Starchaser: The Legend of Orin story

movie: Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985) · 1985-11-22

A young man named Orin goes on a quest to free his people from working as slaves in the mines of Trinia.

19 total · 8 major · 11 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
AI risk to civilization major The android Lord Zygon saw robots as the next step in the evolutionary progression of things and plotted to exterminate humankind.
brother and brother major Orin promised his blind, kid brother Kallie that he's return to the mines to free him, and recurringly dwelt on Kallie's plight.
good vs. evil major The virtuous Orin versus the evil Lord Zygon and his human enslaving robot minions.
humanoid robot major The film featured humanoid robots aplenty: energy whip equipped robots oppressed humans in the mines, the fembot Silica joined Orin on his quest, and Aviana had a helper manbot.
indoctrination in society major In the future on a planet named Trinia, human slaves have lived underground for millennia mining crystals for a fake god named Zygon. It turned out that the god was just another one of the robots and this was all a performance designed to instill obedience among the miners.
magic object major Orin found a supposedly mythical golden sword hilt with an apparently invisible blade that sliced up anything evil. but had no effect on things good. While it turned out that the power was inside Orin all along or some such things, the viewer doesn't learn that until the very so, so the sword hilt as a magic object is relevant here.
social oppression major Lord Zygon and his robot minions forced they human slaves to mine valuable crystals.
speculative spaceship major Much ado was made of Dagg's futuristic spaceship, equipped with a sentient computer, called the Starchaser. We saw numerous other spaceship characteristic of space soap operas.
android minor In a plot twist, it was revealed that Lord Zygon was actually a humanoid robot.
blindness minor Orn's kid brother Kallie was blind.