Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight story
The film centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on a historic interstellar test flight.
20 total · 5 major · 15 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | The Starlight crew made contact, actually found themselves in a confrontation, with the Odin planet cyborgs. |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | The film culminated with the Starlight crew having to battle the master computer of a machine world. |
| interstellar space travel | major | The story follows the adventures of the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on a historic interstellar test flight. |
| solar sail spaceship | major | The story is premised on there being a network of giant lasers in the inner solar system that enabled beamed sailing spaceships to fly about everywhere. In particular, the story follows the adventures of the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on a historic interstellar test flight. |
| space exploration | major | The young crew of the Starlight were enthusiastic about going on the first interstellar flight. And the story concluded with the Starlight captain encouraging his crew to go on and venture to the stars from his death bed. |
| AI risk to civilization | minor | We learned that the computers used by the Odin people had improved themselves, become sentient, and ultimately came to rise up and rule over the people. |
| Ancient Norse mythology | minor | The Norse god Odin was mentioned in the context of an ancient Norwegian mariner's folk song. |
| anti-gravity technology | minor | The laser sailing space schooner Starlight was equipped with artificial gravity. |
| black hole | minor | The Starlight crew defeated the sentient computer Belgel by collapsing it into a black hole. |
| coping with disagreeable orders | minor | After some grumblings, the Starlight crew mutinied against their captain because they disagreed with his orders to continue on their planned mission, instead of taking the opportunity to possibly make contact with an alien civilization. |