Yet Another Moon

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 Thanks mostly to Wikipedia… "Another Time, Another Place" was Johnny Bryne’s first original script for the series SPACE 99. That’s the show where Humans have colonized the Moon, in order to bury nuclear waste from Earth, and something nuclear goes wrong, and the Moon leaves its orbit and  then wanders through the Universe for the rest of the Series.

There werent any B-17s on this Moon. As the National Enquirer had seen...Anyway...

Bryne started with the concept of the worst thing he could imagine happening to the Alphans: hitting a 'mad cloud or particle storm in space' that causes their bodies to separate into duplicates. With that concept forming the episode's hook, he then had to conceive the next four acts of storyline to reach the conclusion of the Alphans coming face-to-face with themselves.

The story would highlight the cyclic nature of human experience—the catastrophic failure of the 20th Century 'techno-man' resulting in a new beginning of the process emerging from the ashes; this idea would be featured in several of Byrne's scripts for the series. 

Reading the news lately I think the techno-man’s catastrophic failure  is becoming apparent, but differently from Space 1999 Another Place Another Time. 

I have been thinking that techno-man wants freedom.. but then the old imp of perverse takes over. Techno-man wants others to bow down to his freedom. As in The National Strategic Boondoggle released recently.


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