Malice: 1999
Intro
A short film that takes two characters from
Malice -- The Webseries
(which is a gothic story, not science fiction)
and places them in the S19 universe.
Not an episode of Malice itself,
and not really a crossover either,
but rather an "apocryphal" character 'what if.'
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Statements
- Created for the
Alpha: 2012 convention,
after one of its con committee members found two unrelated
science fiction shorts from the same producers,
including "Alpha Attack" (which is based on S19).
- At that convention,
there was a mini-panel showing it, discussing it, and
discussing the actual Malice series.
More is in the Editor's convention report (see Links,
then look for it later in Friday, September 14, 2012).
- Phil Cook was the producer. He was inspired into film production by S19.
- Mark Hyde, who played the father character, was a big fan of S19.
- Brittany Martz, who played the daughter character,
"was turned off by science fiction as a child"
(her father was a big Star Trek fan).
Phil showed her some S19 clips and then
she got interested in the project.
Links
Warnings
- SPOILERS follow! You may want to check whether or not this
is available on YouTube, koldkast.tv (sp?), or elsewhere.
Plot
- A wing of Hawks flies, on a target practice exercise, over the Moon's surface.
One Hawk is piloted by the father character from the main Malice series.
- On board the Spacedock orbiting the Moon, is Alice, his daughter --
also from Malice. In this story, she is instead
one of the crew of Spacedock, and caretaker to the Metaprobe
that is awaiting a crew currently dying on the Moon.
- From their different vantage points,
they watch Breakaway unfold, and we see the Moon blasting
away from Earth, Area Two acting like an engine.
The other Hawks in the wing doing target practice are destroyed,
while the father's barely makes it out.
- Early in this, Alice, as Spacedock is falling apart around her,
evacuated to the Metaprobe, which she launched away from the exploding dock.
She eventually regains control back out of the Metaprobe's spinning.
- Both surviving ships are pulled partway along, too far to return to Earth.
- Father and daughter rendezvous.
The Hawk ends up docked to the Metaprobe,
the latter turning up the engines to try to reach the Moon,
which is about where the short story ends.
With a perhaps fully-stocked Metaprobe and a warship in their hands,
one is left wondering if they can eventually catch up with Alpha.
Opinions
- This struck the Editor as a clever perspective and nicely done overall.
It was probably the first time he saw a video
imagining of the Breakaway "engine"-like behavior from a distance.