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War of the Satellites is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction drama film produced and directed by Roger Corman and starring Richard Devon, Dick Miller, and Susan Cabot. The low-budget feature was rapidly conceived, filmed and released to exploit the international media frenzy around the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite, the first in space.
Storyline:
An `unknown force' declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
Project Sigma has been trying to launch manned satellites but each of the satellites is being destroyed as they hit an invisible energy barrier in orbit. A cylinder lands and is found to contain a message written in Latin warning that humanity must be prevented from reaching out into space. If they continue Earth will suffer total annihilation.
Credits:
Dick Miller as Dave Boyer
Susan Cabot as Sybil Carrington
Richard Devon as Dr. Pol Van Ponder
Eric Sinclair as Dr. Howard Lazar
Michael Fox as Jason ibn Akad
Robert Shayne as Cole Hotchkiss
Jered Barclay as John Compo (credited as Jerry Barclay)
John Brinkley as Crew Member
Storyline:
An `unknown force' declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
Project Sigma has been trying to launch manned satellites but each of the satellites is being destroyed as they hit an invisible energy barrier in orbit. A cylinder lands and is found to contain a message written in Latin warning that humanity must be prevented from reaching out into space. If they continue Earth will suffer total annihilation.
Credits:
Dick Miller as Dave Boyer
Susan Cabot as Sybil Carrington
Richard Devon as Dr. Pol Van Ponder
Eric Sinclair as Dr. Howard Lazar
Michael Fox as Jason ibn Akad
Robert Shayne as Cole Hotchkiss
Jered Barclay as John Compo (credited as Jerry Barclay)
John Brinkley as Crew Member
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Short filmTranscript
00:01:59How much longer?
00:02:01Very soon now.
00:02:03Why do we watch?
00:02:05Patience, Mr. Lemoyne.
00:02:06We must give the good doctor the benefit of every doubt.
00:02:10And you must admit that we have done that up to now.
00:02:13Yes, Mr. Larkin.
00:02:14I must admit that.
00:02:16Let me see now, this is nine times a half a billion dollars, and this will make ten.
00:02:23It's still in its orbit, Mr. Arcott.
00:02:25For the moment.
00:02:27Miss Carrington, what is your opinion?
00:02:33I correlate observed data, Mr. Arcott.
00:02:36I make no predictions.
00:02:38Well, I make a prediction.
00:02:40All those men in that satellite will die, as have all the others.
00:02:45And when they do, your project comes to an end, doctor.
00:02:50Satellite is approaching the critical area.
00:02:59There it is, the barrier.
00:03:00It's forming again.
00:03:01Get through it.
00:03:05Get through it.
00:03:07Get through it.
00:03:09Get through it.
00:03:11Oh, my God.
00:03:42I am truly sorry, Dr. Van Ponder.
00:03:48What is it that destroys every manned satellite we launch?
00:03:54I don't know.
00:03:58I just don't know.
00:04:00And yet you propose to follow this tenth failure with another attempt,
00:04:04using more of your volunteers?
00:04:09No matter how many times we fail, Mr. Arkad,
00:04:12we'll continue until we succeed.
00:04:15Human beings are not guinea pigs.
00:04:17I warn you, doctor,
00:04:19I shall fight you on the floor of the council all the way.
00:04:22We've seen enough.
00:04:38Are you still cold, baby?
00:04:40Yeah, but I'm getting warmer every second.
00:04:42Bing, bing, bing, bing.
00:04:44Hey, listen, doll.
00:04:45They're playing our song.
00:04:47Yeah.
00:04:47I don't take the arrangement.
00:04:49Yeah, I see what you mean.
00:04:50Too many violins.
00:04:52Change the station.
00:04:53Maybe we can get somebody else's disc.
00:04:55All right.
00:04:55Don't move.
00:04:56I'll be right back.
00:05:01A shooting star?
00:05:02Oh, darling, you're so romantic.
00:05:05Make a wish.
00:05:06That's no shooting star.
00:05:08Can't be spot, Nick.
00:05:10It's not listed in the TV Guide.
00:05:12Oh, wow.
00:05:14Something is flipping around here.
00:05:16Yes, and it's my top.
00:05:20Who'd say that?
00:05:22I really am scared.
00:05:30Did you hear something?
00:05:32Yeah.
00:05:33My elastic just snapped.
00:05:35No, besides that, idiot.
00:05:38Go see what it is.
00:05:41Well, uh, go ahead.
00:05:45Well, you're not scared, are you?
00:06:09Hey, Mitch, come get a load of this.
00:06:12All right.
00:06:13But I hope you know what you're doing.
00:06:15You know, you flunked chemistry twice.
00:06:26What do I do now?
00:06:28I don't know, but make it snappy.
00:06:30We're double parked.
00:06:43Well, don't just stand there.
00:06:44Who's the three-letter man around here?
00:06:57As nationum, unitum, planetae.
00:07:09To the United Nations of the third planet of minor luminary Sol,
00:07:14called by the inhabitants there of the Earth.
