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Space: 1999
"Adam & Eve--Mark II"
Comic book story
Space: 1999 Annual 1975
World Distributors Ltd.
Writer: Angus P. Allen
1975 |
The Alphans intercept two survivors from
Earth of one thousand years in the future.
NOTES FROM THE
SPACE: 1999
CHRONOLOGY
Several "time warp" stories occur within the annals of
Space: 1999,
both televised episodes and other media. I have tried to
integrate them into groups, in the thought that when the Moon
gets sent to an area of space open to a time warp, the Alphans
may experience multiple time warp adventures in sequence. This
is one such story, which I've placed after the TV episode
"Another Time, Another Place"
in the chronology. In our current story, a spaceship from Earth
1,000 years in the future lands at Moonbase Alpha. The story
that follows this in the chronology,
"Caught in the Middle", I've placed there because it has the
voyager Moon arriving through a time warp 1,000 years into the
future and in Earth's own solar system. It seems reasonable to
suggest that the same "1,000 year time warp" is in effect for
each story.
DIDJA KNOW?
"Adam & Eve--Mark II" is a
6-page comic book story in the British
Space: 1999 Annual 1975.
This story indicates that Earth will "cease to exist" in the
year 3035. What exactly this means is not explained.
CHARACTERS APPEARING OR MENTIONED IN THIS STORY
Sandra Benes
Paul Morrow
Commander Koenig
Dr. Russell
Alpha service operatives
Ordom (dies in this story)
Wenda
(dies in this story)
Professor Bergman
DIDJA NOTICE?
The Alphans should have been clued in that the ship they
found floating in space was from Earth (or, at least, an
Earth source) by what appears to be Arabic numerals and
Latin letters on the fuselage.
Ordom and Wenda explain that they are from the doomed Earth
of the year 3035. Apparently portions of Earth still speak
20th Century colloquial English since the Alphans are able
to understand their speech perfectly!
Ordom and Wenda claim that Earth ceased to exist in 3035 and
the two of them, as supreme minds of the race were placed in
suspended animation and sent off into space to find a new
world to colonize.
Ordom and Wenda have a force of will that they may manifest
physically.
Ordom and Wenda imply that their superior genes render them
immune from any illness. But it turns out that they are
subject to the common flu. It may be that future Earth had
eradicated all disease on the planet itself, but humans were
still susceptible if they should come into contact with
viruses and bacteria, as Ordom and Wenda did at Moonbase
Alpha.
It is odd that Commander Koenig seems to acquiesce to the
more advanced future-Earthlings, saying, "In the great
scheme of things, who are we to contradict them? They're
advanced...they're super-beings! We've met them in the
time-warp and we must accept their domination..." It is
somewhat implied that Koenig's flu has made him
impressionable to the influence of the future-Earthers, but
that seems a weak excuse. Do you lose your moral
fortitude just because you are ailing from the flu?
This story turns out to be a sort of spin on H.G. Wells'
1898 novel War of the Worlds, in which Martians
invade Earth, but are foiled by Earth pathogens to which
they have no immunity.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
What happened to Earth in 3035 that caused it to
"cease to exist"?
How is it that the Alphans just happen to cross the path of
the sleeper ship of the last two survivors of future Earth?
Did the Mysterious Unknown Force put the Moon on this
specific path in order for the two sets of human survivors
to meet?
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