Children Are Sent to Colonize a Distant Planet But Their Mission Turns Into Chaos & Hunger For Power

Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today  I will show you an adventure, sci-fi, thriller film from 2020, titled Voyagers. Spoilers ahead!

Watch out and take care. The Earth is dying. Scientists look for a new  planet able to sustain human life and find it in the year 2063.

The planet is seen on screen,  while a woman explains that it is a planet humans can colonize. She continues, saying that  a scouting mission to the planet should be sent. Since the voyage there will take 86 years, the  crew of the mission will reproduce on the ship, making the third generation on board the one  to reach the planet.

The crew is genetically engineered on Earth by combining the genes of  leading scientists. A man is seen talking about the reasoning behind this plan, justifying  why the crew will be specifically engineered to man the mission, consisting of children  raised and trained solely for its purpose. The next step is assessing when they'll  be ready to go.

The younger the crew is, the longer the resources can be preserved. But,  the man - Richard, is worried that they might not be fully equipped to deal with the complexity of  space travel on their own. Later, Richard is seen entering a facility where the child crew is being  raised and he gets into full protective gear.

He enters the rooms where they live and when they  see him they all rejoice. Richard monitors where they are in their education, and then tucks  Christopher, Sela and Zac into bed. Zac tells him that he's afraid, but Richard comforts him by  telling him that he's safe.

The next day, Richard is talking to a woman in charge of the mission.  He tells her that he should go with the children, to raise and protect them. Richard's addition  to the mission would also mean that it will be able to launch in 4 years, instead of 7.

Next,  the mission launches with Richard on the helm. The shuttle docks with Humanitas, the ship for  the mission. They all go inside and find their quarters.

Richard takes one last look of Earth. 10 years later, the children are already adults, as they can be seen waking and getting  ready to start their days on the ship. The first lesson covers the fertilization  for the second generation, which will begin in the 24th year of their lives.

The  crew goes about their day like robots. They're seen drinking a blue liquid. Christopher  and Zac are listening to classical music.

Sela walks through the ship and looks out at the  space around them. Later, she talks to Richard, saying that the lives of the crew are  unimportant. Trying to comfort her, he shows her pictures of his grandparents, telling her  that providing for the future is very important.

That night, Christopher can't sleep.  He listens to the sounds of the ship. The next day, Richard and Christopher are in the  hydroponics bay checking the state of the plants, when a message about toxicity in the water appears  on Christopher's screen.

He asks Richard about it, thinking it's some kind of chemical that  isn't being processed from their urine, but Richard dismisses his concerns. He's  skeptical about it. So, later, he asks Zac about the ingredient T56j.

They wonder why the  information is unavailable. During the night, the two of them go back to figure out what  it is. Christopher bypasses the firewall and is able to find the information.

The chemical  ingredient is found in the blue liquid they drink. Zac thinks it was a digestion aid, but they  figure out that it has other effects on their personality. It makes them dull and docile,  decreasing their desires and pleasure responses.

They're being drugged and pacified, so they don't  reproduce naturally and overpopulate the ship. The two of them stop drinking the blue liquid.  Later, they share the information with Kai and Julie.

Along with the information  about a hidden compartment on the ship. Later, Christopher is in a session with Richard.  He says he knows that he's been lying to them, but only mentions the unmarked compartment, pod  23.

Richard tells him that the mission must have lied to them for a reason, that the pod might  be for the third generation. After the session, Richard sends a message back to Earth asking if  he could share everything with the crew and be honest with them, so they don't lose faith in  him. The message will take time to get there.

The next day, while standing in line next to  Sela, Christopher has a fantasy about her. They eat lunch and he keeps looking at her, but  Zac approaches her telling her that she's changed. Richard comes in and tells him not to grab her,  as per the rules.

In the gym, Christopher and Zac are seen fighting and taking it a bit too far.  The others don't understand what's happening. The two of them start feeling the effects of not  taking the drug.

They hear the ship noises and go to an observation room where they see one of  their fellow crewmembers. The three of them talk about what it might be, so he tells them that he  thinks it might be some kind of alien life form. Sela and Richard are in his office and he shows  her dried plants from Earth.

Zac and Christopher hear them talking and approach the room. Zac sees  Richard touching Sela's shoulder and gets jealous. They loose contact with Earth and Richard informs  them that their transmitter needs to be fixed.

Zac will come with him, while the  others continue with their roles. The preparations are under way, as Zac  sees Sela and approaches her again. She tells him about the suit he'll be wearing  and he starts touching her inappropriately.

Richard runs in and gets him off of her. He asks  Zac what's happening, but he runs away. Looking for him, Richard sees Phoebe on the way and  she tells him that he stopped taking the blue.

Next, he runs into Christopher and finds  out that he stopped taking the drug as well. They argue, but Richard tells him that the  drug was implemented to stop precisely the type of behavior witnessed in Zac. He asks  Christopher to help him fix the transmitter, so that when it's online he'll back him up when  he voices his objections to mission control.

