Trivia / Silent Running

• Prop Recycling:
  • The Valley Forge model was re-used on the original Battlestar Galactica series (which had Douglas Trumbull as special effects director) as an "Agro-Ship" and Battlestar Galactica included two ships who took strong design aspects from the Valley Forge (the "Colonial Movers" ship and the "Cloud Nine" hotel ship (which resembles one of the domes)) as a Shout-Out.
  • Recycling footage: Douglas Trumbull reused footage of the Valley Forge from the film for the pitch pilot for the TV series The Star Lost.
• Technology Marches On: Minor example: Freeman's reprogramming of the three repair drones so they can assist him with his leg's surgery required him to manually work on some circuit boards to hard-wire new instructions (a remake would have him, at most, working away on new computer code to download into them).
• What Could Have Been: In the original version of the story, Freeman was an old man who rebelled not to save the forests but because he didn't want to be sent back to Earth. Also, he attempts to make First Contact with aliens.

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