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1) Star trek
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
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
Formats
Description
"Dr. Ryan Stone ... is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski. ... On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into...
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) Voyagers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A group of young men and women on a mission to colonize a distant planet find their mission descending into chaos.
5) Gravity
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will they survive?
Series
Language
English
Description
They had trained body and mind for America's leap into space. But when the moment came, they were replaced. Now, 40 years later, another moment has come and this time it's all theirs. These old-school test pilots whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to repair a primitive, deorbiting Russian satellite that imperils Earth.
7) Marooned
Pub. Date
[2003]
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 the crew are marooned in space. They are trapped in a cramped metal vessel with no power-- outside there is no air and no heat.
9) Pontiac moon
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
A science teacher and his family attempt to travel the distance from the Earth to the moon in their 1949 Pontiac Chief automobile, mirroring the voyage of the Apollo XI in the summer of 1969.
10) Gravity
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD combo pack].
Language
English
Description
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...
11) 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...
Pub. Date
[2009]
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.
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...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In the astronaut's wife the lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes, but neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives.
In Don Juan DeMarco a psychiatrist rescues a young man who claims to be the legendary...
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