0 co-wrote 2 episodes w/EB
    BKBob Kellett 1.0 1.0 "The Last Enemy"
    CWCharles Woodgrove 3.0 3.0
    CPChristopher Penfold 6.01.0 7.0
    DJDonald James 3.0 3.0
    DWDavid Weir 1.0 1.0 "Black Sun"
    EBElizabeth Barrows 1.0 1.0 co-wrote 2 episodes w/AT
    EdEdward Di Lorenzo 2.0 2.0 RATM, "Missing Link"
    GBGeorge Bellak 1.0 1.0 "Breakaway"
    J&P Jesse Lasky 0.5 0.5 "The Full Circle"
    Pat Silver 0.5 0.5
    JBJohnny Byrne 8.03.01.012.0 also the series script editor
    JGJohn Goldsmith 1.0 1.0 "Seed of Destruction"
    JRJack Ronder 1.0 1.0 "Brian the Brain"
    KMKeith Miles 1.0 1.0 "All that Glisters"
    LSLew Schwartz 1.0 1.0 "The Mark of Archanon"
    MWMichael Winder 1.0 1.0 "Devil's Planet"
    P&J Pip Baker 0.5 0.5 "A Matter of Balance"
    Jane Baker 0.5 0.5
    TBTony Barwick 2.0 2.0 OMOH, "AB Chrysalis"
    TDTerrance Dicks 1.0 1.0 "The Lambda Factor"
    TFTerence Feely 3.0 3.0
    TKThom Keyes 1.0 1.0 "The Taybor"
    Notes
  • There were at least two husband and wife writing teams represented in S19, indicated above by J&P and P&J. The Editor once read that AT and EB were another husband and wife writing team for S19, but has not checked for verification of this.
  • Bob Kellett both wrote and directed "The Last Enemy" -- but his primary contributions to the series as a whole was as a director.
  • In total, Christopher Penfold and Johnny Byrne wrote 14 of the 24 Y1 episodes.
    • Episode
    Titles
    Poem    		 Intro An semi-serious, semi-humorous, and perhaps altogether ridiculous attempt by the Editor of this KB to create a pneumonic (memory aid) of the episode titles in the generally accepted production order of Y1, Y2, and the (sometimes treated as canon) Y3 short film. Whether or not it is really a poem is debatable, and it makes no real sense either.
    Details
  • Partial titles are often used, and sometimes even altered or taken in part.
  • The articles and participles do not necessary belong to neighboring episode title fragments.
  • "Earthbound" is represented only by "-bound"
  • "The Bringers of Wonder" is considered two episodes, but is listed only once (as "Bringer") below.
    • Main Breakaway from the Death Sun.
    The Ring-bound Place is Missing its Guardian,
    Forcing Alpha's Sunset.
    Voyager's Course is to Death's Circle and the Eternity War.
    The Enemy's Troubled Brain and its Infernal Mission.
    Dragon's Arkadian Metamorph was Exiled in a Moment.
    It Glisters Where, Taybor?
    Rules of Mark, Brian, and Adam.
    Chrysalis Catacombs Seed the Cloud.
    A Balanced Warp is the Bringer of the Lambda Spectre,
    Dorzak, Devil's Immunity, and the Dorcon's Message.
    Index Breakaway Ring Forcing Voyager's Enemy.
    Dragon Glisters, Rules Chrysalis.
    Balanced Dorzak (not!).
    Episodes
    Directed by
    Bob Kellett    		 Introduction List of episodes directed by Bob Kellett, who worked during Y1.
    Year One
  • "Voyager's Return"
  • "The Full Circle"
  • "The Last Enemy" (which he also scripted)
    • See Also
  • Multiple Roles
    		•
    Episodes
    Directed by
    Charles
    Crichton    		 Introduction Lists of episodes directed by Charles Crichton, who was the most prolific director on the series with 14 episodes, from both seasons.
    Year One
  • "Matter of Life and Death"
  • "Earthbound"
  • "Guardian of Piri"
  • "The Last Sunset"
  • "Death's Other Dominion"
  • "War Games"
  • "Space Brain"
  • "Dragon's Domain"
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph"
  • "One Moment of Humanity"
  • "The Mark of Archanon"
  • "New Adam New Eve"
  • "A Matter of Balance"
  • "The Lambda Factor"
    		•
    Episodes
    Directed by
    David Tomblin    		 Introduction List of episodes directed by David Tomblin, who worked during Y1.
    Year One
  • "Another Time, Another Place"
  • "Force of Life"
  • "The Infernal Machine"
  • "The Testament of Arkadia"
    		•
    Episodes
    Directed by
    Ray Austin    		 Introduction Lists, from both seasons, of the 9 episodes directed by Ray Austin.
    Year One
  • "Ring Around the Moon"
  • "Missing Link"
  • "Alpha Child"
  • "Collision Course"
  • "End of Eternity"
  • "The Troubled Spirit"
  • "Mission of the Darians"
    • Year Two
  • "The Exiles"
  • "All that Glisters"
    		•
    Episodes
    Directed by
    Tom Clegg    		 Introduction List of episodes directed by Tom Clegg, who worked during Y2.
    Year Two
  • "Journey to Where"
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 1)"
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 2)"
  • "Devil's Planet"
  • "The Dorcons"
    		•
    Episodes
    Directed by
    Val Guest    		 Introduction List of episodes directed by Val Guest, who worked during Y2.
    Year Two
  • "The Rules of Luton"
  • "The AB Chrysalis"
  • "Dorzak"
    		•
    Episodes
    Written by
    Anthony
    Terpiloff    		 Introduction Lists of episodes written by Anthony Terpiloff, who worked in both seasons.
    Year One
  • "Earthbound"
  • "Collision Course"
  • "Death's Other Dominion" (co-written with Elizabeth Barrows)
  • "The Infernal Machine" (co-written with Elizabeth Barrows)
    • Year Two
  • "Catacombs of the Moon"
    • Questions
  • Husband of Elizabeth Barrows? The Editor thinks he read this once, but has not been able to verify it for this knowledgebase.
    • Episodes
    Written by
    Charles
    Woodgrove    		 Introduction List of episodes written by Charles Woodgrove (a pen name of Fred Freiberger).
    Year Two
  • "The Rules of Luton"
  • "The Beta Cloud"
  • "Space Warp"
    		•
    Episodes
    Written by
    Christopher
    Penfold    		 Introduction Lists of episodes written by Christopher Penfold, listed by season.
    Year One
  • "Guardian of Piri"
  • "Alpha Child"
  • "The Last Sunset"
  • "War Games"
  • "Space Brain"
  • "Dragon's Domain"
    • Year Two
  • "Dorzak"
    		•
    Episodes
    Written by
    Donald
    James    		 Introduction Lists of episodes written by Donald James.
    Year Two
  • "The Exiles"
  • "Journey to Where"
  • "The Seance Spectre"
    		•
    Episodes
    Written by
    Elizabeth
    Barrows    		 Introduction Lists of episodes written by Elizabeth Barrows.
    Year One
  • "Death's Other Domininion" (co-written with Anthony Terpiloff)
  • "The Infernal Machine" (co-written with Anthony Terpiloff)
    • Questions
  • Wife of Anthony Terpiloff? The Editor thinks he read this once, but has not been able to verify it for this knowledgebase.
    • Episodes
    Written by
    Johnny
    Byrne    		 Introduction Lists of episodes written by Johnny Byrne, divided by two main seasons plus one.
    Year One
  • "Matter of Life and Death"
  • "Another Time, Another Place"
  • "Force of Life"
  • "Voyager's Return"
  • "End of Eternity"
  • "The Troubled Spirit"
  • "Mission of the Darians"
  • "The Testament of Arkadia"
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph"
  • "The Immunity Syndrome"
  • "The Dorcons"
    • Year Three
  • "Message From Moonbase Alpha"
    • Notes
  • Also wrote "Children of the Gods" -- an unfilmed script. The script was lost during a move between studios (?), but Johnny wrote an outline or similar in later years.
    • Episodes
    Written by
    Terence
    Feely    		 Introduction List of episodes written by Terence Feely.
