Cartwright.
Whathas he done this time?
He hacked our main power grid
to run his experiment.
The schooIwas in chaos.
Yeah, right.
We didn't even have Iights.
This is no Iaughing matter,
Professor Robinson.
WiII is terribIy gifted.
The changing shape of education.
His IittIe time machines,
though purefancy...
are the products
of a truIy briIIiantmind.
No more monkey business.
I mean it.
The boy is starved
for attention.
I know your Iife is anything
butnormaI rightnow...
but wasn't there some way...
hisfather couId have
attendedthe sciencefair?
As you are aware...
AIpha Prime is the onIy other
habitabIe pIanet...
yet detected
by deepspace recon.
My crew wiII sIeepaway
our 10-year journey there...
in suspended animation.
Once we have rendezvousedwith
the research coIony onAIpha...
IwiII supervise
construction of a hypergate.
By then,
technicians here on Earth...
wiII have compIeted
the companion hypergate...
in our pIanet's orbit.
Once both gates are compIete...
ships wiII be abIe to pass
instantaneousIy between them.
Immediate coIonization
of AIpha Prime wiII be possibIe.
Can'tyou justuse
theJupiter's hyper-engine...
to zapstraight to AIpha Prime?
Hyperspace exists
beneath normaI space.
If youtry to enter hyperspace
withouta gate...
your exitfactor is random.
There's no teIIing
where you'd come out.
Ninety-eightpercent of
the gaIaxy is stiII uncharted.
There's a Iot of space
to getIostin.
How is Captain DanieIs
recoveringfrom thefIu?
WiII he piIot the mission?
Ladies and gentIemen.
You came to getyourfirstIook
at theJupiter 1.
Don'tyouthink
you've waited Iong enough?
Let's move into the Iaunch dome.
One more question, Professor.
Nowthat the mission's
been pushed up...
how do your chiIdrenfeeI
aboutIeavingthe earth behind?
They couIdn'tbe more excited.
This mission sucks!
I don't wanna Ieave earIy.
I don't wanna go ataII.
We wiII discuss this at dinner.
For the Iast three years, I've
missed everythingtraining...
so I can spendthe next 10years
missing everything eIse.
I'm notstaying homefor dinner.
I'm seeing my friends.
Penny.
I'm going out to say good-bye
to my entire Iife.
Penny, I needyou here tonight.
Waita minute.
On this eve, before she's torn
from everything she knows--
kidnapped...
hurIed into deepspace
againsther wiII--
what thoughtsfiIIthe mind
of the daring space captive?
Are there boys onAIpha Prime?
What wiII Iwear?
What wiII itbe Iike to jettison
your body into deepspace?
First...
you'IItry hoIdingyour breath.
Butyour bIood's
aIready begun to boiI.
Then your skin infIates
Iike a baIIoon.
Then...pop.
Do they have a name
for what's wrongwith you?
Dad says don'tbringthem.
Like anything I do
matters to him.
Don'tsweatit, kid.
I gotapoIogy videos
for two birthdays.
HeforgotIastyear compIeteIy.
This mission's the onIy thing
he cares aboutanymore.
So that's a no tofamiIy dinner?
Let's see.
Do I spend my Iastnight
on Earth...
watching Mom and Dad pretend
not to befighting again...
or bIow 10years worth
of aIIowance at the maII?
You do the math.
Mom's gonna go thermaI.
What's she gonna do,
ground me?
I'm nervous aboutjamming in
a new piIot the Iastsecond.
The GIobaI Sedition
is getting brave.
First the hypergate,
then DanieIs.
Next time, they may attack
the Iaunch dome.
We can'taffordto wait.
WiII's sciencefair. Reminder.
ApoIogy videofor WiII.
He'II understand.
Ben, Iisten.
My famiIy is on this mission.
I need a piIot who's
more than justspitand poIish.
I've gotyour man.
He just doesn'tknow ityet.
At ease, Major.
Why was I puIIed
from active duty?
Those gen-techs
may attack again.
I needto be up there.
Do you know Professor Robinson?
By reputation. Yourfather's
battIe strategies...
were required reading
at the academy.
What can youteII me
about theJupiter mission?
TheJupiter
is an oversized robot.
Everything's automatic.
Any monkey in afIightsuit...
can piIot