After six months active flying towards Orion at nearly the speed of light and an estimated 700 years passing on Earth, the crew lays down for a long winter's cryogenic hibernation.  Thoughts of home and questions rattle through thier heads.  Does man still wage war with one another?  Does hunger still ravenge parts of the globe?  Does anyone remember they are up there?

Shaken awake from their slumber twelve months later, they have landed on an alien world.  A malfunction has crashed them down on the wrong world and in the middle of a lake.  Some 2000 years have passed back on Earth.  The female scientist died in her sleep, so the three other crew members are the end of their kind on this foreign planet.

This is the first of the Planet of the Apes series of movies.  Like everyone else, I've seen this in Saturday afternoon matinees on television.  I stole the box set from a friend of mine and decided to watch the films.  I've always enjoyed the movies.