LIFEPOD

LIFEPOD. Ron Silver, dir., star. Priemiered Fox-TV, 28 June 1993. Fox West Pictures, "A Trilogy Entertainment Group Production, in Association with Rhi Entertainment, Inc." "Suggested by a Short Story by Alfred Hitchcock and Harry Sylvester" (and Hitchcock's Lifeboat [1944]). M. Jay Roach and Pen Densham, script. Pen Densham, story, one of four exec. prod.

The doomed spaceship GFC Terrania resembles a huge black shark. See also for "toolies"—"Tool-Augmented Humans"—one in the opening sequence and Q-Three, a midget with a cybernetic left arm, and possibly more extensive cyborgization. Q-Three can survive conditions that kill ordinary humans, but one character comments, "I think our toolie is developing a will of its own," suggesting toolies are not, or are not seen as, fully human and/or autonomous.