The parade of beautiful female ark-dwellers hasn't started yet. Garth is struggling.
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Desolation
potideia20 February 2021
Dave Bowman Vs Baltar!
JasonDanielBaker12 May 2013
Devon (Keir Dullea), Garth (Robin Ward) & Rachel (Gay Rowan) encounter Omocron - a community run as a theocratic military junta and Rachel is mistaken for their goddess 'Calabra'. The governor (John Colicos) of the junta and its high priest (Barry Morse) think that religion is hooey but play along with it to maintain power.
Being a society replenished via male-only test tube babies Rachel is the first woman any in Omocron have seen beyond their statue of Calabra which Rachel bears a striking resemblance to. The governor decides he wants her. Marrying her won't just provide him with female companionship. To wed her will make him a living god and he won't continually have to fight in duels to maintain his rule.
The governor is unconcerned about what Rachel says regarding the fact that they are on a giant spaceship or her mission to alter the course of the ship so that it doesn't collide with a sun. His teachings are that Omocron is the only world there is when it is really merely a colony within one of several biospheres.
Devon wants to examine the ancient scrolls of Omocron in hopes of figuring out how to navigate the Ark. But he and Garth also want to save Rachel from marriage to the creepy old dude.
John Colicos had played a Klingon on Star Trek and would go on to play Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979) as well as act in TV sci-fi War of the Worlds (1989).
Barry Morse had appeared on the sci-fi series The Invaders (1967–1968) and would go on to act in Space: 1999 (1975–1977) and The Martian Chronicles (1980). With Keir Dullea - the lead of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as star of the show this episode had a cast with immense resonance amongst science fiction fans.
Of course shot on video on a set that looked like a miniature golf course made from legos meant that the high-grade cast could not be of much help. Many of the guest-stars were hired believing the show would be a considerably more impressive spectacle than they found themselves appearing in. Viewing the dailies must have been an utterly horrific experience for everyone.
The slipshod costuming in this particular episode looks like the kind found in discount stores for kids to go Halloweening mixed with old pajama bottoms and metallic lame shirts.
The props mostly look like stuff you would find in a toy store. We get the typical depiction of computerized instrumentation that the screen gave science fiction audiences of the time. Boxes with lots of flashing lights, phony levers and gauges that only look like they are doing something.
The strength of the series remained the writing and the theme explored in this episode - men who suppress knowledge via religious dogma in order to maintain power over the ignorant was a recurring topic on the show.
Being a society replenished via male-only test tube babies Rachel is the first woman any in Omocron have seen beyond their statue of Calabra which Rachel bears a striking resemblance to. The governor decides he wants her. Marrying her won't just provide him with female companionship. To wed her will make him a living god and he won't continually have to fight in duels to maintain his rule.
The governor is unconcerned about what Rachel says regarding the fact that they are on a giant spaceship or her mission to alter the course of the ship so that it doesn't collide with a sun. His teachings are that Omocron is the only world there is when it is really merely a colony within one of several biospheres.
Devon wants to examine the ancient scrolls of Omocron in hopes of figuring out how to navigate the Ark. But he and Garth also want to save Rachel from marriage to the creepy old dude.
John Colicos had played a Klingon on Star Trek and would go on to play Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979) as well as act in TV sci-fi War of the Worlds (1989).
Barry Morse had appeared on the sci-fi series The Invaders (1967–1968) and would go on to act in Space: 1999 (1975–1977) and The Martian Chronicles (1980). With Keir Dullea - the lead of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as star of the show this episode had a cast with immense resonance amongst science fiction fans.
Of course shot on video on a set that looked like a miniature golf course made from legos meant that the high-grade cast could not be of much help. Many of the guest-stars were hired believing the show would be a considerably more impressive spectacle than they found themselves appearing in. Viewing the dailies must have been an utterly horrific experience for everyone.
The slipshod costuming in this particular episode looks like the kind found in discount stores for kids to go Halloweening mixed with old pajama bottoms and metallic lame shirts.
The props mostly look like stuff you would find in a toy store. We get the typical depiction of computerized instrumentation that the screen gave science fiction audiences of the time. Boxes with lots of flashing lights, phony levers and gauges that only look like they are doing something.
The strength of the series remained the writing and the theme explored in this episode - men who suppress knowledge via religious dogma in order to maintain power over the ignorant was a recurring topic on the show.
Excellent quality for the year 1973 when the series was made and it's very limited budget.
andrewdock-2720212 December 2019
The series refers to the discovery of the ark (spacecraft) as being lost in space due to a unknown accident which killed many of the crew.
What is left are those who are Isolated from from each other in bio-dome"s three young people have to travel through the dome"s looking for help to save the ship.
When religion is missing you notice man made rules take over man is reduce to the animal not the spirit the three young people fight against this believing there is more to life and the human spirit than the animal thirst to survive.
This is just plain stupid and like a really bad Roman Empire ripoff of Star Trek
Sean_Biggins4 September 2022
I see that there's some reviews here from diehard Starlost junkies giving it 8 out of 10 which is absurd. What I find ridiculous is that the ship isn't that big yet now they're discovering other cultures in other parts of the ship and of course mole-people living in the bowels of the ship. I think this will probably be the last episode I watch.
This society is all men. They are advanced enough that they can clone more humans but they can't create women? What a joke. They also look incredibly gay whether that was done on purpose who knows. They\re like the Village People.
Young man, there's no need to feel down I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need to be unhappy Young man, there's a place you can go I said, young man, when you're short on your dough You can stay there and I'm sure you will find Many ways to have a good time It's fun to stay at the Y. M. C. A. It's fun to stay at the Y. M. C. A. They have everything For young men to enjoy You can hang out with all the boys.
This society is all men. They are advanced enough that they can clone more humans but they can't create women? What a joke. They also look incredibly gay whether that was done on purpose who knows. They\re like the Village People.
Young man, there's no need to feel down I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need to be unhappy Young man, there's a place you can go I said, young man, when you're short on your dough You can stay there and I'm sure you will find Many ways to have a good time It's fun to stay at the Y. M. C. A. It's fun to stay at the Y. M. C. A. They have everything For young men to enjoy You can hang out with all the boys.
The World Of Starlost Thoughtful Sci-Fi
andrewdock-2720212 December 2019
The ark is a spacecraft which for some unknown reason has experienced a terrible accident the last surviving members of mankind who fled from the dying Earth now face another battle as their craft has been badly damaged after drifting through space for many hundreds of years. Three young people travel through the bio-domes which contain different cultures from Earth searching for a answer to how to save the ship from ultimate destruction.
The eternal question what is man without God can be seen in each of the episodes. The decent in to animal beings devoid of a spirit to which the young people must fight against in order to rise above the decadent decay of man aboard the ark.
Character driven episodes compensate for the dated special effects ; all in all a good series.
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