00:07:17Attention.
00:07:19We, the masters of the spiral nebula Ghana,
00:07:22have been observing your actions.
00:07:24Understand, Earthlings, that we look with disfavor upon your persistent efforts
00:07:28to depart from your own planet and infest other areas of the universe.
00:07:32We have therefore set up quarantine measures to ensure
00:07:35that this contamination shall not be allowed to spread.
00:07:38We shall frustrate your every attempt in the future,
00:07:41as we have those in the past.
00:07:43Knowing that Earthlings are equipped with rudimentary reflex-type intelligence,
00:07:47we are taking this means of conveying our command
00:07:50that all such efforts to expand and depart from the infected planet Earth
00:07:54shall, from this moment, be stopped.
00:07:58Mr. President.
00:08:00Mr. President.
00:08:02Mr. President.
00:08:05Mr. President.
00:08:06The chair recognizes the honorable member from the United States.
00:08:13Mr. President.
00:08:15Honorable delegates to the General Assembly.
00:08:18I speak for all men everywhere when I say that this alien intelligence is wrong.
00:08:24That man cannot be dismissed as a disease or as a growth that infects our planet.
00:08:31Our hopes, our aspirations lead us to the stars.
00:08:37And no other race has the right to judge us or to deny us that journey.
00:08:42What do you make of the space message, Dr. Von Ponder?
00:08:46You think it's a hoax?
00:08:46Gentlemen, gentlemen, ladies, please.
00:08:50Now, I'd be a little less than frank with you
00:08:52if I didn't admit that whatever I might say is only an opinion.
00:08:55Well, Dr., why was this message in Latin?
00:08:57Does it mean an end to Project Sigma?
00:08:58The fact that the message was in Latin causes me to believe it's a hoax.
00:09:03There are those who would like to see our rocket program abandoned.
00:09:07However, as for Project Sigma, it most assured they will proceed.
00:09:11Then you'll ask for new volunteers.
00:09:13You think you'll get a crew?
00:09:14Well, there's an old saying.
00:09:16If you just want something, send someone for it.
00:09:20But if you really want it, go yourself.
00:09:23Then you go up yourself?
00:09:24Lockhart calls it a suicide mission.
00:09:26I won't ask anyone to take a risk I wouldn't take myself.
00:09:30I mean to captain my own ship.
00:09:31Captain your own ship?
00:09:33Isn't this very dangerous, sir?
00:09:34And now, gentlemen, and ladies, if you'll excuse me,
00:09:38I have an appointment with some components.
00:09:48I'm going with him.
00:09:51Well, I guess that makes me a volunteer also.
00:09:58You really started something this time, Doctor.
00:10:01I think you're right.
00:10:03Well, thank you.
00:10:04But I'm not at all certain I am right.
00:10:06But if this thing is a hoax and you can prove it...
00:10:08I didn't say I could prove it, Dave.
00:10:10I said there was evidence.
00:10:12Unfortunately, there's just as much evidence the other way.
00:10:15Like what?
00:10:17Well, ever since the capsule landed, we've been working on it.
00:10:21The metal container itself defies analysis.
00:10:24It's harder than anything we've yet been able to devise.
00:10:27And it has a fantastic thermal resistance.
00:10:30Well, I didn't know that.
00:10:32I haven't seen all the reports yet.
00:10:34Oh, yes.
00:10:35And consider the method of communication.
00:10:37Now, this is something.
00:10:39Telepathically geared to the human mind,
00:10:42one merely thinks the word message
00:10:43and it appears.
00:10:45Stop thinking and it goes blank again.
00:10:48Curious about the Latin.
00:10:50Well, why not Latin?
00:10:51Once it was understood throughout the civilized world.
00:10:54Perhaps they think it still is.
00:10:56Well, the whole thing is still a little hard to swallow.
00:10:59Well, Dave, not so many years back,
00:11:01space travel itself was a little hard to swallow.
00:11:05Oh.
00:11:16contexts neutralized world.
00:11:17Well, that's a little hard to swallow.
00:11:30Well, they're coming to mind that world and a govern saying,
00:11:31well, look, what's going to do?
00:11:31Well, if you look to the people you're having to take it,
00:11:33well, look, how old the world is.
00:11:34Well, he thinks it's a little hard to fetch.
00:11:35So much to wieleness is out.
00:11:35Well, no, no.
00:11:36Well, you're moving forward.
00:12:09I've calculated the figures
00:12:11for the Doppler effect at the speeds we'll be traveling.
00:12:14I want the figures all the way up to the speed of light.
00:12:17We can't put the solar reactors through a full test here on Earth.
00:12:22But if they reach optimum efficiency in space,
00:12:26we'll be the first to achieve photon propulsion.
00:12:30But, Van, that would mean...
00:12:36Dr. Van Ponder's office.
00:12:40Mr. Hodgkiss.
00:12:42He sounds worried.
00:12:46Yes, Hodg?
