Space:1999 - Breakaway
Just finished listening to "Space: 1999 - Breakaway" released by Big FInish Productions.
"Space:1999" first came on the broadcast airwaves back in 1975 and was a syndicated science fiction show produced and created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
I do remember Isaac Asimov writing a review of "Space:1999" where he railed against the notion of a large nuclear explosion of any type being capable of hurtling the moon out of Earth's orbit and sending it an interstellar odyssey at faster-than-light speeds.
I also remember the seven minute series conclusion "Message From Moonbase Alpha" which revealed that the META signal, which was humanity's first detection of intelligence outside of the Solar System on the planet Meta, five light years away from Earth, was actually a message from Moonbase Alpha at an undisclosed time in the future where the Alphans are forced to abandon the moon for an uncertain future on a planet they dubbed Terra Alpha and that Maya had built a device capable of sending a message to back to Earth. Which turns out to be the META signal.
SPOILER ALERT: In Big Finish's audio adaption of Space:1999, the META signal causes the production of exotic matter particles which interact with the nuclear waste material stored on the moon, which creates a transversable worm-hole which sends the Moon on it's journey through space and time. Which begs the question - Series Two of the original television show established the fact that the destruction of Psychon caused the remaining survivors to go insane and that Maya only escaped that fate because of the friendships she established on Moonbase Alpha. In one compelling moment in the episode "Dorzak" Maya angrily confronts the Psychon poet when she learns of his crimes against the Croton Federation: "Is there something in Psychon nature that turns us all into monsters?"
Depending on how far Nicholas Briggs and his writers at Big Finish go, Maya is responsible for untold deaths on Earth with the META signal in this series re-imagining. She is also responsible for the deaths which occurred on Moonbase Alpha prior to the moon being ripped from orbit by the worm hole. Yet she may have had no choice in the matter, or didn't know what the effects of the META signal would be.
I greatly enjoyed listening to "Space:1999 - Breakaway" which was a thrilling and convincing audio drama adaption of the original series, and it was able to humanize all the characters more.
I look forward to future releases in this series.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
FIVE STARS
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/...
"Space:1999" first came on the broadcast airwaves back in 1975 and was a syndicated science fiction show produced and created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
I do remember Isaac Asimov writing a review of "Space:1999" where he railed against the notion of a large nuclear explosion of any type being capable of hurtling the moon out of Earth's orbit and sending it an interstellar odyssey at faster-than-light speeds.
I also remember the seven minute series conclusion "Message From Moonbase Alpha" which revealed that the META signal, which was humanity's first detection of intelligence outside of the Solar System on the planet Meta, five light years away from Earth, was actually a message from Moonbase Alpha at an undisclosed time in the future where the Alphans are forced to abandon the moon for an uncertain future on a planet they dubbed Terra Alpha and that Maya had built a device capable of sending a message to back to Earth. Which turns out to be the META signal.
SPOILER ALERT: In Big Finish's audio adaption of Space:1999, the META signal causes the production of exotic matter particles which interact with the nuclear waste material stored on the moon, which creates a transversable worm-hole which sends the Moon on it's journey through space and time. Which begs the question - Series Two of the original television show established the fact that the destruction of Psychon caused the remaining survivors to go insane and that Maya only escaped that fate because of the friendships she established on Moonbase Alpha. In one compelling moment in the episode "Dorzak" Maya angrily confronts the Psychon poet when she learns of his crimes against the Croton Federation: "Is there something in Psychon nature that turns us all into monsters?"
Depending on how far Nicholas Briggs and his writers at Big Finish go, Maya is responsible for untold deaths on Earth with the META signal in this series re-imagining. She is also responsible for the deaths which occurred on Moonbase Alpha prior to the moon being ripped from orbit by the worm hole. Yet she may have had no choice in the matter, or didn't know what the effects of the META signal would be.
I greatly enjoyed listening to "Space:1999 - Breakaway" which was a thrilling and convincing audio drama adaption of the original series, and it was able to humanize all the characters more.
I look forward to future releases in this series.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
FIVE STARS
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/...
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