The year is 2210. Humans have moved out into space. In doing so, they haveencountered several alien races -- like the Leatherfaces and the Vorhees -- allof them vampiric. In order to make space safe for humans, V-San (VampireSanitation) crews serve as advance teams, sweeping planets of vampires andmaking them habitable for humans. The V-San crew of the Heironymous iscaptained by Nicholas Churchill [Joe Lando], who loves his job as vampire hunter. Firstofficer is Damian Underwood [Dominic Zamprogna], new to the job after being hand-picked byChurchill after Damian was blacklisted by Star Fleet for leading a mission thatgot his entire crew killed. Damian would rather do almost anything but V-Sanwork, but Churchill isn't about to sign for Damian's transfer, not when he canget a cheap but top-notch Star Fleet educated commander who needs just a bit oftraining (and stomach) in vampire killing. Rosa Wong [Leanne Adachi] and Roman Kuchinsky [Aaron Pearl] form the rest of the human crew. Then there is Quintana [Natassia Malthe] -- beautiful, telepathic,and born a vampire-human of two humans who were vampirized. Quintana has chosento side with humans in the intergalactic war against vampires, but that doesn'tstop Rosa and Roman from questioning her loyalty and making snide remarks toher face.After cleaning up the mess following a Vorhee [flesh- and organ-eatingvampires that must be staked to be destroyed] attack on Earth Base Quantum inthe Takai System, the Heironymous receives a distress call from a scaredsoil-sample technician on Basra 14, a remote mining colony. Fiona Kennedy [A.J. Cook] isthe sole survivor of an attack by Leatherfaces [primitive vampires who wearfacemasks made of their victims' skin but who can be killed with bullets]. Hisstomach still churning from his first experience hunting vampires, Damianfollows the captain into the mining shafts, where they are trapped and thecaptain is captured and killed. Suddenly, Damian is catapulted to the positionof Captain pro tem of the Heironymous V-San crew, but Rosa and Roman make itclear they aren't going to take orders from Damian. They feel the captain'sdeath was Damian's fault for not doing enough to save him from the Leatherfaces.With no further assignments in the roster, the Heironymous puts down atTransit Station DHF in the Millerton Quadrant to drop off Fiona and allow thecrew a little R&R while awaiting orders. After an evening at the clubs, Damiantries to get his crew back to the ship only to find that Rosa and Roman arerefusing to reboard. Instead, they have put in for a transfer and intend to goclubbing in the interim, but their retinal scans and IDs suddenly won't work.They have been classified as V-San persona non grata and now have nowhere to gobut back to the ship where Damian offers them a deal. One more assignmenttogether and he'll sign for their transfers. Until then, all protocols must befollowed under his command, and the bickering between Rosa, Roman, and Quintanamust stop. After more bickering, they agree.Suddenly, an urgent SOS comes in from the Transit Station. They are underattack. By the time the Heironymous returns, everyone is dead. After apreliminary investigation of the dead bodies, Quintana admits that she doesn'trecognize the vampire species but can tell that they kill by injecting a venomthat causes immediate necrotization of the tissues; it is on the dead, rotting,warm flesh that these vampires feed. The hunters go in search of the vampireand find him feeding; they shoot him but, horror upon horror, a number ofleech-like vampire worms crawl out of his mouth. Quintana now recognizes Vermisnosferati, a species of wormlike vampires that lives inside the body of a hostand comes out only to feed. After the crew stabs and shoots all the vampiresuntil the last one emerges from a hole in the vampire's stomach (think'Alien'), Quintana tries to talk to it. It will say nothing but rant about thearrogance of humans. Remembering how vampires killed his entire family when hewas a child, Roman shoots it, which starts another big row between Quintana,Rosa, and Roman.Meanwhile, watching from closed circuit cameras, Fiona and her friendsGilles [Michael DeLuise] and Vondi [Peter DeLuise] criticize the arrogance of their human species andapplaud the work their group has accomplishedin their efforts to puta monkeywrench in 'unbridled Earth imperialism.' Convinced that the Earth'sdeclaration of Manifest Destiny is a plague on the galaxy, they have beenplotting with Muco [Michael Ironside], leader of the Vorhees to stop the intergalactic expansionof humans and end prejudice against vampires.Back on the Heironymous, Damian is attempting to fit the pieces together.One thing he noticed in both the last two attacks is that, although the vampirespecies involved were different, the electronic defense systems of bothstations had been shut down. He also noticed that Fiona's body was not amongstthe dead found on the Transit Station and wonders if she might be the key.Fiona goes to a station, he reasons, and dismantles the electronic defensesystem. When the vampires come in, Fiona gets out and moves on to her nexttarget. Reasoning further that Fiona must have left the Transit Station justbefore they returned, Damian calls up the record of her departing flight planand learns that it leads to Cosmosis. Just then, they get a call from HQdirecting them on a search and destroy mission in the Knobe System, but Damianand the crew decide that taking a little detour to Cosmosis is necessary torevenge Captain Churchill's death, even if it means they'll all be fired. Thecrew doesn't know that Damian made up the assignment from HQ, but it served thepurpose of uniting the crew.While the crew catches some zzzz's, the Heironymous follows Fiona's ship,which leads them, instead, to Dhiagalev 8, a depleted ore planet. Just afterthey land, they are attacked by a small craft that Roman manages to shoot outof the sky. Unfortunately, it lands on the Heironymous and blows it up.Stranded, they decide to head for the old colony, looking for a way off theplanet. They find the colony, and they also find Fiona and vampires. Fionapromises that no one will get hurt if Damian goes with her. She leads him toMuco and Captain Churchill, who has been turned into a vampire. Churchillexplains how the vampires want to learn from humans --things like compassionand cooperation -- so that they can unite and take over the world. Damianrefuses to teach them, so Muco orders Damian and his crew killed. Fiona,realizing that Muco has lied to her, challenges Muco to show the other vampireswhat he is capable of, so Muco capably fires a bullet into her stomach.While Churchill and Damian duke it out, Gilles and Vondi, after seeing theease with which Muco killed Fiona, convince the vampires holding theHeironymous crew that Muco has ordered them released. Gilles and Vondi grabweapons and escort Rosa, Roman, and Quintana to the room where Churchillhas almost bested Damian. As they enter, Gilles and Vondi toss the weapons backto the crew and they open fire on the vampires. Damian stabs Churchill in theheart with a shard of glass, then sneaks up on Muco and stabs him.Their work done here, Damian and crew head back to HQ to get a new ship.[Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]