00:12:47It's Arkad in his crowd, Van.
00:12:49They're reviving the whole suicide issue in the council.
00:12:51They're beginning to play it pretty rough.
00:12:53You better get down here in a hurry.
00:12:54I'll get there as fast as I can.
00:12:58I have to be at the United Nations.
00:13:01Extend this series and I'll check it tomorrow.
00:13:02No, I don't know.
00:13:11Go, sir!
00:13:11Go, lad.
00:13:12I'll go!
00:13:15Go, lad.
00:13:19Go, lad.
00:13:23Go, lad.
00:13:25Go, lad.
00:13:29Go!
00:13:31Go, lad!
00:13:31Go, lad!
00:13:32Go, lad.
00:13:32No, no, no!
00:14:14And so, Mr. President, even at this late hour, and after millions have been poured down the drain in this
00:14:20insane project, it is not too late to reconsider.
00:14:25Something greater than money is at stake.
00:14:29The lives of the fine young people who have been deceived into believing they would travel into outer space.
00:14:36Mr. President, I apologize to the honorable delegate for interrupting, but his speech is no longer necessary.
00:14:47Dr. Van Ponder, without whom Project Sigma cannot proceed, Dr. Van Ponder was killed in an automobile accident while on
00:15:00his way to this forum.
00:15:08Mr. President, I extend my condolences to the delegates from the United States, but now there can be no further
00:15:16reason to delay passage of my motion to suspend payment of funds to Project Sigma immediately!
00:15:44I hope I never live through another moment like that again, Van. Getting that message, the shock of seeing you
00:15:50in the doorway.
00:15:51Mr. President, risen from the dead like that, it's almost a miracle.
00:15:56As I explained, the officer was mistaken.
00:16:00Well, miracle or no miracle, it certainly worked like a charm.
00:16:03It pulled the slats right out from under old Lockard.
00:16:06If I didn't know you better, I'd say you planned it yourself.
00:16:10But if you'll excuse me, Hotch, I have some charts to prepare.
00:16:14I do hope you don't mind my using your office.
00:16:18Not at all, not at all.
00:16:19Uh, make yourself comfortable.
00:16:30... would be a very serious matter at home and abroad.
00:16:34There was consternation in the United Nations Assembly when Dr. Van Ponder appeared dramatically after his death had been announced
00:16:41to the Assembly.
00:16:42Upon his appearance, the delegates cheered Dr. Van Ponder to the rafters, then proceeded to vote unlimited funds for Project
00:16:50Sigma.
00:17:17They proceed with their plans.
00:17:20...
00:17:21Our warning did not deter them.
00:17:24I propose a stronger warning.
00:17:34Come in.
00:17:37Excuse me, Van.
00:17:38I...
00:17:38Oh, I thought I heard you talking to somebody.
00:17:41No, dear.
00:17:42I'm quite alone.
00:17:43I was wondering if I could ask you a question.
00:17:45Personal.
00:17:47Certainly.
00:17:48Sit down.
00:17:51What's on your mind?
00:17:53It's about Sybil.
00:17:54Miss Carrington?
00:17:56She volunteered for this job, Van, because she has great admiration for you.
00:18:00And the faith that you'll probably succeed where the others have failed.
00:18:04But you and I know what our chances of returning are.
00:18:07Do you agree with our card?
00:18:09That it's a suicide mission?
00:18:11I didn't say that.
00:18:13If I did, I wouldn't be here.
00:18:15But I know that danger's involved, and I think you should order Sybil to stay behind.
00:18:18Miss Carrington is a very intelligent young woman.
00:18:21Quite capable of reaching her own decisions.
00:18:25Doctor, turn on the radio quickly.
00:18:33Fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions in unheard of numbers bursting out all over the world.
00:18:38Foreign Minister Slurdoff first accused the United States of triggering the fires that broke out in his country by nuclear
00:18:44means.
00:18:45Until convinced that similar holocausts were occurring without visible cause through this and other nations as well.
00:18:51There have been suggestions that these disasters are a follow-up of the warning purporting to come from outer space.
00:18:57From hostile beings on a distant nebula who demanded that humans desist from attempts at space travel.
00:19:03The strange message was dismissed as a hoax by the United Nations Security Council at the time,
00:19:08but many responsible persons believed that it should have been taken seriously.
00:19:12Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen.
00:19:14A bulletin has been handed me.
00:19:17Reports are coming in thick and fast of wheat and cornfields destroyed, ships sunk, all occurring at the same instant.
00:19:23This is a bulletin.
00:19:24There can be no question of coincidence here.
00:19:27These terrible events are purposeful and directed.
00:19:32Hello?
00:19:34Yes, Hodge.
00:19:36Yes, we've been listening.
00:19:38Well, what can we do?
00:19:41We've got to quit.
00:19:44I know it's disappointing.
00:19:46How do you think I feel?
00:19:50Yes, I know.
00:19:51But we can't fight this.
00:19:55Yes.
