Well, it’s just a little peek into what will be shown as the bridge of the USS Enterprise in the new Star Trek movie. That’s Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) in the seat and Dr.McCoy (Karl Urban) standing pensively behind him. Not sure if sexy legs behind them is Uhura or someone else. You can see Spock (Zachary Quinto & his Vulcan ears) in the foreground and half of Sulu (John Cho) at the helm.
Just got the movie yesterday and since I was at home today, I popped it in my computer’s dvd player this afternoon. It’s an alright movie, nothing great and nothing too memorable. Adapted from the classic Jules Verne novel, Journey To The Center Of The Earth the movie is about Trevor (Brendan Fraser) a volcanologist who has to take care of his nephew for a few days.
Trevor finds some notes in his brother’s copy of the book, which leads him to Iceland. His nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) comes along as he would like to know what happened to his dad, Trevor’s brother Max, who has been missing for 10 years. They hook up with Hannah (Anita Brem) whose father worked with Max and has disappeared as well. Anita takes them to a mountain on a hike and while there they have to seek refuge in a cave as lightning strikes.
As the cave collapses, they investigate the cave further, only to fall into a pit and find themselves in the “center of the earth”. They find rubies, diamonds and an glowing kind of bird, one of which befriends Josh. There’s a wonderful ride in an abandoned mine. They stumble onto Max’s dwelling and find his notes. They also find his dead body and give it a proper burial.
They encounter a carnivores plant, out of this world scenery and a T-rex who nearly has Josh for lunch before Trevor rescues him. They ride in a skull of a dead dinosaur across the river. Trevor uses a flare to ignite the magnesium in the wall and causes a geyser to shoot them through Mount Vesuvius in Italy. Once they get back, Josh leaves to go live with him mom, but he and Trevor are now close and they promise to get together soon. Anita & Trevor have also become close and are now a couple. Using the diamonds & rubies from the cave, Trevor funds his late brother’s lab and Josh buys a house with him mom.
Star Trek : The Motion Picture, the beginning of what is now a series of 10 movies, with a 11th in the making (which as we Trekkies know, is a prequel). I have finally got it. After a long search, which lasted almost 2 years, I found that someone had uploaded the movie in Veoh.com. Thank you, someone! Bolstered by the cult status of the original series in the 1970s and the success of Star Wars, Gene Roddenberry decided to make a full length feature film, bringing back the original series characters. Let’s start : A massive energy cloud destroys 3 Klingon ships and a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon 9, that it encounters en route. The cloud seems to be heading for Earth. As the nearest ship in the intercept range, the USS Enterprise is assigned to stop the destructive alien force. Admiral James T. Kirk assumes command of his former vessel, much to the dismay of the current captain Willard Decker. Meanwhile Spock, who is on his home planet of Vulcan, does not complete his kolinahr ritual. His failure to complete kolinahr and purge his emotions has led him to seek his answers on the Enterprise and the feeling of a conciousness that seems to be emination from the cloud.
Before Spock’s arrival on the Enterprise, tensions are high on the vessel, mainly due to Kirk’s unfamiliarity with the recent changes made in the refitting of the starship. An imbalance in the calibration of the ship’s warp engines resulting in the formation of an artificial wormhole. And testing of its new systems goes poorly, including a malfunctioning transporter that kills the science officer and one other. The ship has a new navigator, Lieutenant Ilia, an emphatic Deltan, played by the late Miss India Persis Khambatta. Decker has had a romantic past with Illia and it is obvious that they both have feelings for each other. The Enterprise intercepts the alien cloud, survives its initial assault, and journeys inside the cloud, finding a vast alien vessel, which draws the starship inside. An alien probe appears on the bridge and attacks Spock after he tries to prevent it from gathering sensitive Starfleet information.
The probe abducts Ilia and is replaced by a robotic probe version of her (with Ilia’s memories buried in it’s mind. She says that she has been sent to study the “carbon-based units” (humans) by a living machine called V’Ger. V’Ger claims to be looking for its creator and that it is going to merge with it. Meanwhile, Spock takes a spacewalk into the alien vessel, and attempts to telepathically mind meld with it. In doing so, he learns that the vessel is V’ger itself; a living machine. He also comes to terms with his emotions, realizing that the pure logic V’ger represents is “barren… cold”. The ship travels to the center of the V’Ger, to where the main part lies and to their astonishment, they discover that V’Ger is actually Voyager 6 – an unmanned scientific probe, which was (fictitiously) part of the NASA Voyager program, and launched in the “twentieth century”.
