For what is
ostensibly an action orientated series aimed at a younger audience, `Black Sun`
is a surprising diversion. David Weir’s screenplay clearly draws from the hippy
mentality prevalent in late Sixties culture with its eventual message “everything
is everything else” and takes a refreshingly philosophical angle on a potential
disaster. Moonbase Alpha is being drawn into an enormous black Sun whose pull
is liable to destroy it. “We’ll all be dead in three days” is Commander
Koenig’s not exactly inspirational summary of the scenario. Victor Bergman
however has other ideas, scribbling and thinking his way to a plan involving a
forcefield that will use the base’s anti gravity towers as its tentpoles. “It
looks like fish scales” someone says improbably. If the first section of the
episode leans heavily on the hardware and mechanics that might save them,
matters become more interesting when other aspects are introduced.
