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The outlook now is that solar systems are closer together in other parts of the galaxy or even universe so if we assume the moon has been displaced into that area of the cosmos then a new planet every other episode or two weeks is not out of order to understand.
The Meta thing is correct but understanding weekly television programmes of the seventies means that no episode can be connected to another outside of the first! I mean you could say that Ultima Thule, Retha, Ariel or any other blue planet the moon passes by could be Meta only that they have changed the name or code for said world. Depending of course on what ordering you use when watching the show...
JB
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Alpha Centauri which is 4.3 light years away from us was not the destination of the moon in this series (Go watch Lost in Space for that and perhaps the POTA tv series as well) the moonbase was preparing itself for a manned voyage to Meta, a rogue planet passing by the limits of our solar system and after Breakaway Koenig and Bergman both believed the moon would arrive within that vicinity in a matter of months. But as we know that didn't happen or if it did then maybe they renamed Meta Terra Nova and it must have changed it's colour too from blue to patchy red! The moon was dragged off course by many mishaps like a black sun and an ion storm (space warp) so they made it to many other systems and the dates were never confirmed only in Dragon's Domain, that is until the second series when dates were the in thing of the show!
JB
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Back in 1974/75 1999 was SO far off that we really did think we'd be living in a better, fairer society which was almost ready to thrust out into space with a permanent base on the moon with regular flights to and from the earth! How wrong we were...
JB
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No now I'm thinking Muffi Durham was the go-go dancer that Hutch liked in The Bounty Hunter and Victoria
Wells was the dark haired girl in the cage. I can't picture who Millie was either in The Committee?
I get that but it was too embarrassing to watch either!!!
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JB
I disliked this episode a lot. Shatner playing a horse and Nimoy with castanets is pure embarrassment! Though anyone who kisses Nichelle is a lucky bastard in my book!
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I personally loved it and still do!
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Well the humans that were thrust into the fiery maw of the Dragon were sort of incinerated by it and once the flesh, blood or energy was digested the husk was ejected! The webbing which also covered them not going unnoticed either.
Anton Zoref only pursued the Alphans in the corridors of the base while he looked human after he was hit by laser fire his body exploded and was reduced to a walking black ash zombie, which got up with orbs of powered light and headed straight for the nuclear generation area and walked straight into the energy core and caused the destruction of that part of the moonbase, afterwards we found out that Alpha had more than one station to generate power!
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JB
Apparently scientists have identified that star systems in other parts of the universe are much closer together than in our neighbourhood. This wasn't known back in 1975 but has added credence to the series! The moon did seem to be affected by the gravitational pull of the many different planets it passed by which may have added to it's speed or lack of! It did look like it was going into orbit around Zenno at one point (Peter Cushing's Raan's planet) but apart from that we've had a black sun which hurtled them to the otherside of the universe and the Another Time phenomenon which first sent them back to earth and later onto new horizons. In series 2 we learn of another incidental space warp before we see the moonbase and later a third one which hurled the moon five light years ahead but as to whether time was affected as well we don't know and finally Koenig detonated the waste dumps to change the course of the moon away from Tora in Seance Spectre and out into another direction although that was close to the end of the series!
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JB
I think more that the group of ships held together by the creature's psychic web move on their own carrying the monster with it. The moon had passed through a black sun and a time/space warp which perhaps catapulted it into the future. In Death's Other Dominion the Thulian's computer identified the year as 2870AD now that could mean that they were sent into the past if you believe the moon is still in 1999/2000 or if you have already seen Another Time/Another Place you can imagine the moon is now in the future where the graveyard of ships has been propelled too after nearly a thousand years too! Or did it too go through a space warp or even duplicated?
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