Young Shermeen Williams is
helping Tony cultivate hops and
barley, in Hydroponics for use in
brewing his beer. During the
course of their collaboration she
has developed a crush on him
much to the chagrin of her co-
worker, and would-be suitor, |
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Eddie Collins. After bringing
the latest brew to Command
Center to be sampled by his
unwilling compatriots, Tony
takes a swig of his beer to
find that it did not live up to
his expectations. Frustrated,
he inadvertently hurts |
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Shermeen's
feelings. She runs
from Command Center crying,
much to Tony's surprise. In her
quarters, she stops crying when
she senses something in the
room with her. She looks and
sees a man's face staring at her
from the corner of her room. |
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Helena,
who followed her from
Command Center to check on
her fragile emotional state,
finds her disturbed by what she
believes was a dream. She
gives her a tranquilizer and
lets her return to duty. Back in
Command Center, a planet |
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is
detected. Koenig asks Helena
to join them for a landing party
but she is in the middle of some
tests and can't go. She tells John
about Shermeen, and when he
says he wants her to join the
team to go to the planet, Helena
advises against it. Tony is elected |
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to
give the news to Shermeen.
She assumes he told them not
to let her go and tells him she
never wants to see him again.
He leaves and the face returns.
He tells her that his name is
Vindrus, and he comes from
the planet Sunim, and that |
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she
will see the planet soon.
She tells him that she is not
going, but he tells her that if
she does as he says, she will.
He has her bombard a seed
with protons and plant it, then
tells her to prepare to go to
the planet. She leaves as |
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Eddie
Collins returns. The seed
grows to maturity at incredible
speed. Eddie notices the plant,
and when he smells one of
the flowers, falls unconscious.
As the landing party prepares
to embark, they find Shermeen
who tells Koenig that Eddie |
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was
suddenly taken ill. They fly
to Sunim to check it out. They
arrive to find a completely Earth-
like planet, but with no animal
life detectable on their sensors.
Shermeen wanders off getting
samples of the different plants.
Vindrus leads her to a temple |
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which
has already been
discovered by the rest of the
team, but as they approach
they are charged by a large
horned creature. When John
fires on it, the laser beam is
deflected. They run for the
cover of the woods. As they |
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retreat,
Koenig notices the
creature has stopped at the
obelisk at the edge of the wood.
They look for Shermeen who is
told to enter the temple past
the creature. Vindrus assures her
that it will not attack. She enters
the temple unscathed, where |
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Vindrus
tells her that he needs
her help to cross over into our
world, and asks her to take a
cylinder back to Alpha. Bill
finds Shermeen's footprints
leading towards the temple.
Maya changes into a fox to
evade the creature, and get
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into
the the structure to see if
Shermeen is within. Maya finds
her, and after recording the
images on the wall, leads her
out. Maya hesitates, when she
sees the creature, but is told by
Shermeen that the creature
will not harm them. Unable |
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to
contact Alpha, Koenig
decides to return to the base.
on the way back, he asks
Shermeen why she was able to
get past the creature. She tells
him that no harm will come to
her on Sunim. He asks how she
knew the name of the planet. |
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She
becomes defensive and
he backs off. On Alpha they
review Maya's tapes, and come
to the conclusion that the
creature that they saw on the
planet was made up of anti-
matter. Vindrus appears to
Shermeen and asks her to |
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get a generator, that will
fit
the cylinder, to bring to the
planet. Tony walks in and
sees Vindrus. He is knocked
out and made to forget
what he has seen. Shermeen
gets a generator and, using
a flower hypnotizes Bill into |
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taking her to Sunim. Vindrus
has her hook up the generator to
a matter converter. Then has her
step into one of two booths.
Vindrus locks her in and trades
places with her, sending her into
the anti-matter world while he
enters the matter world. Koenig, |
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Tony and Maya who had
followed them to the planet,
arrive at the temple. Vindrus
exits the temple after Koenig
figures out that the creature
cannot harm them. They
learn that he is no longer
anti-matter. Koenig asks |
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where Shermeen is. Vindrus
tells them she is inside the
temple and won't come out.
He suggests they go in and get
her. John and Tony follow him
in and Vindrus seals the door
to the temple. Tony remembers
that Vindrus needed people |
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to maintain the balance for
the transfer into the matter
world. Tony shoots Vindrus
but the beam bounces off.
Vindrus demonstrates that
he does have an effective
weapon, and orders them
into the conversion booths. |
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Koenig throws his commlock
at Vindrus, and he and Tony
hide. While Vindrus looks for
them, Maya who heard the
commotion, has gotten into
the temple as a small monkey.
John tells Vindrus that Shermeen
is coming back because he |
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knew what Vindrus was up to,
and set the generator to work
at partial power. Maya
transforms into Shermeen and
enters one of the booths. She
calls to Vindrus telling him that
they need to try again or they
will all be destroyed. |
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Vindrus approaches the booth,
Tony pushes him in, and John
bars the door shut. Maya exits
and turns the converter on. She
can't recall the controls of the
one she had seen before, but
Shermeen is able to guide her,
and the conversion is reversed. |
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John sets the reactor to
overload. Tony finds the button
to open the door and they head
back to the Eagles. Before they
can lift off, the generator
explodes and the Planet is
returned to anti-matter. Back
on Alpha, Shermeen returns |
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Tony's hops, as she needs the
room to test a theory Eddie
Collins has on plant growth.
Tony is dumbfounded at her
sudden change of heart, but is
soon distracted with musings of
brewing beer with anti-matter
grain and/or hops. |
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