Space travel used to be romantic, both in real life and pop culture. These days, space travel is kind of a bummer. In the real world, rocketship rides are now most associated with billionaires, for…
“The Ark” takes place 100 years hence, as thousands of crew members and passengers have joined a mission to find the nearest planet capable of supporting human life. There’s no explicit mention of why humanity is so desperate to find a new habitat, but the implication is always the same with this subgenre, and “The Ark” is no exception. Presumably, if those aboard the Ark One fail, Earth will fully collapse thanks to climate crises and tribal wars over dwindling resources.
It’s a decent setup, but one quickly overwhelmed by its brutal pace. The Ark One is beset with cascading failures, and the early episodes turn into a sort-of sci-fi procedural as the team works to extinguish every new fire. With the characters under a constant state of emergency ± sometimes narrowly avoiding death multiple times per episode — there’s not much time to get to know the characters or invest in their journeys.
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SpaceX crewmates Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken awarded Space Medal of HonorRobert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
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