Considering the situation they find themselves in, they should probably call it Deep Space 1999. 
New Space 1999
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I'd base a remake on Season 1 but include some season 2 characters as well. I think it would work as a mini-series or a one-season effort with a beginning and an end. Episodes MUST feature the Black Sun, the alternate reality world, Dragons Domain, and some kind of arc that ties the season-long story together. Must have 2001-ish production design. Must NOT be called "Space:1999" (just sounds dorky by today's standards) Keep the Eagles, include Hawks as well. Commissioner Simmons MUST be in as a constant foil to Koenig. Have Commander Gorsky get stuck on the base and become Koenig's junior man who is constantly trying to redeem himself. Stunt cast Alan Carter (he's got to be way awesome) Also, I'd get Martin Landau to play Bergman. I'll think of more.
I think you could use the basic premise/idea from that one Stephen Baxter Manifold book (Exact title escapes me, sorry!), where the Moon gets swapped from universe to universe, while that universe's Moon replacing it.
You could spend several episodes between "swaps" showing how both sides (Earth and 'Moonbase Alpha' Moon) adapt to the new universe/environment.
Make such swappings seemingly random at first, but have an overall story arc behind why it's happening...
Cheers,
-CM-
You could spend several episodes between "swaps" showing how both sides (Earth and 'Moonbase Alpha' Moon) adapt to the new universe/environment.
Make such swappings seemingly random at first, but have an overall story arc behind why it's happening...
Cheers,
-CM-
In the first season episode "Death's Other Dominion", the lunar castaways learned that the Earth year was 2870. Then, in Season Two's "Journey to Where" the Earth year was given (contradictorily) as 2120. Yet they continued to bill the show as "Space: 1999".
Turns out that the moon is an alien spacecraft...
You're trying to rationalize something that's mystical and inexplicable. That's the whole ethos of the show.
This was in the original show. They discover in the final episode of series 1 (well, that's the only series really...
) that there was a purpose behind everything that happened to them. It seems it was no accident. But who can know for certain?
I think they're hardly likely to have changed the name of the show every week as time went on. Throughout the second series, for instance, they tell you how many days they've been adrift in space - the final episode is set quite clearly (from the Alphan's point of view) in 2006. But they've been through who knows how many time and space warps by then, so no one knows what the relative time might be on Earth.
But there's no real contradiction in the dates you mention. In Death's other Dominion, it's only 2870 for the people on Ultima Thule. Victor can only speculate that "either they or we must have been through some kind of time warp".
Then they editted The Bringers of Wonder into the telemovie "Destination Moonbase Alpha" and the opening narration includes the line "the year is 2199"
You're trying to rationalize something that's mystical and inexplicable. That's the whole ethos of the show.
This was in the original show. They discover in the final episode of series 1 (well, that's the only series really...
I see. If they were to reboot and this idea of a higher power is doing everything (like not making the moon explode) that would probably have to be strongly hinted at in the pilot. I don't think they could wait.
That would be a shame. The slow build of the mystery is one of the great things about the series, starting with the questions of why they weren't destroyed by the explosion (oh yes, the question is directly addressed - not that they know the answer) - then the discovery that their course is in some way pre-destined - leading to the final revelation of why they've been cast adrift in the cosmos. (And even then, they can only speculate - it's all suggestion and supposition. Explain a great mystery like that, and the show just becomes mundane and ordinary, not strange and mythical.) Powerful stuff.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
My idea for a Space 1999 movie is this:
It's no longer set on the moon, but on a L-5 colony between Earth and the moon, and it's a spherical shaped L-5 station (there are already several of these in orbit, as well as space stations; the moon has been colonized, and Mars is in the process of being explored as well.) This L-5, called Alpha-1, has a slight spaceflight capacity, and is powered by a fusion reactor and ion reactor working in tandem as a result (kind of like deturium and dilithum being used together to provide power for Starfleet ships on Star Trek.) The Meta probe is being launched from Alpha-1 as the movie begins, and Jane Koenig (Juliet Landau) is in charge of the project. On hand as well is Victoria Bergman (Sharon Stone), a genius scientist, and Medical Section head Harold Russel (Alan Tudyk), whose wife Mary is one of the pilots of the Meta Probe ship (coincidentally powered by the same fusion/ion hybrid reactor as Alpha-1!) However, the crew of the ship is incapacitated by a virus (in reality radiation-induced cerebral cancer that's possibly caused by the magnetic radiation from the hybrid fusion/ion reactor, but no one has been able to figure this out).
