This is the story of the most extraordinary journey in human exploration, the Voyager space mission. In 1977 two unmanned spacecraft were launched by NASA, heading for distant worlds. It would be the first time any man-made object would ever visit the farthest planets of the solar system
- Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune & Uranus. On the way the Voyagers would be bombarded by space dust, fried by radiation & discover many of the remarkable wonders of the solar system. Now, at the end of 2012, 35 years & 11 billion miles later, they are leaving the area of the sun's influence. As they journey out into the galaxy beyond they carry a message from Earth, a golden record bolted to the side of each craft describing our civilisation in case of discovery by another. This is the definitive account of the most intrepid explorers in Earth's history.
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The evil Diana (JANE BADLER), captured & set to stand trial for her crimes against the human race, is kidnapped by corrupt corporate magnate Nathan Bates (LANE SMITH), who wants to know the secrets of the Visitors' advanced technology; & half-alien, half-human "star-child" Elizabeth (JENNY BECK) begins a startling metamorphosis. ...

Ham (MICHAEL IRONSIDE) & Kyle (JEFF YAGHER) are captured by Visitors, & Charles (DUNCAN REGEHR), the Leader's special envoy, assumes command of the alien forces. Equipped with an enhanced conversion technique, the cunning Charles brainwashes Ham to kill Donovan (MARC SINGER) during a prisoner exchange. ...

Aliens posing as Rebels stage a terrorist attack on Science Frontiers hoping to turn public opinion against the Resistance; Chaing (AKI ALEONG) & Charles (DUNCAN REGEHR) form an alliance & decree that one Resistance sympathizer a day will be executed until Rebel leaders surrender; swept up in the mass arrests, Robin (BLAIR TEFKIN) falls for a seemingly heroic compatriot. ...

When Willie (ROBERT ENGLUND) is critically injured, Donovan (MARC SINGER) & Ham (MICHAEL IRONSIDE) kidnap a Visitor doctor who's sympathetic to the Rebels & reveals that the Visitors are smuggling armaments into the city; Kyle (JEFF YAGHER) suspects that the computer image of Nathan Bates (LANE SMITH) is not really his father. ...

Sent to investigate Charles' death, newly arrived Inspector General Philip (FRANK ASHMORE) allows Lydia (JUNE CHADWICK) to choose a trial by combat in a laser duel to the death with Diana (JANE BADLER); Donovan (MARC SINGER) helps a beautiful widow (DEBORAH WAKEHAM) organize the Resistance in her apathetic town. ...

Needing medicine to treat a deadly diphtheria epidemic, Julie (FAYE GRANT) & Kyle (JEFF YAGHER) recruit a youth gang, one of whom may be a Visitor spy, to help steal the serum; Diana (JANE BADLER) & Lydia (JUNE CHADWICK) conspire to frame a convenient scapegoat for Charles' murder. ...

Anxious to settle a personal vendetta, Philip (FRANK ASHMORE) trails a Fifth Columnist, hoping he will lead him to the Resistance & Donovan (MARC SINGER); Diana (JANE BADLER) plots to have Philip assassinated by Angela (LESLIE BEVIS), his bodyguard with a score of her own to settle. ...

When Philip (FRANK ASHMORE) & Diana (JANE BADLER) install a high tech computer capable of launching a final victory over Earth, the Resistance's only hope at retaliation is a teenaged computer whiz (JOSH RICHMAN), who refuses to aid the cause until Donovan (MARC SINGER) rescues the boy's father (CONRAD JANIS) from aboard the Visitors' mother ship. ...

Julie (FAYE GRANT) & Donovan (MARC SINGER) sneak aboard the Mother Ship to look for a hidden list naming all the Resistance leaders; Diana (JANE BADLER) schemes to have Lydia's brother (KEN OLANDT) slain during a ritual celebration; Julie discovers a former lover (JOHN CALVIN) seemingly helping the Visitors develop a virus deadly to humans. ...