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Sensor readings growing stronger.

'Object's course and trajectory
holding steady.'

positive analysis, sir.
Object is artificially powered.

A ship?

(Koenig) 'Eagles 1 and 2,
maintain your approach.'

check, commander.

(Beeping)

Scanners have picked it up.

(Koenig) 'Activate on board defences.'

(alarm bleeps)

We're picking up a signal.

Relay it to us.

Kano?

It's some sort of call sign,
commander.

Acknowledge it.

Two seconds to visual.

(Kano) Message coming through,
commander.

'This is the voice of voyager 1.

'Our ship is unmanned and unarmed.

'We come on a mission
of peace and good will.'

it's a voyager ship!

Carter, Abrams, pull away!
Pull away!

Both men under severe stress.

Eagles 1 and 2, do you read me?

'Do you read me?'
- We're under attack, Alpha!

'Eagle 1 turning back!'

eagle 2 not responding!

Eagle 2 out of control.

The ship!

It's falling apart!

(Voyager) 'This is the voice
of voyager 1.

'Greetings from the people
of the planet earth.

We've lost
ship-to—base communication.

We're getting no life signs.
I hope it's their instruments.

Paul, keep all communications open.

(Groans)

'This is main mission to eagle 1,
are you receiving?

'Are you receiving?'

Alan, do you read me?

'Do you read me?'

Alpha, how am I doing?

Your automatic systems are shot.
Can you maintain manual control?

Yeah, I think so.

Abrams... did he make it?

(Koenig) 'Sorry, Alan.'

what hit us?

The queller drive.

Voyager 1 is powered
by the queller drive,

an atomic engine used to travel
at incredible speed.

Yes, incredible speeds produced by
fast neutrons spewed out into space

annihilating everything
in their path.

You'd survive better
in a nuclear explosion.

Here, John, listen to this.

It's all here.

Voyager 1. Launched 1985 to probe
the galaxy for intelligent life,

to find habitable solar systems,

to make man's presence
known in the galaxy.

And now voyager's coming back.

After 15 years!

What a staggering achievement.

If it comes too close
we'll be burnt up.

At a distance we'll be polluted
by neutron fallout and die anyway.

We've got to blast it out of the sky!

There's danger
from the queller drive...

Even if we climbed into lead caskets
under twelve feet of concrete

we'd still be burned up.

But the scientific information
in that ship!

Wait, we have to think of our lives!

It has to be destroyed.

Not without... John!
— kano, time factor?

Limit of safety, 11 hours.

11 hours.

That gives us some time.

Time for what? We have no protection,
we've got to stop it!

Let's... — 'eagle 1 coming in.'

I think I can make it.

Hey, keep your heads down.

Just in case.

We're waiting for you, Alan.
Good luck.

Crash units stand by.

Emergency crew to launchpad four.

(Alarm)

Victor, what are you suggesting?

We've got to try and get hold
of voyager's information.

We can't just blow it up.
— Helena?

We can't take any chances
with the queller drive.

For fifteen years,

voyager's been photographing planets,
analysing atmospheres,

detailing forms of life,
recording gravities, temperatures.

Think of the medical information
it must have!

It would take years to learn
what voyager already knows.

Look, I'd love
to get my hands on that information,

it could be invaluable
to our survival,

but we can't just ignore
the queller drive.

Wait. Victor, voyager has
two engine systems, right?

Exactly.

Ordinary chemical rockets
for lifting off and landing,

and the queller drive, which takes
over to carry it across space.

The queller drive
made star travel possible.

That voyager is unmanned

so how does it switch from rockets
to queller drive and back again?

- — It's computer-controlled.
- Exactly.

Why can't we reprogram
the computer aboard the voyager?

Feed it new instructions
to shut down the queller drive?

Because we can't risk it.

Surely we can't afford not to?

(Intercom beeps)

'Commander, eagle 1 is down.'

- — Carter?
- 'Still in one piece.'

- take him to the medical section.
— 'yes, sir.'

Helena.

You're going to try to save voyager,
at the risk of all our lives.

(Door bleeps)

All right.

We should find all the information
we can about fast neutrons.

Helena...

We're not in any danger yet.

Not yet.

The problem is to get access
to the voyager command circuit,

then we can give the computer
new instructions.

Kano, we need a link-up through our
computer programmer to voyager 1.

- See what you can do, would you?
- — yes, professor.

You've heard
there's a voyager ship out there?

Did you hear what I said?

(German accent) Yes.

Don't worry about things
you don't understand.

When she went up you were still,
how do you say?

Still in short trousers.

Yes.

I was.

They're playing games
with the queller drive,

just like voyager 2 all over again,
they've remembered nothing!

You know what they're trying to do?