00:19:57Dave Boyer is here with me now.
00:20:00I'll send him over with a statement you can read on the floor.
00:20:04Goodbye.
00:20:07And you're not giving up.
00:20:08We're up against a race of beings whose intelligence is as ours to ants and bacteria.
00:20:14We have the choice of continuing to exist under whatever conditions they may name.
00:20:19Or a being exterminated.
00:20:21It's that simple.
00:20:25Civil.
00:20:26I want you to type this up immediately.
00:20:32Intowerable.
00:20:33Well, I guess that puts the wraps on Sigma.
00:20:35And to think that Van should have to plunge the knife.
00:20:40I'll let Stevens give the report.
00:20:42I haven't got the heart for it.
00:20:43I'm sick.
00:20:51The honorable delegates will recall how my colleagues and I warned of the dire consequences if we ignore this ultimatum.
00:20:59We are obviously in the grip of a force stronger than we can oppose.
00:21:05I noticed that the delegate from the United States has chosen not to be present.
00:21:12Well, Mr. United States delegate, don't you agree that we must immediately give up this insane project as a matter
00:21:19of pure naked survival?
00:21:21The delegate from the United States sends us apologies for his unfortunate absence from this important meeting.
00:21:27But he sent me here with a message that expresses not only his views, but the views of Dr. Van
00:21:31Ponda, head of Project Sigma.
00:21:35The delegate has spoken of naked survival.
00:21:39Gentlemen, you do not survive by abject surrender.
00:21:43Nations and worlds must fight for survival.
00:21:45If we give in now, let down our defenses, give this alien planet full control over our actions and our
00:21:52lives for mere survival, won't they decide to take even that away from us?
00:21:55Now the gentlemen here ask themselves why these aliens are so concerned that we do not penetrate the Sigma barrier.
00:22:02Isn't it peculiar that this action alone excites them to retaliation?
00:22:06They consider us a danger to them if we break out of quarantine, as they so tactfully put it.
00:22:11They haven't even bothered to find out whether our motives are peaceful or not.
00:22:15They don't know that we would collaborate and share knowledge, greet them as equal partners in the universe.
00:22:20But we can't show them this by surrendering.
00:22:23No, it is precisely because they do not wish us to travel the skies that we must do so.
00:22:29Gentlemen, we must proceed with Project Sigma at all costs.
00:22:48And what looked like certain defeat for Project Sigma was turned into a brilliant vindication by the impassioned
00:22:54address of an emissary representing both Delegate Hotchkiss and Dr. Van Ponder.
00:23:06Radiation density at 1,500 miles, 10 to the minus 27.
00:23:112,000 miles, 10 to the minus 30.
00:23:152,500 miles.
00:23:17Doctor, how did you get here?
00:23:19We've been sweating it out here for the past three hours.
00:23:22Well, that's funny because I could have sworn I just saw you over the proving ground.
00:23:26I guess the pace is getting too much for you, Johnny.
00:23:29The eyes go first.
00:23:31Van here will probably be next. He's been working like twins.
00:23:34Triplets is more like it.
00:23:36Oh, I just came to tell Dave that the new solenoids have arrived.
00:23:39We're testing them now.
00:23:41Okay, Johnny. I'll check them later.
00:23:45You know, Van, I would have sworn you'd take my head off of that stunt I pulled at the Security
00:23:48Council.
00:23:49On the contrary, Dave, I should thank you.
00:23:53I don't know what got into me to give way as I did.
00:23:56I'm in your debt for saving Project Sigma.
00:23:59Do you still have that growth on your arm?
00:24:01You know, you ought to take care of that van. Those things can be dangerous.
00:24:04Dr. Van Ponder, you are wanted in reactor construction area. Urgent.
00:24:09I'd better get over there.
00:24:11Dave, I'd like you to...
00:24:14What's the matter?
00:24:15Nothing, Van.
00:24:18You can handle the rest of these reports, can't you?
00:24:20Sure. See you later.
00:24:23All right.
00:25:07You wanted to see me, John?
00:25:10Yes, Doctor.
00:25:12It's these new solenoids. They're not testing up the capacity resistance.
00:25:15It's these new solenoids. They're not testing up the capacity resistance.
00:25:18Oh? How do they test?
00:25:19Well, 68 ohms maximum. Should be at least 75.
00:25:25See, I thought if I added this extra coil...
00:25:26I don't think it matters very much.
00:25:28Every element of the reactor is geared to a 61 safety factor.
00:25:31Look out.
00:25:34Good Lord, I'll get a doctor.
00:25:35No! John!
00:25:44Good Lord.
00:25:48Good Lord.
00:26:10Good Lord.
00:26:20Bad Ordogan.
00:26:22Good Lord.
00:26:25Good Lord.
00:26:27Good Lord.
00:26:40Dr. Lazar, Dr. Lazar, emergency and reactor area. Come at once.
00:26:57Let me look at that handbag.
00:27:01What kind of a joke is this?
00:27:03Would you mind explaining what this is all about?
