Voices in the Earth story
People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did. Directed by: Curtis Harrington. Story by: Alan Brennert.
12 total · 7 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| anthropogenic existential risk to civilization | major | In a distant future, Donald and his fellow crew members visited Earth, but it was unrecognizable, having been rendered utterly uninhabitable by human activity. |
| future point of view | major | We saw a future anthropologist (or something) come to look at a dead Earth and lament the folly that had caused it. |
| ghost | major | Donald met the ghosts of all the humans who failed to escape from the Earth before it became uninhabitable. |
| history occupation | major | Historian Donald Knowles waxed poetic over the beauties of the ancient Earth. |
| incorporeal being | major | We saw a bunch of spirits of people who had stayed on Earth and died with it. |
| space colonization | major | We saw descendants of colonists who had abandoned Earth as it was being killed. |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | major | No one believed Donald's wild tales of spirits lingering on Earth. |
| ecological destruction | minor | We heard that rainforest had been chopped down and that eventually life had become untenable on Earth. |
| human self-sacrifice for another | minor | Donald deliberated whether to willingly offer up his body to the spirit. |
| ozone layer depletion | minor | Donald mentioned how ancient humans had released ozone layer destroying toxins into the air. |