All of the other crewmembers are on their  positions in the ship, while prep for the spacewalk is under way. Zac enters the systems  room. Richard and Christopher go outside the ship.

Christopher is experiencing sensations he hasn't  felt before, so Richard keeps an eye on him. Richard repairs one of the transmitter  parts then goes over the the second one. Inside the ship, the noises from the ship can  be heard again and the crew is getting restless.

They check to see if anything else is outside and  suddenly something appears on the screen next to Richard and Christopher. It hurts Richard, hurling  him away from the ship. The ship has some kind of malfunction as well.

No one knows what has  happened. There is a fire in the systems room. Christopher brings Richard inside and they take  him to medical.

All kinds of errors appear on the ship, from navigation to communication. The  medical team and Sela are trying to resuscitate Richard, but it doesn't work. Sela is the  chief medical officer and pronounces him dead.

Later, the crew has a meeting, where  they speak about what has happened. They mention the creaking sound. One of the  crewmembers says he saw something on the monitor when it happened, that looked like a force  jumping into Richard, like it was something alien.

Phoebe starts crying. Christopher comforts  them, saying that if they keep it together they'll be alright. The systems reboot and the  crew is checking the surveillance archive, but all of the footage has been deleted by the fire in  the systems room.

They need to choose a new chief officer. Zac says that he should be chief. But  the others say that they need an election.

All of them vote and place Christopher as chief officer.  Zac is jealous, but congratulates him regardless. First order of business is repairing the damage in  the transmitter.

He gets the entire crew working on the other repairs on the ship caused by the  fire. The surveillance system is the last thing on the repair list, so they can see what happened  to Richard. They hope the drives are intact.

Sela goes to his office and looks through his pictures  and videos, when Christopher arrives at the door. She tells him that she is supposed to destroy his  personal archive, even though she doesn't want to do it. She shows him Richard's photographs  and they talk about the importance of parents.

He asks why Richard told her about his life,  thinking that they might have been more than friends, but she explains that he was just feeling  alone. They look through his video diary, where he explains how much he believes in the mission  and talks about how much he cares for them. Christopher is looking for the crew and finds them  in the cantina, angry that they're not at their posts.

Zac tells him that they're repairing the  refrigerators, so they don't lose any food. But there's a bunch of food that might go bad so he  asks him is they can have a feast, to celebrate their new chief officer. After they eat, Kai tells  the others not to drink the blue and they all dump it.

Sela and Christopher are looking through  Richard's videos laughing and enjoying themselves. Christopher feels increasingly more attracted to  her. Zac feels attracted to Julie, he touches her and she touches him back.

The others are looking  at them. Later, the crew can be seen play fighting and running around the ship, having fun. They  all look through Richards personal archive.

Sela finds them in his quarters and tells  them to leave, but they don't want to. Zac is the last to leave, telling Sela that  Richard isn't there anymore to protect her. She goes back to the med bay, and grabs a scalpel. 

Christopher is following Zac, worried he might do something to Sela, when he finds out that she's  in the med bay and goes there before Zac can. Zac arrives and Christopher pretends that the  two of them are making love, so he leaves. Sela threatens him with the scalpel, not understanding  his intentions.

But when he says he's there to help her, she says he should help the rest of  the crew, because they're getting out of control. Christopher leaves and finds Zac along the way,  telling him to stay away from Sela, when they hear the strange crackling noise again. He follows  it around the ship, as others can hear it too.

Kai sees Julie getting close to another crewman,  so he flies into a rage and punches him off her. They fight. Later in the cantina,  Christopher tries to get the crew to behave, but they don't like it.

Suddenly, the crewman  that Kai beat up starts hitting him with a tool. Christopher stops him by hitting him too.  He tells everyone to get Kai and the other one treated and then to meet at the common  room.

In the meeting he tells everyone that the fighting has to stop and the reparations  have to continue. Zac challenges him and the others think that they shouldn't be doing the work  because they won't get to the end of the mission. Christopher says that their grandchildren will  and that they need to support them.

One of the crewmembers says he doesn't want to work in  the systems room because the alien lives there. He thinks Christopher brought it in when Richard  died. Phoebe suggests they repair the surveillance system and see what happened, but Zac belittles  her and tells Christopher to shut up too.

He doesn't care about the rules anymore  and tries to get the others on his side, saying Christopher isn't the right leader.  Zac thinks he should be the leader and tries to convince the rest of them to become a part of  his group, which will be strong enough to fight the alien if it's there. Many of the crew follow  him, but some of them stay on Christopher's side.

That group goes to the surveillance room to fix  the system, afraid the alien might be there. Christopher goes in first to check. Zac and the  others roam the hallways and reach the systems room.

Him and Kai go inside the room, not knowing  Christopher has been in there too. They go deeper inside the room to look for the alien. The ones  on the outside see something happening inside, and Zac and Kai run out terrified, sealing the  room as they leave.

Later, they tell the others from the group that the alien attacked them.  Meanwhile, Christopher brings the surveillance drive to Sela in the med bay. Him, her and a few  others check the footage.

