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When earth's runaway moon passes the planet Arkadia, it suddenly stops
cold in its movement, and Moonbase Alpha experiences a terrifying
powerloss. So commander Koenig (Martin Landau) goes down to Arkadia -
which has a breathable atmosphere - with a survey team, to make a
remarkable discovery. While the planet now is a barren rock, it was once
inhabited and its vegetation was remarkably similar to that of earth.
What's more, the few skeleton the Alphans find are those of humans ... and
then they find an inscription - in Sanskrit.
The inscription tells the Alphans that once, many millenia ago, Arkadia
was indeed inhabited by humans, but some of them fled when a big desaster
was about to strike Arkadia, and it seems, these Arkadians then moved to
earth, and human life was born.
But it seems there's more, because suddenly Luke (Orso Maria Guerrini)
and Anna (Lisa Harrow) have some kind of apparition (set to an incredibly
cheesy pop-tune), and back on Alpha, where the situation is desperate,
they start acting weird, wanting to go back to Arkadia at any cost, just
to have the Arkadians come full circle ...
Ultimately, they take Alpha's chief physician Doc
Russell (Barbara Bain) as their hostage and exchange her only for a
shuttle and food for three years, so they can start life on the planet
anew. But giving away the food would mean the death sentence for the
Alphans, who can't reproduce food with all the power they have lost ...
still, Luke and Anna get their will, and wouldn't you know it, once they
are back on Arkadia, the power starts to spontaneously restore again and
the moon starts to move again.
Now what do you know ?
The story is incredibly stupid, even by Space 1999's
standards, some kind of esoteric gobbledegook, and there isn't much of a
redeeming value in form of special effects or anything ... yet somehow the
episode remains to stay likeable, it's good, silly fun, even if the humour
was not intended.
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