Joel Hodgson credits Silent Running as being a direct influence on the concept of Mystery Science Theater 3000, with both Silent Running and MST3K featuring a single human aboard …

Aug 20, 2012 · Silent Running depicts a future in which all plant life on Earth is extinct. The resident botanist enlists the spaceship's 3 service robots, called drones.

Jun 18, 2018 · The 1972 big budget movie Silent Running should be the ultimate Earth Day sci-fi movie: a realistic multirobot system of 'bots are entrusted to save the world’s remaining trees …

Trumbull's vision of technology was not supposed to be sterile and lifeless, as with every robot in scifi history up to that point, but he wanted to create something instantly personable without …

Sep 27, 2021 · Assisted by three robots and a small human crew, Lowell rebels when he is ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds …

Oct 18, 2025 · In the post-apocalyptic sci-fi, Dern's character reprograms his spaceship's service robots to plant trees and play poker. Silent Running's ongoing appeal is owed, in part, to the …

Three drones called Drone 1, Drone 2, and Drone 3, are reprogrammed by Dern to respond to Huey, Dewey, and Louie. A powerful scene in the film is when one of the drones is careless …

May 2, 2025 · Before the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run, before Darth Vader marched across the Death Star, and long before R2-D2 rolled his way into our collective imaginations, …

Mar 14, 2019 · Drone Silent Running Robot Enlisting the aid of the ship's three service robots drones, which he eventually names Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Lowell stages a fake premature …

At the outset of the 1971 movie, "Silent Running," the robots aren't even all that interesting and are known only as Drone 1, Drone 2 and Drone 3. The spaceship they tend is carrying the last …