They find the footage from the systems room and realize that it was Zac  and Kai that killed Richard by electrocuting him, then lied about the alien. The group decides to  keep quiet for the moment, until they figure out what to do. Christopher and Sela hide the drive in  her room and talk about Zac.

He thinks that this is what they're really like without the drug,  but she disagrees, saying that the two of them are different. He says that he's worried that  the others won't care about the truth and that maybe he doesn't care either. Sela tells him to  stay with her.

They kiss and they sleep together. In the morning, there's a knock on Sela's door.  It's Zac saying that he'll come inside, one way or another.

When she and Christopher open the door,  Zac and Kai invite them to another celebration in the cantina. Christopher's group arrives, while  the others are already eating. Zac invites them to get some food.

When they sit down, he stands  up and proclaims himself the new chief officer. Suddenly, Christopher stands up to, goes to a  monitor and plays the footage from the incident. He tells the others that Zac killed  Richard and that there is no alien, that he's been lying to them.

He suggests  Zac confines himself in his room, while they consult the program and they decide what to do.  Everyone gets upset and Zac confesses, saying he did it to protect them, because the alien was  in Richard and Christopher brought it inside. He convinces the others that the alien is  inside the ship, hiding in one of them.

Zac says that they need to find it and kill it,  to which they all agree. He pits them against each other and they start fighting. They think it's the  crewman that works in the med bay and they start chasing after him.

Christopher follows suit. Kai  hits him first, then the others join, as they kick the crewman to death. Christopher takes his group  to a secure place in the ship, while Zac's group goes into the med bay and they arm themselves. 

Christopher's group tries to figure out what to do and some of them want to give up, saying they  can't do anything in the moment. They think they should join Zac's group and try to detain him  later, because his group has weapons and they don't. Sela realizes that Christopher knows  about the weapons hidden on the ship in the secret compartment.

Christopher goes to find it by  himself. He opens a compartment and crawls inside, searching for it. When he finally finds it,  he can't open it and an alarm starts blaring, which Julie and another crewman hear.

They hear  him inside the compartments too and tell Zac about it. Christopher gets out to get some tools  to open the compartment, but when he comes back, the other group is already taking the compartments  apart. They open the secret compartment and find the weapons.

Kai thinks they're meant for the  third generation, but Zac says they are for them. Two people from Christopher's group  want to join Zac and the others. Zac asks where the rest are hiding.

Sela,  Phoebe and Christopher devise a plan how to get close to Zac. He suggests that he  should kill him, but Phoebe doesn't like it. Sela watches them on the monitor and sees  that they're moving, coming after them.

They cut their power and arrive at the room. Sela  tells her group not to resist, as the others storm the room and grab them. Sela stops them, as they  are dragging Christopher away, and asks to talk privately to Zac.

She says she wants to be with  him and join his group, as she walks up to him. But he rejects her, laughing at her, when  Phoebe appears asking if they've all gone crazy. She says they can decide not to act the way  they have.

But they all tell her to shut up. Suddenly Kai kills her to the shock of everyone,  including Zac. But he turns it around and goes after Christopher.

He and Sela escape, but  the others hunt for them throughout the ship. They hide in a vent, but the others quickly find  which one it is. Zac shoots inside, as Julie tells him to be careful, because he's destroying their  food supply.

He sends one of his men after them to see if he got them, but they escape again.  Suddenly, someone shoots at them, so they start looking for weapons. Christopher finds a fire  extinguisher and as Kai comes inside the med bay, they incapacitate him and accidentally kill  him.

Zac finds them fast and shoots after them as they run away. They get into an airlock and  Christopher tells Sela to get into a space suit. He covers the window of the air lock.

When  Zac reaches it, he shoots without hesitation. Suddenly he's sucked inside, because the hatch  to the outside has been opened. He grabs Sela and goes to close the hatch, fighting with  her and eventually stabbing her with a knife.

Christopher pushes him outside the hatch, but as  they fight, ends up sucked out in space himself. Before Zac can close the hatch, Sela kicks  him out of it. She searches for Christopher, waiting for him to come back and suddenly  sees him grabbing onto the ship.

The two of them come back inside and tell the others  that Zac is gone. They put down their weapons. Some time later, all of the crew is having lunch  in the cantina.

Sela asks Christopher how they can make sure something like that doesn't happen  again. They listen to some of Richards recordings again, in which he says that no matter what bad  happens on the mission, the ones that prevail are proof that humans are worth saving. The crew  votes for a new chief again and they choose Sela.

She records a diary in which she says that they  will vote for everything from that moment on and that they will still not go back to the blue.  The crew continues repairing the ship and work together in peace as time goes by. Sela can be  seen pregnant and the baby is Christopher's.

The baby is born. A few years later, it can  be seen running on the ship and joining other children. Those children grow up on the  ship, as the first generation grows old.

86 years since the start of the mission  the Humanitas can be seen floating in space and engaging it's drive to land on the  planet. The older generations and the younger ones look toward their  new home on the alien planet.