Space Truckers story
The story concerns John Canyon, one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Bad times have forced him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without asking questions. During the flight, the cargo turns out to be a multitude of virtually unstoppable killer robots.
23 total · 7 major · 16 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| cyborg | major | It was up to the independent space trucker John Canyon and his companions to stop an army of genetically engineered, biomechanical super warriors from running amok. |
| engaged couple | major | The space truck stop waitress Cindy promised to marry John Canyon in exchange for a ride to Earth to see her mother. |
| love triangle | major | Mike came between John Canyon and her reluctant fiancée Cindy. |
| mother and daughter | major | The space truck stop waitress Cindy was desperate to get to Earth to see her mother, and the pair were ultimately reunited. |
| romantic love | major | Cincy and Mike fell head over heels for one another. |
| space colonization | major | The film is set in a future where "space truckers" transport goods to and from various colonies all around the solar system. |
| speculative spaceship | major | A main novelty of the film is the independent contract hauler (i.e. space trucker) John Canyon's Pachyderm 2000 model space truck. The space pirates commandeered a spaceship shaped something like a real pirate ship. |
| colonization of Mars | minor | It was made apparent that a Mars colony was exporting square pigs. |
| colonization of Neptune | minor | A corporation had a base on Neptune's moon Triton. |
| coping with being tortured | minor | The pirate captain Nabel showed John and Mike some instruments of torture and threatened to use one of the to cut off certain appendages of theirs. |