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Episode Synopsis
2306 days after leaving Earth’s orbit, Alpha discovers two planets in their Eastern quadrant. An Eagle is dispatched to investigate. Onboard, John Koenig and Medical Technician Dispensable.
They discover an amazing, Earth-like planet, with high-tech cities, but instead of investigating a big-budget alien city, they investigate a low-budget box in the countryside. Around the box, lots of dead bodies. The box is a teleport and out steps a man, who promptly keels over and dies.
Koenig radios back to the B-string team at Moonbase Alpha, who hypothesize that there’s something deadly in the air. Something that humans are immune to. They leave immediately and learn that the cities, too, are dead. Everyone on the planet is dead.
As they leave, they notice the planet’s moon has a breathable atmosphere, too, and life signs, so they go to investigate and promptly crash.
They come upon a hunt where a man is being chased by cat-suited space babes with whips. The space babes kill the man, also Medical Technician Dispensable hits an electronic barrier and is reduced to burnt clothing. Koenig is captured.
The planet is a prison and all the prison staff are space babes, most of whom have whips. The prisoners are political. No one but the warden, Elizia, and her chief security officer, Sares, know that life on their planet is extinguished.
Prisoners continue to serve out their sentences and, when released, are teleported to the planet, where they drop dead almost immediately. No one is the wiser.
Now, Koenig threatens to upset the apple cart. He knows the truth, but since no one believes him, I guess that’s not a problem.
A rescue Eagle arrives but they are tricked into believing Koenig and Dispensable are both dead. They leave.
Koenig tries to escape, but that goes mostly nowhere, but he does retrieve an emergency homing beacon from the wrecked Eagle. It can not transmit through the prison’s force field, but he has an idea.
He surrenders and is returned to the prison. He maneuvers himself into the the teleport, Elizia threatens to blow it up, but her staff, ignorant of the death that awaits them at the other end, don’t want to lose their chance to go home. Koenig forces her hand and teleports himself down. If she refuses to follow, everyone will know the plague is true. The only way she can prove herself is to teleport down and return.
Rather than be killed by her staff, she teleports down with an eye on killing Koenig as revenge. She doesn’t last long enough.
The rescue Eagle picked up the homing signal and has returned to rescue John Koenig. They return to their rock in space, leaving behind a high-tech, uninhabited, earth-like planet that is not harmful to humans.
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