For crying out loud, Ron, Sink the Frakking Moon already !

For crying out loud, Ron, Sink the Frakking Moon already !

Hi Rob (and the good people of PGS),

So a LONG time ago, Ronald D. Moore said that he would love to redo Space: 1999. But that the premise was simply too weird. And I will admit that Space: 1999 had issues with scientific accuracy. The Breakaway explosion in the pilot episode would have simply vaporized Moonbase Alpha or broken the moon completely. And that’s just for starters. The beauty of a rebooting of re-imagining shows, however, is that you can FIX stuff like that. 

So, let move on to how to do that. Well, it’s already in the title of this letter. Sink….the….frakking….moon ! In Deep Space Nine’s pilot “Emissary”, the crew has to figure out how to fly the titular space station from Bajor to the wormhole. So they create a subspace field around the station, which dials down gravity’s pull on the station and allows it’s thrusters to do the job. All you have to do, is dial that up to twelve. How ?

Come up with some (technobabble) backstory and BOOM !! Suddenly, the Breakaway explosion creates a particle surge, the surge creates a subspace rift and the moon sinks into subspace. And Tada ! Now, you can have the moon bounce between subspace and normal space whenever the plot requires it. Hell, you have a McGuffin that – properly written – will explain whatever you need it to. Alternate universes, time travel, horrible creatures from dark places, the list goes on. Especially if later seasons see the crew of Moonbase Alpha try to control this bounce. Sci-fi, after all, loves an experiment gone wrong.

So, Ron, sink the frakking moon already !

Thoughts, Rob ?

Regards,

Ruben Hilbers