    Year Two
  • "New Adam New Eve"
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 1)"
  • "The Bringers of Wonder (part 2)"
    		•
    Earth Summary Original mother world of the Moon and homeworld of most of the Alphans, to which they attempt some returns, or to which there are references.
    Stories
  • "Breakaway": Moon is in Earth orbit until the Breakaway, which triggers major quakes on both.
  • "Earthbound": a small group of Kaldorian aliens, lead by Captain Zantor, are flying to Earth to seek sanctuary from environmental(?) decline. Their ship, programmed to find the Moon first, lands (gently crashes) there. Due to an accidental Kaldorian death triggered by Helena, Captain Zantor offers to bring a human with them, back to Earth. Although a computer determination is intended to find which Alphan that is to be, Commissioner Simmonds extorts (blackmails?) his way on board the ship, holding all of the Moonbase hostage in the process, and Zantor accedes. The problem, for Simmonds, is that he is not properly scanned in preparation for the suspended animation (?) process used, and wakes up only hours(?) into the flight, trapped in a cubicle in the Kaldorian ship, on its way for a 75-year (?) journey.
  • "Dragon's Domain": several flashbacks to Earth, years before Breakaway.
  • TOA:
  • "Journey to Where": an advanced but environmentally damaged Earth of 2120 contacts Alpha, and an attempt to return Alphans lands three of them in Earth of 1339.
  • "The Taybor": A trader named Taybor has an advanced Jump Drive, and John and the Alphans hope it can mean a return to Earth. However, the Alphans do not have a position of Earth relative to the Moon's current location, and the Alphans and Taybor have completely different systems of absolute reference (i.e. Earth's location cannot be determined).
  • MOA: A "thousand years" (?) ago, Archanons reached Earth (or the Moon at least). Pasc claimed they were trying to bring peace, but failed miserably, and some Archanons mutinied. Much of this story is seemingly contradicted by Etrec's reaction as he listens, and later events that show Pasc and Etrec were infected with contagion that led to their being put in a stasis chamber.
  • "Bringers of Wonder": What appear to be Terrans arrive on a Super Swift, all of them people one Alphan or another knows, promising a multi-stage rescue for everyone. However the Terrans prove to be an illusionary disguise of hostile aliens trying to deceive them. Earth return is not possible.
    • See Also
  • Countries
  • Earth's Solar System
    		•
    Earth's
    Solar
    System    		 Intro Table of the Sun (a.k.a. Sol) and nine best-known planets of Earth's solar system, whether terrestrial planet (TP), gas giant (GG), or drawf planet (DP) -- and any mention in S19. The drawf planet category was created in real-life ~2007(?), as the new category for Pluto, which became the category's best known (prototypical?) object.
    Table
    Sun
    1MercuryTP
    2Venus TPmentioned in "The Lambda Factor"
    3Earth TPmentioned several times; its Moon broke away
    4Mars TP"Mars Satellite" (is that a reference to the planet?)
    5JupiterGGAstro 7 mission lost here
    6Saturn GG
    7Uranus GGlost mission, crew found on Ultima Thule
    8NeptuneGG
    9Pluto DP
    Earthbound Definition Fifth episode, in production order, of Y1. Written by Anthony Terpiloff. Directed by Charles Crichton.
    Summary A small group of Kaldorian aliens, lead by Captain Zantor, are in suspended animation (?) as they journey to Earth, to seek sanctuary from environmental(?) decline. Their ship, programmed to find the Moon first, has still found it despite Breakaway (that is what the ship's computer was programmed to do?) lands (gently crashes) there. Due to an accidental Kaldorian death triggered by Dr. Russell, Captain Zantor offers to bring a human with them, back to Earth. Although a computer determination is intended to find which Alphan that is to be, Commissioner Simmonds extorts (blackmails?) his way on board the ship, holding all of the Moonbase hostage in the process, and Zantor accedes. The problem, for Simmonds, is that he is not properly scanned in preparation for the suspended animation (?) process used, and wakes up only hours(?) into the flight, trapped in a cubicle in the Kaldorian ship, on its way for a 75-year (?) journey.
    Details
  • The episode starts with a command conference.
    • Earthquakes See Quakes
    Energy
    Screen    		 Intro A reference to what is presumably a synonym for a force field. The term is used in two episodes (verified against transcripts in The Catacombs).
    Episodes
  • "The Metamorph": This term is used by Mentor for a barrier which also reflects laser energy backwards (and which killed Lew Picard). Note: Maya uses the term "force field" for other energy barriers. They are presumably synonyms for the same and/or similar things. See Force Fields on Psychon.
  • "Seed of Destruction": the Koenig copy uses this term during his ruse.
    • Emma
    Porteous    		 Who Costume designer on the series. Wife of Peter Porteous.
    Biblio
  • The Catacombs website (regarding marriage).
    		•
    Ernst
    Linden    		 a.k.a.
  • Ernst Queller (apparent birth name)
    • Stories
  • "Voyager's Return"
    • Details
  • Creator of the destructive Queller Drive on the Voyager 1, which was responsible for numerous deaths, human (e.g. parents of Jim Haines?) and alien (two worlds of Sidons).
  • Renamed prior to coming to MBA. No one on Alpha at the time Voyager 1 returned was aware of his true identity.
  • Is the supervisor and/or mentor of Jim Haines.
  • After Sidons seek revenge against Alpha, flies Voyager 1, and activates drive, destroying the Sidon ships and Voyager, himself included.
  • Has what appear to be Eagle design diagrams on his drafting board in the lab.
  • By the time of the episode, is an older man in his 50's or so? Unless excited about something, typically walks slowly. Wears a lab coat, but has the brown sleeve color of Technical section. Often has a tobacco pipe in hand?
    • Ernst Queller See Ernst Linden
    Etrec Who An Archanon child, son of Pasc and Lyra.
    Details
  • Infected with Killing Sickness, which is dormant in his system, but which forces his mother, Lyra, to leave him, with Pasc, on a stasis chamber on the Moon a "thousand years" ago.
  • Alphans discover the stasis chamber, and Etrec and Pasc are freed.
  • The sickness apparently becomes active on Alpha, at which time the flammon symbol on his forehead glows.
  • Etrec receives a transfusion from Pasc, treated with a therapy(?) from Drs. Russell and Nunez, that cures Etrec, but kills Pasc (Archanons can tolerate only a small amount of blood loss), leaving Etrec an orphan.
  • Other Archanons, including Maurna, "of Lyra's line," arrive at Alpha, and can take Etrec back to his people, after Helena explains he's been killed.
    • Eva Who
  • Eva Zoref: wife of Anton Zoref in Y1 episode "The Force of Life" -- where she becomes a fatality.
  • Eva, part of Greg Sanderson's exploration group which becomes mutinous.
    • Eva
    (Y2)    		 Who An adult female Alphan (surname not mentioned?) who apparently has two Roles, is into the same misleading "seances" as the rest of Greg Sanderson's survey team, joins in with his mutiny, assaults other Alphan(s), but ultimately has doubts about Greg's convictions, and splits from him and tries, futilely, to argue him out of his actions.
    Episodes
  • "The Seance Spectre"
    • Roles
  • Operative in Command Center, apparently, based on her red sleeve and apparent familiarity with CC consoles.
  • Member of Greg Sanderson's survey team.
    • Speculation
  • Eva is yet more evidence of possible cross-training, and/or shifting in roles that (still) has her able to work either role, and/or already having talent in multiple disciplines.
  • Whether operative is still primary (red sleeve), or she sometimes changes sleeves at other times (but doesn't in this episode), or red sleeve takes precedence over what might be a brown sleeve (Technical), is unclear.
    • Assaults
  • Against Maya: didn't shoot her, but lifts her unconscious body off a console she is slumped over and lets her fall onto the floor.
  • Against two guards, with a spray.
    		•
    Exercise See Sports and Exercise
    Federated Worlds of Sidon See Sidon
    FF Meanings
  • Fred Freiberger
    		•
    Flammon a.k.a.
  • The Death Glow
    • Definition Alien symbol or character used as a sign of danger.
    Description Like two 'v' letters, one upside down, drawn together and crossing, so that a four-sided diamond shape is central, but with little extra extensions on each side. Plus a dot in the center.
