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Fantastic!

Best movie ever!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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 other reviews need to keep in mind that this was pilot. It is a far different premise from Star Trek. It was the first shot at a new show for Roddenberry after Star Trek. This does not include pilot that was also a Star Trek episode, Assignment Earth. Genesis II is told from the point of view a 20th century scientist living in post apocalyptic world. The show had potential for many themes that also ran through Star Trek that Roddenberry was interested in.The networks liked it enough to make a second version called Planet Earth with John Saxon taking the lead roll from Alex Cord. It is too bad that neither show got picked up.

Genesis II was made for CBS, who turned it down in favor of the Planet of the Apes series, with the thinking that a network could have only one science fiction show on its schedule at a time.Planet Earth was made for ABC, and it wasn't a sequel, rather, the next episode of the same premise, with a new male lead and a lighter tone.Star Trek: The Motion Picture's script was written to be an episode of Genesis II. (and was in turn, stolen from an older episode of Star Trek! (Earth satellite comes back looking for its maker)) Andromeda uses two of the characters' names (Dylan Hunt and Harper Smythe)though it has little to do with the original concept. By using the names I suppose the producers could call it "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda") I really wish they would have made a Genesis II series instead, IMHO: I liked that Mariette Hartley was set up to be a recurring, love-interest/villain for Dylan. It could have been a good show, though I have to agree with the poster who said it probably would have only lasted one season. Still, 26 episodes would have been great to have.

I watched this show when it first came on the air in 1973. GenesisII is classic Roddenberry. The characters and situations are similar to those seen in the original Star Trek. I really liked this show and was hoping it would have been chosen as a series. Alex Cord brought the main character, Dylan Hunt, to life. When this show repeats on a station I can get it is a must watch.