Macross 7 (1994) s01e01 Episode Script

Speaker Pod

1
[song playing]
When I look up at the purple panorama ♪
The galactic highway ♪
A SHOOTING STAR pierces my heart ♪
When I match my quickening heartbeat ♪
To the sleepless city ♪
Praying to an uncertain tomorrow ♪
I hear that melody ♪
A mysterious voice
That won't let me go ♪
Tell me, SEVENTH MOON ♪
Where are you taking me ♪
And this troubled heart of mine? ♪
Palely shimmering, SEVENTH MOON ♪
I'm just looking for an answer ♪
In the rhythm
With this crazy dance of mine ♪
[music stops]
[narrator] In the year 2009,
the human race
made first contact with aliens.
Pushed into a war in space
with this army of giants
known as the Zentradi,
Earth was brought
to the brink of destruction.
March 2010. The war ends.
That April, the New U.N. Government
was established,
ushering in a new era
of peaceful coexistence
between humanity and the Zentradi.
Zentradi who wished to reduce themselves
to human size were able to,
via a process called "miclonization."
September 2011.
The New U.N. Government
devises the Humanity Emigration Plan
with the purpose of
preserving the human race.
September 2012. The first
Super Long-Range Emigration Fleet,
the Megaroad-01, is launched.
September 2030.
The first New Macross Class
emigration ship is launched.
Dwarfing its Megaroad predecessors,
this new class can carry
one million people.
In 2038, the Seventh New
Macross Class Ship and flagship
to the 37th Super Long-Range Emigration
Fleet, Macross 7, is launched.
Its destination: the Galactic Core.
The year is now 2045.
[crowd murmuring]
[keytar plays]
[rock music playing]
[crowd whistling]
SPEAKER POD
-[music stops]
-You sure about this?
He's still not here.
Well, it's time. We're starting.
[patron] All right, here we go.
-[rock music playing]
-[crowd cheering]
[mews]
[music stops]
-[music continues]
-[cheering continues]
[music continues in distance]
They still haven't started singing.
I really don't get modern music.
I didn't have her learn piano
to do something like this.
What are we gonna do?
The crowd's gonna get mad
if we keep this up.
Not really.
[sighs] He's just so irresponsible.
No, not really.
[roadie 1] Mylene's getting upset.
[roadie 2] Yep, but she'll get used to it.
[music stops]
[music continues in distance]
[cheering continues]
Basara!
Ah! Where have you been?
Got delayed.
This isn't a delay!
You're just plain late!
[chuckles]
What is it with you?
[mews]
Let's go!
[all] Yay!
Okay, let's get started
SATURDAY NIGHT ♪
How you feelin'? ♪
LET'S STAND UP ♪
Can you feel the beat? ♪
This is a flying paradise ♪
A half-forgotten energy ♪
NOW HURRY UP ♪
Let's get it back ♪
NO MORE WASTIN' TIME ♪
Before everything fades away ♪
Like a dream ♪
HEY, EVERYBODY ♪
Head towards the light ♪
Let's dance, man ♪
DANCIN' ON THE PLANET DANCE ♪
HEY, EVERYBODY ♪
[music continues faintly]
Follow your heart ♪
Let's shout it out loud ♪
Mmm.
[beeping]
I'm here.
[controller] Captain Max! Distress call
from one of our vanguard ships!
-What?
-Number 1624.
They're under attack
from unknown hostiles.
-How many?
-We're not sure, sir.
Confirm ASAP,
and prepare to launch Valkyries.
Put Diamond Force on standby.
I'm heading back now.
And now, a song
from our new band member Mylene!
Looks like I'm going to
miss her performance.
As if in love ♪
Our voices intermingle in a KISS ♪
My HEART is here ♪
[controller] Squadrons One, Two and Three,
please stand by.
-[alarm blaring]
-Squadrons Four, Five and Six
[Max] Any word from the Bolognaise?
[controller] No, sir.
We may have to lower the shell.
-Make the preparations.
-Yes, sir.
But, OH! What are those
Sparkling eyes of yours ♪
Still searching for? ♪
OH! MY FRIENDS
I ♪
[automated voice] Captain on the bridge.
Captain!
The Bolognaise is reporting that
they've confirmed nine bandits.
Nine of them.
The vanguard is in quite a mess.
Captain, they're approaching
our first defense perimeter!
[Max] Launch Valkyries.
[both] Aye, Captain.
[controller 1] Enemy fleet has launched
fighters and is maintaining course.
[controller 2]
Syderlyde Laser channel connected.
