The set and costumes, even the story seem like something out of the original Star Trek series.
For that matter, even the score had me thinking Alexander Courage. Note the music they play when the first beautiful woman walks in the room. Very similar to the music they used in TOS when a babe appeared.
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This Really did feel like Star Trek TOS. The use of color(especially red and orange walls), the sets, the costumes the endangered pacifist people were wearing(Star Trek always had endangered pacifists), the background music, the moral story, the hot babes. Everything screamed star Trek. If the producers replaced the astronauts with Kirk, McCoy, Spock and Chekov, I'd swear I was watching A lost episode.
shareThat's what I was thinking when I watched it. Could have been straight out of Star Trek: TOS.
Also, did the storyline remind anyone else of The Time Machine? You know, the part when the Time Traveler goes to the future with the Eloi and the Morlocks.
"He's already attracted to her. Time and monotony will do the rest."
One of the women characters in this movie is named Deena and in Time Machine the love interest was named Weena.
shareJust finished watching it again on DVD and I agree it does have a Star Trek Flavor. When the savages throw spears it's like the episode where Spock was on a planet with a few of the other officers and a savage was attacking. And the main savage reminds me of the warrior that Capt. Pike fought in a flashback scene in 'the cage.' It wouldn't surprise me if Gene Roddenberry had seen this movie when it came out and it influenced the development of Star Trek.
I am surprised this is never referenced as a Trek influence at all. It is eerily similar---like watching an TOS episode with different actor.
shareI was just thinking to myself that some of the sets may have been reused on Star Trek.
shareI was just thinking to myself that some of the sets may have been reused on Star Trek.Some of the props and even some of the film were used in Queen of Outer Space a couple of years later. The ship XRM was used in not only WWE, but QOOS and at at least one and possibly two other flicks as well.
I agree it has very much has a essential TOS feel to it. If it had ended with the evil villain revealed and dealt with this would have been standard 50s Sci Fi movie but by going further with the story makes it a better film and makes a better ending then leaving what happens to dealing with the Mutates unresolved
Oh GOOD!,my dog found the chainsaw
Very Trek-like. Same scrubby exteriors, I expected to see a Gorn pop out. Same sensibilities, "Man shouldn't live in a hole in the ground!" Costumes are very much in the Trek vein as well, glitter skull caps!
The only difference? Kirk would have used some of his patented fighting moves (the forearm hold-break, the ear box, the double-drop kick) to whip the mutants!