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1) Star trek
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English
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On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was searching for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. He is inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet, even though he annoys his instructors. Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan...
2) Gravity
Language
English
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Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dispatched on a rescue mission to the farthest reaches of space, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by Krall, a ruthless enemy sworn against the Federation. Crash-landing on an uncharted hostile world, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew are separated with no means of escape. Only Jaylah, a rebellious alien warrior, can help them reunite and find a way off the planet in a race against time to stop Krall's deadly army from triggering all-out galactic war....
4) Gattaca
Language
English
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
5) Gattaca
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As one of the last natural beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent has none of the ₁pre-ordered DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, he assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete's genetic markers; he becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a stunning co-worker. But when a flight director is brutally murdered, a clue left at the crime...
6) Virtuality
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a ten-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. As the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them...
7) Marooned
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
After completing a daring mission in space, the three-man spaceship orbits the Earth preparing for re-entry. But a retro-rocket misfires, and they are marooned in space. They are trapped in a cramped metal vessel with no power-- outside there is no air and no heat.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the Air Force test flights by Chuck Yeager that would lead to Project Mercury, which pioneered America's launch into the space race-- and of the seven men chosen to launch the U.S. into space: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton.
10) Capricorn One
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An investigative reporter gets wind that something is amiss...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Star Trek: Voyager broke new ground by being the first and only Star Trek TV series with a female captain. Now you can relive the adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager pulled 70,000 light years into the far reaches of space searching for a renegade starship. Now, Captain Kathryn Janeway must lead her crew on a 75-year journey back to earth.
12) Species II
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and slowly becomes a terrifying extraterrestrial entity with a one track mind -- to procreate with human women. Scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to track him and his virulent brood down.
13) Rocketman
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A computer geek is chosen to go on the first manned mission to Mars, and his crewmates aren't happy.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Star trek: "The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time"--IMDb.com.
Star trek into darkness: "After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction"--IMDb.com.
Star...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A Starfleet propulsion expert and his alien assistant come aboard the Enterprise to increase efficiency and then the Enterprise mysteriously rockets to an area previously unexplored by humans. Kirk discovers a ship carrying cryogenically frozen survivors of the 1990s Earth war known as the Eugenic Wars and when his life-support system dies, Khan, comes to life immediately, hatching a plan to rule mankind. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet...
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Throughout this nation's history, mankind have reached for the heavens and dreamed of touching the stars. From the early stages of the space program and Kennedy's 1961 call to reach the moon within a decade to the successes and heartbreaking failures of the race for space, the dream was kept alive by dedicated, daring professionals and a nation intent on reaching for, and landing amid, the stars, all while the world faced the Vietnam War.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Noranti and Sikozu are recent additions to the crew. A shocking former enemy will play a major role as well. The stakes have risen for the crew and for the universe itself, including escalating dangers that threaten not only the Farscape galaxy, but Crichton's home galaxy as well.
Publisher
Flatiron Film Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A great deal of time passes between Seasons Three and Four which helps develop the show's extraordinary characters even more fully. More recent additions to the crew, including Noranti and Sikozu, as well as a shocking former enemy, play major roles.
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