This isn't a retelling of Moby Dick in space, it's a show that borrows the skeleton and builds something entirely its own, where a hunt for a legendary whale becomes a hunt for a legendary captain, and both matter equally. The cast carries real damage in their eyes; they're not heroes saving a planet, they're broken people who might actually do it anyway. Nobody talks about this one. That needs to stop.
In the year 4699, drifting spaceships are known as whales, and hunting them is a trade. A boy named Lucky seeks out Ahab, a famed whale hunter who runs the Ahab Whale Hunting Company, and begs him to save Mohd, his endangered home planet. The threat is Moby Dick, also called the White Devil, a spaceship carrying weapons powerful enough to destroy planets. It is also Ahab's old enemy, the one that took his leg and one of his eyes. Winning the outlaw captain and his crew over to the fight will not be easy. Loosely adapted from Herman Melville's novel, the 26-episode series is a science fiction adventure that moves the whale hunt into outer space.
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