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While the crew of Moonbase Alpha on earth's ruanway moon wastes away
their time doing jigsaw puzzles (really), suddenly something takes over
communications, but fails to properly communicate Alpha. So commander
Koenig (Martin Landau) sends up one of Alpha's spacecrafts, an Eagle, to
investigate ... but soon enough the Eagle disappears. So a second Eagle,
piloted by Alpha's crack pilot Alan (Nick Tate) & guest role Kelly
(Shane Rimmer) is sent for a rescue mission, but they fail to find the
first Eagle, but find some strange kind of pop art cloud exactly where the
strange signals emanate from ... and Kelly falls into some sort of strange
trance.
That's not all though, soon an asteroid almost hits Alpha, & at
closer inspection Alpha's chief scientist Bergman (Barry Morse) finds out
it's made up of parts of the first Eagle.
Soon enough Koenig decides to send an autopiloted Eagle filled up with
enough nuclear devices to blow everything to kingdom come towards the
cloud, as Alpha is on a collision course with it, & the Alphans have
little desire to end up like the first Eagle.
It is only then that Koenig has the idea that Kelly might have been
taken over by the pop art cloud & might have some important knowledge
... so he decides the most sensible thing to do would be some kind of
mind-melt (Alpha, strangely enough, has machines aboard that can do that),
& soon enough he learns that the pop art cloud is in fact a space
brain that desperately tries to inform Alpha on how to change its course
in order to not collide with it: place nuclear devices along the moon's
equator & explode them in order to give the moon a different spin,
& alter its course ... a good idea, except for the fact that Alpha has
sent up all nuclear devices towards the brain. & when the Alphans try
to recall teh Eagle, they only manage to turn it round, then lose contact,
so now the Eagle comes towards Alpha as a ticking timebomb.
Eventually, Koenig flies up to the Eagle himself, manages to enter it
& deactivate its explosives ... but still, the Eagle & the bombs
are lost, & the moon is still on its course towards the brain ...
So Koenig has one desperate idea, to turn up the pressure of Alpha to
the max & hope it can withstand the power of the brain ... &
wouldn't you know it, even if the brain defends itself valiantly (using of
all things foam), Alpha, & the moon as such, stay in one piece ... the
space brain however has become a casualty ...
A mind-melting machine ! A brain in space that looks like a pop art
cloud !! Men in orange spacesuits fighting a bubble bath !!! Of course on
one hand all ot this is totally silly, but on the other hand, if you are
like me a bit childish & impressed by the weirdest of ideas, you will
sit & watch this episode in awe.
They just don't make them like that anymore.
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