On Star Trek, Khan's people were found in suspended animation in "Space Seed."
The concept has also been used in a number of other sci-fi vehicles, including
Buck Rogers, which debuted in the 1920s. In the '60s, it was also used on The
Twilight Zone and in the film Sleeper.

Cryonics was used in early works from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
Robert Heinlein and others. In addition, Juliet (from Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet) used a drug to put herself in a state similar to suspended animation, to
fool everyone into thinking she was dead so she and Romeo could run off together
(we all know how well that turned out).

And then there's Marvel Comics' Captain America, who was frozen in the '40s and
thawed out years later.



--- In pota@yahoogroups.com, "Terry Hoknes" <hoknescards@...> wrote:
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> Good question
> i'm not sure if the concept ever happened in
> Star Trek or Doctor Who or Lost In Space back in the 60s
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> It would seem to me that maybe that was the only way they could comprehend a
way for humans to make a long journey - not sure what other options there could
be
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> An off-topic question would be what else did POTA do that was innovative for a
sci-fi movie that had not been done with other 60s sci-fi films?
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> I think we should work on a 60's index of sci-fi movies
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> POTA and 2001 came out at about the same time, and both relied upon the
technique of deep sleep to accomplish long space travels. I saw them both at a
drive-in back then. I can't remember films using hibernation before that, but
then, I was about 8 years old. Does anyone know when hibernation debuted as a
sci-fi film phenomenon?
> FF
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