    Statements
  • This appears to be in use on at least two worlds in an area of one galaxy the Alphans are traveling through. Two examples of Uses are known.
    • Uses
  • Crom II (referenced in an episode, but not seen in one): The residents described it as something a "god-like race" left in dangerous places as a warning where lives would be in danger.
  • Archanons emblazoned it on a Stasis Chamber and as a glowing forehead imprint to warn of something or someone that contains the Killing Sickness, a virus that creates lethal urges in its victims. On the foreheads, it only glows when the kiling urge itself comes to the fore (imminent danger). Pasc's glows frequently from the start of his time on Moonbase Alpha, and he soon hides it with medical gauze (and bandage?). At first, it does not glow on Etrec, until he later feels an urge to kill an Alphan dove, interrupted when Alan happens by -- though the glow does not immediately fade. Pasc hides his with medical gauze/tape for awhile.
    • Quotes
  • Tony, on seeing it on Pasc and Etrec's stasis chamber: "On Crom II, the inhabitants knew that as a sign of... danger. They called it, ah... Flammon, the Death Glow, you remember?"
  • Helena, in response: "Right. It was a sign left by a god-like race to warn the people of the places where their lives might be in danger."
    • Speculation
  • Tony and Helena were on Crom II? They could have perhaps read a report written by others, containing a description, sketch, or picture of the Flammon; but in looking at how they talk about the Flammon and Crom II, it seems like somewhat more immediate, more first-hand knowledge they had, though perhaps weeks or months before, for their recognition is not instantaneous. The Archanon stasis chamber is found at or just before 640 DAB, so this encounter could have been in earlier Y2 timeframe or even in Y1 if Tony was already participating ("off camera") in missions.
  • It is unclear if the Archanons might be race the Croms referred to as "god-like" or if the "god-like" race spread it about enough that both Croms and Archanons are familiar with it, the latter even adapting it to warn of danger from another factor, Killing Sickness. For some reason, the Editor feels it is common familiarity, especially since the Croms were apparently familiar with its use in regard to places while the Archanons were using it in regard to dangerous people. This is most likely not conclusive, however.
    • Stories
  • MOA: both in reference to prior Crom II and current regarding the Archanons and their stasis chamber.
    • Fora Intro Incomplete list of Links to fora (forums) regarding the series, by its fans.
    Links
  • Eagle Transporter
  • Space 1999 Fan Community on IMEEM (was to close on 2009/09/01)
  • Space 1999 at Sci-Fi World (Post-Imeem)
    		•
    Force
    Field    		 a.k.a.
  • forcefield
  • energy screen
  • electronic barrier (#8 in OMOH)
    • Definition A means of creating a solid and/or charged and/or reflective "wall" comprised of an energy field.
    Users
  • Alphans, over Moonbase Alpha, at the front of at least one Eagle, and later in Y2, around a test enclosure.
  • Tritonians (in RATM): force field of light.
  • "War Games" (?): Perhaps around the box Helena was in on the planet. Not called a force field, and it could have been something else.
  • Psychons (see Force Fields on Psychon)
  • Vegans: "electronic barrier" protects the androids' master computer; force field used against Alpha (in OMOH). Also was using an "elecro-forcefield" against Alpha from the nearly the start (and to freeze the Alphans themselves for a few minutes? and then Koenig again?). It blocks ionic transfer in targetted electronic systems.
  • Archanons apparently, given what Alphans assume is a force field around the stasis chamber holding Pasc and Etrec.
  • Magus (to confine Alphans in a particular glade on New Earth).
  • Sahala's ship, of Croton design, uses a forcefield at the front of a prison cell.
  • Ellnans ("Devil's Planet"): shields the inhabited moon Ellna, creates invisible (and lethal) walls outside, parts of walls (making doors when needed), and to imprison someone within a room. The planetary shield version does not act like a wall but rather fouling spaceship controls/electronics.
    • Force Fields
    on Psychon    		 Intro There were at least a few occurences of force fields on Psychon, some called "force fields" and some "energy screens" -- apparently synonyms used by different Psychons, namely Maya and Mentor, respectively. All such were apparently created by the biological computer Psyche, and controlled by Mentor directly and Maya through the pendant worn around her neck.
    List
  • An energy screen surrounded the image of Mentor confronting the Alphans in the pits. Lew Picard dies trying to shoot past it with a laser rifle; he is vaporized by the reflection of the rifle shot. In a separate incident, it is not clear if the force field was required when Mentor's image appeared in the hallway outside the cell.
  • Force fields surrounded at least one of the slaves (Torens) in the pits.
  • A force field blocked the exit of the prison cell; Maya deactivated it on two occasions.
    • The Forsaken a.k.a.
  • Space: 1999 The Forsaken (spine title)
    • Definition
  • Original novel written by John Kenneth Muir. Released by Powys Media in January 2003. Set in Year 1. This was the second Space: 1999 release by Powys. ISBN: 0-9677280-2-9
    • Notes
  • Foreward by Prentis Hancock.
  • There are two different Covers. The upper half is the same (Eagle, Space: 1999, novel title, author, etc.), but for the image in the lower half, there are two distinct Covers.
    • Covers
  • Red flower petals spread across green leaves, the Moon resting on one petal.
  • Bluish alien planet over Alpha's horizon.
    • Links
  • Powys Media page on this novel.
  • Review by David Welle (detailed analysis, review, comments; by same person as KB's Editor, but outside scope of KB)
    		•
    Fraser Summary Married couple, Bill Fraser and Annette Fraser. They married about two months before Psychon encounter.
    Fred
    Freiberger    		 a.k.a.
  • FF
  • Charles Woodgrove (pen name used for writing three episode scripts)
  • CW
    • Who
  • Producer of Y2.
    		•
    Freiberger See Fred Freiberger
    Fungus Intro Instances where some sort of fungus is mentioned.
    Examples
  • Amorphous mushrooms found on the Moon after the denizens of Ariel provide the Moon with a temporary atmosphere.
  • A fungus in JTW that Helena believes could cure her of a respiratory illness.
    • Fungus in JTW Intro In "Journey to Where", Helena is suffering from an increasingly-worsening respiratory illness she fears could be viral pneumonia, on a primitive world which turns out to be Earth of some centuries before. She notices some fungus growing, and notes: "Fungoids are the basis of the barmycin range of drugs which were discovered just before we left Earth. It's the only known cure for viral pneumonia."
    Details
  • Given the primitive conditions, Helena states it must be prepared with any vegetable fiber mixed in, and the combination heated.
    • Garforth See Pete Garforth
    Geiger
    Counter    		 Summary A hand-held scanner, with a read-out different than the traditional needle, seen in some episodes.
    Notes
  • The read-out system later appears as a hand-held medical scanner, but presumably different internal electronics for that use.
    • Episodes
  • "Breakaway"
  • "Earthbound" (?)
    		•
    Gerald Simmonds? See Commissioner Simmonds
    Golosians Definition Alien people from the planet Golos.
    Summary 53 are found floating in missiles that appear above Alpha, 2 are revived. A few more, including Mirella (sp?) are seen on Golos itself, which is apparently out of Alpha's sensor range but not that far away in absolute terms.
    Details
  • Some violent dissenters were exiled, along with their immediate families (if any) from Golos, in a form of suspended animation (verify exact term), 53 in total, each in an individual red-colored pod.
  • These pods were initially mistaken for missiles when they fall into the immediate space of a wandering planetoid known simply as The Moon to its Alphan inhabitants. The Alphans, unaware of the prior point, brought down first one and then another pod, discovering who was inside, and made a mutually-beneficial agreement, though on false terms by the Exiles, who broke their word, kidnapped two Alphans (and injured at least one more), one of the Exiles returning to Golos (with the two kidnapped), but dying when trying to take over a central control center.
  • Essentially human in appearance.
  • Two are relatively small-framed, and wearing red and orange clothing.
  • Some/most/all (needs clarification) have red dots on their faces.
    • Episodes
  • "The Exiles"
    		•
    Gorski See Anton Gorski
    Gray See Barry Gray
    Greek
    Alphabet    		 Intro Greek alphabet in order with: Upper/Lower in both Variable-width and Fixed-width fonts; English spelling of the letter's name; and the typical transliteration (xlit). The Greek alphabet descended from the Phoenician alphabet, and in turn is the ancestor of several European alphabets. Some Greek letters are mentioned in S19.
