I forgot to mention that Genesis II is out on DVD.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Keith Johnson
<keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
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> Got it. The movie in which I saw the system of high speed underground
> bullet trains ("vactrains") was "Genesis II", starring Alex Cord. It also
> had Mariette Hartley, who had a guest spot on an ep of Star Trek (the one
> where Spock and McCoy go back in time to a planet's ice age, and Spock loses
> emotional control and gets the hots for Hartley's character). I remember
> thinking those trains were freakin' awesome when I first saw the movie.
> Here's a blurb about the movie from Wikipedia.
> Note that Cord's character is named "Dylan Hunt", the name that would later
> be lifted from Roddenberry's notes, and then applied to the TV series
> "Andromeda".
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_%28film%29
> Plot summary
>
> In 1979, NASA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA> scientist Dylan Hunt (
> Cord <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Cord>) is working on "Project
> Ganymede", a suspended
> animation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation>system for
> astronauts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut> on long-duration space
> flights <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_flight>. As chief of the
> project he volunteers for the first multi-day test. He places himself in
> chemically-induced hibernation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation>deep
> inside Carlsbad
> Caverns <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_Caverns>; while there, his
> lab is buried in an earthquake <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake>.
> The monitoring equipment is damaged and fails to awake him at the intended
> end of the test. He awakens instead in 2133 A.D., emerging into a chaotic
> post-apocalyptic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-apocalyptic> world. An
> event called "The Great Conflict" (a third and final World
> War<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War>)
> destroyed the civilization of Hunt's time. Various new civilizations have
> emerged in a struggle for control of available resources. Those with the
> greatest military might and the will to use it have the greatest advantage.
>
> Dylan Hunt is accidentally found and rescued by an organization calling
> themselves "PAX", which stood for
> peace<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace>(from the Latin). PAX members are
> the descendants of the
> NASA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA> personnel who worked and lived at
> the Carlsbad Installation in Dylan's time. They are explorers and
> "scientists" who preserve what little information and technology survive
> from before the Conflict, and who seek to learn and acquire more in an
> effort to build a new civilization. Members of PAX find Dylan Hunt still
> sealed in the hibernation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation>chamber.
> They revive him, and are thrilled to meet a survivor from before
> the Conflict.
>
> An elaborate Subshuttle transit system was constructed during the 1970's
> due to air transportation becoming too vulnerable to air attack. The
> Subshuttles were a rapid transport system that utilized magnetic
> levitation transports <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_Train>. They
> operated inside vactrain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain> tunnels
> and ran at hundreds of miles per hour. The tunnels were comprehensive enough
> to cover the entire globe. The PAX organization has inherited the still
> working system and used it to dispatch their teams of troubleshooters.
>
> In the area once known as Arizona and New Mexico a totalitarian
> regime<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian>known as Tyranians rule the
> area. The Tyranians are
> mutants <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutants> who possess greater prowess
> than average humans (they can be identified as possessing two
> navels<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel>).
> Their leader discovers that Hunt has knowledge of nuclear
> power<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power>systems, and they offer him
> great rewards if he can repair their failing
> nuclear power generator. However, once under their power they attempt to
> force him to reactivate a nuclear
> missile<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_missile>system in their
> possession, with which they intend to destroy their enemies
> and dominate the region. Hunt is appalled by this small-scale replay of the
> events that must have led to the Conflict. He leads a revolt of the enslaved
> citizenry, sabotages <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage> the nuclear
> device, and destroys the reactor.
>
> To Hunt's dismay, the PAX leaders assert their
> pacifist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist>nature and intentions. They
> are attempting to rebuild an idealistic society
> using all that was deemed "good" from Earth's past, and they regard Hunt's
> interference with a rival civilization and his destructive tactics as
> antithetical to this end. However, they also see great good in him and value
> his knowledge of the past. They ask Hunt to join PAX permanently but only if
> he can agree to never again take human lives. Hunt half-heartedly agrees.
> Security Chief Yuloff states that the rationale of taking lives to justify
> the saving of lives was what allowed "The Great Conflict" to happen in the
> first place.
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