This is one of the few (if only times you see Maya's darker side.
Personally I was expecting a cat-fight any time.
And as for Alan, talk about smitten.
If I'd been Maya I'd have ripped some of those turkey feathers off Sahala's dress and crammed them down her throat...
And poor Alan -- why is it he never got a romance? I think he and Sahn should have gotten together. Oh wait...no, not Sahn...everybody she fooled around with got blown up.
I must admit that this is one of year 2's better episodes.
You can see both Maya's and Sahala's points of view, and you're not really sure who is right.
It could just have been a matter of perception.
FINALLY Alan Carter meets a woman who doesn't die of some inexplicable temporal paradox involving brain damage! FINALLY someone other than John/Helena and Tony/Maya has a shot at a relationship, and we see it develop, not just materialize out of thin air for the sake of the script (Ahem, Sandra in "Full Circle"?)Sure, it WAS fast (for a one-hour episode) but it was handled well. So, she has to leave at the end, but, hey, that's life in the big galaxy for a heroic astronaut-wanderer. Alan did no worse than James T. Kirk (and actually did better--he seemed to be genuinely attracted to Sahala, not just interested in a one-nighter in the back of the Eagle).
Where was Martin Landau when this show was shot and how come no one seems to notice he's missing?
This was one of the so-called "double up" episodes. At the same time as they were filming this one they were filming "Devil's Planet," which you will note contained no new footage of Bain, Anholt, and Schell, just some flashback shots when Koenig's memories are being scanned, and an opening status report voiceover from Doctor Russell. At least with "Dorzak" they explain Koenig's absense with a line about how he's off checking some asteroids as a possible home. In "Devil's Planet" there's zip indication where Tony, Maya, Helena, and for that matter Alan Carter, have disappeared to.
Message to Tim Gueguen - as I am aware you are a collector of 1999 memorabilia and original props, I wonder where I might get a replica of the S2 Command Center style jackets??? Please email me personally if possible.
Yasko returns! Whooooooo!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, Dorzak is one of Year 2's better episodes. Although Sahala appears the innocent party, we only see her story from her point of view at first, so it might be skewed. Maya, the viewers assume has no reason to lie about her mentor, and she has no knowledge of the depths to which he has sunk.
Poor Maya must be really ticked off wondering what the rest of the Galaxy thinks about the Pyschon race, and she hasn't even met the Dorcons at this point yet.
When Alan takes the gun from Sahala, for about thirty seconds he's holding it upside down - and pointing at himself! (Or maybe he was getting dismayed at the way the series was going and hoped it might accidentally go off...)
The obvious nit in this episode is that the interior of the Croton ship is too large for the diameter of the model. Obviously Brian Johnson and model builder Martin Bower weren't given much indication of what the set was actually going to be like. Then again this is a common problem with all sorts of series.
When describing the Moon and its people the Croton computer makes the peculiar statement "Their culture is primitive, being bound by the laws of the ancient continent." One can only stratch one's head and wonder what "ancient continent" its talking about. One on Norvah? The actor doing the voice over would later do the opening narrations for the 1999 "films" Destination Moonbase Alpha and Alien Attack.
It doesn't surprise me that Clea was influenced by Dorzak. She doesn't look like the smartest tool in the shed. But why remove the implant if she was in love with Dorzak? Being a simple jammer it wouldn't stop one behaving of one's free will. Unless of course she had somehow been given a suggestion by Dorzak somehow to do so before it was implanted so he could later control her.
Dorzak reminded me a bit of Count Baltor from Battlestar Galatica. Lee Montague and John Colicos looked a bit similar. Its too bad Colicos never turned up on 1999.
dat dorzak fella got funny eyebrows, just like dat Maya chick!
some hot chickies in this one. I can see why Alan got the itchies.
Dorzak is such a bore that could use some Prozak to speed things up.
Yasko!!!! Yeah!! That Clea woman was only a slightly better actress....
How did the Croton computer know that the Moon was from Earth? Was the Croton civilization aware of Earth?
Glad to see Alan getting a little action.
...not much though, just an innocent kiss.
Why would Koenig investigate mere asteroids for possible colonization? Asteroids could never maintain an astmosphere, so why exchange a huge airless rock like the Moon for a much smaller airless rock?
Sahala's ship was so impractically-designed as was her clothing. Obviously her people liked to maintain a down-home normality, rather than functionality.
One other obvious nit of this story is the complete lack of Sahala offering the Alphans a new home on Norvah, her home planet or Kroton or whatever planet her Federation is from. Instead it's just, "Okay, seeya! Nice visiting your aimless rock! Don't bother asking for help."
It's like a yacht of people visited Gilligan's Island, had a little adventure, and left without the castmates, who didn't even ask the owners of the yacht to rescue them.
Why would Koenig investigate mere asteroids for possible colonization? Asteroids could never maintain an astmosphere, so why exchange a huge airless rock like the Moon for a much smaller airless rock?
Lame, I know. However, they had to remove Koenig from the script, because Martin Landau was not available when this episode was shot (he was shooting Devil's Planet at this time).