Ben – Fusion Patrol

There exists in this universe a balance between matter and anti-matter.  A balance which must remain forever identical.  What happens when a teenage girl with a crush on Tony Verdesci upsets the balance of the universe? Ben and Eugene discuss A Matter of Balance. Synopsis Shermeen has three problems, first, she’s a teenager improbably assigned ... Read more

A dark and mysterious void appears in space before the Galactica.  Adama takes a leap of faith with the lives of all the Colonial Survivors.  On a happier note, Apollo and Serina are sealed. Ben and Eugene discuss the Lost Planet of the Gods. Synopsis Apollo and Serena announce their engagement to the delight of ... Read more

In the deep vastness of space, a mysterious cloud appears near Alpha.  At almost exactly the same time, almost everyone on Alpha is taken ill.  Oh, what are the galactic odds that these two things could happen simultaneously?! …and then the cloud starts making demands! Ben and Eugene discuss the Beta Cloud. Synopsis 1503 minus ... Read more

As humanity approaches the Seventh Millenium of Time, it will at least know peace.  After a thousand yahren war with an evil race of robotic war machines known as the Cylons, the war is finally over. What could possibly go wrong? Ben and Eugene start our exploration of a new series on Fusion Patrol – ... Read more

Cmdr. John Koenig is acting weird.  He’s irrational, authoritarian, paranoid and uncommunicative.  Sounds like just another day on Moonbase Alpha, but is it?  Could even John Koenig go a bit too far? Find out as Ben and Eugene discuss Seed of Destruction. Synopsis 1608 days after leaving Earth’s orbit, Alpha encounters a jewel-like asteroid. It ... Read more

Giant space explosions threaten to destroy Moonbase Alpha unless John, Maya, and Alan can communicate with an alien-race of chlorine breathers and appeal their sense of morality and decency to get them to spare Alpha and all aboard her from destruction. And if they can’t appeal to their better angels, Koenig will just kill them ... Read more

Steve Austin, the world’s first bionic man, is back for his third pilot adventure, battling a mysterious, shadowy, secret organization of criminal masterminds as they execute a daring kidnapping and hold the United States to ransom for one billion dollars! Ben and Eugene discuss the Solid Gold Kidnapping.

Deep underneath Moonbase Alpha are catacombs.  Do they hold the secret of survival for Alpha as it faces an outer space heat wave? Technician Osgood has faith that they will. The question is, do Ben and Eugene have faith in this episode as they discuss it? Synopsis 1196 days since leaving earth Patrick Osgood is ... Read more

Steve Austin is back for a second telemovie adventure.  This time, the bionic spy must thwart an international arms dealer from (a) selling our nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union and (b) capturing one of our nuclear submarines. Portholes will be violated. Ben and Eugene discuss.

In their many cosmic wanderings, the residents of Moonbase Alpha have seen many things to make them question their place in the universe.  There was that time they encountered heaven in the form of anti-matter.  Or the time their presence was predestined to fertilize an entire planet to the new level of existence.  Or the time ... Read more

“Steve Austin, Astronaut – a man barely alive.” “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology.  We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.” “Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before –  better, stronger, faster.” So say the iconic words from the TV series, the Six Million ... Read more

Sorry.  Just sorry. This week, Ben and Eugene discuss Brian the Brain. Synopsis 1,150 Days after leaving Earth’s orbit, the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha have finally gotten around to uploading the data they’ve collected since leaving Earth into their computer. This leaves them mostly without computers during the process and leaves Koenig as horny as ... Read more

Dylan Hunt is back for a second bite at the TV pilot apple in 1974’s Planet Earth. Ben and Eugene discuss Gene Roddenberry’s second attempt at Pax.

Two aliens, father and son Pasc and Etrec,  are found deep beneath Moonbase Alpha.  Why were they intered there?  What is the mystery of their reluctance to give blood?  What is that strange mark of evil on Pasc’s forehead?  What is Alan’s obsession with the boy, Etrec? Ben and Eugene discuss the Space: 1999 episode, ... Read more

As if the first story of Genesis wasn’t bad enough, along comes Genesis II – Gene Roddenberry’s tale of a future both destroyed by war and rebuilding with the dream of hope. Ben and Eugene look at the pilot movie, Genesis II.

What is the measure of a man?  What constitutes, “fully functional?” Ben and Eugene discuss The Questor Tapes.

Someone’s probably going to get pedantic on us with this one but, if this episode had tea, we could say it was Space: 1999 “Tea in the Midlands” as they go to Luton in Bedfordshire and study botany.  Also, hand-to-hand combat.  And hand-to-lion combat.  And hand-to-bird combat. Join Ben and Eugene as they talk about the ... Read more

In 1977 Gene Roddenberry created a pilot for a potential new TV series starring Robert Culp and Gig Young – Spectre. Ben and Eugene discuss this piece of television…  history.

The SS Emporium and her master, Taybor arrive for a little light banter and barter.  What could possibly go wrong? Ben and Eugene discuss The Taybor. Synopsis All the sexy women of Alpha are seen spending the day in their bikinis, sunning themselves and rubbing oil all over each other and then suddenly things start ... Read more

This is it.  It’s all over except for the shooting.  Blakes 7 rockets to it’s final, shocking conclusion. Ben and Eugene pick over the corpse of Blakes 7.

Journey to Where?  Journey to Where.  Is it a question, or is it a statement?  What are the deep philosophical differences between those two interpretation? You won’t find out in this episode, as Ben and Eugene ask the question, or respond to the statement, “journey to where(?/.)” Synopsis Alpha receives a neutrino transmission from Earth ... Read more

Avon is courting the warlord, Zukan, to join his rebel alliance.  Tarrant is counting Zukan’s daughter, Zeona, to join Tarrant’s “alliance.” How could this go wrong? Ben and Eugene discuss the penultimate episode of Blakes 7, Warlord. Synopsis The federation’s pacification program using Pylene-50 has been stepped up substantially. Planets are falling faster than ever ... Re...

There’s a planet that has rocks on it.  Desirable rocks.  Koenig leads a highly-specialized team of crack rock collectors to the planet to get those rocks, but he soon learns that all that glisters is not Melganite. Ben and Eugene discuss All That Glisters. That was a stupid episode – James, age 12 Synopsis 565 ... Read more

When you’re an outer space outlaw and revolutionary, it’s all about knowing who’s got you back.  This week, Vila learns who he can trust to keep him alive as he and Avon share an orbit. Ben and Eugene discuss this, the 50th episode of Blakes 7, Robert Holmes’ Orbit!

Time for one of our rare “sidecar” episodes!  During our discussion of Star Trek Discovery, we turned our attention to the delivery mechanisms and the economics of the newest Star Trek series. Are we fans of CBS All Access?  Find out on this new, bonus episode of Fusion Patrol. Patreon Subscribers:  This is a free, ... Read more