During a review of the record
of Alpha's journey, the computer
reports a change in the horizon.
Unable to locate the source of
whatever is pulling the Moon off
course, the Alphans assume the
worst... a collision course with
a black dwarf. Koenig orders |
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an evacuation of the base.
While doing a visual sweep of
the surrounding space, a ship
is spotted. Two Eagles are sent
to investigate. Bill Fraser contacts
the ship. The pilot of the ship
identifies it as a Swift, also from
Earth, that got lost on a star |
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mission
in 1996. The computer
verifies his story. The pilot says he
has not seen anyone in too long,
and asks if he can come down to
Alpha for lunch. Koenig agrees.
The Swift lands, and Koenig, Dr.
Russell, and two security guards
go to investigate the ship. |
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When
they board, security takes
a look around, but can find no
one on board. The voice speaks
again and says he will come out
to meet them. A robot rolls out
from the cockpit to greet them.
He tells them that his crew died
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planet,
and that he has been
waiting for another mission from
Earth since that time. When asked
what he should be called, he says
the first word he ever spoke was
"brain" but he got it wrong and it
came out "Brian", and they could
call him that. Koenig asks if |
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he
has recorded a change
in the Moon's course. Brian asks
if he means a gravity pull from
Planet D, and states that he has
not, but would check into it. After
a brief visit to Command Center
He says he will return to Swift
to investigate Alpha's change |
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of
course. He invites Helena
along to see if she can offer any
information as to why his crew and,
more importantly, his Captain died.
She accepts, and Koenig asks to
go along. After they have left,
Maya expresses her concerns
about the "brain" to Tony. She |
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asks
him to open a channel
to Swift, but the computer has
ceased functioning and all their
communications have gone down.
The Swift has taken off and is
flying erractically. John and Helena
have been kidnapped by the brain.
Koenig demands that they be |
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returned
to Alpha, but Brian
threatens to blow them into space
if Koenig doesn't put down his
weapon. He does, and Brian drops
it through a trap door. Tony goes
after the Swift with four Eagles.
Brian plans to blind their computers
but Koenig asks to speak to them. |
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Brian
allows him to, and John
orders the Eagles back to Alpha.
Tony sends the other Eagles back,
but when he discovers the brain's
destination, decides to get to
Planet D ahead of them. Back
on Swift, Brian is conducting a
little experiment. He asks |
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John
and Helena if they love
each other. They tell him no. To
test his theory that they do, Brian
has them both step into separate
airlocks. He tells them that as he
releases the air, they can transfer
their remaining air to the other
airlock by pressing a black |
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button.
As the air gets thinner
both John and Helena press their
buttons at exactly the same time.
Brian opens the airlocks and lets
them out, secure in the belief
that as long as he has one, he
has control over the other. They
land on Planet D and Brian |
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has
Koenig put on a spacesuit.
John asks why, and Brian tells him
that he wants him to walk over to
the mothership and bring back
it's fuel core. On his way, Koenig
finds members of Brians crew
lying dead on the planet, without
their spacesuits. He continues |
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on
to the mothership. When he
boards, he finds Tony and Maya
waiting for him. They find the body
of Captain Michael, Brian's creator.
Maya checks the ships computer
and finds that it has been blinded
like Alpha's was. That's why the
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spacesuits.
While trying to find
the fuel core, Koenig finds what
looks like parts to another brain,
and has an idea of how to get
at Brian by breaking his mind.
Maya says she got a good look
at Captain Michael, and turns
into a mouse so Koenig can |
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smuggle her aboard Swift in
his pocket. Koenig returns with
the fuel core and immediately sets
about shaking Brian up. He tells
Brian he saw his crew lying dead
on the surface, and Captain
Michael sitting dead in his
command chair. Brian faulters |
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but makes Koenig install the
fuel core. Elated at his new sense
of freedom, Brian lifts off. Koenig
removes Maya from his pocket and
places her on Brian's antenna.
Brian wants to know where the
mouse came from. Koenig tells
him it came from Planet D and |
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that it has a message from
Captain Michael. He and Helena
accuse Brian of killing his creator
because he was working on a
better brain. Brian denies it, and
Koenig tells him that Captain
Michael told him so. Maya
tranforms into his "father" and |
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Brian short circuits. When he
is
sufficiently disoriented, they push
him out of the air lock, but his
antenna gets caught, suspending
him a short distance from the ship.
Koenig tells Tony to dock with the
Swift. They have to get the memory
core from the brain and get it |
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back to Alpha, but they are
not
sure if they will be able to as long
as Brian's antenna is still working.
Koenig decides to cut it, but Brian
threatens to wipe his memory clean
if Koenig does. Believing this an
empty threat, Koenig decides to
go ahead. Brian pleads for his |
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"life" and Koenig
makes him a
deal. They will let him "live" if he
will give them his memory core
intact. Brian tells them to take it,
that all he wanted was life and
friends. He breaks down and starts
to cry, much to the surprise of the
Alphans. They return to Alpha |
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with the memory core, get
their
computer functioning again, and
learn that the Moon had never
changed course. That was another
lie from Brian the brain. After some
deliberation, they decide to return
Brian's memory core to Swift with
their morality programmed in it. |
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John asks Helena if they have
any off duty time that coincides.
she tells him it's been used up for
the month. He says he had wanted
to discuss the "love test". Maya
asks about it, and Helena tells her
it was a test they failed. John says
he thought they had passed it. |
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