00:27:06Well, sure. John came rushing in, said you'd burned your hand.
00:27:08Burned it off, he said.
00:27:10With the torch. I saw it.
00:27:12Quite obviously, he's mistaken.
00:27:14Yes, I should think he is.
00:27:18We were examining these solenoids.
00:27:21Suddenly, he screamed and ran from the room.
00:27:24I see. Well, he's been under a lot of pressure.
00:27:28I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this sort of thing as we approach Blastoffland.
00:27:31What are you talking about?
00:27:33Buck fever, my boy. I'm afraid you're grounded.
00:27:35But you can't negate what I saw.
00:27:36Come on now, I'm sure Dr. Van Ponder has worked.
00:27:38But I saw it with my own eyes and the flame of that torch.
00:27:43And he didn't even feel it.
00:27:45John!
00:27:46There's something about you.
00:27:49You're not human.
00:27:51John, stop it!
00:27:52All right, I'll go.
00:27:54But I know what I saw.
00:27:57Perhaps you see too much, John.
00:28:03Come on, John.
00:28:03Come on.
00:28:33No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:29:12Hello?
00:29:13Hello, Sybil. This is Dave.
00:29:16Look, I know it's a little late, but this is kind of important.
00:29:18Dave, where have you been?
00:29:20They've been trying to locate you everywhere.
00:29:22We blast off at 23.30.
00:29:2423.30?
00:29:25That advance the time. You've just got 45 minutes.
00:29:27You'd better step on it.
00:29:29Look, Sybil, meet me at the launching site.
00:29:30I've got to speak to you.
00:29:31Dave, stop wasting time. Hurry!
00:29:52Rocket one. Final crew go.
00:29:58Sybil!
00:30:01Sybil, I've got to talk to you. It's important.
00:30:03Rocket one. Minus six minutes.
00:30:05We don't have much time, Dave.
00:30:07We've got plenty of time. They're just calling for rocket one.
00:30:09I'm going on rocket one.
00:30:10You were scheduled for rocket two with me.
00:30:12Well, Van made the switch.
00:30:13Van made the switch?
00:30:14Sybil, you can't go with him.
00:30:16He must have had a reason.
00:30:19Rocket one. Minus five minutes.
00:30:34Corrections on the calculation.
00:30:35Okay.
00:30:41Check it in, sir.
00:30:44All right, Bennett.
00:30:55Ready, Van?
00:30:58I thought you grounded him.
00:31:00Oh, no. He's perfectly okay. I checked him out thoroughly.
00:31:03Even gave up your hallucination, didn't you, John?
00:31:06Yes, sir.
00:31:07I'm sorry I caused trouble, sir.
00:31:10You see, just as good as new.
00:31:12And astronautical engineers don't grow on trees, do they?
00:31:17No.
00:31:18No, they don't.
00:31:20But I'll see you on board.
00:31:22Yes, sir.
00:31:23See you, ma'am.
00:31:29Rocket one. Minus four minutes.
00:31:33Dr. Van Ponder wanted in general control.
00:31:41Dr. Van Ponder, you're wanted on board rocket one immediately.
00:32:01Minus three minutes.
00:32:03Crew stations all rocket one personnel.
00:32:06Copper one now.
00:32:30Minus two minutes.
00:32:32All unauthorized personnel, clear launching area.
00:32:45We're about to blast off.
00:33:14All instruments checked out?
00:33:15You're reading all right.
00:33:17Good. I'm depending on you.
00:33:20Yes, sir.
00:33:41Have a good trip, John.
00:33:44Yes, sir.
00:34:249, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3...
00:34:33I didn't get a round-trip ticket.
00:34:343, 2, 1...
00:34:37Fire!
00:34:53Rocket 2, minus 10 minutes.
00:35:09Minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
00:35:42Rocket 1, 2nd stage.
00:35:46Fire!
00:35:48Fire!
00:35:54Rocket 2, 2nd stage.
00:35:58Fire!
00:36:03Rocket 3, 2nd stage.
00:36:06Fire!
00:36:09Fire!
00:36:11Rocket 1, 3rd stage.
00:36:12Fire!
00:36:14Fire!
00:36:16Fire!
00:36:24Fire!
00:36:256-0-1, 5-0-1.
00:36:27Empire!
00:36:32Free!
00:36:32converging. Rocket three converging. Fire.
00:37:26Contact completed. Ship in orbit.
00:37:31Ground control handing over. Good luck.
00:37:37Thank you. Satellite control taking over. Up antenna.
00:37:51Antenna up. Activate gravity control.
00:38:00Gravity control on. Feedback interlock on automatic.
00:38:08Feedback interlock on automatic. Orient solar aspect cells.
00:38:22Solar aspect cells on. Automate robot control.
00:38:31Robot control on.
00:38:38Sybil. Check the computer panel.
00:38:58I'm glad to see those hours right about your surviving the blast off.
00:39:07I can't move. I've partially inactivated your muscular system.