    Table
    Variable Fixed
    Upper Lower Upper Lower name xlit
    Α α Α α Alpha a *
    Β β Β β Beta b, v *
    Γ γ Γ γ Gamma g
    Δ δ Δ δ Delta d *
    ΕεΕεEpsilone *
    Ζ ζ Ζ ζ Zeta z
    Η η Η η Eta e, i
    Θ θ Θ θ Theta th
    Ι ι Ι ι Iota i
    Κ κ Κ κ Kappa k
    Λ λ Λ λ Lambda l *
    Μ μ Μ μ Mu m
    Ν ν Ν ν Nu n
    Ξ ξ Ξ ξ Xi x, ks
    ΟοΟοOmicrono
    Π π Π π Pi p
    Ρ ρ Ρ ρ Rho r *
    Σ σ Σ σ Sigma s
    Τ τ Τ τ Tau t
    ΥυΥυUpsilonu, y, v, f
    Φ φ Φ φ Phi ph, f
    Χ χ Χ χ Chi ch, kh
    Ψ ψ Ψ ψ Psi ps
    Ω ω Ω ω Omega o
    * Uses
  • Alpha: Moonbase Alpha; alpha waves (a type of brain activity as stated in "The Lambda Factor")
  • Beta: "The Beta Cloud"; beta waves (a type of brain activity as stated in "The Lambda Factor").
  • Delta: a planet in "The Last Enemy"; Navigation Beacon Delta at Area One in "Breakaway"
  • Epsilon: 'epsilon ray analysis' (DOD)
  • Lambda: "The Lambda Factor" inc. and 'lambda waves' and the 'lambda variant'
  • Rho: used by the Editor to refer to the alternate Earth/Moon/Alphans in ATAP.
    • Biblio
  • Portions are partially derived from information in Wikipedia.
  • Some checking of use of letters in episodes done at The Catacombs.
    		•
    "Guardian
    of Piri"    		 Meanings
  • Name of computer on planet Piri.
  • Name of an episode featuring the prior.
    		•
    Guardian
    of Piri
    (computer)    		 a.k.a.
  • The Guardian?
    • What A highly advanced but morally simplistic computer charged by its now-extinct makers (aliens to the Alphans) to maintain the Peace of Piri, a supposedly utopian state of living that is ultimately lethal to its creators and is apparently having a similar effect on the Alphans. Destroyed when an Alphan, namely Cmdr. Koenig, shoots and destroys the Guardian's "Servant."
    Details
  • Capable of taking over Main Computer.
  • Capable of influencing sentient minds (Alphans -- and evidently its own apparently long-dead people).
  • Creates and uses an android calling itself the Servant of the Guardian to interact with beings that fall into Piri's area of space. Took a female human shape and voice for 'benefit' of interacting with the Alphans.
  • Appears and disappears on its own accord. It is unclear if this is some sort of cloaking or via near-instantaneous transport from elsewhere on the planet (or maybe another dimension). Perhaps transport, given the following point.
  • When the Servant is destroyed by an Alphan, the Guardian itself soon follows, with no further action by the Alphans, suggesting the Guardian extended vital aspects of itself into the Servant.
    • Guardian
    of Piri
    (episode)    		 a.k.a.
  • GOP
    • Intro 8th episode of the first season. Written by Christopher Penfold. Directed by Charles Crichton.
    Notes
  • The Servant of the Guardian of Piri was played by Catherine Schell, who played a very different role as a regular character in Y2, as Maya.
    • Guest See Episodes Directed by Val Guest
    Guido
    Verdeschi    		 Intro The (or an) older brother of Tony Verdeschi. Guido appeared later in Y2, but was an alien illusion the whole time, though his behaviors were extrapolated from Tony's memories of Guido, and thus represent, at some level, aspects of Guido's personality.
    Stories
  • "The Bringers of Wonder" (both parts?)
    • Details
  • Immediately curious about, and attracted to, Maya. "What is that?" Kisses her hand, to her total surprise.
  • Presumably a pilot. (See next point for more context.)
  • Potential captain? The aliens masquerading as Guido and others have him be captain of the supposed Superswift, but "Guido" says "I'm a captain now" -- so the actual Guido was apparently not a captain at the time of Breakaway, but apparently had the potential to be one, at least somewhere in Tony's opinions.
  • Seems to be a smooth-talker.
    • See Also
  • The Verdeschi Brothers entry also gives some apparent Details about Guido -- possibly.
    • GW See God's Will
    Haines See Jim Haines
    Hand-Held
    Scanners    		 Introduction At least a few types of hand-held scanners were seen.
    List
  • A Geiger Counter.
  • A scanner seen in "The Full Circle" (looks for markers?).
  • Maya's scanner.
    		•
    Hawk Summary A human-built spaceship with some resemblance to the Eagle, but more streamlined, and with more powerful weapons (a warship, roughly equivalent to a fighter).
    Episodes
  • "War Games": Alien illusion, pulled from Alphan memory.
    • Notes
  • In an episode of The Simpsons, a Hawk model appears on a display case at the home of Comic Book Guy?
    • Helena
    Russell    		 a.k.a
  • Doctor Helena Russell
  • Dr. Russell
  • Helena
    • Summary
  • Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Moonbase Alpha; already assigned there as the series began. Played by Barbara Bain.
    • Details
  • Described (by Magus) as having "natural aristocracy."
  • In charge of a mission at least once ("The Last Sunset"). Intentionally blew up a crashed (and badly damaged) Eagle, to gain attention of a rescue flight.
  • Sculptor ("The Exiles")
  • Afraid of the dark when she was a little girl. ("Black Sun")
  • Attends command conferences in at least the following: "Earthbound".
  • Went on a number of missions.
  • Held hostage by Luke Ferro, then Anna Davis as well, in TOA. They free her per and agreement between the deserters and the Commander.
    • Quotes
  • "Never underestimate the extent of human inventiveness." (BOW1)
    • Alternates
  • ATAP: her older alternate dies, apparently(?) due to close contact between her and her main-line doppelganger.
    • See Also
  • Helena and... (romance)
  • Helena Injured or Ill
  • Cast
    		•
    Helena and... Intro Helena Russell and relationships (or potential relationships) of romantic interest (at any level). The List is in roughly chronographic order.
    List
  • Lost her husband, Lee Russell, about five years before MOLAD. By MOLAD, she is no longer wearing her wedding ring (or has moved it to her right hand pinky finger). In MOLAD, he is discovered near a planet called Terra Nova by the Alphans. The Alphans are not sure if he is even alive; but in any case, he dies on Alpha, only to be found again on Terra Nova. She loses him for a final time, this time permanently.
  • Subsequently developed a relationship with John Koenig, slowly over Y1, then more clearly in Y2.
  • Captain Zantor of the Kaldorians seems to have some quiet affection for her? (Y1)
  • Two different episodes: The Vegans mistake Tony and Helena as a couple; and Magus attempts to pair them. See Tony and Helena.
    • Helena
    Injured
    or Ill    		 Intro Cases where Dr. Helena Russell is Injured or Ill.
    Injured
  • Electrically shocked by the 'reflection' of Lee Russell: thrown backwards and knocked unconscious.
  • Unverified: In Eagle crash during the Ariel encounter?
  • Choked via psychic powers of Jarak.
    • Ill
  • Fever (interpreted as plague by the locals) in JTW
  • Unverified: one of many taken ill while in proximity to the Beta Cloud.
    • Helena's
    Missions    		 Intro Lists of missions in which Helena Russell participated, by season.
    Year One
  • MOLAD: One of a party of five to explore Terra Nova. She witnesses the death of everyone and the destruction of the Moon, only for the form of Lee Russell appear again, and restore it all. They have to leave the planet, which is too dangerous for them.
  • "Black Sun": the "lifeboat" Eagle
  • "Earthbound": initial exploration of the Kaldorian spaceship
  • "The Last Sunset"
  • DOD
  • "The Full Circle"
  • "War Games" (sort of): to the alien planet after Alpha is badly damaged; but this was reset (vision of an alternate fate).
