The Dorcons
Definition
The 24th episode of Y2;
the 48th and final episode
of the original broadcast series.
Written by Johnny Byrne.
Directed by Tom Clegg.
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Plot
- An alien probe ship attacks Maya
remotely with an energy beam.
A Meson Converter is detected.
That ship disappears and is replaced
with what Maya now recognizes,
to her terror, as a
Dorcon warship,
which turns out to be the flagship
of the Archon,
the ruler of the Dorcon Empire.
He seeks
"immortality" via a transplant
of a Psychon's hearty brain stem,
which would leave Maya a living husk.
He dispatches Consul Varda to capture her.
The Alphans attempt to defend Maya,
despite her frequent protests of the futility of such action,
and pleas to either let the Dorcons take her,
or for a fellow Alphan to kill her first.
After destruction (including two deaths)
is rained down on Alpha,
the Commander is forced to surrender the base to the Dorcons.
They invade Alpha
and capture and remove Maya.
After the Dorcons also leave,
Koenig jumps into the transport beam,
onto the Dorcon ship, where he is promptly stunned and imprisoned.
Maya is taken away to be prepared for surgery.
However, Malic, the nephew of the Archon, covets the chances
to gain the role of Archon and "immortality"
all at once, and frees John to serve as a distraction,
while Malic himself kills the Archon.
Koenig briefly frees Maya, but they are caught back
in the Dorcon control room.
John implicates Malic in the Archon's death,
and manages to convince Varda of Malic's guilt.
Malic promptly shoots Varda,
but a stray shot from her weapon damages
the Meson Converter,
which allows John and Maya to escape,
and leads to the destruction the Dorcon flagship.
Quotes
- "Resistence is futile" -- a phrase Maya uses to confirm
and echo what Varda stated moments before:
"The Psychon will tell you how futile it is to resist us."