Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook
Season 1

23. Dragon's Domain Screenplay: CHRISTOPHER PENFOLD Director: CHARLES CRICHTON	24. The Testament of Arkadia Screenplay: JOHNNY BYRNE Director: DAVID TOMBLIN
It has to be more than chance. Ahead of Alpha is the same spaceship grave- yard that Cellini had encountered behind Ultra. And sitting atop one of the craft is Ultra Probe itself.	Since the beginning of time the destinies of Luke Ferro and Anna Davis have been fixed. They are to bring life back to the world that had once brought life to Earth.
What begins as a quiet Alphan night quick- ly be comes the opening curtain for the reliving of a nightmare. Koenig is forced to stun his close friend, Tony Cellini, when he attempts to steal an Eagle. The incident stirs Tony's long-suppressed mem- ory of the ill-fated Ultra Probe mission of 1996. Helena recalls the story Cellini told the space medical board about a ten- tacled monster that killed his crew. No one believes his story, until Alpha en- counters the same graveyard of spaceships Cellini says he found behind Ultra. His second attempt at stealing an Eagle suc- ceeds and Cellini sets out to face the dragon in his domain for a final con- frontation. Tony Cellini: GIANNI GARKO Commissioner Dixon: DOUGLAS WILMER Dr. Monique Fauchere: BARBARA KELLERMAN Prof. Darwin King: MICHAEL SHEARD Dr. Juliet Mackie: SUSAN JAMESON Note: At the opening of this episode, Helena records the date as 877 days since leaving orbit. This is a computer estim- ate of time passage on Earth since she was updating an Earth medical record. Al- pha time is 295 days.	Since the Moon broke out of orbit, the Alphans have encountered many unknowns. They have learned from Arra that the nu- clear explosion was no freak accident: they are destined to populate the farthest reaches of space. Now, suddenly and with- out warning, Alpha stops dead in space near a lifeless world. Power drops to al- most zero and the Alphans find themselves with no other option than to explore the planet for a possible site for coloniza- tion. They find a petrified world just barely returning to life after some great holocaust. In a cave--the greatest shock of all, human skeletons and an inscrip- tion in Sanskrit, the earliest form of written language on Earth. It is here that Earth life began. Outside there are remains of many Earth-type trees and an- imal skeletons. By translating the Sanskrit, it is learned that the people of Arkadia who escaped the holocaust colonized Earth, and as the Moon speeds again out of orbit and into the void, two people will bring the process full circle. But who will it be? Luke Ferro: ORSO MARIA GUERRINI Anna Davis: LISA HARROW