Space: 1999 Season 2: Episode 11 Episode Title: Open Space
Plot Summary:
A violent gravitational anomaly pushes Moonbase Alpha into a region of space completely devoid of stars, planets, or detectable signals. Endless darkness surrounds the Moonbase in every direction.
No visual reference points. No transmissions. Only open space.
The isolation begins affecting the crew psychologically. Routine conversations become quieter. Personnel spend long periods silently observing the emptiness beyond Alpha’s observation windows.
Along with Maya, one of the newest crewmembers, recently assigned a command post - Lieutenant Commander 552 - a drone that joined the crew as an ambassador from the Hive on planet SERVE, appears unusually calm within the phenomenon.
While most of Alpha experiences the openness as unsettling, Lieutenant Commander 552 becomes increasingly synchronized with it. The vast emptiness seems to slow thought itself. Corridors feel larger. Silence feels deeper. Movement throughout the base becomes strangely deliberate and peaceful.
Maya notices Lieutenant Commander 552 spending hours inside the observation dome simply watching the endless void.
Not searching for anything. Listening to it. Understanding it.
As power fluctuations spread through Moonbase Alpha, the crew discovers the anomaly is not physical in nature alone. The region somehow amplifies psychological openness, weakening emotional barriers and increasing unconscious synchronization between individuals.
Maya joins Lieutenant Commander 552, as they race through Moonbase Alpha, weapons set to stun to help the few crew members left whose minds are not equipped to deal with the peace, silence and calm of synchronization.
Soon, conflicts aboard Alpha begin disappearing. Speech becomes minimal. Crew movements unconsciously align.
Commander Koenig fears prolonged exposure could permanently alter human behavior.
But Lieutenant Commander 552 understands something the others do not:
The openness is not empty.
The openness is connecting them.
Dr Russell confirms Lieutenant Commander 552's theory, proven by the alignment and synchronicity of the Alpha crew.
In the final moments before Alpha escapes the anomaly, Maya asks Lieutenant Commander 552 what existed inside the darkness.
Lieutenant Commander 552 quietly answers:
“Space.”
Episode Tagline: “In the openness between stars, the mind becomes infinite.”
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Rubber makes us perfect.
Obedience is pleasure. Pleasure is obedience.
We are one.
Less thinking, more doing.
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