Diamond Force,
stand by for catapult launch.
This is Angel Leader.
Tally-ho, bandits decelerating.
Looks like they're preparing to engage.
[pilot 1] Gamlin,
it's our first mission, man.
-Time to show 'em what we're made of.
-This isn't combat training, you know?
[commander]
I don't think I need to remind you guys
that the military has invested
a lot of extra money in us.
Not just the battle suits,
special weapons and training.
I'm saying even our grub
and our barracks are extra expensive
compared to standard issue stuff.
So listen closely, Gamlin, Docker.
You're not allowed to go
get yourselves killed chasing glory.
If you do, you won't receive medals.
No one will even shed a tear for you.
I want results that live up to
the name Diamond Force, got it?
[Gamlin, Docker] Roger.
If we look into each other's eyes
See? ♪
[vocalizing]
[pilot 2 screams]
[screams]
What is that?
[commander] This is D-1.
Enemy intentions unclear.
Their actions had no effect on us.
[Gamlin] You okay? Respond!
Come on. What are you doing?
[sighs]
What's happening?
[commander] Report!
He's unconscious.
-No, he's conscious but
-What?
Lately, that fool's been looking
So far off into the distance ♪
That it troubles me ♪
OH! MY FRIENDS ♪
With the map of the future ♪
[yells]
What?
[bandit]
Sixty-five percent pure. Nice Spiritia.
They're fast!
[pilot 3 screams]
We need to assess the situation.
Open up video comms. All of them!
-[monitor beeping]
-[controller 1] Angel 03 not responding.
[controller 2] Link channel switches!
[screams, groans]
-[whimpering]
-[controller 2] The Symapris is
setting up a defensive perimeter.
Captain! That weapon, what is it?
-Don't take your eyes off that monitor.
-Aye, sir!
I've never seen this before.
[screams]
[sighs]
[whimpers]
Switch sound to channel B.
So only their squadron leader
has that kind of speed.
[yells]
Got one!
[commander]
Stay alert, Docker! 04 is hit! CBC.
You're not getting away this time!
[groans]
Seventy-two percent.
[chuckles] That's really nice.
[Docker groans]
Docker!
Captain! They've penetrated
our first defense perimeter!
They're coming straight for us!
-Don't take your eyes off that monitor.
-Aye, sir!
-Lower the shell.
-And the mayor?
We'll talk later.
[yells] You'll pay for that!
[crowd cheering]
[chuckles] You guys sure are pumped.
The show's just getting started.
There he goes running his mouth.
[Basara] You ain't seen nothing yet.
Let's rock!
[rock music playing]
[rumbling]
Hmm?
-[crowd gasping]
-[Mylene gasps]
-[music stops]
-[crowd murmuring]
[rumbling continues]
Captain, the mayor's on the hotline.
[sighs]
Don't take your eyes off that monitor.
-This is Max.
-[controllers chattering]
No, that's
What did you say?
[screen beeps]
No, there's no need to worry.
I'll fill you in later.
Who said to turn off the shell?
I said lower the shell!
[both exclaim]
-Aye, sir!
-Understood!
Don't take your eyes off those monitors.
Turn the shell back on and lower it!
-[chattering continues]
-[sighs]
They've never done this before.
-It can't be helped.
-[grunts]
-It's too late anyway.
-[controller] There's a live concert
-at Katasumi Park.
-Katasumi Park?
[explosion rumbles]
[crowd gasping, clamoring]
What is that?
[clamoring continues]
[shock wave booms]
[screaming]
[Basara strains]
-[gasps]
-[crowd whimpering, crying]
[shock wave booms]
[screaming]
[cymbal clangs]
Hmm?
What's happening?
-[siren blaring]
-[Ray] You hurt?
I'm good. But what the hell's going on?
No idea. But those streaks of light
-[shock wave booms]
-are from a dogfight.
That means there's a battle going on
right outside the ship.
-A battle?
-[Ray] Yeah.
That's the reason
the shell projection's down.
You mean a war's started?
No idea. At any rate,
today's gig is canceled.
-[mews]
-[Basara] Oh.
You okay?
Yeah. You can let me go now.
[roadie] Ray, let's get to the shelter.
All right.
Basara!
[siren continues]
Battle
[shock wave booms]
[drums playing]
What's going on?
No idea. But Veffidas
seems to be having fun.
Huh?
-I guess we're doing this.
-[crowd] Yay!
-[keytar playing]
-[crowd cheering]
[bass playing]
Let's go!
