A visually impressive movie, but even way back then trying to swallow the incredible premise of every plant on Earth being gone except for a few in domes in space (why the hell not at least put the domes on Earth?) was like trying to make a garter snake swallow a goat.

Only slightly less probable was the idea of a plant expert taking half the movie to figure out that plants need light.

Still pretty cool. Largely filmed on an old aircraft carrier.

A great visual reference on the ship is available here. Scroll down to "Silent Running." Of course, the other stuff on this page doesn't exactly suck either. I said goodbye to about six productive hours when I first found this site. I post on the BBS there once in a while too.