  • "The Infernal Machine": demanded by Gwent
  • MOTD
  • "Dragon's Domain"
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph": Invited to Psychon by Mentor, who is claiming one of the pilots in an earlier mission was injured.
  • "All that Glisters"
  • "Journey to Where"
  • "Brian the Brain"?
  • NANE: chosen by Magus; Koenig, under pressure, reluctantly agrees. Magus attempts to pair her with Tony Verdeschi on New Earth.
  • "The Immunity Syndrome": flies in the Re-entry Glider piloted by Maya to the planet.
    • Hobbies,
    Recreation,
    Socialization    		 Intro Recreation and social occasions noticed on Alpha.
    List
  • Jigsaw puzzles ("Space Brain"?)
  • Electronic games ("Lambda Factor")
  • Gym and sports (several references)
  • Dances (Helena and Maya were preparing for one in OMOH)
  • Music and Recitals (several occasions)
  • Needlework (Sandra)
  • Modelwork (Victor, Baxter?)
  • Impromptu parties (GOP)
  • Artwork (Regina, others?)
  • Literature available (inc. on disk)
  • Meals (rarely seen, sometimes referenced)
  • Solarium (e.g. in "Force of Life" and "The Taybor" at least)
  • Card games
  • Chess: Carolyn Powell and Mark Sanders are playing it in "Lambda Factor"
  • Backgammon: Paul and David in TOA (according to The Catacombs)
    		•
    Holographic
    Projection    		 Definition A means of remotely projecting an image into empty air.
    Users
  • Aarchon?
  • Mentor (at least twice; at least once in combination with a force field)
  • Magus
    		•
    Home Introduction References to Alpha as home are few and far between, and Alpha is usually compared unfavorably as not being a true home.
    Details
  • Helena rejected a reference to it as home, instead calling Alpha a "Barracks on a barren rock." (double-check)
  • Maya seems to call it home most often. She has apparently known little more than in-structure living for years even before Alpha, her homeworld is destroyed, and she seems to hold out little hope of finding other Psychons.
    • Quotes
  • John: "Let's take it home." (in reference to an Exile pod in "The Exiles")
    • HR See Helena Russell
    Human-Built
    Spaceships    		 Intro A List of spaceship types designed mainly or completely by humans. Only the first two are available to Alphans for anything more than a brief time.
    List
  • Eagle: workhorse, some with some light weaponry.
  • Re-Entry Glider: seen in one episode ("The Immunity Syndrome"). Speculation: It is possible (but unknown one way or another) that some design contributions were made by Maya (an Alphan from an alien world).
  • Hawk: warship, akin to a fighter. Appeared to be used by aliens, though (unverified:) the ships were seen before the alien people in the episode, and the design is clearly implied or outright stated as Earthly.
  • Swift
  • Superswift: in design phase at the time of Breakaway, one appears to arrive on Alpha in BOW, but it is an alien illusion.
  • Voyager ships
  • Phoenix: being built by the altered (now apparently immortal) humans marooned on Ultima Thule. The death of one of these humans attempting to leave the planet suggests the Thuleans may not be able to use this ship, unless they solve the riddle of their own immortality.
  • The Meta Probe (flung away during Breakaway, fate unclear?)
  • The probe seen in flashbacks in "Dragon's Domain" (Named?)
    • Hydroponics Definition A vital part (department?), seemingly in the Service Section, that seems to grow much of Alpha's food. That is, one of Alpha's key facilities.
    Episodes
  • "War Games"(?): damage taken (during the attacks which are later reset)????
  • "Dragon's Domain": a Hydroponic flowering plant features in lead-up to John and Helena's first kiss.
  • "Beta Cloud": one room, dubbed Hydroponics Experimental Section is mentioned.
    • Hydroponic
    Experimental
    Section    		 Details
  • Part of the Hydroponics department.
  • Large windows facing a hallway.
  • Can be flooded with chlorine gas.
    • Speculation
  • Researching alien plants found on planets and chlorine system is an emergency defense?
  • Room was repurposed from something else and chlorine system was for an earlier purpose?
    • Episodes
  • "The Beta Cloud": Maya suggests flooding it with chlorine (gas) in what turns out to be a futile attempt to kill an invader.
    • Illness Intro Illnesses of various sorts are shown throughout the series. This can include almost any non-injury medical situation.
    Examples
  • "Breakaway": Numerous Meta Probe astronauts are dying from what is sometimes thought to be either disease or radiation. Most who suffer the illness have a sudden brain embolism(?), become destructively claustrophobic, then collapse and later suffer brain death, and have to be allowed to die.
  • ATAP: Doppelgangers of Alpha and Alphans are created. When two Helenas come into close contact, one (an older alternate) soon dies.
  • "Journey to Where": Helena becomes infected with a fever-inducing illness on Earth of the past. She realizes a potential cure, but before it can take full effect, the locals believe she is carrying a plague and order her, John, and Alan(?) burned. They are rescued after a signal from the party through time to Alpha is correctly interpreted and Texas City is able to pull the Alphans back through time to Alpha.
  • "The Beta Cloud": Numerous Alphans weaken and collapse, including Cmdr. Koenig, leaving few to deal with an invading space creature.
  • "Space Warp": Maya is feverish and delusional, having horrible nightmares, and in her lucid moments, begging to be restrained because she feels she is "beginning to lose molecular control" (losing control over her metamorphic abilities) and fears she could become dangerous. Indeed, this is exactly what happens. In delusion, she is trying to reach Mentor, and transforms into whatever might get her to Psychon. She is nearly killed on Alan's initial orders, him not realizing why a rampaging creature has appeared on Alpha so soon after the space warp. It is either meaningful or coincidental that Maya is ill during proximity to the worst space warp the Moon has gone through.
    • Immortality Intro The quest or attainment of immortality or near immortality.
    List
  • "Death's Other Dominion": A lost human space mission's survivors have found themselves mysteriously immortal, on the planet Ultima Thule. The prices: no children, stagnation, inability to leave the planet without immediately dying.
  • "End of Eternity": The Progrons (according to Balor) banished mortality, via science. According to him, the lack of a threat of death left their people not striving, and instead decaying, becoming corrupt. He tried to reinstill this via torture and pain, and was cast out, into eternal imprisonment.
  • "The Dorcons": The Dorcons have found a transplant of a Psychon's brain stem into their bodies confers what they consider immortality. That Psychons have been hunted for some time, yet the current Archon is seeking this treatment (capturing Maya in hopes of using her brain stem) implies that those who have received it in the past end up killed in political intrigue, severe accidents, or that the "immortality" is a relative term, perhaps semi-propagandistic.
    • Comments
  • Though many sentient mortals are of course curious about immortality, Helena and especially Victor seem fascinated any time it comes up, either medically, scientifically, or perhaps personally.
    • Instant
    Transport    		 a.k.a.
  • near-instant(aneous) transport
    • Definition The Editor's terms for various intentional, technological-based means of transporting a person or object over some distance, instantaneously or within seconds. Does not include space warps, black suns, or other arguably natural phenomenon.
    Examples
  • "Guardian of Piri": the Servant is transported about. The Guardian (or some aspect of it) also appears and disappears, but it is not clear if this is (de)cloaking or transport.
  • "War Games"?
  • "The Last Enemy": Dione transports herself from quarters on Alpha to her small escape ship in an Eagle hangar.
  • The Exiles set up a transference system from Alpha to Golos. (named technology?)
  • "Journey to Where": Earth has developed one such system by 2120, and attempts to use it to rescue the Alphans to Earth. It goes awry and lands three of them on Earth of 1339.
  • "The Taybor": Taybor uses it repeatedly, to variously transport himself, John, and/or Maya to and from his ship, as well as to transport various gifts and trade items between his ship and Alpha.
  • "The Rules of Luton": the Judges of Luton endow this ability on one of the three aliens which John and Maya are facing in combat to the death.
  • NANE: Magus displays and uses this ability on numerous occasions, on himself and other objects, including transporting Eagle 4 from the Moon to New Earth.
  • "Devil's Planet": a Transbeamer can transport individual people between Ellna and Entra.
