Released: March 19, 1983 35 mm Running time: 160 min
(entire love/sex scene with Derek & Nova)
Rereleased: Nov 5, 1983 75 mm Running time: 164 min
(love scene cut out. Soccer match with Mark and Jordy Venture
inserted. Bloopers corrected.)
Notes: aka Final Yamato,
Japanese title = "Uchuu Senkan Yamato, Kanketsu hen"
The year is 2203 or 2205, not long after the Bolar Federation
was defeated by Desslok's Galman-Gamilon Empire. A subspace
dimensional dislocation has caused a distant Red Galaxy to be
relocated in a collision course with the Milky Way.
Stars and planets collide, making a wreck of the Galman-Gamilon homeworld.
The Star Force is dispatched to investigate. They reach Galmania
to find Desslok's palace in ruins.
As they pay their respects,
tossing white roses down to the surface of the planet, a huge
red planet crashes into Galmania, forcing to StarForce to escape
with an immediate and uncalculated warp.
Water planet Aquarius, which orbits through the Milky Way dumping or removing huge amounts of water to or from planets it passes, passes planet Deingil, flooding it. The StarForce's space warp puts it in the Deingilian system just in time to see the waterworks. The Cosmohound rescues one Deingilian boy.
A huge section of the Deingilian capitol city rises up out of the water. It is the space station Uruku which had been built under the city. The Argo retreats from the planet with its sole rescuee. On its way back to Earth, the StarForce is attacked by a Deingilian fleet under the command of Lugal DeZahl. Radioactive hyper-release missiles are fired at the Argo. Once striking the ship, they burrow in and saturate the interior with radioactive gas. The crew dons space suits, but not before the bridge is hit. The Argo plummets into a nearby planet where Lugal DeZahl leaves it to its fate.
The Argo scrapes a cliff, and the jolt of the impact triggers the ship's automatic pilot mechamism which flies the ship back to Earth.
Meanwhile, Lugal De Zahl reports to his father, Lugal, of the defeat of the alien ship (Argo). Lugal traces the Argo back to Earth, and discovers that Earth will make a suitable new home for his people. To rid Earth of the humans, he plans to use Uruku's space matter transport equipment to warp the entire planet Aquarius to Earth for a thorough drenching. So, the warping process begins.
Back on Earth, the Argo lands in silence. The Earth Defense Command learns of the crew's status. Dr. Sane assures everyone that all those who wore space suits should recover. On the bridge, Nova shrieks in horror when she sees Derek laying without his helmet on. Assuming he's dead, she tries to shoot herself only to be slapped silly by an awakening Sandor.
The all-purpose bandage is put on Derek's head, and he is nursed back to health. Deingilian advance forces launch an air strike on Earth's space docks. Under cover, the StarForce is prepared to go back into space. Wildstar, fearing he has failed as a commander, offers a token resignation to the EDC Commander. However, the Commander accepts it in full much to everyone's surprise. Who will lead the StarForce?
At the send-off, Captain Avatar's voice blares over the loud speaker. Sure enough, Avatar has been brought out of cryonic sleep after several years. The technology to cure his radiation sickness finally came available.
The Argo sets sail into space to join the remaining Earth forces in fighting off the Deingilian advance fleet. They are victorious, and then warp out of the solar system back toward Deingil. The warp is interrupted midway as it crosses into Aquarius's warp path. Both the planet and the Argo materialise in front of each other. The StarForce lands on the water planet to be greeted by an apparition of the Queen of Aquarius. Aquarius is made up of a core of heavy water. It's atmosphere supports floating continents. There are remanents of a long-dead civilisation on these continents. The Queen tells the StarForce about the Deingilians. The StarForce's AstroFighter squadron locates an alien tritium mine on Aquarius, but also encounters the Deingilian air force. Uruku has been behind the planet all along, getting ready to make the final warp to Earth.
The StarForce blasts off, chased by radiation missles. But, Sandor has developed a missle dispersion gun which can generate and energy field that detonates the attacking missles. The new gun is successful, and Lugal DeZahl's fleet pursues the StarForce into an asteroid field. The StarForce destorys most of the fleet with the Wave Gun. The Argo pursues Lugal DeZahl's ship back to Uruku. But Lugal decides that his son has failed him too often and raises a neutrino shield into which Lugal DeZahl crashes. The StarForce barely manages to reverse course in time, but is soon the target of Lugal's neutrino beam. The Wave Motion Engine is damaged, leaking raw tachyon particles into the engine stream. The Argo cannot outrun the advancing beam, and is overcome. But, when the beam front reaches the trail of tacyons in the Argo's engine stream, it causes the tachyons to build up and form a bubble. The bubble is slowly pushed forward around the Argo, forming an effective shield against the neutrino beam. Realizing what is happening, Sandor orders that raw tachyons be fed through the Wave Gun muzzle, forming a cloak which the StarForce uses to protect the ship as it flies right through the neutrino shield.
The Argo lands on Uruku where it invades the control center. The Deingilian boy jumps ship and finds his way to Lugal's strategy room at the same time Wildstar arrives there. Aquarius is about to reach critical warp mass. Derek and Lugal exchange words and have a face-off dual; the Deingilian boy runs between them to catch Lugal's shot. He yells, "Father, stop!" Lugal, shocked that he has shot his own child, retreats. The boy dies as Aquarius dematerialises.
Lugal throws the self-destruct switch for Uruku, and the whole station goes up in flames. The Argo falls into space as the ground beneath it crumbles away. Wildstar rejoins the Argo to find that Venture was mortally wounded in a fire fight with the Deingilian cavalry. Venture bids Wildstar and Nova to get married and dies.
The StarForce warps back to Earth as Aquarius enters the solar system. Avatar has a plan to knock Aquarius off its course. He will evacuate the Argo, load it up with tritium from the mine on Aquarius, and then detonate the ship and its payload in the path of the water planet.
The Argo goes down to the surface of Aquarius once more to load the volatile liquid. The Wave Gun muzzle is plugged with a huge cylinder to create a backfire. As the Argo takes off, tritium-laden and defenseless, Lugal's remaining fleet approaches for an attack. In the moment Lugal raises his hand to begin the assault, several of his flank ships explode. Out of the blast rushes the Gamilon fleet. Desslok, it appears, was not killed after all.
The Gamilons wipe out the Deingilians
once and for all. Desslok, smelling the roses Wildstar
had tossed at Galmania, appears on the video panel and urges the
StarForce to tend to more important matters.
Captain Avatar orders everyone remaining off the ship, and flies the Argo in between Earth and the approaching water planet. As gravitational forces begin to pull a gigantic water column off Aquarius and onto Earth, Avatar pulls the trigger and the Argo explodes. The water column is blown off course. Aquarius wanders off on its way to create havoc elsewhere, and the Earth is saved again. The Argo is blown into three sections -- bow, stern, and bridge. It sinks, with Avatar, into the waters in space.
Desslok, observing the act from a distance, appears to weep.
The StarForce returns to Earth. Days later, Wildstar and Nova are married on the beach, and the StarForce crew comes out to witness their ceremony. Then the background scenery fades... as do their clothes. If you are watching the original, unedited version of thie movie, Derek and Nova then have animated sex to the tune of "Luv Shupreme" for about three minutes, with Nova crying at every other toss and turn. Finally, the scene and music fade out, and we see the ending credits roll by as the Argo surges up out of the water (scenes from earlier Yamato movies).
The End.
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