Episode 5 - A Helping Hand

That's right! A cliff-hanger ending! That should keep the watchers interested. After travelling to a distant neutron star the ship is out of energy and has no way of gathering enough energy to travel to another star.

Episode 5 Synopsis:

The captain is pacing deep in thought, trying to conjure a way out of this situation, he asks SAI for any solutions, to which she responds "Using basic plasma propulsion we can reach the nearest safe star for energy gathering within 100 years, though I'm quite sure that isn't an acceptable solution", and it sets in just how bad a situation this is for the crew. Right when all seems lost the ship receives another transmission from an unknown source but it's clear this time, the alien race is offering help and shortly after warps into view. A bright light engulfs the ship and seconds later the crew find themselves somewhere completely different, now in orbit around a huge blue star and the alien ship no where to be seen. SAI notifies the crew that they are now in orbit around the star Rigel and that energy reserves are rapidly filling, though she can detect no sign of the alien ship or how they arrived here so quickly. It is then that a calm voice speaks from behind the crew, it is an alien, one of the crew that just rescued them. He introduces himself and explains that his crew have been attempting to make contact with them for some time and that luckily they were able to follow them to the neutron star and retrieve them, and he has been left to join the crew and share any knowledge that he can. He and the captain leave the bridge and have a private conversation about the nature of his joining the crew and about his species' interest in the crew and then return to the crew on the bridge. The captain formally introduces the alien Noko as the newest crew member.

This particular episode is more about action than the previous ones, I felt that introducing an alien crew member would make the series more interesting, and this method of introduction felt like a good way to go about it. Though I feel like I should include information about the star Rigel that they are currently orbiting just so that each episode does include educational information. Expect an edit shortly!

Edit: Whoops! Wrong font for a few hours there! Deary me...