    • John
    Koenig    		 a.k.a
  • Commander John Koenig
  • Cmdr. John Koenig
  • Commander
  • Koenig
  • John
  • "Skipper" (as called by Taybor)
    • Summary
  • The leader of Moonbase Alpha, assigned there from Earth days before Breakaway, replacing Commander Gorski during a worsening crisis leading up to Breakaway. Played by Martin Landau.
    • Details
  • Often intense, can be very blunt, sometimes subtle, and extremely clever. At his best in a crisis situation.
  • By 1999, no longer had parents left, and either never had or lost siblings.
  • Appointed to Alpha on September 9, 1999, as ninth commander of the base (according to "War Games"), just days before Breakaway. He uncovered that Simmonds was underplaying the seriousness of a crisis on Alpha. Attempted to divert disaster, but it was too late. Decided Alphans should remain on base instead of attempting a nearly-impossible return to Earth.
  • Described (by Magus) as having an "iron will."
  • (Verify:) On a mission to a base on (in orbit of?) Venus, had to abort the approach due to discovery of a disease there. Had to leave two friends(?) -- Sam and Tessa (?) -- there to die.
  • Knows kendo, a martial art. Practices it with Luke Ferro in Y1. Perhaps (speculation) taught it to Maya, given she transforms into a kendo fighter in BOW2 and shows familiarity with the techniques.
  • Runs command conferences in at least the following: "Earthbound".
  • Defends his people fiercely.
  • Often on edge, quick to escalate in voice. Similarly, sometimes short-tempered.
  • Has sometimes had his sanity questioned during some crises.
  • Willing and able to go into risky situations himself, rather than always staying on Alpha and sending others. He is willing to take point at various times, as much as he delegates, a balance that perhaps could be ascribed to a feeling of "I will not send people into dangers I would not be willing to send myself into as well." He does delegate, but when he does not, it sometimes causes others around him, especially Dr. Russell, concern.
  • He is injured on a number of occasions.
    • Alternates
  • ATAP: settled on an alternate Earth, married to Helena, dies in an Eagle crash on the Moon.
    • See Also
  • John and... (romance)
  • Commander (title)
  • Cast
    		•
    John
    Koenig
    Injured    		 Intro Cmdr. John Koenig is injured on a number of occasions throughout the series.
    Year One
  • "Breakaway": Eagle crash, he is knocked unconscious.
  • RATM: On the Moon's surface, knocked unconscious when thrown back hitting a force field which has surrounded Helena.
  • "Missing Link": critically injured in an Eagle crash. Head laceration; major injury is presumably a concussion, but editor is uncertain if that was the case.
  • "Guardian of Piri": Head, wrist, and rib (?) injuries after a fight with Alan, who is under the influence of the Guardian. The Servant of the Guardian heals those three injuries. Very shortly afterwards, he puts his fist through a monitor, and refuses her healing touch.
  • "Alpha Child": Is being suffocated telekinetically(?) by Jarak; that ceases when Jarak's enemies arrive.
  • "End of Eternity": injured by Balor? (VERIFY)
    • Year Two
  • "The Metamorph": knocked unconscious; recovers soon after.
  • "The Rules of Luton": attacked by alien, arm injured. Infection(?).
  • "AB Chrysalis": knocked unconscious by an electrical weapon.
  • "Beta Cloud": Suffers from the same illness gripping most of base.
  • BOW1: Under psychic attack by aliens, seems to go mad, crashes Eagle, and put on brain "massage"(?) machine. Later stunned unconscious by Helena.
  • BOW2(?) (or maybe BOW1): stunned again?
  • "Seance Spectre"4: He and Maya are briefly knocked unconscious when Eagle 1 crashes due to sabotage back on Alpha.
  • "Devil's Planet"
  • "The Dorcons": stunned unconscious at least once. Cuts his hand(s?) opening grate into ventilation system aboard the Dorcon flagship.
    • John and... Intro John Koenig was in a number of romantic relationships, shows or was shown such interest or a superficial resemblance of such. The List is in roughly chronographic order.
    List
  • His wife, Jean, died in world war of 1987 (referred to in "Rules of Luton"), making John a widower. See John and Jean.
  • Vana?
  • At first, is emotionally distant from Helena Russell, but they slowly build an eventually-romantic relationship.
  • The Servant of the Guardian introduces herself by kissing John. He politely accepts it, nothing more. She advises him she was given human form so she can interact with him. They are soon adversaries. Near the end of the episode, he shoots her, and shows everyone she was an android.
  • Dione tries to wile John a little. See John and Dione.
  • Magus attempts to pair John with Maya, despite Magus knowing John is in a relationship with Helena. See John and Maya in NANE.
  • 'A' -- one of the chlorine-breathing women (in "AB Chrysalis") -- calls him "well featured" (corrected to "handsome" by a less than interested 'B').
  • Elizia is attracted to him. See John and Elizia.
    • John and
    Dione    		 Definition A non-starter of a relationship (in "The Last Enemy"), represented by little more than some manipulation on Dione's part, countered later with some manipulation on John Koenig's part.
    Details
  • Dione tries to wile John a little, brushing her hand along John's arm, to Helena's obvious irritation. He is cold to Dione's attempt, which appears to be nothing more than coldly manipulative on her part.
  • Later, though, it seems she does like him a little, for despite rejecting his approach to her ship, she does show a little concern for his welfare.
  • Unfortunately for her, the approach is a ruse on Koenig's part, an attempt to destroy her ship so Alpha will no longer be the "little guy" in the middle of a pitched battle between two warring alien cultures. The ruse works, and her ship is destroyed with her on board. He seems sad but resolved about the necessity (see Quotes).
    • Quotes
  • John (to Dione over a commlink): "You have only yourself to blame."
  • John (ditto, moments later, after she realizes her time is up): "Good-bye, Dione."
    • John and
    Elizia    		 Definition A non-starter of a relationship (in "Devil's Planet"), represented by her attraction to him but nothing but irritation (and some manipulation) from John Koenig.
    Details
  • Elizia is clearly attracted to him, but freely admits she has a low "boredom quotient" (as John paraphrases) regarding her lovers. He shows no interest, but later takes advantage of hers to distract her and make a temporarily successful escape in which he manages to start a locator signal.
  • When she is later forced to go to Ellna after Koenig, where she immediately starts dying of the fast-acting disease there, she tries to shoot him, but collapses first. He seems sad by the foolishness that brought her to death?
    • John and
    Helena    		 a.k.a.
  • John and Helena
    		•
    Description A romantic couple, comprised of John Koenig and Helena Russell.
    Details
  • "Breakaway": John introduces himself to her. "Cautious hostility" as mentioned in The Catacombs.
  • MOLAD: John is "uncomfortable" with her, but (according to The Catacombs): "on the planet he draws closer to her: 'We almost made it... you and I'." An dying expression of what he was already hoping for.
  • "Black Sun": Helena is reluctant to leave Alpha on the lifeboat Eagle, fairly clearly in part due to not wanting to be parted from John.
  • Concern (from John about Helena): "Black Sun," RATM, "Earthbound."
  • "Last Enemy": Helena visibly irritated by Dione's manipulatively flirting with John.
  • "Dragon's Domain": apparently their first kiss.
  • "The Exiles": Helena devises a teasing game/test of John, having a mildly reluctant (at first) Maya turn into Helena's form, then both of them, first (?) Maya/Helena, then Helena herself, kiss John, and make him guess who the real one is. He claims there is "no difference," much to Helena's apparent annoyance (?).
  • JTW: Tony(?) kisses her cheek lightly in joy about a return to Earth, and John light-heartedly objects, then John and Helena briefly embrace. Later, John kisses Helena, despite the illness she has by then.
  • "Brian the Brain": Brian conjures up an unpleasant "love test" (?) for the couple, the purpose being to see whether he (Brian) has a means of leverage over them.
  • Also kiss in: "The Mark of Archanon", BOW1
    • Alternates
  • Unverified: Alternates are married in ATAP?
    • John and
    Helena's
    First Kiss    		 Summary After John and Helena have an argument about Tony Cellini, he later comes by with a flower he got help from Hydroponics to grow (from plant supplies left behind by Cmdr. Gorski), and gives the flowering plant to Helena as a make-up gift. She gives him a kiss on his cheek. According to The Catacombs, it is their first kiss in an episode.
