Ben – Fusion Patrol

The first season (or is it the series?) of Battlestar Galactica comes to a close with an attack on a Cylon Basestar.  Will the Galactica survive? Ben and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  Apollo, Sheba, Starbuck and Cassiopeia are on a…. let’s call it a double-date.  Apollo takes them all for a surprise.  A celestial chamber, ... Read more

There’s trouble brewing onboard the industrial ship Celestra.  How is it tied to Starbuck’s long-lost flame? Ben and Eugene take (apart) the Celestra. Episode Synopsis:  Adama presides over a ceremony to honor Cmdr. Kronus, former Commander of the Battlestar Raikon and Adama’s former commanding officer.  Kronus is being promoted to “fleet” commander of the industry ... Read more

In this episode, the Galactica finds Earth…  or Terra… which probably isn’t Earth.  Plus Apollo and Starbuck get a little help from on high. Ben and Eugene discuss this Experiment in Terra. Episode Synopsis:  Picking up from last week’s episode, the evil Eastern Alliance enforcers, along with the Borelean Nomen have escaped the Galactica.  Rather ... Read more

How can Baltar remain a credible villain if he remains in jail?  Answer:  He can’t, so, it must be time to escape! Ben and Eugene discuss Baltar’s Escape. Episode Synopsis:  Since the arrival of the Eastern Alliance Enforcers and Apollo and Starbuck’s prisoners, the Council have been getting increasingly upity.  It seems the civilian government ... Read more

The Galacticans come across humans from a non-Colonial source.  Could it be the long-awaited contact with Earth? Ben and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  On long range forward patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter a strange, unresponsive spacecraft of unfamiliar design.  Their scanners indicate life inside and they bring it back to the Galactica.  Inside, six humans ... Read more

It’s been a long, long journey since the moon left Earth’s orbit back on September 13, 1999.  A journey covering countless light-years, spanning galaxies, universes and other astronomical terms used with complete and absolute imprecision.  The Alphans have travelled far indeed. So too have Ben and Eugene as they have gone along with them ever ... Read more

Ever deeper in space, supplies of plots are running low aboard the Colonial fleet.  Existing on survival rations, Ben and Eugene discuss two episodes for the price of one. First, Starbuck may have found his long-lost father, but the reunion may be a short one if the con man pretending to be Starbuck’s father is ... Read more

Ben and Eugene enjoy one last journey with the unwitting spacefarers of Moonbase Alpha as they look at the final episode of Space: 1999, the Dorcons. Episode Synopsis: 2409 days after the moon left Earth’s orbit, Alpha encounters a strange probe in space which paralyzes all the Alphans except Maya, who is singled out and ... Read more

A mysterious stranger comes to the fleet with promises too good to be true.  Could he be the Great Deceiver? Ben and Eugene discuss the War of the Gods Episode Synopsis: Silver Spar squadron are buzzed by strange, super-speed lights in space, and then go missing.  Apollo, Starbuck and Sheba investigate a nearby planet for ... Read more

A giant space amoeba invades our galaxy, threatening all life and the valiant crew of the starship Enterprise must save us all or die trying.  Whoops, sorry.  Wrong DVD. Let’s try that again: Cmdr. John Koenig and the Alphans encounter a nonsensical planet. Ben and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:   2310 Days after leaving Earth’s ... Read more

Where there’s space, and oxygen, you know there’s going to be FIRE!  Remember, Smokey the Daggit says, “Only you can prevent space fires.” Ben and Eugene discuss Fire in Space. Episode Synopsis: Boomer, Athena, Boxey and Muffet are spending time in the Rejuvenation Center when the Cylons launch a massive attack.  All squadrons are launched ... Read more

Ben and Eugene discuss Episode Synopsis 2306 days after leaving Earth’s orbit, Alpha discovers two planets in their Eastern quadrant.  An Eagle is dispatched to investigate.  Onboard, John Koenig and Medical Technician Dispensable. They discover an amazing, Earth-like planet, with high-tech cities, but instead of investigating a big-budget alien city, they investigate a low-budget box ... Read more

The last thing the last battlestar expected to find was another last battlestar.  It seems they’re a dime a dozen. But this last battlestar comes complete with Cain – the Living Legend. Ben and Eugene discuss. Synopsis While on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck encounter the Battlestar Pegasus, a long-thought lost Battlestar from the Fifth Fleet ... Read more

Remember when there were only two Psychons left in the universe; the beautiful and wonderful Maya and her argogant, insane father that didn’t chaff at the idea of sucking the brains out of passign aliens to accomplish his plans?  Remember how we all thought, “Maya’s father is the odd one out – the bad egg ... Read more

Starbuck crash lands on a Cylon-occupied planet, where he runs into a group of young freedom fighers whive’been giving the Cylons hell. Can he turn the Young Lords into a credible fighting force and defeat an entire garrison of Cylons? Ben and Eugene discuss The Young Lords. Synopsis Starbuck and Boomer, on patrol, are ambushed ... Read more

