Space:1999 (Gerry Anderson) S1E9 1975 Mission of the Darians, Aubrey Morris Joan Collins EN CC ITC

Описание: A call for help from the survivors of a dying world...an incredible world that has been flying through space for nearly 900 years, with contrasting inhabitants. Some have never changed; others have reverted to barbarism. Can this world offer new hope for the Alphans?

The Daria is based on a 1971 painting by NASA artist Robert McCall (1919-2010) entitled "Aerospace Port". It is one of a series of paintings of massive cities floating in the sky over Arizona landscapes.

genius borrows nobly...from Poul Anderson's "Tau Zero", Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!", Anderson's own "UFO", Star Trek TOS' "A Taste of Armageddon", "The Cloud Minders", "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", classic DW's "The Ark", Paul Dehn's "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Nietzsche, Boorman's "Zardoz", William F. Nolan & Johnson's "Logan's Run", Pier Paul Read's "Alive", The Saga of Burnt Njal, Brian Aldiss's "Nonstop" (aka Starship), Robert A. Heinlein's "Universe", and Don Wilcox's "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years"...perhaps.

The name Darian may refer to the Dorians who overthrew the Mycenaean & Minoan civilizations about 1000 BC, plunging ancient Greece into a dark age. Classical Greek civilization based on militaristic city states emerged three centuries later. Kara's hairstyle has Hellenic hints.