George Vere’s hour-long confection is a riotous piece of grade-Z science fiction in which a rather bijou starship has to battle cheaply made monsters, a demoralised cast, Vere’s monstrous ego and some of the worst sci-fi power ballads known to humankind. Slowly its creator’s ego trip, during which we learn a lot about his character’s good looks and sexual charisma, goes off course as the other actors mutiny against the writer’s poor grasp of plot, character and even basic science.