00:39:13What? There's no time to be more explicit. I have no desire to harm you. However, necessity
00:39:21governs action. The warning from outer space was valid. It came from a superior intelligence.
00:39:28An intelligence able to transform energy into matter and back again.
00:39:33You once told me I was not human. You were correct.
00:39:37I am above the human. A transformation which can be yours.
00:39:43This satellite will never return to Earth. Its disintegration upon contact with the energy
00:39:48barrier will end Project Sigma. And all similar projects to come. The creatures of your planet
00:39:55are not yet ready for space. Who are you to decide?
00:39:59We have only your best interests at heart. In this realm of outer space you are mere children.
00:40:06And it is disastrous for children to enter areas where they have so little understanding.
00:40:13John, I can offer you the opportunity of joining us.
00:40:18You can go to hell. I was born a human and I'll die one before I'll join a race that
00:40:23kills innocent
00:40:23people for abstract ideas.
00:40:26Abstract idea. Very well. You've made your decision. What I'm certain you'll deeply regret.
00:40:37for only death remains.
00:40:39For only death remains.
00:40:52Ban, I thought I heard...
00:40:53Ban, I thought I heard...
00:41:02You couldn't stand the acceleration.
00:41:05I knew he should have stayed behind.
00:41:34Orbiting on schedule, sir.
00:41:36Fine.
00:41:42This is the captain speaking.
00:41:44We have successfully completed the first phase of our mission,
00:41:47and I wish to congratulate all members of the crew.
00:41:51I can now reveal to you the plan by which we hope to overcome the cosmic accumulations
00:41:55which have destroyed all of our previous manned satellites.
00:41:58The plan consists of two steps.
00:42:00Step one has already been accomplished.
00:42:03This called for a blast velocity of over 1,000 times that of our previous satellites,
00:42:08a force which has carried us into an orbit far beyond the moon.
00:42:12At our present velocity, this cosmic mass, if encountered,
00:42:16will act as a solid impenetrable war.
00:42:19However, at the first indication of this mass, or sigma barrier as we call it,
00:42:25we will put into operation the second step of our plan,
00:42:28which varies according to necessity.
00:42:30If at this time we have accumulated enough solar energy for 750 miles per second,
00:42:36we shall be able to blast through the barrier, and in so doing, destroy it.
00:42:40Should the barrier appear before we have reached the requisite velocity,
00:42:44we shall take immediate action to avoid it.
00:42:46Dave, what are you doing here? You should be in operations.
00:42:49I regret to inform you there has been one casualty.
00:42:53Astronautical engineer John Compo was found dead.
00:42:56Apparently the result of blast-off acceleration.
00:42:59Johnny.
00:43:00All hands not on duty will attend a space funeral at 1,400 hours.
00:43:04Sybil, I've got to talk to you. It's about Van.
00:43:08He's not human.
00:43:10Dave, don't be ridiculous.
00:43:12I saw him. He's split in two.
00:43:14He's been seen in two places at the same time.
00:43:16Why aren't you at your post?
00:43:18What happened to Johnny? Did you kill him?
00:43:23We're now in outer space with one man dead.
00:43:26And I can't afford to lose another by confining you to quarters.
00:43:29So I'm giving you another chance.
00:43:32We'll say no more about your accusation.
00:43:35But I warn you.
00:43:37Get out of line just once more.
00:43:39And I shall take the necessary measures.
00:43:42I remind you that I am the captain of this ship.
00:43:45And that astro-planetary law gives me supreme and unquestioned command.
00:43:49Do I make myself clear?
00:43:53Yes.
00:43:59Van, please forgive him.
00:44:01We've all been under a great strain.
00:44:03There is no room for personal feelings on this mission.
00:44:07For his sake, he'd better straighten himself out.
00:44:34This is a sad duty we must perform.
00:44:38To say goodbye to a brave and beloved fellow crewman.
00:44:43We must think of him as one who gave his life in a noble endeavor.
00:44:47The salvation of the human race.
00:44:52Well, I feel it's all my fault.
00:44:55I should never have checked the kid out.
00:44:57He said there was nothing physically wrong with him.
00:44:59Well, that's the curious thing.
00:45:01I was extra cautious.
00:45:02I double-checked every test.
00:45:04There's just no reason why he should have died from the same acceleration we all took.
00:45:09His training record was better than most.
00:45:12He was murdered.
00:45:15Murdered?
00:45:16Look, Johnny knew something dangerous.
00:45:18Something he shouldn't have known, and he was killed for it.
00:45:20And so we commend his body to the depths of space.
00:45:52Haven't you noticed Van's face?
00:45:53There's something different about it.
00:45:55I can show you what I mean.
00:46:01Well, that means nothing, Dave.
00:46:03Everybody's face is slightly asymmetrical.
00:46:05Yes, but not Van's.
00:46:06I've been watching it.
00:46:08Here's something else.
00:46:09You got a magnifying glass?
00:46:11Yes.
00:46:13Civil, I'm glad you're here.
