MAINE ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS • August 7, 2024
Silent Running (1972) is first time director Douglas Trumbull’s environmental themed science fiction classic starring Bruce Dern and Dewey, Huey and Louie, his three drone helpers. Set in the not to distant future, all forests on Earth have become extinct and the only surviving species are on eight space craft in Saturn’s orbit in specially designed enormous greenhouse-like geodesic domes. Freeman Lowell (Dern) is the botanist aboard ‘Valley Forge’. When the ships are ordered to destroy the domes and return to Earth, he takes things into his own hands.