Space 1999: Nuclear waste is now safely stored on the moon … or is it? Well, yes, it is being stored on the moon, but as for safely? There’s not going to be much of a show unless there’s a problem and a bunch of it blows up, hurtling the moon out of Earth’s orbit and into deep space.

As a kid, I didn’t question any of the inconstancies and unbelievable events. It didn’t take long (one episode) for them to find an alien race, so they must have been travelling really fast, a speed that would have killed them all, but then we wouldn’t have a show, would we? And every alien they met spoke English—with a British accent of course.

Their uniforms were a bland beige with a zipper down the left arm sleeve which to my recollection were never used.

Their commlocks, a communicator and door unlocker all in one, with a little video screen in the top (not shown) were bulky and looked oddly like the first cellphone called the brick. The stun gun was nothing like I have ever seen before, but that’s not surprising since I was only 8 at the time, so I really had no frame of reference. I did have one that shot water, not lasers.

The best part of the show? The Eagle Transporter. The ultimate SUV. That’s Space Utility Vehicle. When we get back to the moon for real, I really hope they build these things.

Wait. That wasn’t the best part of the show. They were a close second only to being able to sit on the couch with my dad every Saturday to watch it.

In book news:

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-Leon

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

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