This week it’s the moment we’ve all been looking forward to – the culmination of all the story-arc goodness when all the loose ends are tied up neatly with a bow in the two-part series finale of Starhunter Redux in Hyperspace parts I & II.

Kenneth and Eugene discuss.

Hyperspace I Episode Synopsis

Marcus contemplates his recent almost-success at achieving hyperspace using negative energy in an anti-matter drive.  He finds an obscure scientific paper describing just that possible scenario published by Dr. Lanzig, a bit of an obscure crank.

He wakes Travis from a sexy-time dream with Callie.  Well, technically, he wakes the entire crew from their sleep – although probably not all from sexy-time dreams about Callie – to impart this currently unactionable bit of information.

Travis returns to sleep but this time dreams himself into hyperspace where he meets a woman who declares that he is the “The One” and that, now that he’s found her, he needs to go find her.  She doesn’t know where and provides no help.  Travis returns to the ship.

Marcus’ further reading of Lanzig’s paper indicates that if you could calculate the pulse gap, you could achieve hyperspace, and to calculate the pulse gap, you need a Horizon Generator.  Thinking that they have a brand new pair of roller skates and Lanzig has the key, they decide to track him down.

Meanwhile, the New Orchard is up to their old tricks.  Starchild Tristian Catchpole and his confederates inside the Orchard have plans for the human race, and they need more people who have activated the Second Divinity Cluster Gene.  He detects a disturbance in the Force when Montana meets the woman in hyperspace.  It’s not Montana, it’s the woman that’s activated the second gene, and they need to secure her.  They decide to let Montana track her down for them.

Lanzig has gone off the grid, erasing all evidence of his existence, but not so his assistant, Dr. Xeylon.  They track her down, and she is the woman from hyperspace.  She recognizes Travis as “The One,” and they are attacked by Orchard’s Goon Squad.  Xeylon is taken, Travis is knocked unconscious, and Callie has a minor wound in her shoulder.

Back on the Trans-Utopian, they track the clandestine Orchard ship back to Mars.  Also, Callie dies.  Apparently, the round she was hit with was poisoned, because…. reasons.  As she dies, she says the word “again,” and Travis phases into hyperspace, revisiting the moment she was shot.

Thinking that if they could get into hyperspace, they might be able to go back and rescue Callie, they embark on a mission to retrieve Dr. Xeylon.  While they lost Dr. Xeylon, they did manage to secure her Horizon Generator.  Oh, by the way, Lanzig was a fictional character created as a front for Dr. Xeylon.

A dangerous but short mission to Mars, and they recover her.  As the Orchard’s ship is about to capture the Trans-Utopian, they plug the Horizon Generator in, and the ship moves to hyperspace.

Hyperspace II Episode Synopsis

Percy, Marcus, and Rudolfo are each stuck on 3 different color-shifted alternate versions of the Trans-Utopian, which is still in Hyperspace. Caravaggio is missing, but the ship’s computer informs each of them they are both alone and not alone on board the ship.  Each detects the presence of another.

Tristian Catchpole is there, too, trying to get the Horizon Generator, which he cannot until the three crew members manage to re-integrate the color-shifted versions of the Trans-Utopian into one ship.  Even if they do that, it’s still going to fall apart.

Meanwhile, Travis and Dr. Xeylon are in a Hyperspace cloud.  She must train him to control – not check – his emotions by trying to… do something with his emotions.  This is the only way he can activate the second Divinity Cluster gene and the only way he can go back in time and rescue Callie.

A desperate gamble aboard the Trans-Utopians and a last-ditch effort by Travis results in the timeline being altered and Callie surviving, and the Trans-Utopian re-integrated.  

Catchpole steals the Horizon Generator and, with it, stages a coup at the Orchard.  He’s bringing those ancient aliens home to roost in the wasp’s egg’s food source which is humanity.

Travis and Xeylon return to the ship, tech the tech, and attempt to leave hyperspace, although things aren’t looking good when the episode ends.

Also, some idiot tacked on some really awful footage of Old Percy and Dante Montana doing really dumb stuff.

The end and good riddance.