Super Swift 1999

The Super Swift is featured in the second series episode “The Bringers of Wonder”, Parts One and Two. Modelled by special effects technician Brian Johnson, its design was influenced by the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and was a re-working of that of the Swift spacecraft that appears in the earlier second series episode “Brian the Brain”.
In “The Bringers of Wonder”, the Super Swift is stated to have been in the initial stages of development when the Moon was blasted out of Earth orbit. Designed to incorporate an un-invented faster-than-light drive, work on the Super Swift stalled when the propulsion system could not be realised. The eponymous “Bringers of Wonder” later exploit the Moonbase Alpha crew’s memories of the design to create an illusion of the Super Swift while approaching the Moon in their own spacecraft. The Super Swift includes a three-person “pilot ship”, a small scoutcraft also capable of faster-than-light speeds.