The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines, who mistook it for a god and interpreted its programming as instructions to “learn all that is learnable” and return that information to its creator. These machines made V’ger into something capable of fulfilling that mission, and “on its journey back it gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness itself!” And now, since it has fulfilled its mission it needs to bring this information to its creator. In the climax of the film, V’ger (in the persona of the Ilia probe) merges with Commander Decker and then vanishes into a higher realm of being. Earth is saved and the crew of the Enterprise go on to another adventure.
The movie grossed $82,258,456 in the U.S. and $139,000,000 worldwide, considered to be disappointing, considering its large $46,000,000 budget. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Effects and Best Music.
Footnote: It has been suggested that the alien race of living machines were the predecessors of the Borg. In the movie when the probe Ilia tries to resist the programming given to it because of residual memories and feelings for Decker. When V’ger becomes aware of this, it is aware that “the resistance was futile, of course”.
If I were to be an alien race in the Star Trek universe, I would want to be a Romulan. Although the Borg scare & fascinate me (especially their origins and what happens to Borg who get separated from the Collective), Romulans are my kind of villains. Hailing from their home planet Romulus they are the dominant race of the Romulan Star Empire, one of the larger empires in the Beta Quadrant of the Milky Way galaxy. They are characterized as passionate, cunning, and opportunistic, and were usually cast as villains or adversaries in the various series. They are also biological cousins of the Vulcans, having been the descendants of a branch of Vulcans who left their home planet and settled on Romulus.
Without their home world’s insistence on curbing & suppressing one’s emotions, the Romulans embraced theirs and are more emotional & violent. They also have their own action figure, quite cool, they have the fantastic looking Romulan Warbird, they drink that much loved galatic beer Romulan Ale and their chicks are hot. Among the famous Romulan ladies were : the Romulan Commander (is it first Romulan female?) Sela (the half Human daughter of Tasha Yar) & Commander Donatra (in Star Trek : Nemesis). Even Deanna Troi got into the act; she was disguised as a Romulan Commander in one episode.
The 37s is a Star Trek Voyager Season 2 episode, in which the crew of the stranded ship in the Delta Quadrant come into contact with other humans. These humans were abducted by an alien race back in 1937 and brought to a planet in the Delta Quadrant. Later the humans fought back and defeated their alien abductors but 8 of them were stuck in stasis in crionic chambers. These 8 humans were revered by the descendants of the other humans, as monuments to their ancestors. Captain Janeway and her crew revive them and the ’37s’ are united with the descandents of their co-abductees. The other humans & their descandants had created a home on this planet, far away from home and built 3 beautiful & scientifically advanced cities in which the now 100,000+ population of humans life. Janeway & her crew are invited to stay with them & the 37s and make a home on this planet.
Although the rest of the crew could remain stranded on the planet if the ship becomes undermanned, Janeway decides that she was going to let each crew member decided for themselves if they wanted to stay with the other humans on the planet and make a new life for themselves or to stick by Voyager and find a way back to earth. It’s a roud moment for Janeway when everyone decides to take their chances with Voyager and find a path home.
This is one of my favourite Sci-fi episodes ever – it states that no matter how tempting another place can be, it will never be home!
Hello my handful of readers, I have some news for ya! Last Saturday I decided to hell with it and start writing the sci-fi novel in blog style that I always wanted to do. I have had a couple of attempts at doing something similar but I keep deleting it. I kept dreaming about the concept of human life waay out there in the future and the kind of things that would happen in that future. I would make up these episodes & adventures – while in the loo and just before I fall asleep every night. I’d be still awake but these ideas just keep coming to me (hey, my main blog isn’t called Awake & Dreaming for nothing, you know) and I’d forget bits of the plot after a few days, so I thought I better start putting it on my computer.
And just in case there are other people who would be interested in reading it, I thought why not put it in a blog. So I created one in wordpress.com and wrote out the first part of the intro to the futuristic world. It’s called The Forcefield and that’s because of the forcefield (more like an self-adjusting armour) that humans have developed that make them almost indestructible to any hostile alien attack. Think of it as Star Wars meets Star Trek meets Battlestar Galactica meets Farscape!
