Genesis II

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Movie
Original title Genesis II
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1973
length 74 minutes
Rod
Director John L. Moxey
script Gene Roddenberry
production Gene Roddenberry
music Harry Sukman
camera Gerald Finnerman
cut George Watters
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Genesis II is an American science fiction - TV movie of 1973. The film was a pilot of a television series planned, was not produced for lack of success of the pilot. The scientist Dylan Hunt, played by Alex Cord , who survived the demise of the known world through an experiment in a state of apparent death, is awakened over 150 years later. He finds himself in a primitive society of the future.

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After successful animal experiments, Dylan Hunt, played by Alex Cord , makes himself available as a test person for an experiment in which a person can be put into a kind of hibernation . This should allow astronauts longer space flights. However, when an earthquake shook the Carlsbad Caves , where the experiment was being carried out, during the experiment , he was buried in the laboratory in a seemingly dead state.

Dylan Hunt is found and woken up over 150 years later. He finds himself in a primitive society of the year 2133 in a chaotic, post-apocalyptic world. An event called " The Great Conflict" destroyed the civilization known to Hunt. In the struggle for control of the available resources, various new rival civilizations have emerged, including the PAX and the Tyranians.

Hunt is found and woken up by chance by the organization that calls itself "PAX" (the Latin word for "peace"). PAX members are descendants of those NASA employees who carried out the experiment at the time. They are still researchers and scientists who preserve the little knowledge and technology that have survived from before the conflict. They want to use the existing scientific and historical knowledge to rebuild civilization peacefully.

In what was once known as Arizona and New Mexico, the Tyranians live in a totalitarian society. These are mutants who are superior to humans in most things. Just as many organs are duplicated, they also have two navel , which is how they can be recognized from the outside. Their leader discovers that Hunt has knowledge of the uses of nuclear fission, and they initially offer him great rewards in repairing their broken nuclear power generator. But when he is finally in their hands, they want to force him to reactivate their nuclear missile system as well. Instead, Hunt leads a rebellion together with the slavish lower class of society. He finally succeeds in atomically destroying the city of the Tyranians.

PAX members are trying to build a new society using whatever was considered "good" from Earth's past. So they take Dylan Hunt into their society, but admonish him never to take another life, as this had already led to the Cold War and catastrophe in the 20th century .

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actor role
Alex Cord Dylan Hunt
Mariette Hartley Lyra-a
Ted Cassidy Isiah
Percy Rodriguez Primus Isaac Kimbridge
Harvey Jason Singh
Titos Vandis Yuloff
Bill Striglos Dr. Kellum
Majel Barrett Primus Dominic
Lynne Marta Harper-Smythe

Trivia

  • The science fiction justification in the film that Lyra-a (Mariette Hartley) and other Tyranians have two navel is the redundant circulatory system of their bodies. However, Gene Roddenberry joked that the behind-the-scenes reason was to make up for the covered navel of network and studio censors in the production of the original Starship Enterprise (1966).
  • The main character's name, Dylan Hunt, is the same as the main character in another Gene Roddenberry TV movie, Planet Earth (1974). A few years later, the name of the main character in the series Andromeda (2000) created by Roddenberry was given.
  • The subshuttle is based on the "TAUSS" ( Trans America Underground Subway System , "Transamerican subway system").
  • The film takes place in 1979 and 2133.

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