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"PRE-ODDITY"

EPISODE SPO/-3A :     " THE PILOT "

LOG LINE:
MacManus is sent home early after overstepping his bounds on the ISAAC BROCK, but domestic life has no time for him.

SYNOPSIS:
When the Carrier ISAAC BROCK hits an unlisted mine field all hell breaks loose and Robert MacManus is the only person aboard who arrives at the conflagration with the right equipment. But in his rush to rescue a trapped Engineer MacManus by-passes many levels of the heirarchy and during his reprimand is encouraged to return to Earth with all due haste.
A direct flight home, however lands him in the middle of everyone else's life without warning and he's very much a fifth wheel, even for his fiance, Alison Grand, who is the throws of a tight competition for the hot-seat as the first Faster-Than-Light pilot.
Without a structured leave, or post-side duty schedule MacManus forrages on his own agenda, putting together a development program to create a team of "First Contact Specialists" for deep space exploration.
During this time he and Bill Magellan discover his family had used their pull to keep the 655 Squadron officially active.   After they slyly resurrect the squad and Squadroom MacManus begins billeting various multi-disciplinary officers in the Squad room on the condition that each 'member' takes some courses to support their 'cover'.
Robert MacManus then seeks out his brother, Jack, hoping to secure a long-range spacecraft.   Jack offers the Rigel Three, his birthright vehicle and something Robert is hesitant to take because of family tradition, but the elder brother presses the pointlessness of it staying with a "desk-jockey who gets space-sick looking out a window" so Robert assumes ownership of the nearly state-of-the-art craft.
With all the pieces in place Robert surprises everyone by submiting his bid for the proposed long-range Barnard's Star Mission.

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