Bruce Dern is on a space craft carrying the last plants from earth. When the crew are told to destroy the plants, he rebels and takes one ship through the rings of Saturn to save it from destruction. His only company and help are two droids. This is an intruiging film with a mix of sci-fi and early eco/green concerns, with film stealing performances from the droids that make no sound. The director made the droids with more emtional and human characteristcs compared with the computer in 2001 A Space Odessy. Douglas Trumbull was responsible for the special effects in this film as well as 2001. This was also the first film that had robots that did not try at least partly try to resemble humans. Howver the droids had human amputees in them and so had some human reactions which is makes them appealing. This was the first real ecological film.