A group of astronauts board a space station that is promptly hit by an asteroid and brought down, creating a radioactive spill across the southwest states due to the plutonium on board. Frank must go back in time and dock the sphere with the space station to help avert catastrophe.

Something about this story never quite clicks, and it's probably the fact that none of the guest cast are worth bothering with, as they're the worst bunch of astronauts ever seen. Not only are they untrustworthy, they're also unprofessional. Properly trained crew wouldn't just panic, run, then die shortly afterwards because of their stupidity. This is only one of the unbelievable things about the story.

Aside from this, there's the ability the sphere has to dock with the station when it doesn't normally come into temporal phase until it's close to Earth again, the all-too-convenient past relationship between the lead astronaut's father and Frank, and the most odd thing of all: why are the Backstep team running a shuttle mission? Don't they have better things to do? NASA surely has trained staff to do what this group of stuffed monkeys can.

Suffice to say this episode is heavy-handed, overly sentimental (the flashbacks are appallingly cheesy) and predictable from start to finish. It seems that all the money has been put into the budget to get some halfway decent special effects and none was left for plot or good guest actors, and now the novelty of a space disaster has worn off, maybe we'll get something a bit less obvious.

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