Silent Running might be one of the most depressing sci-fi's I've ever watched.
I can see how in the 70s it probably was distant enough to feel like a fantastical drama, and the idea of earth losing its ecosystems with the last remnants being kept alive in outer-space domes was an unrealistic idea, but today it feels just way too current.
Bruce Dern is absolutely amazing, but omg this movie just gets more and more sad until it ends as bleakly as it begun
@nyrath@PMscenarios I'm 95% sure you know this, Winchell, but the Kzinti (those Kzinti, the cat-people from Niven's Known Space) are canon in Trek! But only in animation (original TAS and now Lower Decks), because the makeup for that kind of alien would be basically a fursuit, and they didn't have the budget for this in the classic series.
Maybe eventually they will be in one of the new live-action series, hahaha
Oh, yes! I noticed that.
The title "The Slaver Weapon" was a dead giveaway. It only took a minute to confirm it was Niven's "The Soft Weapon" with the Puppeteer swapped out with Spock. Even if I was barely a teenager at the time.
@maxthefox@nyrath@PMscenarios They had a mention by Riker in the “Nepenthe” episode of PIC, so they’re properly canon. I fully expect to see them in SNW…
I am not sure Wizards was the movie to follow up Silent Running with.
Now I'm just more depressed.
I did know about Wizards of course, but I didn't realise just how heavily it mirrors real life events. Should have assumed knowing Bakshi's history I guess, but I know his work from Spicy City most of all, and that isn't as on the nose with its world building
There has to be some robot movies that aren't about the world dying/man's disregard for life 🤖
I am on a mission to watch all the movies containing robots I haven't seen (so more obscure stuff than matrix, AI, I robot, ghost in the shell, terminator etc)
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