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Directed by: Brad Turner
Story by: Lawrence Meyers
Teleplay by: Mark Stern & Geoffrey Hollands
The UFS Mercury is en route to the planet Trion. They've been ordered to conduct scientific tests in preparation to establishing a colony. Then they receive a distress call from a battleship, the UFS Rhesos. It was only weeks ago that the Rhesos dropped bombs on Trion, killing the local flora and fauna to ready the planet for colonization.
Before the crew of the Mercury boards the Rhesos, medical officer Dr. Will Olsten (MICHAEL SHANKS) dons a miniature audio/visual recording device to chronicle the events on the massive ship. It is through this device that we see and hear what takes place during their rescue mission. The team quickly realizes that things are not as they should be — they find the ship eerily empty, and come across strange writing on the walls in what looks like blood. Soon, the crew starts becoming paranoid and suspicious of one another. They begin hearing things and seeing things that aren't there ... or are they?
One by one, the crewmembers go crazy, attacking each other or committing suicide. Dr. Olsten finally figures out that this lethal mental degradation came from a virus unleashed by the dying aliens from Trion. But by then it is too late. In a final and ultimate act of alien revenge, the virus, which is transmitted via electrical current, is unknowingly downloaded and sent to Earth.
(Original Airdate: February 11, 2000)
Michael Shanks (Dr. Will Olsten), Rob Freeman (Miles O'Brien), Brad Johnson (Captain, UFS Mercury), Sarah Deakins (Megan), Linda Ko (Hanna Sheafer), Rick Dobran (Lieutenant Mason), D. Harlan Cutshall (Captain), John Murphy (Lieutenant)
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