A scientist is placed in our distant future.Star Trek (1966) has been a lifelong interest of mine so it was great see the maker of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, do this in 1973. Genesis 11 held me from beginning to end, however I saw it in the form of a terrible print on YouTube, so it was a bit hard to make out some images/sets clearly. The middle sections of the film needed a bit more punch but it all comes together in the later sections. The star of the show, Alex Cord, does a fine job here.Another TV movie like this came the following year, Planet Earth, and it contains one of the best 1970s sci-fi theme tunes.

The architecture referred to by another reviewer is actually the campus of the University of California at Riverside. It was filmed while I was a student there, during spring break so no students were around. While I loved the film, it was hard to suspend my disbelief looking at buildings I saw every day. We hoped it would take off as a series, since the campus got a paint job, some landscaping, and a few thousand dollars for our scholarship funds in exchange for letting them film. That "futuristic" architecture was mostly built in the early to mid 1960's. But it still has that "future" look. One of my fond memories of my undergraduate alma mater.

unfortunately, it wasn't to memorable at that. it might have developed into something viable, all things considered for the 70's, but didn't. i love roddenberry's work, but the characters in this series given the relationship between time of the catastrophic event and the changes in the world and rather unbelievable acting lead to a very lukewarm movie at the least. Alex Cord just barely carries off the role of Dylan Hunt. Almost all the undergrounders are rather forced and unbelievable. Mariett Hartley does not do the concept of Terran any good, neither do any of the others portraying this unrealistic and unbelievable mutated race. it just didn't work for me. i'll be adding it to my collection if i can ever find it only because of roddenberry, not for anyother reason!

As you would expect from Roddenberry there are many themes about the good and bad sides of human nature explored, and his optimism about the fate of the Human race shows through as it often does in Star Trek.The plot follows a scientist who is researching suspended animation in deep underground caverns. He is supposed to be asleep for a week, but due to an Earth quake he is buried for 150 years.When he awakes, he finds his world has been destroyed by war. PACS - a group of Unisex humans live underground, while the mutants (the only outwardly sign being 2 navels!)live outside. Little is know about the ancient technology of the Nuclear Power plants and both sides fight to have the "man from the past" help them.The moral dilema for out hero is which side he chooses to help.Despite its age, this film ain't too bad. There's no flashy special effects , but an entertaining moral tale against slavery and oppressive regimes. Look out for Gene Roddenberry's wife making an appearance (better known as Counsellor Troi's Mother in Star Trek The Next Generation).