Creating stuff in my mind is one thing (and it’s easy) but putting it in words is another whole new ball game! But I am going to try and you are welcome to join the journey. Blogging there might be a lot slower than it is here but keep checking every week at The Forcefield for any updates.
And……may the Forcefield be with you!!!!! Live long & blog!
I just love this beautiful, surreal & thought provoking image of a jean clad chic walking on a desolate area and the two planets huge on the horizon. I have always believed that a picture can tell a 1000 words just like music without words can still say a whole lot more.
Hat tip to TechnoDoll who originally posted it on her blog. Thanks for sharing the image dear Techno.
Finally got round to watching the dvd of I Am Legend that I bought last Sunday. Having highly anticipated watching the film, I ended up being bored on this Saturday afternoon throughout most of this film. You see, this is the problem with knowing the story and watching numerous clips on tv & through the net.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some really fantastic reasons to watch this film but for me it became a dud in the end. I’d watch it just for Will Smith & the dog though.
So Robert Neville, the last uninfected human left in New York city just happens to be a virologist, i order to explain as to why he captures & experiments on infected mutants of a man-made disease. Said mutants are not scary by the way – they look like something from a Doom game. The mutants lose all their hair (hey can I get an infection that will remove all my body hair from the neck down) and their marbles and go into a primal aggressive stage and bite any non-infected. So Robert survives for 3 years, all alone except for his dog Sam. He stocks food, watches dvds, stocks supplies and drives around all day waiting for something to do.
Kind of like us normal humans on an average day!
Oh and they can’t stand sunlight.
Kind of like us after binge drinking!
So Neville does these experiments on infected rats & humans (cause we are the same) and broods over the death of his wife & kid. No, they didn’t get infected or devoured by the mutants – they had an accidental death in an helicopter. Sam later gets bitten by mutant dogs and hence while showing signs of infection, Robert is forced to kill the poor animal. While trying to get revenge, he is outnumbered but rescued by Anna and her son, fellow survivors from Maryland, and bring him back to his house where they tell him of a survivors colony in Vermont. Anna insists that they head out there but the infected storm the house and in order to save the others, Neville blasts himself and the infected with a hand grenade. His work on the infected has proven fruitful and before he goes all commando, he hands over a vial of blood to Anna, that will form the cure for the disease.
And human kind survives to live on!
I had bought the dvd set of the entire 5 seasons of Angel and started watching them as soon as I came home Wednesday afternoon. I just finished watching the first dvd, Season 1, by 9 pm today. Ofcourse being at home on my staycation leaves me with plenty of time to do whatever I want. So we see Angel setting up shop in Los Angeles, becoming an ‘unlicensed’ P.I. and he is joined by Doyle, a demon-human half breed, who has been sent to help him atone for his crimes and who sees ‘visions’ of people in trouble and the places where Angel must go to find them. They are joined by Cordelia Chase, who is struggling to get auditions for acting roles and the three of them form ‘Angel Investigations’. The first episode sets the theme for most of the season – an innocent girl who is stalked by a baddie vampire. Angel befriends her and tries to help her but she runs away when confronted with a little detail that Angel forgot to tell her – that he is a vampire too! And he is too late in saving her as baddie vamp kills her but he can still save Cordy from the evil bloodsucker’s clutches.
Angel meets up with police detective Kate Lockely, who sometimes helps him with information he needs and who freaks out a bit when she finds out that he is a vampire and that there are things like demons. She ends up being bitter with him however, after her father is killed by vampires and blames Angel for it. Meanwhile Oz bring a magical ring to Angel for safe keeping – the ring makes the wearer invincible, meaning a vampire who wears it is safe from any harm, even sunlight. Angel also has a run-in with Spike in this episode. We find out that Cordy gets an new apartment along with a roommate – a friendly ghost the trio helps to break free.
Angel gets his mortality back and spends a romantic 24 hours with Buffy but has to relinquish it to continue in his ways to save humanity from evil. Doyle sacrifices himself to save a group of half-demons but passes on his ‘seer’ abilities to Cordelia. Then Wesley Price comes into their lives and provides a lot of comic relief for the remainder of the season. I rather like this character as Wesley will later change from a bookish nerd clumsy oaf type to a dark & melancholic character as the series progresses. By the end of season 1, the offices of Angel Investigations have been destroyed by a bomb and we see the pair having lunch in Cordy’s apartment.
