Six Degrees of Freedom story
The crew of a spacecraft decide to head for the planet Mars after a nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Directed by: Jakob Verbruggen. Story by: Heather Anne Campbell and Glen Morgan.
20 total · 11 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien overseers | major | It was revealed at the end how aliens had been monitoring the crew in an effort to determine if they are worth saving. |
| colonization of Mars | major | A group of people went on an experimental mission to visit Mars. |
| getting along together in a confined space for an extended period | major | The story seemed to be primarily about the group dynamics of people on the spaceship on their voyage to Mars. |
| group morale | major | The story seemed to be primarily about the group dynamics of people on the spaceship. |
| interplanetary space travel | major | We saw a space ship en rout to Mars. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | We were told that people on Earth probably annihilated each other using nuclear weapons. |
| speculative spaceship | major | We saw a space shuttle on steroids en rout to Mars. |
| the universe is a simulation | major | Pierson was convinced that their voyage to Mars was all an elaborate mechanical simulation. He claimed that nothing was real, nearly died to prove it. |
| what if I couldn't trust the veracity of my senses | major | Pierson was convinced that their voyage to Mars was all an elaborate mechanical simulation. He alluded to the crew not being able to trust their own eyes and pondering what we could trust if not our eyes. the crew was skeptical of his theory, but they also began to wonder if it might be true. |
| working together in spite of disagreement | major | The story seemed to be primarily about the group dynamics of people on the spaceship. |