Strange New World story
Three astronauts return to an asteroid battered Earth after being cryogenically frozen and looking to re-establish an organisation called PAX that had sent them into space. It is a television film based on concepts envisioned by Gene Roddenberry.
16 total · 6 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| asteroid impact | major | Three astronauts returned to Earth a 180 years after it was hit by a civilization ending swarm of asteroids. |
| cryogenic technology | major | Three astronauts, after waking up from 180 years in cryogenic suspension, returned to a desolate planet Earth to try and revive a number of people who had been indefinitely cryogenically suspended underground. |
| human vs. captivity | major | Allison Crowley was held by the forest dwellers and she had to be rescued before the elders had her executed. The Eterna leaders kept the astronauts as guests, but the astronauts considered themselves to be prisoners and two of them tried to escape. |
| rebuilding society after a disaster | major | The three astronauts had to reboot civilized life on Earth. |
| speculative society | major | In Eterna we saw a society where immortal people lived in harmony, but the dark side was that they harvested organs from clones they bred in order to perpetuate themselves. Also a point was made that it was strange to have a society absent of children and old people. |
| the quest for immortality | major | The Eternan people had found the secret of immortality in the 180 years since the Earth had been hit by an asteroid storm. There were no old people or children among them, but rather only adults in middle life. |
| artificial womb | minor | The Eterna people grew clones from single cells to full adult size in four days in capsules for the purpose of harvesting their organs for transplantation. |
| coping with senility | minor | The 212 year old Eterna leader suffered from dementia. |
| heart transplant | minor | The Eterna people had the technology to transplant hearts without the need for the subject to be rendered unconscious. |
| human cloning | minor | A young woman was transplanted with a heart from her clone. |