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Former USS Enterprise captain William Shatner takes the helm as director and star of this sci-fi adventure following a young couple who travel to a small-town near the notorious Area-51 military base in search of extraterrestrial life. Deep in the heart of the Nevada desert, not far from Area-51, Commander Gossner (Shatner) has been conducting highly classified experiments on captured extraterrestrials. But the government is about to shut him down, and two wandering truth-seekers are about to make his life miserable. When his alien test subject is kidnapped, the vengeful Commander Gossner resorts to extreme measures in tracking down the otherworldly visitor. Dick Van Patten, Duane Whitaker, Tom Towles, and Dan Gauthier co-star.