Genesis II

Dylan Hunt, a scientist, puts himself into suspended animation in a NASA cavern in 1979 to establish if he could be brought back to life in a couple of days to research into extending the process to astronauts. However the cavern collapses during an earthquake and Dylan doesn't recover until the year 2133. During the 154 years he had slept, war has broken out and the world's scientists rebelled against the war-loving military and developed a society known as the Pax, whose goal is to keep the spirit of mankind alive. However there are also the mutant Tyranians who plan to be Nazi-like rulers of the slowly recovering world. Dylan is tricked by the Tyranians who plan to use his knowledge of the past to rebuild their nuclear generator and therefore make their plans complete. Can the Pax and Dylan stop them or will the man from the past destroy the future?... Written by Lee Horton {Leeh@tcp.co.uk}

Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member of PAX, the colony of people who revived him. Dylan and his PAX team find another colony which is ruled by women and where all men are slaves. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and organizes a rebellion. Dylan once again has a profound influence in the new world that he finds himself in, in the year 2233.

PAX Team members consisting of Captain Anthony Vico, Dr. William Scott, and Dr. Allison Crowley are conducting experiments in suspended animation aboard the PAX space station orbiting the earth. PAX discovers that Earth is about to be struck by a large swarm of meteors. In an effort to survive, the PAX space station is placed into an elliptical orbit around the sun which will return the station to an earth orbit in 180 years. Meanwhile, several hundred PAX members on Earth take refuge in underground suspended animation chambers located in the southwest United States. Planet Earth is devastated by the meteor storm, and is forever changed. Once back in Earth orbit, Capt. Vico and crew return to Earth via a shuttle in the hopes of locating and rescuing the remaining members of PAX. During their expedition, the PAX Team discovers a society that has attempted to achieve immortality by producing clones for use as spare body parts. However, the "originals" are growing weaker, and becoming less able to fight off disease with each succeeding generation of clones. The PAX Team is taken captive for the purpose of using their blood to revitalize the originals. The cloning equipment is destroyed during the escape of the PAX Team, and the population of Eterna dies. After ten months of travel, and not finding any signs of PAX, the trio discovers an old game preserve that is governed by the descendant of a park ranger, who rules according the "Code of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service." The forest, as well as the game preserve society is threatened by poachers, who hunt in the area. The PAX Team helps the two groups to understand that they need to coexist in order to survive. The trio continues the journey across this strange new world in their search for PAX.