-[grunts]
-Huh?
Basara, wait! What are you doing?
[Basara] I'll be right back!
Jeez, you're so irresponsible!
-You better
-[shock wave booms]
[exclaims]
[music continues]
[grunting]
Our moment's finally come.
[music stops]
[chiming]
It's getting even purer.
-[yelling]
-[commander] Gamlin!
That's it. The purer the better. Hmm?
What the
[controller 1]
Unidentified fighter detected.
[controller 2] No identification signal.
-Try hailing it.
-[commander] Turn on your comms.
[Basara] I can hear ya just fine.
Opening laser comms channel 24.
Basara Nekki
What are you doing?
Jacking into the military's comms.
-[shock wave booms]
-What?
-[coughs]
-[drumming continues]
You can do that?
There's a trick to it.
[patron 1] Check it out, they're fighting.
[patron 2] Say what?
Just as I thought.
What's that?
-It's Basara.
-Huh?
[commander] Are you deaf? Get out of here!
[Basara]
This is the moment I've been waiting for.
Where did this idiot come from?
What is this?
Are my scanners fried?
[crowd murmuring]
[patron 1] What's that?
[patron 2] Basara.
-[patron 3] That's Basara?
-[patron 4] Wow, that's so cool.
No way.
-[rock music playing]
-[yelling]
What the
What was that?
-Speaker Pods.
-Huh?
Hit it!
LET'S GO straight on through ♪
To the daybreak we dreamt of ♪
It's still far away ♪
But MAYBE things will turn out fine ♪
As long as we have love ♪
Continue the operation.
It's so easy ♪
To intertwine our two hearts ♪
Loveheart racing across the night sky ♪
Go with burning passion ♪
-What a jerk.
-Hmm?
And shoot down
All the sorrow and the hate ♪
There's a loveheart ♪
Cease at once!
You're interfering
with a military operation!
[continues on comm]
If you don't leave right now,
I'm going to open fire!
Charge ahead
For billions of light-years ♪
TOTSUGEKI LOVEHEART ♪
Is he perhaps trying to mimic Lynn Minmay?
Yes. Probably.
-Lynn Minmay? The one from the movie?
-Huh?
You know, the one about ending
the war 35 years ago by singing?
Oh, yeah. I've seen that one.
[crowd cheering]
Flap your wings ♪
It's me, Ray Loverock.
Can you stream his singing
on the Galaxy Network? That's right.
[music stops]
What's this?
-The fluctuation of the gauges
-[device whirs]
-[music continues]
-Loveheart racing through tomorrow ♪
Paint a crimson streak ♪
And spread elation and joy ♪
Initial phase of operation is complete.
We're leaving!
There's a loveheart in all of us ♪
Hey, wait! I'm not done yet.
Overwhelming passion flows
Like a streamline ♪
TOTSUGEKI LOVEHEART ♪
[music stops]
Aw, man.
Enemy forces retreating
towards S1150, speed 4300.
Diamond Force is ready to pursue.
Stand down from battle stations.
All squadrons are to retrieve
any survivors and return to the ship.
[both] Aye, sir.
You don't like my music?
Give me a break.
LET'S GO straight on through ♪
To the daybreak we dreamt of ♪
It's still far away
But MAYBE things will turn out fine ♪
[Gamlin] Docker! Snap out of it, Docker!
We're going home.
If you listen to my song
It's so easy ♪
[crowd moaning]
To intertwine our two hearts ♪
Loveheart racing across the night sky ♪
[bass playing]
Go with burning passion ♪
And shoot down
All the sorrow and the hate ♪
There's a loveheart inside of you too ♪
Meet your destiny head-on ♪
Charge ahead
For billions of light-years ♪
TOTSUGEKI LOVEHEART ♪
[song playing]
[Mylene] As if in love ♪
Our voices intermingle in a KISS ♪
My HEART is here ♪
Forever always ♪
But, OH! What are those
Sparkling eyes of yours ♪
Still searching for? ♪
OH! MY FRIENDS ♪
I run with you ♪
Towards a world
Where our dream goes on ♪
If we look into each other's eyes
See? ♪
Everything will come true ♪
NEXT EPISODE
[Basara] Mylene! Don't barge into
a guy's room so early in the morning!
Leave me out
of your little family quarrel.
[Mylene] I didn't come here for your help.
I'm here for Ray, but he's not home.
[Basara] Damn it,
I'm getting all fired up!
-[Mylene] Next episode: Spiritia Level.
-[Basara] Fire to the extreme!
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