Prime-Minister Salka Pal-Mir of the Republic of Eretz desperately needs a heart transplant in order to continue with the peace talks she has been planning for years. Because of her specialized case, Dr. Rudy Wells offers to giver her the world's first bionic heart transplant. When she refused to travel to the research center in Mountain Springs by airplane, Steve Austin, posing as her bodyguard transports Pal-Mir and her doctor by the OSI's mobile field unit.

During preparations for a lunar probe launch, Colonel Steve Austin witnesses strange lights in the sky and becomes convinced it's a UFO. A family of four space explorers, each trained with specific tasks has crash landed on Earth, only to find that touching a human causes both parties great pain and will eventually kill the alien beings.