They want to stop it,
shut down its drive.

They can't do that.

Voyager 1, this is the voice
of earth space authority,

do you acknowledge?

'Acknowledged.'

(Victor) Stand by to allow access
to your command file.

'Request refused.'

this is the voice
of earth space control.

'Acknowledged.'

voyager 1,

delete your command file
and stand by for fresh instructions.

'Request refused.'

on what grounds?

'Unauthorised instructions.'

you are ordered to delete
your command instructions.

'Request refused.

'Prime directives cannot be ordered
unless preceded by delete code.'

just not interested, professor.

There's got to be a way
to crack its delete code.

There is a way, professor.

Commander, professor, one moment.

Please, I will try
to explain to you very simply.

First, you must understand that
the command controls will respond

only to the most precise signal.

Therefore I have to warn you

that any attempt to stop
the voyager by other means

could trigger its destruct mechanism.

How do you know that?

I have some knowledge of the subject.

- I was involved with the project.
- In what capacity?

If you check my personal index

you will find that long
before I came to Alpha my name...

My name was queller.

Ernst queller.

That is correct.

I have designed the queller drive.

Ernst queller?

His name was changed
to linden by earth command

before he was assigned to Alpha.

And no one knew?

If he chose not to reveal
who he was that's his business.

Every man is entitled
to that much privacy.

He changed his name,
but nothing can change what he did.

His queller drive
killed Steve Abrams.

One more for the score.

But I'm thinking of fifteen years
ago, the second ship, voyager 2.

The queller drive cut in too soon.

Paul, something went wrong.

200 people were killed
because something went wrong.

A whole community wiped out!

My father was one of them.
I know something went wrong.

Paul, I understand
why this is difficult for you,

but we're not here
to judge Ernst queller,

we're here to decide
whether Ernst linden can help us.

You would put the survival of Alpha
into his hands?

Victor, can you guarantee you can
shut down the queller drive in time?

Guarantee...

No.

Let's talk to linden.

(Door bleeps)

(Koenig) Doctor.

Dr linden, we need the information
that voyager contains.

Can you shut down the queller drive
so we can get that information?

Now, don't be hasty, think carefully.

Can you do it with the facilities
we have here on Alpha

and in the time period we have left?

- Kano?
- Nine hours, ten minutes.

Yes or no?

Theoretically,
certainly it is possible.

Yes... or no?

Commander koenig, twenty years ago
I would have given you my guarantee

but... now, today, if you ask me
to undertake such a task...

All I can say is that I will do...

Everything I can. I...

I will do my best.

Thank you, doctor.

(Door bleeps)

I'm going with him.

Paul, I don't want
his real identity made known.

Not even to Jim haynes?

He lost both his parents
because of queller.

He should know who he's working with.

Should he?

Doctor, this has gone beyond me,

I simply cannot understand
what you're doing.

Never mind, Jim.
You are a very good assistant.

You must go back to the days
when you were a student.

Certain factors
have to be taken on trust.

So in this crisis, once again factors
have to be taken on trust.

You must do exactly as I tell you.

I need your help.

(Bergman) Hello, doctor.

I'm afraid
this isn't really my field,

I did do a bit on neutrons
but that was a few years ago

so this is about the best I can do.

- Thank you very much.
- Making progress?

Oh, yes, as you know...

This failure of the drive
to cut out in time

when approaching inhabited areas

- — has occurred before...
- Mm-hm.

With the most horrendous results.

You must have thought about it
a great deal since.

Oh, Victor, I have been
over the possibilities in my mind

thousands and thousands
and thousands of times.

I am now confident...

That I know the reason
for the failure.

Therefore I must gamble and work
from the premise that I am right.

Of course.

Sandra, let me know
if there's any deviation.

- It is being monitored constantly.
- Fine.

Alan, what's your plan
if we can't stop it?

It's a three-phase operation,
on the screen.

As soon as it enters the green area,
the eagles go on automatic alert.

If it enters the yellow area,
we move into positions here.

And the moment it enters the red,

we let loose
with everything we've got.

Good.

Paul, start the countdown.

Haynes, excuse us,
I'd like a word with the doctor.

Oh, of course. Jim, those quartz
components should be ready by now.

How much longer?
— I believe not long.

Once the circuit pattern is complete
we can override the commands.

Then it should be relatively simple
to shut down the drive.

Possibility of failure?
— I believe none.

I have designed the queller drive,
I know what is required,

all I need is time.

- — Do you need more men?
- No.

Doctor, I hope
you're not trying to prove something.

(Intercom beeps)

Eagles 6, 9 and 10, launch positions.

Eagle 6 ready for launch.

Eagle 10 in position.

'Eagle 9 ready.'
- All eagles now ready for launch.

