:22:00
Your father would have been
very proud of you.
:22:05
I think in his heart
he loved you best
:22:08
even though he found it
very hard to show his feelings.
:22:13
Then that's where
you take after him, isn't it?
:22:31
It had been a long day.
:22:33
Eighteen dawns, seventeen sunsets,
:22:36
and yet Commander Hunt
had still not had his breakfast.
:22:39
Hunt knew the Major
did not approve of his maverick ways.
:22:43
'People should just take me as I am'
:22:46
mused Hunt, as he strode
along his Space Station corridor,
:22:49
his faithful dog Cosmo
close to his heels.
:22:52
'Sit down,' said the Major.
:22:54
Cosmo curled up at his master's feet
:22:56
as the Major proceeded
to brief Hunt on his mission...
:22:59
It appeared that minute,
life bearing spores
:23:01
drifting in clouds across a distant galaxy
:23:04
had been touched by unknown rays
from a dying sun,
:23:08
and had hatched into a colossal monster
:23:10
- who fed off X-rays...
- As mum's not getting up,
:23:12
we're going to have
your party in her room.
:23:14
What?
:23:14
I said
:23:16
that as mum's not getting up,
we're going to have your party in her room.
:23:21
So why don't you do her a favour
and clean yourself up?
:23:25
If people really liked me,
they'd take me as I am.
:23:33
If.
:23:35
This monster
was now terrorizing
:23:37
regular space traffic
within the Solar System.
:23:40
'Your task is not only
to track down and destroy this beast,
:23:43
but also to dispose
of its gigantic corpse.
:23:46
To allow it to drift on
forever through space
:23:48
would create
not only a collision hazard,
:23:50
but who knows what other
monster's mutation
:23:53
might emerge
from its putrefying carcass.
:23:56
# Happy birthday to you...