Per Aspera Ad Astra story

movie: Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981) · 1981-04

A female, humanoid alien is rescued from a derelict ship and is brought back to live on Earth.

19 total · 8 major · 11 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
alien point of view major The rescued alien Neeya lived among humans.
corporation interfering in politics major The Dessan gas mask industry, which benefited from the planet being horribly polluted, tried to deceive the public into thinking that the Astra crew's motives for cleaning up their planet were sinister in nature. In the end they tried to blow up the Astra to stop them.
ecological destruction major So polluted was the Dessan home world that people could only go on the surface when equipped with special gas masks, and only a remnant of their former civilization persisted in underground structures.
extraterrestrial being major The rescued alien Neeya lived among humans. Two Dessan ambassadors were also lurking around.
human cloning major Neeya was a clone.
mother and son major Maria Pavlovna and Sergei Lebedev.
pollution in society major The Astra crew was dispatched on a mission to clean up the horribly polluted Dessand home world.
telekinetic ability major Neeya regularly manifested this ability.
father and daughter minor There were flashback scenes to Neeya and her creator whom she called father.
father and son minor Sergei Lebedev and Cadet Stepan Lebedev.