I saw this film a couple of years back at a party, so my memories of it are a little hazy. Nonetheless I can remember enough to classify it as a truly terrible film.

It was apparently meant to be legitimate science fiction. It stars Walter Koenig from "Star Trek" as a NASA astronaut. NASA discovered some kind of alien artifact or something and needs someone to go to the moon to check it out. Walter volunteers, pointing out that there's all the equipment for an Apollo mission mothballed at Cape Canaveral. I thought all the left over equipment from the Apollo program was buried in the Fresh Kills landfill site when the moon shot program was cancelled, but apparently I was wrong. So they dig out all this stuff, dust it off, and get ready to send Walter to the moon.

Before he can actually do this, however, he has to say goodbye to his son. There was some kind of subplot set up where he's got this pretty bad relationship with the boy, and I think he and his wife are divorced or something. Anyway there's this really touching scene in the kitchen, where he explains that he's got to go to the moon, and he'll be back really soon -- at least it might be really touching if the sound boom wasn't bouncing in and out of the top of the frame. We were all stunned by this -- I mean, couldn't they have reshot? Or was the editor so bored by this point that he just didn't notice? Maybe Koenig was only available for a couple of days shooting or something.

In any case Walter and some other guy go to the moon in this twenty year old technology. A whole load of bad attempts at micro-gravity shots follow until they stumble over this massive temple. Yeah, a temple on the moon. They go inside and have a look around, eventually stumbling over this naked woman on a slab. Either the temple is pressurized or she doesn't need oxygen, I guess. She wakes up, and they decide to take her with them. I think the other astronaut gets killed in some kind of trap at this point, mainly so Walter can give his space suit to the woman. They escape from the temple and start walking back to the module. About halfway there, they get tired, so Walker pulls this little package out of his backpack which expands into an oxygen filled igloo tent. It must be made of some darned strong material, since the air pressure inside seems to be earth standard. Walter and the woman go inside, take off their space suits, and have sex, just because. Then they pack up the tent and carry on their way.

I stopped watching at this point. There was some kind of revelation where the temple and the woman are some kind of trap so these evil aliens can take over the world. NASA and Walter save the day by some ridiculous method, and the world is safe for civilization again. The final shot is this big chunk of alien wreckage in orbit, with ominous music playing while we zoom in on this bit of equipment or something which is still working. Presumably this one computer or whatever it is is going to try to take over the world all by itself.

This is a really bad movie. If you rent it, just fast forward to the kitchen scene and the moon temple. Even better, just don't rent it at all.