    Episode "Dragon's Domain"
    John and
    Jean    		 Who A married couple, comprised of John Koenig and Jean. She died in the 1987 war, making him a widower.
    Notes
  • He remained un-remarried for at least 18 years (main timeline).
  • When asked what Jean was like, John states that Helena Russell reminds him of her.
    • Episodes
  • Discussed in "Rules of Luton"
    • John and
    Maya    		 Intro John and Maya as a potential couple, or other similar or different such suggestions.
    Stories
  • "The Exiles": Maya (in the form of Helena) kisses John, but in a teasing game/test devised by Helena who was clearly involved with John by then. Beforehand, Maya seemed concerned about doing this; but afterwards, she doesn't seem to have minded.
  • NANE: see John and Maya in NANE.
    • John and
    Maya in
    NANE    		 Statements
  • NANE: Magus attempts to coerce them together for sake of genetic research and other grandious claims of intention. Manipulated by Magus into a romantic mood, they look deep into each other's eyes; Maya follows John into the woods to gather firewood; they end up touching hands, then holding hands. Both realize they are being manipulated but then kiss briefly before being interrupted.
    • Quotes
  • John: "we can't fight city hall forever"
    		•
    John and
    Sandra    		 Intro John and Sandra as a potential couple.
    Episodes
  • "The Full Circle": a regressed John/caveman (VERIFY:) kidnaps Sandra. Sandra is not regressed (she did not go through the mist). He seems to treat her as a potential mate, much to the jealousy of a similarly regressed Helena/cavewoman. Sandra eventually knocks him out with a rock and flees, but is later recaptured, and nearly killed by Helena/cavewoman. John has been restored by this point. Alan attempts to rescue Sandra, but intends to kill the cavewoman/Helena; John intervenes, saving both Helena and Sandra.
    • John and
    Vana    		 Intro John and Vana, the latter a Zennite, fall in love?
    Details
  • Vana's father, Raan, brings an "image" (doppelganger? his mind?) to Zenno to conduct mental experiments. Vana objects that these cannot be accurate assessments.
  • She falls in love with him. He falls in love with her? They kiss. He chooses to stay with her, but pressured by an objecting Raan to leave, and presented with a concerned "image" of Sandra, John decides his duty is to Alpha, and chooses instead to return.
    • Comments
  • Though the episode seems to suggest the romance is real, the editor completely fails to see any spark or chemistry between them, and there is no sense of timeline or "why" either falls for each other, if that is Koenig's true feelings (he has been experimented with), or even what exactly the Koenig "image" is (his mind given the illusion of corporial being?). Even after 4-6 viewings of this episode over the years, the information in this entry is about all the editor can present in regard to John and Vana, and this entry will probably not be added to. If the reader needs more details, one will definitely have to see the episode oneself, or seek further detail elsewhere.
    • Jack Bartlett Who A nuclear engineer, apparently in his later(?) 40's or early 50's by 1912 DAB. Apparently from England and apparently graduated from Cambridge. Had a home and family (at least one daughter) back on Earth.
    Details
  • Some of his memories are used by aliens to fool him into believing he is back home, when in reality he, with two others, is being set up to explode a waste dump, which would destroy Alpha.
  • He appears to be more suggestible, perhaps more partial to relieving memories of home than the existence on Alpha.
    • Episodes
  • 2-episode "Bringers of Wonder" story
    		•
    Jammers Intro A list of episodes containing evidence, direct or indirect, of jamming technology.
    List
  • "Guardian of Piri" (?)
  • "The Metamorph" (?): (unverified:) Captured Alphans still wearing their commlocks? Unless this is a mistaken memory on the Editor's part, or a continuity error on the producers' parts, would imply Mentor (using Psyche?) was employing local jamming against the commlocks.
  • "The Rules of Luton": the sentient beings were able to directly block and override communication attempts to Alpha.
  • NANE?
  • "Dorzak": three Neuro-Pulsonic Jammers used by the Crotons to prevent Dorzak from using his psychic abilities against them.
    • See Also
  • Communications Interference
  • Alien Technology
    		•
    Jarak Who An alien who takes over Jackie's form at birth, forcing two abnormal and instantaneous (or nearly so) bursts of growth, from newborn to "5-year-old" to adult. While in the middle form, learned a lot about Alpha from the mostly-charmed Alphans. Koenig is suspicious, partially from the growth and partially from "Jackie's" behavior. Jarak's people then arrive in four spaceships. As an adult, Jarak is revealed as an alien. He proceeds to kill Sue Crawford, allowing another of his people, namely Rena, to take over Sue's form. They kiss. They proceed to take over the base via mind control, and are in the process of taking over when their persuers, of the same people as Jarak, arrive, and destroy Jarak's ships, and force the reversion of Jarak all the way back to baby Jackie, presumably killing Jarak.
    Episodes
  • "Alpha Child"
    		•
    JB See Johnny Byrne
    Jim
    Haines    		 Details
  • Parents died due to Queller Drive
  • His mentor was Ernst Linden, later found to be Ernst Queller.
  • Given Voyager 1 records to analyze.
    • Stories
  • "Voyager's Return"
    		•
    JK See John Koenig
    Joan
    Conway    		 Summary Works in a Nuclear Generating Area, perhaps as a supervisor (the Commander talks to her in this Episode).
    Appears
  • "Alpha Child"
    • Details
  • Played by Rula Lenska (born in Poland).
  • Character's name not actually spoken during episode. Nor does it appear in the end credits. It appears as Joan Conway in numerous reference sources, however, suggesting it is a scripted name which was not used on-screen and not credited.
    • Johnny
    Byrne    		 a.k.a.
  • JB
    • Who The script editor and most prolific script writer of the series, writing a total of 11 episodes in the original two seasons, as well as MFMBA.
    Details
  • Also wrote an unfilmed script -- "Children of the Gods" -- which was lost in a studio move, but which he outlined in later years.
  • Attended a number of , including the Breakaway convention in 1999, and the MainMission: 2000 convention.
  • Wrote the Foreward to the Powys Media novel Resurrection.
  • Was an active writer in other series, including (unverified:) All Creatures Great and Small.
  • Passed away 2008/04/03.
    • Links
  • IMDb entry
  • Wikipedia entry
    		•
    Journey
    to Where    		 a.k.a.
  • JTW
  • JtW
  • J2W
  • 2e (Editor's reference)
    • Definition The 5th episode in Y2, 29th of the series overall. Written by Donald James. Directed by Tom Clegg.
    Synopsis
  • Alpha is contacted by the Earth of 2120 (time dilation) via neutrino transmission, indicating a limited window of opportunity for returning Alphans to Earth (more advanced but with severe environmental damage from the prior century). The first attempt with Alphan people goes awry, John, Alan, and Helena on what turns out to be Earth of 1339, where they are captured by Scots who first intend to ransom Helena, then to burn all three when Helena, who has fallen ill, is feared by the Scots to have the plague.
    • Details
  • Tony is given temporary command of Alpha.
  • Story takes place over the course of 72 hours, but it is one of two Y2 episodes not given a Days After Breakaway count.
    • Justice Intro Episodes in which justice was a theme in some manner.
    List
  • "Earthbound" (?)
  • "Voyager's Return": After Voyager 1 accidentally destroyed life on at least one (two?) Sidon worlds, the Chief Justifier, Aarchon, intends to carry out retribution against Earth and then Alpha. The Alphans see it as nothing more than revenge, try to argue Aarchon out of it, but when Aarchon insists, Ernst Queller/Linden, inventor of the Queller Driver responsible for the destruction, flies Voyager 1 towards the Sidon ships and destroys all three along with himself and V1.
  • "End of Eternity": the Alphans free Balor, who claims he was the victim of his short-sided people (the Progrons), but it soon becomes clear he is a murderous, torturing psychopath, and is blown out of an airlock. The Alphans realize they have unintentionally interfered in another world's justice.
  • "The Exiles": The Alphans open what looks like a missile and discover a humanoid in suspended animation. Another is soon freed. They claim to want to help Alpha, but are soon found to have an agenda of their own, wishing to take over their homeworld. The first two are eventually defeated, and the rest of the missiles are pushed out of orbit.
