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The Starship Marco Polo -

one of the international space administrations interstellar research ships

On its way back from accomplished missions on the planet Rossum

Rossum orbits around Barnards star...

...which is located about 5.9 light years from earth in the constellation Ophiuchus

The starship accelerates to hyperspeed travel

In this phase, control is entierly in the hands of the ships central computer

Due to the long travel time, the crew is in supervised hibernation

Suddenly the suveylance monitors malfunctions

The cause of the malfunction is discovered shortly after wake-up...

...and it turns out to be due to a faulty camera

Going through recordings from the hibernation period...

...the crew discovers that a humanoid creature...

...had materialized in the storage room

I refuse to believe it

- A Stowaway? - Looks like it

The search for the stowaway is at first attempt fruitless...

...and is interrupted by a violent shaking aboard the Marco Polo

A foreign object impacts against the force field around the star ship

We were promised the trajectory would be completely free of hindrances

Look!

Meteorite my ass

A spaceship?

What will they do about the foreign spaceship?

- Are you suggestion that we blow up the ship? - Yes indeed

- Before we have explored it? - That ship has to go

Who has used the garbage disposer?

Jason discovers the garbage disposer has been used during hibernation

By comparing the trashed contents...

...with Gaias finding of organical molecules in the storage room...

...it becomes clear that there is a biomate aboard the ship

A biomate? What's that?

It's an artificial human...

...constructed by programmed molecules

The biomate has killed one of the crew...

...forced the body through the garbage disposer, and taken the victims place

So, who is it

Who among us?

Leda is unaware of these findings

She goes over to the foreign ship by herself

She finds the inner airlock to be open

close to the entrace she finds one of the three crew members

The spaceman holds a medallion in his hand which Leda brings back

And this is how the last episode ended

...a starship

Judging from the equipment ...

... it's only ment to be used within ...

... a single solar system

The section for films presents:

Elis - Maintainer of the eco-systems

Leda - Physisist / machine operator

Gaia - Biologist maintaining the bio-systems

Akeron - Maintainer of the computer systems

Jason - Sociologist / Linguist

The Stowaway

Science fiction story by Bing and Bringsværd

Directed by Stein-Roger Bull