While watching the episodes of Star Trek : TNG on tv, I used to be struck by the predominant characteristic theme of atheism. In the world of Star Trek there is no need for money, materialistic possession, hunger, famine, diseases are almost non existent (other than the ones that the crew encounter on their trips) and instead there is a brotherhood of humans. And there is no god for humans! If you want to live a peaceful life bettering yourself, its possible. But from time to time, a human has been mistaken for a god.
Like in this case, Jean-Luc Picard is thought to be a God by a less advanced race. Saying he has no desire to send them back into the “Dark Ages,” Picard is determined to repair the cultural damage as much as possible while not further violating the Prime Directive. It finally takes the witnessing of the death of a human at sickbay for them to realize Picard is just as mortal as they are and that his godlike powers are nothing more than a technological advancement.
Star Trek V : The Final Frontier, which is, as the title says, the 5th of the Star Trek movie series and 5th with the Original Series cast members. I haven’t seen the one that comes just before Final Frontier, Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home. So that movie and the very first one are now the only two that I haven’t seen of the series. The cast includes William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Captain Spock, DeForest Kelley as Commander (Dr.) Leonard McCoy, James Doohan as Commander/Captain Montgomery Scott, George Takei as Commander Hikaru Sulu, Walter Koenig as Commander Pavel Chekov & Nichelle Nichols as Commander Uhura. Guest starring are Laurence Luckinbill as Sybok, David Warner as John Talbot, Todd Bryant as the Klingon Klaa, Spice Williams-Crosby as Vixis & Cynthia Gouw as Caithlin Dar. The movie stars on the desolate planet Nimbus III, where Sybok, the half-brother of Spock and a renegade Vulcan who had embraced his emotions as the path to true knowledge leads his gang to capture Klingon, Federation & Romulan representatives, who are based on the planet.
Kirk, McCoy & Spock are on shore leave in Yosemite National Park and their vacation is cut short as they are called on to mount a rescue mission. Uhura & Scotty were in charge of repairs of the Enterprise, which weren’t completed when they get the orders for the mission. Upon arriving at Nimbus III, Kirk, Spock & McCoy mount a rescue operatio of the hostages, but they learn that it was only a ploy by Sybok to take control of a Federation spaceship. Sybok uses his unique ability to share with and help conquer a person’s greatest emotional trauma to gain the trust of most of the crew. McCoy accepts the experience, reliving his father’s death (he euthanised his father to end his pain, but learned afterwards that a cure had been developed a short time later). Spock also accepts the experience, reliving his birth (being half bred of Vulcan and Human, he was never fully accepted by his father). However, Kirk denies Sybok, telling him that the pain experience is what makes them Human. Klaa follows the Enterprise in his Klingon bird of prey.
Sybok takes control of the ship and heads it to the Great Barrier, an energy field, to reach a mythical planet called Sha Ka Ree, where a mysterious God-like entity awaits. Giving back the command of the ship to Kirk, Sybok leads the Enterprise through the barrier and to a planet. Sybok, Spock, Kirk & McCoy head to the surface on a shuttle and approach on foot on the barren planet until an entity appears in front of them. The entity asks them how they got there and when told of the Enterprise, it demands that the ship be brought closer to it, so it can spread its wisdom throughout the galaxy. When the skeptical Kirk questions the entity’s motivation (“What does God need with a starship?”), it turns malevolent, harming Kirk. McCoy and Spock rush to his rescue, and even Spock has to ask for an answer to the question. Sybok then realizes that the alien entity is actually the manifestation of his own arrogance, seeking to escape the Great Barrier.
I liked that a lot, God=Arrogance
Realizing his mistake, Sybok sacrifices himself to delay the evil being long enough for Enterprise to launch a torpedo. However, while Sybok was killed, the entity wasn’t, and the Enterprise had enough power to beam up two people. Kirk tells Scotty to take Spock and McCoy, leaving himself on the surface of the planet with the entity. Spock was able convince the Klingon ambassador to order Klaa (who followed the Enterprise into the Barrier and to the planet) to rescue Kirk rather than kill him. Klaa’s Bird-of-Prey suddenly de-cloaks and destroys the alien with a phaser blast. Kirk is beamed aboard, where he receives an apology from Klaa himself, who admits that his attack on the Enterprise was not authorized by the Klingon government. The crews of both vessels and Sybok’s captives enjoy a peaceful celebration of their newfound détente. The film ends with Kirk, Bones, and Spock resuming their vacation in Yosemite National Park.