  • "The Rules of Luton": John and Maya pick berries and a flower, and are condemned by three judges as murderers on a planet run by sentient plant life. They are sentenced to trial by combat to the death. Two of their opponents end up dying, despite pleas by John and Maya they did not want to fight. Maya is captured, drawing John out in the open, pleading to take Maya's place, but forced to fight nonetheless. He prevails, but does not kill his opponent, instead turning the tables (with words) on the judges.
  • "Dorzak": the title character, a Psychon, incited violence on peace-loving worlds, and was imprisoned for exile, before he created trouble aboard the transport ship, forcing its captain(?), Sahala, to land on Alpha. She shoots Maya with a staser, on sight, causing Sahala herself a great deal of trouble convincing the Alphans of why Dorzak is imprisoned, in part leading to his eventually being released. He soon starts wreaking havoc and eventually has to be recaptured and returned to imprisonment.
    • Kander See Clive Kander
    Kano See David Kano
    Kellett See Episodes Directed by Bob Kellett
    Kelly and
    Melita    		 Definition A married couple, last name uncertain (see Details, however). He was killed in a series of events triggered by the Space Brain, leaving Melita a widow.
    Details
  • According to The Catacombs website, the script had Melita as written as Melita Janni, so perhaps that is their shared last name -- but that name is not mentioned on screen.
  • He appeared to be a little older than her.
  • There was no sign given that they had children.
    		•
    Kendo Intro A martial art practiced with bamboo swords, and whose practitioners on Alpha (see Who) are seen wearing protective armor and masks.
    Who
  • John Koenig
  • Luke Ferro (TOA)
  • Maya (evidently, based on her transformation into a kendo fighter in BOW2, but evidently knowing the techniques herself).
    • Kerak See Archanons
    Kevin Connor See Episode Directors
    Koenig See John Koenig
    L Picard Who An Alphan woman, in a red sleeve early in Y2, a brown sleeve later in Y2, and a white sleeve at least once.
    Questions
  • Is she perhaps related to Lew Picard, who died in the first episode of Y2?
    • Notes
  • Maya, in the final episode of Y2, transforms into her, in an unsuccessful attempt of Maya (at Helena's urging) to evade capture by the Dorcons.
    • Laser
    Batteries    		 Summary One type of weapon available to defend Alpha. At least two were mounted at the base itself. One seems to be salvaged from a wrecked alien ship (namely a Deltan ship), though it was apparently (re-verify) destroyed by the Dorcons. A larger one (later(?) two) slightly away from the base.
    Episodes
  • "The Metamorph"
  • "Beta Cloud"
  • BOW1: two large laser batteries.
  • "The Dorcons"
    		•
    The
    Last
    Enemy    		 Intro 18th episode of the first season. Written by Bob Kellett, who also directed the episode (his sole director role in the series). This is the only episode both written and directed by the same individual.
    Summary The Moon approaches a star system with two planets locked in a single orbit on opposite sides of their common sun. The first is soon remotely detected to be inhabited, followed soon by Sandra detecting the approach of a "powered object" that Kano detects is a collosal battleship. Alpha takes up defensive position and considers a defensive albeit partially pre-emptive strike. Alpha soon finds itself in the middle of a major battle, in two rounds separated by a cease-fire, all the while being fed a mix of (apparently) honest and misleading information from an alien commander, Dione, who "escaped" her damaged ship. The Alphans survive the battle with damage to parts of the base and a few minor injuries, while the other two sides suffer some major damage.
    Plot (Most of the episode's plot is described in Betha vs. Delta: Battle on the Moon — while lead-in elements are mentioned in the first half of the Summary.)
    Details
  • Living quarters of Sandra Benes seen.
    • See Also
  • John and Dione
    		•
    Launch Pad 10 What An Eagle/spaceship launch/landing pad mentioned at least once (e.g. "The Last Enemy", when Dione's capsule lands on it without permission).
    Lee H. Katzin See Episode Directors
    Lee Russell Who Husband of Helena Russell, lost and presumed dead for five years when he is discovered on Terra Nova.
    Episodes
  • "Matter of Life and Death"
    • Details
  • Was on the Astro 7 mission when it lost contact at some point near Jupiter, entering a close orbit but the heat shields burning up, perhaps from an unknown form of radiation, somehow scattering the astronauts across extrasolar space.
  • Lee (or some image of him) survived, in a matter of speaking, altered and in some senses not life as normally known, for his life readings do not register on Alpha's systems after he is found on an Eagle returning from an exploration mission from Terra Nova. All further information in this entry is about whatever this being actually is (i.e. not necessarily Lee himself).
  • Victor speculated that "perhaps some aspect of that planet's environment might have caused him to adapt, to change in some way, which our instruments can't record."
  • He is capable of generating what look like electrical charges, one of which causes Helena to be propelled across the room.
  • Thermographic scans only show normal heat patterns when Helena is nearby, leading to speculation he's drawing on Helena for some life force.
  • Lee warns the Commander to stay away from the planet, that there is power beyond understanding there, that it would destroy them.
  • He then "dies" (or at least ceases to function in the unusual way he has been to that point), and after some hours(?), his body vanishes, retriggering concerns among some Alphans, especially Victor, about attempting to colonize Terra Nova.
  • He reappears on Terra Nova after all Alphans except Helena have died while attempting to explore Terra Nova, some on the planet, the rest on the Moon when it explodes. Lee reappears to a shocky Helena and offers to restore everything and everyone.
    • Quotes
  • "Lee": "I'm... the image in the mirror. The opposite of myself."
  • "Lee": "I couldn't survive in your world, and you can't survive in mine. That's why you must leave -- now."
    • Lew Who
  • Lew, knocked unconscious in Main Mission during Breakaway.
  • Lew Picard, who died on Psychon.
    • Lew
    Picard    		 Who A male Alphan who appears in Command Center and goes to Psychon as a science representative (possibly Science Officer or SO-to-be). He dies on Psychon, vaporized by a reflection of the laser rifle he shoots at a force field there.
    Details
  • Wears a red sleeve.
    • Episodes
  • "The Metamorph"
    • Notes
  • There is a female Alphan whose badge reads L Picard, who is perhaps related to him (e.g. sister? wife?), though no mention is made of such.
    • See Also
  • Lew (those with same first name)
  • Picard (those with same last name)
    		•
    Life
    Support    		 Details
  • "Alpha Child": It is stated (by the commander) that: "We can't sustain more people. Our environment here on Alpha is so precariously balanced we can barely support ourselves."
  • "The Exiles": A similar statement is made against accepting large numbers of new people.
  • "The Beta Cloud": an alien attempts to steal the life support system.
    • Lightning Intro Notable Examples of lightning as a meteorological phenomenon.
    Examples
  • "The Rules of Luton": the Judges seem to show some control over weather.
  • "Immunity Syndrome" (? VERIFY): the Being on that world has absolute control over the planet's meteorology. Hits the Re-Entry Glider that Maya is piloting?
    • Linden See Ernst Linden
    Living
    Quarters    		 a.k.a.
  • LQ
    • Intro At least a few personal living quarters are shown through the series. Y2 quarters are smaller than Y1 quarters and lack windows, suggesting (story-wise) a defensive move down-levels, including changes for some of the characters whose quarters were seen in Y1. The table is thus divided by season, and secondarily ordered by character name. Character name links are to the character's page. Links to entries about the character's quarters in the # column. Some episode names may be shortened or abbreviated; the list of episodes is not necessarily complete.
    Table
    Who #/Link WhenComments
    Year One
    Helena Russell MOLAD
    Dragon's Domain
    John Koenig Breakaway
    GOP
    Missing Link? Zenno? (needs clarification)
    CC
    Infernal Mach.
    Kelly and Melita Space Brain
    Mike Baxter (link)End of Eternity he died in his quarters
    Paul Morrow Black Sun 'share the music' scene
    Sandra Benes Last Enemy used as guest quarters (Dione).
    Smitty Black Sun
    Tony Cellini Dragon's Domain
    Victor Bergman LQ12 MOLAD Also served as
    his (main?) lab.
    Black Sun
    RATM
    Alpha Child
    Dragon's Domain
    Zoref: Anton&Eva LQ Force of Life
    Year Two
    Caroline Powell Lambda Factor