There's great moment in this ep, in Anderson's interrogation scene:
Foster : What were you doing in that dome?
Anderson : What dome?
Straker : The dome we saw you in, we saw you in that dome!
and later
Straker : There's only one way to find out what's in that d a m n dome!
ah the episode with the magical scence where 3 interceptors armed with 1 missle each managed tio break all laws of the world and fire 4 missles :D and leave the other 21 to the pair ofrocket launchers, one of which goes KABLAMO and the destruction of the other one is cut out from the stock footage (very clever):D
also the fact that sky 1 had to technically defeat all 25 ufo's in the first wave single handedly (unless sky's 2, 3 and 4 came to the rescue and we were not told ;P)
Mesthinks it's a bit OTT
Theres also supposedly more than one SKydiver, and more than three Interceptors, at least four, but SHADO leaves everything up to Captain Minto and Captain Nameless (who I'm sure was sure banged his head as he launched from Skydiver)
After hearing the Ghost Ship theme in The Psycobombs over and over and over again they decided to bring it back for this episode, but they only used it once this time
The scene at the end where the Skydiver Captain takes a message from SHADO Control to launch and destroy a wave of UFOs doesn't look right to me - it looks rushed. First, he hangs up the phone and makes like he's pressing a switch, then he runs to the chute and dives in - without putting his helmet on! It looks as if he's just realised this as his hands go to his head. Whenever I see it I feel like screaming "CUT! DO IT AGAIN!" And what happened to the "Launch Stations" procedures shown in the first episode?
I had a problem with Staker and Foster being able to enter the alien dome simply through pressure. On the bottom of the sea, the pressure per square inch just from the sea would be much greater. Why wouldn't the sea come crashing in?
This was made far before the idea of digitally recreating SHADO was imagined. That would certainly be easier for the aliens.
Otherwise, another fine episode.
What happened to Straker's claustrophobia from Sub-Smash?
Escape hatch 3, which could only allow one person to use it in Sub-Smash, allows Straker & Foster to use it at the same time.
Sure was lucky for the aliens that Straker & Foster saw the Anderson lookalike instead of someone that would have a more solid alibi. Almost as if the aliens KNEW Straker & Foster were out there & purposely used the guy who was off-duty.
That computer sure seemed to have a human personality.
Escape hatch 3, which could only allow one person to use it in Sub-Smash, allows Straker & Foster to use it at the same time.
Perhaps the events of Sub-Smash caused a redesign and upgrade of the escape hatches on SkyDiver.
I should hope so. ;-)
I wonder if they fixed the tube so someone inside could control opening it rather than staying trapped?
I guess we have to assume that these are aliens surgically-altered to look like the SHADO people, and not clones or androids.
If I were Straker, I'd be seriously wound-up about the alien's ability to not only replicate faces and voices, but the very control room / heart of SHADO down to the tee.
How'd they do that? Is there a spy in their midst giving them such data?
That freighter at the beginning sure took a lot of alien hits before it went down...
otherwise, a well-plotted, well-done episode I thought.
Tough little ship.
ah. Reference noted.
I beg your pardon?
Deep Space 9 reference. Perhaps unintentional.
Probably subliminal.
I liked this episode since I was a younger viewer because it got Straker out of the control room, and in a Captain Kirk-type of fight-- something I tended to like in my younger years, along with the spaceship models, more than the drama and actual story line.
"Tough little ship" would actually refer to Star Trek: First Contact.
Yeah, I remember that line.
"Little?!"
lol
Of course, this show aired decades before that.
By "reference", I was referring to Tim.
Yeah, I know.