Lucky me, I was able to download a copy of Battlestar Galactica : Razor the new tele movie from the makers of the new series. It serves as an apetizer for the 4th and finals season of BSG. The events of the movie are partially in flashback mode. Lee Adama as his XO; she was considered to be Cain’s legacy. First coming aboard Pegasus less than an hour before the Cylon attack on the colonies, Shaw helped Admiral Cain make a risky “blind jump” that saved the ship from destruction at Scorpion Fleet Shipyards and earned her Cain’s respect & trust. Kendra’s flashbacks tell us about how Cain’s inspiring speech on learning about the destruction of the colonies, rallied the crew. And of how Cain shot her executive officer, Jurgen Belzen (Steve Bacic), who she was very close to, for refusing an order to attack a Cylon staging area filled with raiders at the risk of losing people.
We also come to know about how the cylon Gina Invierre (Tricia Helfer) came to be discovered. Gina worked on the Pegasus and was having a lesbian relationship with Cain. It was also during the mission in which Belzen is shot, that Kendra sees Gina helping Cylon centurions board the Pegasus and sees another copy of Number 6. Cain is furious and imprisons Gina and has her beaten & raped as torture. Kendra also started a massacre of innocent civilians on smaller ships, as Cain orders her crew to take all useful parts from the ships.
Meanwhile, Starbuck & Kendra clash on a rescue mission when Shaw makes a defensive maneuver to protect Pegasus despite endangering Starbuck and her wingman. Both pilots land safely but an old Cylon raider (the ones in the old BSG series) crashes into Pegasus. Sharon Agathon informs the others about a Cylon myth that tells of a group of original centurions tasked to guard the first hybrid built by the Cylons as a result of their human experiments. Admiral Adama then recalls his rookie mission as a viper pilot, when he encountered the same hybrid, and concludes that the Cylons must still be pursuing the experiments with the captured science team as new test subjects.
They decide to go after the base star, arm a nuclear warhead and destroy it. Kendra & Starbuck are in the team that lands in a raptor into the base star. The get in but are discovered by the old cylons and a shoot-out ensues during which a couple of humans are lost and Kendra is injured by a shot. The warhead gets damaged which means that someone must stay behind to manually trigger the weapon. Shaw holds a gun to Starbuck’s head and makes her leave with the others. Alone on the ship, she is about to detonate the warhead when she comes face to face with the old Cylon hybrid, which looks like an old man in a tank.
The hybrid, seemingly wise, offers absolution to Kendra for her part in the massacre of innocent lives. He also tells her that Kara Thrace is “the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death” and that “they must not follow her.” An astonished Kendra tries to relay this information to Lee Adama, but is stopped when the Cylons jam communications. Her final act is to detonate the nuclear warhead by hand, destroying the basestar.
Adama & Lee reflect on Cain and Kendra as Adama decides to recommend a posthumous commendation for Kendra despite Lee’s protest. He states that Kendra butchered many innocent civilians but Adams says that the commendation is necessary under the circumstances as Pegasus’ crew will need it to soldier on. Lee finally agrees.
The razor in the title refers to a razor knife that we see Kendra fiddling with. It used to be Cain’s and it was given to Kendra as a sign of respect.
I found this pic at Darkly Dreaming David, run by a fellow Battlestar Galactica nut & Atheist. Dude, that’s two reasons to immediately like you.
The pic looks cool right? Looks like a fight is about to ensue and you better run for cover!
This is a movie that I have been wanting to watch for over 18 months or so, from when I read about it. Serenity is a movie based on the short lived Firefly Sci-fi series, written & directed by Joss Whedon. The movie stars the series cast of Nathan Fillion as Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds, Gina Torres as Zoe Washburne (nee Alleyne), Alan Tudyk as Hoban “Wash” Washburne, Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra, Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb, Jewel Staite as Kaylee Frye, Sean Maher as Simon Tam & Summer Glau as River Tam.
As fans of the series will know, it’s 500 years into the future and mankind has abandoned Earth and moved onto another galaxy, living on several planets. The People on the “central planets” pursue a wealthy and cultured lifestyle and are tightly ruled by the Alliance. In contrast, life on the partially-colonized “outer rim” planets more closely resembles that of the American Old West. The crew of the cargoship Serenity ekes out a living in the outer rim, dodging both Alliance regulation and attacks from savage spacefaring cannibals known as Reavers.
