I was 17 when this came out, a burgeoning computer scientist, and like the computer scientist on the show also crushing hard on the Luz Sansone character. I also dreamed of working for NASA and loved that this had people my age as main characters. I have tried for years to remember the name of this to share this with my wife and kids but I’m not sure they (or even I) would appreciate it as much now given how dated some of it looks even though it still has a fairly novel concept. Thank you so much for sharing, it is different from what I remembered and part of what had me stymied in my search is I thought Luz was played by Meredith Salenger also of Disney fame.
This feels like it was a made for TV project. It would likely be called a mini series these days. Some aspects were a little predictable but not bad overall.
LAST THOUGHTS FROM ME ABOUT DISCOVERY........ IT IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST MARKS IN BULLSHIT!!!!!!! HISTORY!!!!! NUMBER ONE: WOMEN DOMINATING AND THE MEN ACTING LIKE @$#&@!!!!!!! I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP ROLES WHAT BUGGED ME WAS THE MEN WERE TREATED LIKE WEAK 5 CLASS PIECE'S OF #&$@ NUMBER: 2 EVERYONE ACTING LIKE WHINY GET OUT OF MY WAY I HAVE TOO CRY ABOUT MY PERSONAL SHIT! IT DOESN'T MATTER OUR SHIPS ABOUT TO CRASH!!!! I HAVE TOO CRY FIRST!!! NUMBER: 3 A STARSHIP OPERATING ON MUSHROOMS??!! OF ALL BRAINLESS!!!!!!! NUMBER: 4 MICHAEL BURNING....... WHATEVER!!!!!! SHE WASN'T HUMAN OR A VULCAN...... SHE IS NAPKIN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TOO CRY ON HER!!!!
Every decision they make is the dumbest thing possible. Especially the "genius" kid, he's the worst of them all. And how are the going off course all the time when they are supposed to be following the track, as per their explanation of their deep space travel?
So , there is some knowledge of biology . I was 5 years into my marriage when this movie was broadcast . Walt Disney . Wonderful world of color . There is so much of this movie that could still happen today . But today space exploration seems to have stopped by humans . Now we send robots to do the exploration .
I want to make a movie like this, but today. With 80's future tech, 80's projected future problems, and 80's political and social tropes being explored.
I saw this as a kid on satellite tv , it was a mix of Star Trek and Battlestar. I did not make it past pilot. Here is why, it was more child fantasy than drama tv..
Thank you! I saw it in Chile in 1990 and I loved it.😀 It would have been great if they had made more episodes. Thanks for sharing this memory. I enjoyed it a lot!! 👍👍👍
I was a little kid watching this with my father. I’m so glad this was on RU-vid. I am having such a memory lane moment. Wish my dad was still here. Thanks for having it here.
This is when I really got interested in sci-fi. It didn't hurt that the lead was cute. I kinda liked the Captain too. They were warning us about the environment back then.😮 God I feel old.😢 15:52
25 and i remember my friends younger brother going on about this film , so we watched it with him and me and his big brother were impressed. Wish those times were here again, we lost my friend in 94 , now I'm his big brother.
The great thing about space Travelers once you hit the speed, that's your maximum. You can turn off the engine and travel for free. For millions of years, if you want as long as you don't get into a gravitational pull, you will forever go straight with the engines off.
I vaguely remembered this as Disney trying to do an original series. The one line that I did remember was "do you want a laser that might work or a well-aimed rock!"
Our tastes in visual entertainment have changed greatly since 1988 as well as our standards for technological gizmos to look and seem convincing and not be distractingly silly. To even market it and/or stream it on Disney Plus they'd have to make it UHD standard for today's audience and invest a lot of $ into updating the CGI and the sound and whatnot. Why do that when there are better SciFi properties out there to exploit? If you do a space thing and you're Disney, it had better have all sorts of tie-ins and possibilities for the Disney Parks, or it's wasted investment. And if they tried to do it and make it into some sort of attraction, it would only be a weak competitor to Star Wars, and what is the point of that? And imagine how dated all this looks now...hairstyles and so forth. Who but adults who watched it as kids would be interested in stuff like that? A sufficiently large audience is just not there. The ROI is just not there. Enjoy it here on RU-vid.
I remember seeing this movie as a teen, sorry to go against the grain here but it was beyond boring compared to other sci fi movies of the time. Its more of a drama with lots of useless talking than action base.
