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94. From the movie's screenplay (from memory):

Fri Jun 27, 2025, 09:05 PM

Jun 2025

"I'm in command of 18 genetically selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days."

Now, maybe my memory is off (I am old) and perhaps the line is "competitively selected", but when I hear the word "super" I think about Superman, and that sets my heckles off. Note every one of these "super-perfect" specimens is lily-white.

It was 1956. Maybe I should be more forgiving. But this used to be my favorite sci-fi movie. Some of it doesn't sit well these days.

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