Sci-fi piffle, cliched and stereotyped from the beginning, without an original thought in its warp system. The medical ship Nightingale receives a distress call from a deep-mining project light years away and, on response, finds a shuttle hurtling towards it. The one man on board, clutching a glowing cylinder that gives life and strength, is, of course, the catalyst that will destroy all the medical crew except the hero and heroine. James Spader, Angela Bassett and Lou Diamond Phillips have the misfortune to star in this badly edited clunker, from which director Walter Hill wisely chose to remove his name.