“Silent Running” is a Sci-Fi Drama, written by Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino and Steven Bochco and Directed by Douglas Trumbull.
The Valley Forge is one of several scientific vessels
out in deep space carrying all the surviving flora and fauna rescued from the
barren Earth housed in large greenhouse pods attached to the spacecraft.
Botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) loves his work
and believes in the mission, but his crew mates John Keenan (Cliff Potts),
Marty Barker (Ron Rifkin) and Andy Wolf (Jesse Vint) do not share his passion.
So, when the fleet is ordered to jettison the pods
into space, detonate them and head for home, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going back
to earth.
Lowell on the other hand loves the flora and fauna so
much he cannot destroy them, so he kills his crew mates and takes the ship deep
into space.
Alone on the craft with only three small robots as companions
Lowell revels in the joys of nature and would have continued to do so, had the
rest of the fleet not appeared to “rescue” him.
Not able or willing to go back Lowell knew he had only
one option open to him.
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