Eagles 6, 9 and 10,
condition yellow now operative.

Go!

We're watching you. Good luck.

One hour to interception.

Alan, go ahead.

(Carter) Alpha base
to eagles 6, 9 and 10,

intercept positions.

Victor, no word from linden yet?

(Flicking switches)

I think we've done it.

I think we have done it.

Switch on, please, Jim.

(Vibrating hum)

Aaah! Good, good!

The circuit is complete, now we can
override the on board computer,

security codes are irrelevant,
all we need is computer link-up.

Override the on board computer?

Security codes irrelevant?

How did we do that?

Doctor...

How did we complete
the circuit pattern?

Jim, we've recreated the control
pattern for the queller drive.

Shut up!

Not possible.

Only one man could have done that!
Only one man has the knowledge!

You're Ernst queller, aren't you?

Aren't you?!

Come on, tell me!
You killed my parents, didn't you!

How is he?

Fractured ribs, shock. Bob?

Again.

- — How'd it happen?
- Jim found out.

Commander,
I... I didn't intend this to happen.

Do you realise
what you've done, stupid?

- You've destroyed our only chance!
- I'm sorry.

It was not his fault.
— get out of here.

- — Commander...
- Now!

Yes, sir.

And voyager?

We can't save it now.

I still believe we can.

I've got three eagles out there,
their sights aimed at voyager.

Please, do not destroy it yet,
you must... oh...

You must give me a chance
to finish what I have begun.

You're just trying
to resolve a conflict

that no one else has time
to give a damn about.

(Intercom beeps)

'Commander koenig, urgent.'

(queller) May I resume my work?

Helena, do what you can
to keep him going.

All right.

- (Alarms buzzing)
- Three objects,

travelling a long way behind voyager.

Positive identification, sir.

They're spaceships,
heading for Alpha.

(Coughs and groans)

Here we go. Come on.

I can't give you any more of this.
You're fighting a losing battle.

I said I can do it,
I still believe that I can.

You're wasting your time.

Voyager's going to have
to be destroyed.

I can't explain it to you, doctor,
you wouldn't understand!

Ha!

Those ships are following
the voyager.

Why?

Eagles maintaining
intercept positions.

(Carter) 'Hold positions.'

(Alarm)

Three minutes to intercept.

Eagles to firing positions.

Copy.

- Lock weapons. — 'locked.'

- Voyager 1 now in space area red.
- Wait, Alan.

Waiting for
instructions to fire, Alpha!

(Rumbling)

Commander!

We've got to give the order!

- Countdown minus 50 seconds.
- — I said wait.

'I am ready, commander.

'Please, I will need
computer link-up.'

- — it's too late!
- Kano, link up!

Link up!

(Voyager) 'Prime directives
cannot be altered

'unless preceded by delete codes...'

(speeding up) 'Delete codes...
Delete codes...'

(Helena) Good luck.

(Rumbling and crashing)

(Rumbling stops)

'Eagle 5 to base.
Voyager 1 in descent position.'

'you gave me a chance, commander.

'I am very grateful.'

so am I, doctor.

'Where do you want voyager to land?'

launchpad four.

Alan, keep those eagles in position.

Paul, I want voyager ready
for boarding as soon as she lands.

All right, doctor,
you've done your work.

Come along, let me do mine.

The voyager's ready for boarding.

Stand down, eagle 5.

Those three alien ships
are still closing on us.

Alan, keep watching the alien ships.

Victor?

Doctor?

My former colleagues. (Chuckles)

We were all rather young at the time.

Quite safe, commander. No problems.

It really is very strange
to be back in here again.

As you can see, she was originally
designed to carry crews.

Much later, of course,

when man had developed techniques
for interstellar travel,

but for voyager it was not to be.

Well... where would you like to begin?

Professor, you should find
a really astonishing collection

of scientific information
in the databank here,

and also over there.
— (comlock bleeps)

'Commander?' — yes, Paul?

'We're picking up
magnetic activity inside voyager.'

oh, impossible.

(Crackling)

'Intensity building rapidly.'

John...

Who speaks for you?

I am John koenig,
commander of this colony.

John... koenig.

You are communicating with aarchon,

chief justifier
of the federated worlds of cydon.

What is your purpose here?

Are you citizens of the planet earth?

Correct.

Do you accept responsibility for the
primitive craft known as voyager 1?

On behalf of my people, yes.

Then your colony...

Together with your world...

Must bear the judgement of cydon.

Your craft, voyager 1,

intruded into the cydon worlds
of the outer galaxy.

The mission was a peaceful one!

False.

Contact was made
with two of our populated planets.

Your primitive craft was welcomed,
according to tradition.

Now, all life on those two worlds...

Is extinguished.

You came proclaiming peace,

and you wrought... destruction.

Only a debased culture
would perpetrate such genocide.

My people acted
with the best intentions.

The high council
of the federated worlds of cydon

has determined
it will not happen again.

We have followed
the primitive voyager 1.

As soon as we have located its source

the planet,
and all living things on it,

will be destroyed.

Revenge.

We do not recognise this concept.

We believe that revenge
sanctioned by authority

is also a sign of a debased culture.

The judgement of cydon
is unalterable.

Soon our fleet
will be in effective range.

Once we have located planet earth

your colony here
will be... extinguished.

My people have committed no crime.

We shall resist.

Be warned,

resistance will alter
only the manner of your destruction,

not the fact.

We can't wait like sitting ducks,
let's hit first.

From the look of those cydon ships,
I don't think much of our chances.

We're gonna give it a damn good try.

Alan, move eagles 4, 6 and 10
into intercept positions.

Yes, sir.

Oh... hello, dr Russell.

How do you feel?

Very upset.

Desperate, really.

All these years
believing I had helped to further

the boundaries of man's knowledge

and now this... this...

Catastrophe.

Doctor, many, many people have put
science before responsibility.

Yes, of course, I know that, but...

The responsibility
for what voyager did to the cydons

I must bear alone.

Two worlds made lifeless,
millions of people dead...

I had no wish to harm them,

to harm anyone.

They say the road to hell is...

Is paved with good intentions.

And the road to heaven too,
apparently.

Anyway, it's academic now.

Mm.

Well, John...

There it is.

That's the memory bank from voyager.

It's all there.

Planets, compositions,
life-support systems...

Packed with vital information.

Ironic that we might not
get the chance to use it.

If you were a betting man, John,
how would you figure the odds? 50/50?

Worse?

1,000 to 1.

Iguessed.

I'm not a betting man.
What we need is another chance.

I don't imagine aarchon's
going to give us that.

No.

Visual contact.

(Koenig) Range?

75,000.

Eagles 4, 6 and 10, as soon as
the cydon ships are in range, fire.

'We're ready.'

Sorry.

Please, Jim.

I know you are much stronger than I,

but do not try to stop me.

I'm not trying to stop you.

I'm coming with you.

No, Jim.

You must realise...

I have no choice.

I have to go.

And I have to go alone.

He's nowhere in the medical area.

(Sandra) 15,000.

Commander, the voyager!
It's taking off!

Linden.

'Linden, this is John koenig.

'Linden!

'Linden, do you read me?!'

what is he up to?

Range, 10,000.

The queller drive.

Signal from voyager 1.

Linden?

Commander koenig, activate
all Alpha screens to maximum.

We have no protection
against that drive!

Recall your eagles.

'They're all that stands
between us and the cydons!'

on the contrary, the one effective
thing between you and the cydons

is the queller drive.

He's cut off.

Range, 5,000.

All eagle weapons ready to fire.

Range, 3,000.

Range, 2,000.

Recall all eagles.

Eagles 4, 6 and 10, return to base.

- — But they're in range!
- Return to base.

'John koenig, you are wise to recall
your primitive fighting craft.

'In turn the manner of
your destruction will be merciful.'

aarchon, listen to me.

This is Ernst queller.

'I have been the creator
of the craft known as voyager 1.'

'what is the purpose of this,
John koenig?'

he is acting outside my authority.

'Your people have suffered greatly.'

therefore...

Punish me.

Do not condemn an entire world
for the mistake of one man.

'My purpose was
to unite a divided world.

'To reach out
in the name of science and humanity,

'to illuminate
the mysteries of space.'

to seek out other worlds...

And... offer the hand of friendship.

'There can be no discussion,
Ernst queller.'

aarchon, I have been guilty
of pride and arrogance,

it is I and I alone who am
responsible for what my voyager did.

'These other people...

'Are innocent.'

(aarchon) 'This plea is dismissed.

'John koenig, prepare to witness...

'The judgement of cydon.'

(queller) Then you, aarchon,
are no more worthy of life

than I am.

'John koenig, you have been warned.

'You do not appear to appreciate
that resistance is useless.'

(Silence)

Screens holding!

Linden's using the queller drive
in short bursts. Look at the cydons.

(Haynes) It's done its work.

Why, commander, why?

Good question.

You work with a man, you think you
know him, you come to respect him!

Suddenly...

You don't know him at all.

Only his name was changed.

The man...

The man was the same.

Look, haynes,
his sacrifice gave us a future.

His knowledge, hope.

Now somebody
has to carry on his work.

If you respected the man

don't let that sacrifice be a waste.

This is the memory bank
from the voyager.

Get to it.