00:46:14I'd like you to see this, too.
00:46:16Dave, you're disobeying orders.
00:46:17Orders?
00:46:18From Van?
00:46:19Don't you realize he's trying to destroy us all?
00:46:22These are Van's prints.
00:46:26They're identical.
00:46:28Mirror images.
00:46:30What does that mean?
00:46:31What I've been trying to tell you.
00:46:33This is not Van.
00:46:35Dave!
00:46:35It's true.
00:46:36I saw Van's car.
00:46:38It was burned to a crisp.
00:46:39Over the license plates.
00:46:40I checked those out.
00:46:42Van died in that car.
00:46:43This man's a substitute.
00:46:45A copy of the real Van.
00:46:48You don't expect me to believe that fantastic nonsense.
00:46:51Is it fantastic that there's an intelligent race out there that stops at nothing to keep us quarantined on our
00:46:55own planet?
00:46:56Is the Sigma barrier fantastic?
00:46:58They've destroyed every ship we sent up, and now through him they mean to destroy this one.
00:47:02Could those prints lie?
00:47:03You know, ever since his accident, Ben has always found some excuse to keep me from giving him a routine
00:47:09checkup.
00:47:09I haven't even checked his heart.
00:47:11It's quite possible he doesn't have one.
00:47:14Well, I'll find out, and we'll know for sure.
00:47:27Oh, hello, Howard.
00:47:29Hi, Van.
00:47:30What can I do for you?
00:47:31Well, it's time for a checkup.
00:47:33I have to check your heart.
00:47:35It has to go on the report.
00:47:37I'm in perfect health, and you know it.
00:47:40Yes, but I'm not so sure the board will take my word for it.
00:47:45You fellas read the instruments.
00:47:46It's up to me to read the human being.
00:47:56Captain.
00:47:57Captain, 1-8 in control room.
00:47:58Urgent.
00:48:01I guess we'll have to put it off, hmm?
00:48:03No, no.
00:48:05I'll wait.
00:48:06All right, Howard.
00:48:08I'll be back as soon as I can.
00:48:30Some action ahead, Skipper. The dial's racking up.
00:48:34But it's still pretty faint. Could be cosmic dust.
00:48:38Keep your eye on it. If it continues to build, call me.
00:48:42Yes, sir.
00:48:47Well, what do you make of that?
00:48:49Cosmic dust.
00:49:24The dialing's lungs.
00:49:25The dialing's lungs.
00:49:27That's it.
00:49:37The dialing's lungs.
00:49:39I'll be some na guss muscles.
00:49:39The air Is so tumult.言ick.
00:49:39Oh, my God.
00:50:16Oh, my God.
00:50:39Oh, my God.
00:50:46Captain.
00:50:48Captain, do you have to be so formal?
00:50:51I'm sorry.
00:50:53Well, I'm a little hurt.
00:50:55I thought we knew each other better.
00:50:57Better than that, anyway.
00:50:59I've been wanting to talk to you about us.
00:51:04Of course, Captain.
00:51:07Van.
00:51:10Van.
00:51:15I'm in the middle of a computation.
00:51:18Half an hour, then.
00:51:41I'm in the middle of a rut.
00:51:44I don't think he's ready to be ready to go.
00:51:44I've got to go.
00:51:45Three, two, three, four years now.
00:51:55All right, doctor, do you want to listen to my heart?
00:52:00Proceed.
00:52:01I have work to do.
00:52:20You know, I might almost believe you thought I didn't have a heart.
00:52:25Everybody has a heart.
00:52:30Dave Boyer put you up to this, I suppose.
00:52:32Put me up to what?
00:52:35Quite typical of the childish mind.
00:52:38I'm sorry, Howard, but I have no more time to waste.
00:52:43What do you mean?
00:52:44You're a man of science.
00:52:48What would you do if a guinea pig got out of control and threatened to ruin one of your experiments?
00:52:54I don't understand.
00:52:55John didn't understand either.
00:52:59What is this?
00:53:32I'm issuing an order for the arrest of one of the crew.
00:53:34Sir?
00:53:35I've discovered that John Campo did not die of natural causes.
00:53:39He was murdered.
00:53:40I want Staff Engineer Dave Boyer brought to my quarters immediately.
00:53:43You may use force if necessary.
00:53:46Yes, sir.
00:53:55Sybil?
00:53:58Dave, I just saw Van.
00:54:00He seems so strange.
00:54:02I don't know what to think anymore.
00:54:05Maybe you're right.
00:54:06I know I'm right.
00:54:07I've got to stop him somehow.
00:54:11Dave.
00:54:13Please.
00:54:13Look.
00:54:14I'm going after Van.
00:54:16You go to Dr. Lazar and stay with him.
00:54:18I don't want you here alone.
00:54:20You're under arrest by order of the captain.
00:54:23What for?
00:54:24No questions.
00:54:25Let's go.
00:54:27Get to Dr. Lazar.
00:54:44Tell him what happened.
