The Sci Fi Channel drags a minor Mark Hamill classic out of the vault, Kirk fights transhuman psychics and just how many days in a row can the Showtime family of channels play Day of the Triffids, anyway?
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3:25 AM Roger Corman Presents (Showtime Beyond) - Galactic Odyssey
Perhaps better known as Starquest 2, this deep-space B movie gets a bunch of tourists mixed up in the affairs of an interstellar killer. With Robert Edlund and Adam Baldwin.
5:15 AM The Day of the Triffids (Showtime2)
Mutant plants make a bid to conquer the Earth after a freak meteor shower in this apocalyptic 1962 classic.
9:00 AM Android (Sundae)
Bizarre 1982 production pits Klaus Kinski against his own robotic assistant after a beautiful ex-convict breaks into their space station home.
2:00 PM Lost in Space (SciFi) - The Hungry Sea
Summer returns to the Robinsons' planet, allowing everyone's favorite space castaways to return to the Jupiter 2's northerly crash site. And yet, even more bad weather intervenes.
4:00 PM Star Trek (SciFi) - Where No Man Has Gone Before
Two Starfleet officers gain dangerous psychic powers after the Enterprise bumps up against the energy barrier walling off the Milky Way.
4:30 PM Android (Sundae)
Bizarre 1982 production pits Klaus Kinski against his own robotic assistant after a beautiful ex-convict breaks into their space station home.
7:00 PM Laserhawk (SciFi)
Teenagers learn they are reincarnated aliens from a quarter-billion years ago. Now it's time for them to save the world from invasion, with only a mental patient and a comic-book artist for assistance. With Mark Hamill.
7:10 PM Alien Resurrection (MoreMax)
Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) returns to continue her war with the ultimate carnivorous nightmares. French director Jean-Pierre (Delicatessen) Jeunet brought big boots, a sense of humor and Ron Perlman to the franchise, while screenwriter Joss (Buffy) Whedon gave Winona Ryder some saucy dialogue.
10:40 PM Species II (TMC)
An astronaut undergoes a mating frenzy after being infected by alien DNA on Mars. The object of his attention: "Eve" (Natasha Henstridge), the alien/hybrid menace from the first film, now supposedly rehabilitated.
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