When a combination of John Koenig’s bad command decisions and a lack of leafy green salads to look at come together there’s bound to be lots of high-drama action or excitement, plus questions, lots of questions, like: Was that a seance? Where is the spectre? Why haven’t the Alphans risen up and thrown off their oppressor ... Read more

A small town connives to get a group of battle-trained warriors to help defend their town against maurading bandits. That description sounds a bit generic – and so does this episode! Ben and Eugene discuss The Magnificent Warriors. Synopsis Blue Squadron defeats an incoming Cylon attack fleet, but a few ships get through, the reach ... Read more

There’s a pinwheel in space and we all know what that means!  Psychic phenomena run amuck! Ben and Eugene discuss the Lambda Factor. Synopsis 2308 days since leaving Earth’s orbit, the moon is traveling through a completely empty zone of space. The Alphans call it the peace zone because with nothing there, there are no ... Read more

There’s a planet.  With a gun on it. A frozen world – one might even call it an “ice planet.”  That planet is known as Arcta, or perhaps Kalpa, but we shall call it “Zero – Ice Planet Zero.” And we shall do so for no apparent reason whatsoever. No matter, because the Galactica is ... Read more

The Alphans are rescued! Just like that time on Gilligan’s Island when the faster-than-light ship from Hawaii arrived and brought all the castaway’s friends with them, despite the fact that hundreds of years had elapsed back on Hawaii. Only Gilligan could see that their rescuers were actually headhunters from another island using their power of ... Read more

Starbuck in on a long patrol and he needs to put some distance between himself and the women in his life. Ben and Eugene discuss The Long Patrol. Synopsis The Galactica is finally leaving its home “star system”, passing through a cloud of asteroid dust and seeing, for the first time, a whole new galaxy, ... Read more

Here it is:  The episode you’ve all been waiting for – Space Warp. John and Tony go on a field trip while Maya suffers the ministrations of Dr. Russell.  Who’s in worse trouble? Synopsis 1807 days after the moon left Earth, John Koenig and Tony Verdesci are heading in an Eagle to explore a derelict ... Read more

Capt. Apollo has got a problem.  He’s stranded on a very dark planet with no fuel as the fleet inexorably moves away from him.  There’s also a Cylon Centurion on the planet with him. Also, how far will Starbuck and Apollo go to avoid babysitting Boxey again? Ben and Eugene discuss the Lost Warrior. Synopsis ... Read more

There exists in this universe a balance between matter and anti-matter.  A balance which must remain forever identical.  What happens when a teenage girl with a crush on Tony Verdesci upsets the balance of the universe? Ben and Eugene discuss A Matter of Balance. Synopsis Shermeen has three problems, first, she’s a teenager improbably assigned ... Read more

A dark and mysterious void appears in space before the Galactica.  Adama takes a leap of faith with the lives of all the Colonial Survivors.  On a happier note, Apollo and Serina are sealed. Ben and Eugene discuss the Lost Planet of the Gods. Synopsis Apollo and Serena announce their engagement to the delight of ... Read more

In the deep vastness of space, a mysterious cloud appears near Alpha.  At almost exactly the same time, almost everyone on Alpha is taken ill.  Oh, what are the galactic odds that these two things could happen simultaneously?! …and then the cloud starts making demands! Ben and Eugene discuss the Beta Cloud. Synopsis 1503 minus ... Read more

As humanity approaches the Seventh Millenium of Time, it will at least know peace.  After a thousand yahren war with an evil race of robotic war machines known as the Cylons, the war is finally over. What could possibly go wrong? Ben and Eugene start our exploration of a new series on Fusion Patrol – ... Read more

Cmdr. John Koenig is acting weird.  He’s irrational, authoritarian, paranoid and uncommunicative.  Sounds like just another day on Moonbase Alpha, but is it?  Could even John Koenig go a bit too far? Find out as Ben and Eugene discuss Seed of Destruction. Synopsis 1608 days after leaving Earth’s orbit, Alpha encounters a jewel-like asteroid. It ... Read more

Giant space explosions threaten to destroy Moonbase Alpha unless John, Maya, and Alan can communicate with an alien-race of chlorine breathers and appeal their sense of morality and decency to get them to spare Alpha and all aboard her from destruction. And if they can’t appeal to their better angels, Koenig will just kill them ... Read more

Deep underneath Moonbase Alpha are catacombs.  Do they hold the secret of survival for Alpha as it faces an outer space heat wave? Technician Osgood has faith that they will. The question is, do Ben and Eugene have faith in this episode as they discuss it? Synopsis 1196 days since leaving earth Patrick Osgood is ... Read more

In their many cosmic wanderings, the residents of Moonbase Alpha have seen many things to make them question their place in the universe.  There was that time they encountered heaven in the form of anti-matter.  Or the time their presence was predestined to fertilize an entire planet to the new level of existence.  Or the time ... Read more

Sorry.  Just sorry. This week, Ben and Eugene discuss Brian the Brain. Synopsis 1,150 Days after leaving Earth’s orbit, the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha have finally gotten around to uploading the data they’ve collected since leaving Earth into their computer. This leaves them mostly without computers during the process and leaves Koenig as horny as ... Read more