On September 13, 2099, a freak mishap in the ship's computers caused by the same magnetic radiation, itself caused by the transmission from Meta, causes Alpha-1 to power up it's engines and leave Earth-Moon orbit, due to a false positive statement about the hybrid fusion/ion reactor going critical and becoming a threat to Earth if it crashes there. The colony manages to exceed the speed of light, leaving the Sol System completely behind; when control is regained, the personnel of Alpha-1 find that they are hopelessly lost in space, and have no way of getting back as the computer memory cores of Alpha-1-which has all of the knowledge of astronomy from years of study due to the Hubble Space telescope-are scrambled and will have to be rebuilt (even though the hybrid fusion/ion reactor has become a type of FTL drive that can theoretically take them anywhere in the galaxy!) As with the original, there have been casualties, with about half of the pilots of the Eagles dead as well as some of the personnel who were vented into space due to breaches. Amazingly enough, the Meta Probe ship is still anchored to Alpha-1 and is still working, and a set of functioning Eagles (plus a squadron of Mark IV Hawks!) is on-board the station, as well as a functioning dry dock where new ships can be built if needed!
But the people/crew of Alpha-1 are still lost....
Cast:
Have I got a great idea, or what?
It's no longer set on the moon, but on a L-5 colony between Earth and the moon, and it's a spherical shaped L-5 station (there are already several of these in orbit, as well as space stations; the moon has been colonized, and Mars is in the process of being explored as well.) This L-5, called Alpha-1, has a slight spaceflight capacity, and is powered by a fusion reactor and ion reactor working in tandem as a result (kind of like deturium and dilithum being used together to provide power for Starfleet ships on Star Trek.) The Meta probe is being launched from Alpha-1 as the movie begins, and Jane Koenig (Juliet Landau) is in charge of the project. On hand as well is Victoria Bergman (Sharon Stone), a genius scientist, and Medical Section head Harold Russel (Alan Tudyk), whose wife Mary is one of the pilots of the Meta Probe ship (coincidentally powered by the same fusion/ion hybrid reactor as Alpha-1!) However, the crew of the ship is incapacitated by a virus (in reality radiation-induced cerebral cancer that's possibly caused by the magnetic radiation from the hybrid fusion/ion reactor, but no one has been able to figure this out).
On September 13, 2099, a freak mishap in the ship's computers caused by the same magnetic radiation, itself caused by the transmission from Meta, causes Alpha-1 to power up it's engines and leave Earth-Moon orbit, due to a false positive statement about the hybrid fusion/ion reactor going critical and becoming a threat to Earth if it crashes there. The colony manages to exceed the speed of light, leaving the Sol System completely behind; when control is regained, the personnel of Alpha-1 find that they are hopelessly lost in space, and have no way of getting back as the computer memory cores of Alpha-1-which has all of the knowledge of astronomy from years of study due to the Hubble Space telescope-are scrambled and will have to be rebuilt (even though the hybrid fusion/ion reactor has become a type of FTL drive that can theoretically take them anywhere in the galaxy!) As with the original, there have been casualties, with about half of the pilots of the Eagles dead as well as some of the personnel who were vented into space due to breaches. Amazingly enough, the Meta Probe ship is still anchored to Alpha-1 and is still working, and a set of functioning Eagles (plus a squadron of Mark IV Hawks!) is on-board the station, as well as a functioning dry dock where new ships can be built if needed!
But the people/crew of Alpha-1 are still lost....
Cast:
- Juliet Landau-Commander Jane Koenig
- Sharon Stone-Victoria Bergman
- Alan Tudyk-Harold Russel
- Alicia Carter-Katee Sackoff
- Paul Morrow-Dominic Keating
- Director-J.J. Abrams
- Writers-Orci & Kurtzman
Have I got a great idea, or what?
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I'm not saying explain the mystery in the pilot, but suggest there IS a mystery in the pilot.
I like this idea. It makes more sense than the Moon careening off into space.
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