River is captured by the Alliance in order to use her physic abilities and at the beginning of the film, she is rescued by her brother Simon and taken back aboard the Serenity. The Alliance unleash The operative, a self-described monster with no name, rank, or official existence, to search for the two fugitives. Against Simon’s wishes, Malcolm brings River along on a bank heist on Lilac, which is interrupted by a Reaver attack. After the team’s narrow escape to Serenity, Simon tells Mal that he and his sister will leave the ship after receiving their payment for the job. As Mal meets his heist cohorts at a bar on Beaumonde, River suddenly begins attacking the patrons. After subduing her, Mal brings her and her brother back to the ship, and the crew contacts a reclusive techno-geek called Mr. Universe, who analyzes the bar’s security camera footage and discovers that River’s assault was triggered by a subliminal message.
Malcolm receives a message from Inara, who is held captive on her world by The Operative. Knowing it is a trap, Malcolm comes to get Inara and fights the Operative, barely escaping back to Serenity. When they go to the planet Haven, they see their friend Sheppard and his people killed. The Operative has tracked all the friends of the Serenity crew and killed them. Malcolm orders his crew to disguise Serenity as a Reaver ship; they need to get the planet Miranda and it is beyond Reaver space. Miranda is where they will find answers to what is troubling River. They find out that Miranda was a habitable planet but its cities are empty except for corpses. The crew finds a transmission from an Alliance officer, who explains that the Alliance attempted to achieve permanent peace and harmony by adding a drug designed to suppress aggression to the planet’s atmosphere. Instead, the drug suppressed the people’s motivation to do anything, and they died of starvation. However, 0.1% of the population experienced the opposite reaction: they became the hyperviolent Reavers.
The crew wants to submit this message to the whole human population but The Operative stands in the way. He and Malcolm fight it out on Mr.Universe’s planet while the rest of the crew fight off the Reavers. Mr.Universe is killed by The Operative and Wash is killed by the Reavers’ harpoon. Meanwhile, River begins to get over her fears and saves the injured crew all by herself. Malcolm wins the battle and plays the tape, which alters the Operative’s views on killing River & her friends. He orders the Alliance soldiers not to kill the crew. The crew bury Sheppard, Mr.Universe & Wash and head back once the repairs on the ship is done.
Ed Burns & Ben Kingsley star in this science fiction movie based on the concept of time travel. The movie got a negative reviews all round for it’s poor special effect (the creatures aren’t remotely life like) and the acting (it’s like the actors never got into it). A Sound of Thunder is a 2005 film directed by Peter Hyams, which is loosely based on the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. A time machine is built and businessmen are using it to provide an exhilarating adventure to people with cash – to go back in time and shoot a dinosaur. Travis Ryer (Ed Burns) has been trained to lead these safaris. On one of these safaris, the guides are escorting two men along a path. They are attacked by an Allosaurus and the leader’s gun fails, so the allosaurus does not die when it was scheduled to do so–thus breaking one of the rules of time travel. Panicked by the attack, one of the explorers steps off the path in an attempt to ensure his own safety. The guides exchange gun parts with another gun, kill the allosaurus and return through the time portal. Unseen to the explorers, a muddy footprint has been left just off the path.
That sets off changes in the timeline and in waves of time warping, sudden drastic effects happen to the earth. First the heat wave in November and then attack of deadly insects and shrubs, trees & vines sprouting all over the cities. Ryer goes off to find Dr. Rand, who invented the time travel machine, but she refuses to help at first. Rand does explain that since they altered something in the past, the future will proceed to change in a series of “time waves.” She says that the changes can’t all happen at once, and that they will proceed in order of evolution: first, everything will reset, then the vegetation will change, then wildlife, and finally humans.
Various ‘evolutionzed’ creatures (a huge lizard that has the head of a baboon and huge fish with sharp teeth!!) start attacking humans and kills off the rest of the scientific team, leaving on Rand & Ryer. They manage to send Ryer back in time just to meet up with the party and stop what started the whole mess – one of the client’s stepping on a butterfly. As soon as the event is altered, everything goes back to the way it should be.
The movie leaves you feeling unsatisfied and unconvinced about the theory but I have always thought that if could change one thing about an event back in time, however minor, then you change history. The movie sucks though!
According to the film, the established rules of time travel are:
