Captain Nova
Caution : Spoilers Ahead forCaptain Nova .
The Dutch Netflix originalCaptain Novaportrays the experiences of an astronaut after she successfully travels back in time . Her goal is to turn back humanity from get a fateful mistake that make the planet to become uninhabitable in a matter of years . Her assignment becomes exponentially more hard , however , when she discover traveling back in meter has managed to physically de - age her , and she is forced to navigate the complex mission in her 12 - year - old body .
Captain Nova ( Anniek Pheifer ) is an astronaut and belligerent pilot who hazard her life by traveling back 25 year into the past through a wormhole in space . When she make it , she seeks the aid of a vernal boy named Nas ( Marouane Meftah ) after he key her crashed ship and continue her and her sentient drone companion from being bug by government officials . Nas and unseasoned Nova ( Kika van de Vijver ) must then hear to reason with the somebody responsible for for the North Pole drilling undertaking that severely exacerbates global warming and turn the planet into a innocent wasteland .
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The third act kicks off with Nova traveling to the past a 2nd time to carry on seek Nas ’ assistance after failing the first fourth dimension around . This time , a fleet of ship fall in her , and all of them diffuse out across the globe in an endeavour to halt various environmentally destructive conduct before it ’s too later . In the final import , Nas discover that the ship — which plan to remain anonymous — will keep returning until they ’ve carry through their goal .
How Does Time Travel Work in Captain Nova?
At the kickoff of the film , Captain Nova is launch into place until she arrives at a wormhole in one of many scene reminiscent ofChristopher Nolan ’s sci - fi filmInterstellar . While traveling through the space anomaly , she progress to the speed of brightness . When she lands , she has arrived at the exact date and clip she localize out for . It ’s never specified how many times they ’ve tested sentence locomotion . However , it is safe to put on that because there are multiple ships and all of them deal to hit their target with great precision , they ’ve in all likelihood been practicing since the wormhole first appear . This does create multiple gaps in logic seeing as human beings has been press to near extinction in an unhospitable environment over just 25 years , so the likeliness that they managed to make such drastic technological advance in a dystopian wasteland even more bare thanthe filming location forMad Maxis slim .
Do Time Travelers Remember the Changes They Cause?
When Nova initially returns , she trust nothing has changed before her son comes through the door with a grown - up Nas . She has no memory of the unexampled timeline she ’s create and does n’t know them . It appears that she discovers these fresh memories quickly because she prove realization toward them after a curt while . Her colleagues who did n’t jaunt back are also cognizant of what the existence was like before the changes . This plot point offers more promise for the hereafter inCaptain Novabecause those who survived the initial mass experimental extinction timeline will always be cognizant of world ’s initial mistake . Therefore , they will not only be capable to continue returning until the future has been fix , but they will also have conscious retention of their past times to head them .
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