Two aliens, father and son Pasc and Etrec,  are found deep beneath Moonbase Alpha.  Why were they intered there?  What is the mystery of their reluctance to give blood?  What is that strange mark of evil on Pasc’s forehead?  What is Alan’s obsession with the boy, Etrec? Ben and Eugene discuss the Space: 1999 episode, ... Read more

Someone’s probably going to get pedantic on us with this one but, if this episode had tea, we could say it was Space: 1999 “Tea in the Midlands” as they go to Luton in Bedfordshire and study botany.  Also, hand-to-hand combat.  And hand-to-lion combat.  And hand-to-bird combat. Join Ben and Eugene as they talk about the ... Read more

The SS Emporium and her master, Taybor arrive for a little light banter and barter.  What could possibly go wrong? Ben and Eugene discuss The Taybor. Synopsis All the sexy women of Alpha are seen spending the day in their bikinis, sunning themselves and rubbing oil all over each other and then suddenly things start ... Read more

This is it.  It’s all over except for the shooting.  Blakes 7 rockets to it’s final, shocking conclusion. Ben and Eugene pick over the corpse of Blakes 7.

Journey to Where?  Journey to Where.  Is it a question, or is it a statement?  What are the deep philosophical differences between those two interpretation? You won’t find out in this episode, as Ben and Eugene ask the question, or respond to the statement, “journey to where(?/.)” Synopsis Alpha receives a neutrino transmission from Earth ... Read more

Avon is courting the warlord, Zukan, to join his rebel alliance.  Tarrant is counting Zukan’s daughter, Zeona, to join Tarrant’s “alliance.” How could this go wrong? Ben and Eugene discuss the penultimate episode of Blakes 7, Warlord. Synopsis The federation’s pacification program using Pylene-50 has been stepped up substantially. Planets are falling faster than ever ... Read more

There’s a planet that has rocks on it.  Desirable rocks.  Koenig leads a highly-specialized team of crack rock collectors to the planet to get those rocks, but he soon learns that all that glisters is not Melganite. Ben and Eugene discuss All That Glisters. That was a stupid episode – James, age 12 Synopsis 565 ... Read more

When you’re an outer space outlaw and revolutionary, it’s all about knowing who’s got you back.  This week, Vila learns who he can trust to keep him alive as he and Avon share an orbit. Ben and Eugene discuss this, the 50th episode of Blakes 7, Robert Holmes’ Orbit!

Time for one of our rare “sidecar” episodes!  During our discussion of Star Trek Discovery, we turned our attention to the delivery mechanisms and the economics of the newest Star Trek series. Are we fans of CBS All Access?  Find out on this new, bonus episode of Fusion Patrol. Patreon Subscribers:  This is a free, ... Read more

There’s a whole new world of Discovery out there – Star Trek Discovery, that is, and 70 million Star Trek podcasts are going to analyze it to death. Ben and Eugene take a quick detour of discovery through the opening two-parter of Star Trek Discovery before we return to our standard programming.

Help, I’m trapped in a bottle being forced to watch episodes of Space: 1999, and they’ve put on One Moment of Humanity. I’m afraid I might go out like a Christmas Light! Oh, but I’m obligated to say…  Ben and Eugene discuss One Moment of Humanity. Synopsis 515 Days after leaving Earth’s orbit and Alpha ... Read more

There’s gold in them thar… umm… spaceships, and Avon and a “pal” have a plan to liberate all that lovely money for themselves. But there’s someone else who has other plans for them. Ben and Eugene discuss Gold.

A swarm of space bees arrives at Moonbase Alpha…  no wait, that was an episode of the Starlost, wasn’t it? Some missiles attack Moonbase Alpha…  no, that’s not right. Exiles arrive at Moonbase Alpha, and like immigrants from anywhere, John Koenig welcomes them with open arms and a concealed laser gun. Ben and Eugene discuss ... Read more

Sand, sand everywhere and not a drop to drink. Tarrant finds himself stranded on a planet with a deadly life form AND there’s a lot of living sand around, too! Ben and Eugene discuss Sand. Synopsis The green planet Vern has something the Federation thinks is important, but they don’t know what it is. Five ... Read more

Big, exciting changes are coming in the Series Two premiere of Space: 1999.  First up, Mentor of the planet Psychon wants to drain the Alphans’ brain.  His daughter Maya just wants to have fun with her ability to transform into any living creature.  What could possibly go wrong? Ben and Eugene discuss the Metamorph! Synopsis ... Read more

Avon and the crew are playing games.  Deadly games. Ben and Eugene look at the Blakes 7 episode, Games.

I’m not going to lie to you.  I had a blast recording this episode.  I can’t remember an episode that had so much to talk about it. Pity, it’s a bit rubbish. Ben and I discuss the Testament of Arkadia, the series one finale of Space: 1999. Synopsis Tonight Commander Koenig is going to tell ... Read more

What do you get when you combine an infallible assassin, the cunning Commissioner Sleer, a slave auction and the crew of the Scorpio? Ben and Eugene try to solve that riddle as they discuss Assassin. Synopsis Vila intercepts a message from a familiar voice – Servalan AKA Commissioner Sleer. The message is a date and ... Read more