故事講述二百年後的未來，人類殖民太陽系。由於重力的影響，太陽系的人類逐漸分成了地球人、火星人和小行星帶人，彼此之間的關係由於資源的爭奪而變得緊張。警探Josephus Miller（湯瑪斯·傑恩 飾演）連同船長Jim Holden（史蒂文·斯崔特 飾演）與他的船員一起揭發了一個威脅秩序和平及人類生存的陰謀。

Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

人們幾百年來，靠這挖掘的洞穴之中建造家園。而在一個叫吉哈的地中村裡，有一位擅長挖洞的少年 西蒙在偶然的機會下找到了閃耀著光芒的小鑽子"核心之鑽"，並在之後發現一張有著巨大的臉的東西(裸顏)；而當他仰慕的大哥 卡米那一直堅持有"地面"的存在，在要突破阻礙前往地面之際時，村的頂棚突然崩塌，從天上的裂口掉下來巨大的機器人和持著超電導步槍的少女 優子。

在混亂中，西蒙將核心之鑽插入了巨大的臉，巨大的臉同時變成了有著一頭身機器人。靠這突破土表(把用鑽頭把敵人往上鑽)的方式打倒敵人，同時也飛出了地面。在眼前的廣大的地上的風景使少年們被打動，變而決定在地面上旅行；同時也一路上的夥伴組成"大紅蓮團" 和侵佔地上的獸人們展開戰爭。

The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader's assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth. It contains humanity's last hope: the planet Iscandar on the other side of the Magellan Galaxy has the technology to defeat the Gamilos and restore the planet. The space battleship Yamato is entrusted with this task, but they have only one year before humanity ends.

All across the universe, the Jark Matter empire has conquered everything they see. Meanwhile, the insurgent force called "Rebellion" is established and gathers nine ultimate saviors from across the galaxy who are chosen by the Kyu Globes, magical spheres with the power of the constellations.

An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of Sidonia, it’s a strange new world as he’s forced to come to the surface. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared.

Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America.

It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime.

Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

巴納吉·林克斯遇見神秘的奧黛莉·伯恩後，繼承獨角獸鋼彈，並捲入太空殖民地獨立之戰。