This one dares you to sit still. It is 1985 money burning on screen: light pouring through the Starlight's photon sails, hull plating rendered with a fetishist's patience, deep-space vistas that most TV sci-fi of the era could not dream of budgeting. Then it slows to a crawl, wanders, and asks you to care about a mysterious girl pulled from asteroid wreckage while the crew argues its way toward Canopus and the world called Odin. That is the deal, and it is why half the audience taps out at the forty minute mark and the other half calls it a lost treasure next to Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Crest of the Stars. It was built as the first leg of a trilogy that never came, so the threads just hang there in the dark, unanswered forever. If you are the kind of viewer who watches spacecraft the way other people watch actors, this is your cathedral, hard rock soundtrack and all.

In 2099, advances in space travel have let humanity settle parts of the Solar System, and the ship Starlight is launched to push past the limits of what people have reached so far. Near the asteroid fields, its crew recovers a mysterious girl from a wreck. Afterward, they set a dangerous course for the Canopus system, hoping to find a planet called Odin that may hold the key to every form of life. The film is a science fiction adventure with dramatic elements.