Lost In Space.... Robinsons and breeding.

[Gingerbread Demon]

For the 60s show Lost In Space..

How could the Robinsons do colonization if they didn't have other people to breed with?

I mean if you have Don there there's some potential.

Don - Judy
Don - Maureen
Don - Older Penny

That leaves everyone else in the lurch until any of that offspring get older then you can breed more with probably Will and John

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

That wasn't a question you were supposed to even think about never mind ask in the 60s. It was a family show not a serious drama. Just enjoy the antics of Dr Smith and the robot until the next commercial break rolls around. The movie and latest TV incarnation have answered the question sufficiently to expunge the suggestion of incest and inbreeding. In any case, was the Jupiter II the only colonisation vessel in the original show? It's over 50 years since I saw it so I just don't remember. Personally, I have no desire to revisit it to find out.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Obviously there's a Jupiter 1, and a Jupiter 3.

In the movie Jupiter 1 was the launch vehicle, and Jupiter 2 was a "capsule" keeping in line with a Saturn IRL.

IN the new show there were two dozen Jupiter's and lots of colonists.

Penny was going to run away with Debbie rather be paired off with Smith.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Well in the new series at least there was a bunch of other families so wider gene pool.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That wasn't a question you were supposed to even think about never mind ask in the 60s. It was a family show not a serious drama. Just enjoy the antics of Dr Smith and the robot until the next commercial break rolls around. The movie and latest TV incarnation have answered the question sufficiently to expunge the suggestion of incest and inbreeding. In any case, was the Jupiter II the only colonisation vessel in the original show? It's over 50 years since I saw it so I just don't remember. Personally, I have no desire to revisit it to find out.

There were, in the very first few minutes of the first episode of the original 60s show it mentions the Robinsons being the first family of many, many more that were launching into space on ships like the Jupiter 2 so there was many, many more of those too.

Plus over the course of the TV show other people managed to leave Earth like miners and other people with their own private spaceships. It's never explained in the TV show but the robot was programmed with galactic law. So Earth must have had some contact with aliens of some kind.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Maybe they had ten thousand people on ice down in the basement that they never mentioned.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Sex with the carrot people is definitely verboten.

 

[Christopher]

There were, in the very first few minutes of the first episode of the original 60s show it mentions the Robinsons being the first family of many, many more that wer launching into space on ships like the Jupiter 2 so there was many, many more of those too.

Yes. We can presume that over the years that followed, a whole colony grew up on Alpha Centauri, but the Robinsons never got there. (Well, except in the Innovation sequel comics written by Bill Mumy, where Alpha Cen was home to the evil aliens that had hired Dr. Smith to sabotage the ship so it wouldn't reach them.)

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Maybe they had ten thousand people on ice down in the basement that they never mentioned.

Oh....... Well they did show us the power core in the episode "space creature"

Yes. We can presume that over the years that followed, a whole colony grew up on Alpha Centauri, but the Robinsons never got there. (Well, except in the Innovation sequel comics written by Bill Mumy, where Alpha Cen was home to the evil aliens that had hired Dr. Smith to sabotage the ship so it wouldn't reach them.)

I've read the comics and geez imagine the show had that been the series. but hey it was the 60s.

 

[Kor]

Presumably, if the Robinsons established the colony, then later on more families would make their way to the planet and settle there. Perhaps some kind of beacon would let people know it was there.

Kor

 

[arch101]

I think it's been stated in every version of LIS that the Robinsons are the leads but more colonists' would follow.

 

[Christopher]

I think it's been stated in every version of LIS that the Robinsons are the leads but more colonists' would follow.

In the original, the opening narration stated, "The first of what may be as many as ten million families per year is setting out on its epic voyage into man's newest frontier, deep space." In the 1998 movie, they were sent to build a hyperspace gate that the other colonists would come through. But in the 2004 pilot and the Netflix series, the Jupiter 2 is just one of many landing craft from a much larger colony ship.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

In the original, the opening narration stated, "The first of what may be as many as ten million families per year is setting out on its epic voyage into man's newest frontier, deep space." In the 1998 movie, they were sent to build a hyperspace gate that the other colonists would come through. But in the 2004 pilot and the Netflix series, the Jupiter 2 is just one of many landing craft from a much larger colony ship.

MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if they ever gave a cost for the Robinson's ship and all but 10 million families leaving Earth......That's gonna cost a heck of a lot of a heck of a lot of money.

 

[Christopher]

MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if they ever gave a cost for the Robinson's ship and all but 10 million families leaving Earth......That's gonna cost a heck of a lot of a heck of a lot of money.

In most versions of LiS, the colonization effort is driven by the Earth becoming unlivable. In the original, it was from crushing overpopulation; in the movie, it was from pollution; in the current series, it's from a catastrophic impact event. The '04 pilot seems to be the only exception; Earth was attacked by aliens 15 years before, but apparently came out of it okay.

So money isn't really an issue -- the colonization has to happen, no matter the expense.

 

[Nerys Myk]

There were, in the very first few minutes of the first episode of the original 60s show it mentions the Robinsons being the first family of many, many more that were launching into space on ships like the Jupiter 2 so there was many, many more of those too.

So, you've answered your own question.
Good job.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Sex with the carrot people is definitely verboten.

What about the fertile cress aunt?

 

[Guy Gardener]

MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know if they ever gave a cost for the Robinson's ship and all but 10 million families leaving Earth......That's gonna cost a heck of a lot of a heck of a lot of money.

They went back to earth a couple times and it looked fine.

No bread lines, and no environmental collapse.

Actually, it sorted looked a lot like the 1960s.

Lets assume that the Jupiters are reusable.

So if each Jupiter can be reused at least a thousand times, then they only need 10 thousand Jupiters.

Of course that means that the ships cannot be used as building materials for the first 999 families transited across space, per Jupiter.

 

[Redfern]

In the original, the opening narration stated, "The first of what may be as many as ten million families per year is setting out on its epic voyage into man's newest frontier, deep space."

That line just cracks me up! 10 million families... Assuming that's a ship per family (and I realize that's a mighty big ASSumption), that's 27,397 (and a quarter) launches per day, or 1,141.5 launches per hour, or 19.03 launches per minute!

Maybe later craft were going to be on the scale of Golgafrinchan Fleet Ship "B" or something.

 

[thribs]

They have sex with each other I assume.

 

[Christopher]

That line just cracks me up! 10 million families... Assuming that's a ship per family (and I realize that's a mighty big ASSumption), that's 27,397 (and a quarter) launches per day, or 1,141.5 launches per hour, or 19.03 launches per minute!

Maybe later craft were going to be on the scale of Golgafrinchan Fleet Ship "B" or something.

It stands to reason that the first prototype ship would be smaller than the later ones.