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Space Island One is a British/German science fiction television series that ran for 26 episodes beginning in 1998. A co-production between the UK's Sky One channel and the German Vox channel, it starred Judy Loe as Kathryn McTiernan, the commander of the multinational crew of the space station Unity.
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Judy Loe
Commander Kathryn McTiernan
Angus MacInnes
Lieutenant Commander Walter B. Shannon
Bruno Eyron
Dusan Kashkavian
Julia Bremermann
Henrietta 'Harry' Eschenbach
Kourosh Asad
Dr Kaveh Homayuni
William Oliver
Chief Science Officer Lyle Campbell
Indra Ové
Paula Hernandez
Sally Grace
Control
1998
Newly arrived environmental specialist Paula Hernandez finds slotting into place with the rest of the Unity team is harder than she expected after her over-curiosity triggers a bomb left behind by her mysterious predecessor.
A visiting journalist uncovers the background to an aborted space mission, as Paula begins her sexual pursuit of Dusan, and Harry has some startling news.
A visitor has a personal agenda, which involves the destruction of Unity when his child prodigy, a member of the crew, appears to have turned against him.
A group dynamics expert exposes cracks and resentments in the crew by purposely digging into their privacy and provoking arguments and confrontations.
A devious entrepreneur utilises Unity as a platform from which to perform somewhat questionable space burials for the benefit of new television audiences.
Crew discipline slides when Kathryn takes ground leave and Shannon is left in charge. An experiment in pheromones results in Paula attempting the seduction of an increasingly distant Dusan.
Desperate circumstances aboard a stricken mining vessel result in madness and cannibalism to stay alive after being lost for three years. The survivors are rescued by Unity and attempts must be made to uncover the truth.
A laser, designed to zap space junk, malfunctions resulting in chaos aboard Unity. Shannon's poor health raises concerns with Paula. While tensions aboard Unity climb, Harry, Lyle and Commander McTiernan are unable to be awakened from an induced sleep experiment. Kaveh and Dusan ignore Paula's concerns, and as a result Shannon's health deteriorates resulting in a stroke.
Abandoned stealth armoury is accidentally reactivated by one of Shannon's probes and it identifies the space station as a hostile entity.
The various personal problems of Unity's crew have been driving them apart, but the occasion of the first child to be born in space brings a return to harmony...eventually.
1998
The arrival of a maintenace shuttle brings an unexpected visitor, Anderson from the failed Clementine mission. Commander McTiernan is concerned as the details surrounding Anderson's mission are vague and his shuttle is registered to a nonexistent company.
A shuttle hit by a meteor crashes into Unity. While crew of Unity have the grim job of recovering the corpses and their personal effects from the shuttle, strange and unexplained events begin happening around the space station.
CALUM is brought to Unity by Professor Jarvis to replace the station's mainframe. In control of the station, CALUM suddenly becomes sentient. Just as quickly, however, it begins to break down, jeopardizing the safety of the station.
The world's last live specimen of the smallpox virus is being transferred to Unity for ""safe"" keeping. Lyle has an crisis of ethics on whether to let such a deadly thing survive. Meanwhile the crew begin to fall ill and it seems their worst fears have come to life.
