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Missing Link (Space: 1999)
"Missing Link" is the 20th episode of the first series of Space: 1999. The screenplay was written by Edward di Lorenzo; the director was Ray Austin. The final shooting script is dated 5 April 1974. Live-action filming took place Monday 22 April 1974 through Thursday 9 May 1974, with one day of second-unit filming on 22 July 1974.
The episode first aired in Australia on 3 November 1975. In the UK, it was first broadcast on 22 January 1976.
As the Moon travels through a planetary cluster, Commander Koenig leads an Eagle crew surveying the area for minerals. The Eagle is pulled towards one of the planets, forcing Koenig to fire the ship's thrusters to blast it free. On the journey home to Moonbase Alpha, the Eagle suffers complete systems failure and crash-lands in a lunar crater, seriously injuring Koenig. Rescue Eagles take the unconscious commander and the rest of the crew back to Alpha.
Another Koenig, spacesuited and unhurt, leaves the Eagle and returns to Alpha on foot. Entering through an airlock, he finds the base deserted but repeatedly glimpses an unknown humanoid man and woman. The viewscreen in Main Mission shows a magnificent alien city.
Alpha dissolves into a bright, featureless void, and the male humanoid appears. He is Raan of the planet Zenno, the world the Eagle broke away from. His people, the Zennites, are humans at an evolutionary stage two million years in the Alphans' future. With their powerful mental abilities, they can create anything they desire by mere thought. Raan shows Koenig that his trek to Alpha was an illusion and that he is actually on Zenno, while in Alpha's Medical Centre, Dr Russell is battling to keep Koenig's comatose doppelganger alive.
Koenig is put in a simulation of his quarters on Alpha. The Zennites consider him a "missing link" to their primitive human ancestors, and Raan, Zenno's foremost anthropologist, wants to make a detailed study of his mind. Koenig is aghast, feeling reduced to the level of a laboratory animal. In protest, he vows to starve himself to death.
While Koenig sleeps, Raan begins his study. Koenig wakes up in what appears to be Alpha Medical. Initially thinking that his encounter with the Zennites was a dream, he is struck by the uncharacteristic pessimism of Professor Bergman and realises that he is in one of Raan's simulations. While Raan confers with his fellow Zennites, Koenig and Raan's daughter, Vana, develop a romantic attraction.
Vana confronts her father, declaring that they have no right to exploit Koenig. Raan is disturbed that his daughter has fallen for his test subject. Koenig is torn between Vana and his longing for home. Raan tells Koenig that his doppelganger is about to die, which will prevent him from ever going back. Koenig decides to not abandon his people. Vana wants to go with him, but he tells her that she must stay in her own place and time. Devastated, she dematerialises, begging him not to forget her. Seeing Koenig off, Raan concludes that the experiment has shown the need for compromise between humanity's emotiveness and the Zennites' devotion to logic. He wonders whether Koenig's visit will prove to be the rebirth of Zennite emotion.
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Missing Link (Space: 1999)
"Missing Link" is the 20th episode of the first series of Space: 1999. The screenplay was written by Edward di Lorenzo; the director was Ray Austin. The final shooting script is dated 5 April 1974. Live-action filming took place Monday 22 April 1974 through Thursday 9 May 1974, with one day of second-unit filming on 22 July 1974.
The episode first aired in Australia on 3 November 1975. In the UK, it was first broadcast on 22 January 1976.
As the Moon travels through a planetary cluster, Commander Koenig leads an Eagle crew surveying the area for minerals. The Eagle is pulled towards one of the planets, forcing Koenig to fire the ship's thrusters to blast it free. On the journey home to Moonbase Alpha, the Eagle suffers complete systems failure and crash-lands in a lunar crater, seriously injuring Koenig. Rescue Eagles take the unconscious commander and the rest of the crew back to Alpha.
Another Koenig, spacesuited and unhurt, leaves the Eagle and returns to Alpha on foot. Entering through an airlock, he finds the base deserted but repeatedly glimpses an unknown humanoid man and woman. The viewscreen in Main Mission shows a magnificent alien city.
Alpha dissolves into a bright, featureless void, and the male humanoid appears. He is Raan of the planet Zenno, the world the Eagle broke away from. His people, the Zennites, are humans at an evolutionary stage two million years in the Alphans' future. With their powerful mental abilities, they can create anything they desire by mere thought. Raan shows Koenig that his trek to Alpha was an illusion and that he is actually on Zenno, while in Alpha's Medical Centre, Dr Russell is battling to keep Koenig's comatose doppelganger alive.
Koenig is put in a simulation of his quarters on Alpha. The Zennites consider him a "missing link" to their primitive human ancestors, and Raan, Zenno's foremost anthropologist, wants to make a detailed study of his mind. Koenig is aghast, feeling reduced to the level of a laboratory animal. In protest, he vows to starve himself to death.
While Koenig sleeps, Raan begins his study. Koenig wakes up in what appears to be Alpha Medical. Initially thinking that his encounter with the Zennites was a dream, he is struck by the uncharacteristic pessimism of Professor Bergman and realises that he is in one of Raan's simulations. While Raan confers with his fellow Zennites, Koenig and Raan's daughter, Vana, develop a romantic attraction.
Vana confronts her father, declaring that they have no right to exploit Koenig. Raan is disturbed that his daughter has fallen for his test subject. Koenig is torn between Vana and his longing for home. Raan tells Koenig that his doppelganger is about to die, which will prevent him from ever going back. Koenig decides to not abandon his people. Vana wants to go with him, but he tells her that she must stay in her own place and time. Devastated, she dematerialises, begging him not to forget her. Seeing Koenig off, Raan concludes that the experiment has shown the need for compromise between humanity's emotiveness and the Zennites' devotion to logic. He wonders whether Koenig's visit will prove to be the rebirth of Zennite emotion.