Roddenberry's U.S. - China Alliance

POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Thursday, June 30, 2011 00:48
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JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:37 PM

Genesis II was a great tv movie written and directed by Gene Roddenbery in 1972. In the first few minutes of the story we learn from the hero in a flashback that the United States of the near future was able to complete a trans-continental underground shuttle as a result of the "peace dividend" made possible by the new Chinese Alliance.

I just watched the new high-quality studio release dvd and was stunned when I heard it. US-China!? .... Alliance!? ... Hmmm, that sounds vaguely familiar. There's no other mention of it in the film, and no visuals of anything related to "that alliance." But it is interesting that Roddenberry, the Godfather of sci-fi television, envisioned such a thing as a concept decades before Joss Whedon used it as a central theme in Firefly. Of course Joss gave us a real look at this Alliance throughout the series, but I wonder if he was aware of the Roddenberry piece.

OUT2THEBLACK

Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:48 AM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

...Hmmm, that sounds vaguely familiar. There's no other mention of it in the film, and no visuals of anything related to "that alliance." But it is interesting that Roddenberry, the Godfather of sci-fi television, envisioned such a thing as a concept decades before Joss Whedon used it as a central theme in Firefly. Of course Joss gave us a real look at this Alliance throughout the series, but I wonder if he was aware of the Roddenberry piece.

Probably he received it once , in a broadwave...Subliminally.