Mission of the
Darians
An episode that
treads in well worn tv sci-fi footsteps, Johnny Byrne’s story paces to a slow
reveal meaning its heavy going for the watcher. The Alphans encounter a huge
city in space emitting an emergency call for help. Inside the vast place the
mission crew variously discover two separate scenarios. As Koenig and Bergman
chat to Joan Collins and learn of a race on a centuries long mission to find a
new planet, Helena encounters the somewhat larger, hairier and sacrifice types
who inhabit level 7. You can sort of see what’s coming though Byrne laces his
script with some nasty incidents. These level seveners, led by a hysterically
hammy Aubrey Morris in eye popping splendour, fillet out mutants and put them
in a box that kills them with noise. Judging from the looks of the tribe that
noise is Black Sabbath at maximum decibels.