00:54:51Gauges are going higher.
00:54:53Check the business screen.
00:55:01You better call Van Ponder.
00:55:03What for?
00:55:03He already told you it was cosmic dust.
00:55:05Sure, cosmic dust.
00:55:28Heyonn.
00:55:46Then, go ahead.
00:55:47I just wanted to talk to you.».
00:55:52Then, you
00:56:00I just want to talk to you.
00:56:05Sybil.
00:56:24I had no choice.
00:56:27I couldn't permit him to endanger the ship.
00:56:30Please listen to me.
00:56:31Yes?
00:56:33I'm human now, Sybil.
00:56:35I need you.
00:56:37Captain, the prisoner has escaped.
00:56:40Don't you see, I...
00:56:45Alert all hands.
00:56:47The satellite is in sector H-9,
00:56:50and in sector H-12 is the barrier.
00:56:53They're heading for it.
00:56:54And let us say, rather, the barrier is forming where the satellite is bound to travel.
00:56:59If Ann knows what he's doing, he'll avoid it.
00:57:01Well, let us hope so.
00:57:03At least this time, let's hope so.
00:57:07Seize the prisoner at all costs.
00:57:16I'm sorry.
00:57:18But there's no alternative.
00:57:22Astrogator to Captain.
00:57:24Astrogator to Captain.
00:57:25Why do you...
00:57:29Captain speaking.
00:57:31Magneto nebulous cloud mass forming dead ahead.
00:57:35Alpha concentration is building to critical point.
00:57:37Suspect Sigma barrier.
00:57:38Yes.
00:57:41Sybil, I...
00:57:44Captain Sigma barrier, dead ahead.
00:57:46We're bearing down rapidly.
00:57:48Awaiting orders.
00:57:50Repeat.
00:57:51Awaiting orders.
00:57:53I...
00:57:57Remain on course.
00:57:59Remain on course?
00:58:01What's the matter with old iron pants?
00:58:04I don't know, but if he don't get on the ball, this $3 billion balloon's gonna go bust.
00:58:07Not only that, we're in it.
00:58:10Request further orders.
00:58:12Remain on course.
00:58:32Sybil.
00:58:34I want you to understand.
00:58:36You're not human.
00:58:39Who are you?
00:58:41What are you?
00:58:44What am I?
00:58:46Why, I'm human.
00:58:49Because of you, I'm human.
00:59:27I'm human.
00:59:28We are human, if we could do it.
00:59:29A lot.
00:59:29It's not human.
00:59:32It's my little planet.
00:59:32I'm human.
00:59:33It's not human.
00:59:438.62.
00:59:47Mass in quadrant three, sector nine, estimate collision course.
00:59:52Collision time estimate, five minutes.
00:59:56Activate plan B.
00:59:57Plan B?
00:59:58Reverse that order, you'll destroy the ship.
01:00:02Don't be a fool.
01:00:03You can't hurt me with that.
01:00:15For the love of Pete, you're running us right into that thing.
01:00:18You got a better idea?
01:00:23You can be stopped.
01:00:32Thermo up, radiation up.
01:00:34Alpha, beta, and gamma going up.
01:00:36Sky speed, we're decelerating.
01:00:40As following orders.
01:00:41Ours is but to do and die.
01:00:44Die? You've said it.
01:00:46Crash, emergency, get ahead!
01:01:00Dave!
01:01:16Sigma barrier, dead ahead. Crash, emergency.
01:01:20Reverse previous order.
01:01:22Ditch plan B, activate plan A.
01:01:25Activating plan A.
01:01:28Secure all hands and prepare to blast.
01:01:33Oh, that's more like it.
01:01:34Hang on, boy, we ain't out of the woods yet.
01:01:54It's not long.
01:01:57You see?
01:02:01Come on.
01:02:03It's for a while.
01:02:03There's no water.
01:02:03There's no water.
01:02:06Start burning that sunlight.
01:02:16All right.
01:02:34All hands secure for blast.
01:02:38All hands secure for blast in 120 seconds.
01:02:47Why don't they blast?
01:02:5590 seconds.
01:03:18Blast in 10 seconds.
01:03:21Nine.
01:03:23Eight.
01:03:24Seven.
01:03:25Six.
01:03:27Five.
01:03:28Four.
01:03:29Three.
01:03:31Two.
01:03:32One.
01:03:33One.
01:03:35One.
01:03:35Four.
01:03:39One.
01:03:43Three.
01:03:45One.
01:03:47Two.
01:03:49Three.
01:03:56Two.
01:04:15it's disappeared they've been destroyed i'm not so sure hotchkiss we can still hear the solar blast
01:04:33look
01:04:34they made it sigma calling sigma calling UN satellite control do you read me do you read me
01:04:40UNSC calling sigma we read you sigma we read you we are passing through andromedae at the speed of
01:04:48life we've made it the whole universe is our new frontier
01:05:20the
01:05:24the
01:05:26the
01:05:26the
01:05:38The End
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