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Virus
Akademik Vladislav Volkov, a Russian research vessel in the South Pacific, communicates with the orbiting space station Mir. An energy source traveling through space strikes Mir, killing the cosmonauts and beaming itself down to Volkov. The electrical surge takes over the ship and attacks the crew.
Seven days later, the tugboat Sea Star, captained by alcoholic Robert Everton, loses its uninsured cargo while sailing through a typhoon. Sea Star 's crew discover the engine room taking on water. When Sea Star takes refuge in the eye of the storm to make repairs, Volkov appears on their radar. Realizing that it could be worth millions in salvage, Everton orders his crew aboard.
On Volkov, most of the electronics have been destroyed and the Russian crew are seemingly missing. Everton orders Sea Star 's navigator and ex- Navy officer Kelly Foster to help a fellow crewman, Squeaky, restore power to the ship. The ship's anchor then drops on its own, sinking Sea Star with deckhand Hiko and first mate J.W. Woods Jr. on board. Sea Star 's engineer Steve Baker leaves Squeaky to guard the engine room, where a robotic creature lures him to his death. Steve rescues an injured Hiko, while Woods comes out unscathed.
As Foster treats Hiko in the sick bay, Chief Science Officer Nadia Vinogradova, the sole surviving member of Volkov 's crew, shoots at the crew before Steve subdues her. Nadia is hysterical about "it" needing power to travel through the ship and implores the crew to shut down the generators. She attacks Everton and Foster, who subdue her and take her to the bridge. Steve, Woods, and crewman Richie Mason look for Squeaky in the engine room but instead stumble upon an automated workshop producing more robots.
The three are attacked by the robots and what appears to be a gun-wielding Russian crew member. The Russian is revealed to be a cyborg, but the three bring it down with salvaged munitions from Volkov 's small arms locker and take its seemingly dead body to the bridge. Nadia explains that the sentient electrical energy beamed from the Mir took over the ship eight days prior, scanned the ship's computers to find information on killing humans, then used the automated workshops to convert Volkov' s crew into cyborgs; the one brought to the bridge was the ship's captain and Nadia's husband.
As the storm resumes, the crew head for the computer room. En route, they are ambushed by a converted Squeaky and a giant robot that kills Woods. The survivors barricade themselves in the communications room. Richie sends out a mayday, but Everton shoots out the radio, unwilling to give up his salvage. Foster punches Everton and removes him from command. Richie uses the computers to talk to the alien; it says that it is "aware" and sees mankind as a "virus" which it plans to use as "spare parts." This drives Richie insane, causing him to gun down Squeaky and flee. When the remaining crew leave the room, Everton talks to the alien, which recognizes him as the "dominant lifeform."
The crew discovers that the alien has moved Volkov ' s computer elsewhere in the ship. Realizing that Volkov is moving, they return to the bridge by going outside, where Hiko is lost to the typhoon. Meanwhile, Everton is guided to one of the workshops, where he makes a bargain with the alien. Foster identifies Lord Howe Island as Volkov' s destination, with Nadia surmising that the alien wishes to seize a British intelligence station from which it could seize control of the world's military forces. As they decide to sink Volkov, the survivors are confronted by the now-cyborg Everton, which they defeat with a thermite hand grenade. They empty Volkov 's fuel tanks and set explosive charges.
Foster, Steve and Nadia run into Richie. A giant robot (piloted by the alien) then appears and attacks the trio. The alien captures Foster and tortures her for the detonator's location. A mortally wounded Richie informs Steve that he prepared a jury-rigged ejection seat that can be used for escape. Nadia and Steve rescue Foster, and Nadia sacrifices herself by shooting a flaregun at nearby gas tanks to kill the alien; however, it is only damaged by the explosion and pursues the survivors. Foster and Steve use Richie's ejection seat, escaping the robot form, which triggers pin grenades causing an explosion of the missile bomb and sinks Volkov, causing the sentient electricity to disperse in the seawater. A U.S. naval ship later rescues Foster and Steve.