dr. corvin...with your guidance system onboard is about to reenter the atmosphere. the system is non-responsive. you want to take a crack at it? ethan: there seems to be an interruption in the path here, but the circuitry's still operational. it's sending us data. you're losing your uplink. well, there has to be a problem in the manual routing drive here. i don't think so. that's the consensus among the engineers. same engineers who sent you two here? [crunching ice] sorry. that bother you? yes, it does, actually. oh. your design predates all existing guidance systems. it was ahead of its time in '69, but this technology's obsolete now. none of the current engineers can even speak the language, and the older guys are all... are... yeah. well, it wasn't designed for this duration of duty, that's what. it was designed for the skylab. my advice to you is to capture the satellite and bring it home. it's too big. what, for the space shuttle? whatind of bird is it? it's a russian... communicationss. what