Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook
Season 1

3. Black Sun Screenplay: DAVID WEIR Director: LEE H. KAZAN	4. Ring Around the Moon Screenplay: EDWARD DI LORENZO Director: RAY AUSTIN
Bergman and Koenig congratulate each other on the success of the force field as it easily deflects laser fire from Eagle 1. If it works as well against the black sun, Alpha may survive.	Having lost Clifford, the Triton Space Probe teleports Helena aboard. Clifford failed because his control device was implanted over a vast dis- tance, but at close range it's completely effective.
The runaway Moon is at the edge of de- struction as it is slowly being drawn in- to a black sun; an area of intense gravit- ational pull. In an effort to save the base, Bergman designs a force field that draws its power from the collapsed stellar mass. It is a slim chance for Alpha so Koenig launches a survival ship. Aboard are Sandra, Helena, Alan, and three other Alphans. As the Moon travels into the ef- fected area, Bergman and Koenig view the very fabric of space itself. The await their fate. Mike Ryan: PAUL JONES Smitty: JON LAUIMORE	Maintenance engineer Ted Clifford becomes the pawn in an alien plot. As Clifford is repairing some equipment near a viewport, an energy beam flashes aross the lunar horizon and strikes the Alphan's head. The beam, from a Triton Space Probe, leaves an energy implant in Clifford's brain. His brain now functions as an alien computer and everything he sees is transmitted back to the probe. Clifford then attempts to steal classified information from the Alphan computers. However, the implant was not properly placed and Clifford's brain "burns-out." With the Alphan dead, a new target is se- lected--Helena Russell! She is transported aboard the Triton probe where she is given an energy implant at close range. But her brain will also "burn-out" unless Koenig can stop the ship's inhabitants from car- rying out their plot. Upon boarding the probe, though, Koenig discovers that Alpha's enemy is a machine. The Comman- der must outwit the alien logic of an automated spacecraft. Ted Clifford: MAX FAULKNER