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Beyond the Trek
Teleios / Deep Space
USA 2017
produced by Hayley Helmreich, Matthew Gore, Jeffrey Magnussen (executive) for Thousand Mile Media
directed by Ian Truitner
starring Sunny Mabrey, Lance Broadway, T.J. Hoban, Christian Pitre, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Ursula Mills, Weetus Cren, Michael Nouri, John Posey, Leila Birch (voice), Andreas Lyon, Philip Tan, Armando DuBon jr, Spencer Stone, Brett Robert Culbert, Seth Duhame, Ryan Ryusaki
written by Ian Truitner, music by Roman Kovalik, visual effects by Matthew Gore (supervisor), Heather Paul (producer)/Lux Visual Effects
review by Mike Haberfelner
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In the future, when space travel in hibernation, exploitation of the
planets in our solar system and android household helps are a reality and
genetically optimized humans have just been developed, a team of
genetically optimized humans travel to a mining station circling Titan on
a rescue mission since the crew of the station is believed to be dead, and
they're to retrieve the station's cargo said to be vital for mankind. On
the station, our heroes find a survivor though, O'Neill (Weetus Cren),
plus the station's fully functional android Lulu (Ursula Mills), and
apparently the two have become in a weird way involved romantically. Thing
is, only O'Neill knows where the cargo is, and he has grown a bit odd
while on the station (all others have been killed by at first unknown
causes) and refuses to talk. Thing is, the rescue crew, the
"perfect" humans who are known to have no human emotions,
suddenly start to having those, and are not prepared for them at all:
Crewmembers Zimmer (T.J. Hoban) and Anderson (Christian Pitre) fall in
love and lust, which is even a bit sweet, but Commander Linden (Lance
Broadway) experineces jealousy and sees his role as alpha dog challenged,
the ship doctor Orson (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) grows more and more violent
and sadistic, and the psychologist Duncan (Sunny Mabrey) who is to
question O'Neill finds it hard to control her temper - and eventually they
learn genetic optimization in general has gone awry and on earth its
humans versus superhumans because of that as only (un-engineered) human
blood can keep the genetically modified humans in check ... and the only
human on board is O'Neill - but he's got Lulu on his side and knows the
station like the back of his hand, so everything turns into a game of cat
and mouse - and it's to everyone's guess who's the mouse ...
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Sure,
Beyond the Trek borrows from many classic and cult science fiction movies,
with Alien and Android
and a dozen others springing readily to one's mind, and the costumes and
sets will probably make this look old before its time - but it's a really
well and thoughtfully written piece of sci-fi nevertheless, one that dares
to look beyond good-and-bad dichotomy and hides social commentary between
the lines without taking sides or giving simple answers to complex
problems. But at the same time, it's also a well-paced and -directed movie
with plenty of tension and suspense, and enough surprises along the way to
keep one on the edge of one's seat!
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