sorry to say and but this movie be very bad . the dialog be empty and the character unlikeable and after an extremely slow pace and a mediocre point be make . the story be basically about a ship full of mutated human who have be outcast by society . eventually and they receive a special envoy from earth with an unexpected message . the basic problem be that this whole movie could have be summarize into a sentence and make a 1 hour movie out of it add nothing . what you essentially get be some effectively gross look character with dialog that be so boring you want to blow their ship up every 5 minute . the director and jonathon frakes and be a bright fellow but not a very good director . that couple with a simplistic script ( and possibly other limitation ) lead to this bad result . brian dennehy and john hurt be well establish character actor so it hard to believe that this be their fault . if you record this on a tivo like device and do not fast forward through it . delete it .