It is 1979 and Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord) is a NASA scientist who is working on suspended animation to allow for long-duration spaceflights. All animal tests have been successful and Dylan volunteered to be the first human subject. His lab is deep in the Carlsbad Caverns, which house many such labs. No sooner has he been put into hibernation that an earthquake buries the lab.
It is 2133 and a team of PAX scientists find the ruins of Dylan Hunt's lab. Moreover, they discover Dylan is still alive. As the drugs necessary to rouse him are no longer available, he spends nearly two weeks in a gray haze as he slowly recovers. Kept mostly isolated, he is nursed to health by Lyra-A (Mariette Hartley). She tells him how there was a Great Conflict that wiped out most of civilization and also created mutants, like her. She is a Tyranian, human in appearance but possessed of two hearts and much greater strength. Their one identifying characteristic is having two navels. Lyra-A is a spy and warns Dylan that he is among the descendants of those who caused the Great Conflict; he should escape to Tyrania with her. Without investigating her story, he agrees. Tyrania proves to be a city like Rome, where the Tyranians are the masters and the ordinary humans are held as slaves. Can Dylan free himself and the slaves?
Though much technology has survived, the know-how to operate and repair it has been lost. A nuclear powerplant is providing less power, the workings of electronic devices is not understood, medical knowledge has been lost, and so on. As such, Dylan is a godsend to whichever faction can get hold of him.
The world is connected with an underground subway called the subshuttle. Interestingly, it is like the hyperloop. The map for it shows that it connected the whole world and the people of PAX control it. As this was a pilot for a TV show, the plan would have been for Dylan and associates to arrive at various places around the world and solve whatever civilizational problems arose from the Great Conflict.
The name of Dylan Hunt is noteworthy. John Saxon played Dylan Hunt in the second pilot for this show, this time titled Planet Earth. Finally, it was the name of Kevin Sorbo's character in Andromeda, a show where the galatic civilization crumbled after a war and the hero is revived in the distant future. Looks like the third time was the charm.
Just okay.
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