The Andromeda Strain

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Time for some Guardsmen to buy the farm! Michael Crichton wrote the original novel of "The Andromeda Strain", and the movie remembered so fondly by many was a quite faithful adaptation. You've heard of Michael Crichton because he has written lots of exciting and interesting science fiction, much of which has been turned into movies of varying quality. This adaptation was written by Robert Schenkkan. You likely haven't heard of him, because he's been asked to write almost nothing else for the screen.

Judging from this production, there would seem to be a reason for that.

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He has written a number of well-received plays, but apparently that talent does not translate well to television; what I recall of his "Spartacus" miniseries was on the level of "Andromeda". TNG first-season episode "Conspiracy". At the very least they should produce original stories, instead of mucking up remakes of perfectly good predecessors. I'll never get those four hours back, but you still have a chance to miss this movie.

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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 7 Primetime Emmys. Edit Cast Series cast summary: Jeremy Stone 4 episodes, Christa Miller Angela Noyce 4 episodes, Louis Ferreira Ferrus 4 episodes, Ricky Schroder Lance Stone 4 episodes, Eric McCormack Jack Nash 4 episodes, Daniel Dae Kim Tsi Chou 4 episodes, Barry Flatman Charles 'Chuck' Beeter 4 episodes, Ted Whittall Scott 4 episodes, Ted Atherton Edward 'Ed' Dewitt 4 episodes, Andre Braugher Mancheck 4 episodes, Juan Carlos Velis Roach 4 episodes, Roman Podhora General Blair 4 episodes, Viola Davis Charlene Barton 3 episodes, Anna Galvin Lisa Stone 3 episodes, Jonathan Potts Pat Terrence 3 episodes, Ava Salomon Sarah Scott 3 episodes, Emily Holmes Joanne Scott 3 episodes, Fred Keating Charles Henderson 3 episodes, Denise Galik Annie Dillon 3 episodes, Kurt Max Runte Sherriff Martin Willis 3 episodes, Cory Dagg General Michaelson 3 episodes, Adrian Holmes Sam Barton 2 episodes, Nicola Anderson Amy Deacon 2 episodes, Paul Perri Smithson 2 episodes, Eve Harlow Leila 2 episodes, Douglas O'Keeffe Edit Details Official Sites: Universal Pictures Japan [Japan].

The team of scientists believes the satellite, which was intentionally designed to capture upper-atmosphere microorganisms for bio-weapon exploitation, returned with a deadly microorganism that kills by nearly instantaneous disseminated intravascular coagulation lethal blood clotting. Upon investigating the town, the Wildfire team discovers that the residents either died in mid-stride or went "quietly nuts" and committed bizarre suicides.

Two Piedmont inhabitants—the sick, Sterno -addicted, geriatric Peter Jackson and the constantly bawling infant Jamie Ritter—are biological opposites who somehow survived the organism. Jackson, Ritter, and the satellite are taken to the secret underground Wildfire laboratory, a secure facility equipped with every known capacity for protection against microorganisms escaping into the environment, including a nuclear bomb to incinerate the facility if necessary.

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Wildfire is hidden in a remote area near the fictional town of Flatrock, Nevada , sixty miles from Las Vegas , concealed in the sub-basements of a legitimate Department of Agriculture research station. Hall is the only scientist authorized to disarm the automatic self-destruct mechanism ; he is an unmarried male and thus presumed to make the most dispassionate decisions during crises.

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Further investigation determines that the bizarre deaths were caused by a crystal-structured, extraterrestrial microbe transported by a meteor that crashed into the satellite, knocking it from orbit. The microbe contains chemical elements required for terrestrial life and appears to have a crystalline structure , but lacks the DNA , RNA , proteins , and amino acids present in all forms of terrestrial life, and directly transforms energy to matter with no discernible byproducts. The microbe, code named "Andromeda", mutates with each growth cycle, changing its biological properties.

The scientists learn that the current form of Andromeda grows only within a narrow pH range; in a too-acidic or too- alkaline growth medium, it will not multiply. Andromeda's ideal pH range is 7. That is why Jackson and Ritter survived: However, by the time the scientists realize this, Andromeda has mutated into a form that degrades the lab's plastic seals and escapes its containment.



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Trapped in a contaminated laboratory, Dr. Burton demands that Stone inject him with Kalocin a fictional "universal antibiotic " ; Stone refuses, arguing it would render Burton too vulnerable to infection by other harmful bacteria. Burton survives because the mutated Andromeda is no longer pathogenic. The mutated Andromeda attacks the synthetic rubber door and hatch seals within the Wildfire complex, rapidly migrating toward the upper levels and the surface. The self-destruct atomic bomb is automatically armed when it detects the containment breach, triggering its detonation countdown to prevent the spread of the infection.

As the bomb arms, the scientists realize that given Andromeda's ability to generate matter directly from energy, the organism would be able to consume the released energy and ultimately benefit from an nuclear explosion , forming a large indestructible biofilm within a day. To halt the detonation, Dr.

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Hall must insert a special key he carries into an emergency substation, one of which should be accessible from any location in Wildfire. Unfortunately, he is trapped in a section which due to an oversight has no substation. He must navigate Wildfire's obstacle course of automatic defenses to reach a working substation on an upper level. He barely disarms the bomb in time before all the air is evacuated from the deepest level of the Wildfire complex which contains the remainder of the team and their assistants.

Andromeda is suspected to have eventually mutated into a benign form and migrated to the upper atmosphere, where the oxygen content is lower, better suiting its growth. Crichton says he was "terrifically impressed" by the book - "a lot of Andromeda is traceable to Ipcress in terms of trying to create an imaginary world using recogniseable techniques and real people. The "Odd-Man Hypothesis" is a fictional hypothesis which states that unmarried men are better able to execute the best, most dispassionate decisions in crises—in this case, to disarm the nuclear weapon intended to prevent the escape of organisms from the laboratory in the event the auto-destruct sequence is initiated.

In the novel, the Odd-Man explanation is a page in a RAND Corporation report of the results of test series wherein different people were to make command decisions in nuclear and biological wars and chemical crises.