The path leading to the entrance gives no clue as to the sight that awaits, then suddenly you are gazing at what looks like alien spaceships among acres of landscaped gardens.
The Skyride is an eight-minute virtual-reality movie that creates the sensation of being in a spaceship flying above and among the city's skyscrapers.
When the captain instructs the spaceship to walk and talk among the earthlings, it does so perfectly, the very picture of a well-oiled comedy machine.
In that sense, Mr. Pruitt's "Women" are part of a trend; Sun-Ra is the inspiration for the Studio Museum's coming group show "The Shadows Took Shape," and his Afro-futurist spaceship hovers over recent work by, among others, Ellen Gallagher and Sanford Biggers.
That is, Trekkies who are willing to overlook brain-lockingly repetitive gameplay, unvaried design, thin storytelling, buggy client software and an almost complete dearth of meaningful social interaction in favor of a mildly diverting, moderately attractive, cleverly episodic collection of simple combat encounters among spaceships and soldiers.
Ripley-esque Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride are among crewmates on the good spaceship Covenant who find what looks like paradise but turns out to be a much less friendly place.
"It was so dark and atmospheric," says Hook, who compares entering the studios – where Joy Division recorded Atmosphere, among others – as like "entering a spaceship".
The train segments would use elements of Einstein's life and work; the trial involved, among other things, Patty Hearst; and the spaceship would revolve around the development of the atomic bomb.
It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures.
MEET DAVE This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain.
