"This satirical, spaced-out comedy (a brilliant parody of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) follows the scout ship Dark Star, with a crew of very bored and weary astronauts, on a mission to clear all unstable planets--to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. All is well until one of the thinking and talking Exponential Thermosteller bombs threatens to destroy the entire ship and crew!"--