Planet Earth Movie Review

One of Gene Roddenberry's numerous aborted projects after cancellation of the classic Star Trek, this postnuke feature-length TV pilot is a remake of 1973's Genesis II and was itself redone later as Strange New World. By the year 2133, John Saxon, in suspended animation since 1979, is revived and working for Pax, the city that survived the ‘Great Conflict’ unscathed and now explores the world (thanks to conveniently intact global subway system) trying to rehab an anarchic planet. Here the hero and his team (Ted Cassidy as an intriguing Spock equivalent, even Majel Barrett in cameo) infiltrate a fiercely feminist tribe that keeps males drugged as docile ‘dinks.’ Regrettably campy curio, of interest mainly to Trekkers welcome to sift through the limp dialogue in search of Roddenberrian profundities.

1974 78m/C John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Diana Muldaur, Johana DeWinter, Christopher Gary; D: Marc Daniels; W: Gene Roddenberry; C: Arch R. Dalzell. VHS UNI