22nd Century - Science Fiction Set in The 22nd Century - Television and Film

Television and Film

• The birth year of the famous manga character Doraemon.
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence takes place in 2142, then skips to 4142, when Earth is in the Post-Human Extinction period.
• The first Alien film takes place in 2122. The sequels Aliens and Alien 3 both take place in 2179.
• Bicentennial Man, about half the events of this movie take place in the 22nd century.
• The Doctor Who episode Waters of Mars the Doctor mentions that the humans begin their diaspora across the stars when Earth colonises nearby star systems in 2100 (still technically in the 21st century).
• In Doctor Who characters have used time-travel to visit various dates in the 22nd century.
• The events of BraveStarr take place in the 22nd century on the planet New Texas.
• The events of CLAMP's Chobits take place in the 22nd century.
• The events of Disney's The Black Hole (1979) take place in the year 2130.
• The events of Judge Dredd (1995) occur in the year 2139.
• The events of Sky Blue occur in the year 2142.
• The events of Captain Power occur in the year 2147.
• The events of the Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
• The beginning of the events of Terra Nova take place in 2149.
• Avatar by (James Cameron) In 2154, the RDA Corporation is mining a valuable mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush, Earth-like habitable moon with an atmosphere poisonous to humans in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora is inhabited by the Na'vi, 10-foot tall, blue-skinned, sapient humanoids who live in harmony with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa. The film is set from May to August although flashback scenes in the opening are set in 2148
• Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., a film adaptation of the second Doctor Who TV story to feature the Daleks.
• Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of Mobile Suit Gundam (the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted oil crash of the mid-21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between 2040 and 2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161).
• DT Eightron, an anime set on the year 2187.
• Phil of the Future, a Disney Channel series. (The Diffys, the main characters, are from this era (2121) before they crash in 2004; theme song refers to Phil as a "22nd Century man").
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, an animated television series with Sherlock Holmes in a science fiction setting.
• Space Battleship Yamato was launched on October 9, 2199 on its desperate mission to save the earth in the Anime series of the same name.
• Wonderful Days, a South Korean animated science fiction film, takes place in the year 2142.
• Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.
• Star Trek: Enterprise (2151–2161). The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts with the Klingons, Andorians, and Romulans. According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people. Enterprise is decommissioned in 2161, just prior to the establishment of the United Federation of Planets.
• According to Star Trek, the Earth-Romulan War will be fought between 2156 and 2160, which results in the establishment of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet on October 11, 2161. Star Trek also predicts human colonization of Mars by 2103.
• In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Up the Long Ladder", the DY-500 class S.S. Mariposa was said to have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 27, 2123.
• The Matrix, a science fiction film, in which the protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a reality is in fact computer simulation. Morpheus, another character of the movie, identifies the events of the movie as being set in the years around 2199. However, it should be noted that it was mentioned in the film Matrix Reloaded that the movie took place in the 6th incarnation of The Matrix. By Morpheus's estimation, then, of there being an approximate 200 year difference between the era in the Matrix and the era of the real world, with the knowledge that Neo's time is actually the 6th incarnation of the Matrix (and an estimated 200 years or so for each incarnation), that could potentially mean the year in the real world is closer to the year 3399. However, since the first and second Matrix sequels failed, it could be safe to assume they did not last 200 years each. Thus, the current year of the real world could be anywhere between approximately 2199 and 3399. Presumably, only the Machines would know for certain.
• In Babylon 5, the Foundationism religion was started in the year 2157 and Psi Corps was founded on April 12, 2161.
• The animated television series Exosquad is apparently set in the late 2110s.
• In the TV series Time Warp Trio, Joe, Sam, and Fred meet Jodie, Samantha, and Freddi on September 17, 2105. (Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha are Joe, Fred and Sam's great-granddaughters.)
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fight future crime in the year 2105 in the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward.
• In A.I., a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of artificial intelligence (called mechas, short for "mechanisms," i.e. synthetic life) have become commonplace.
• John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars was set in the year 2176.
• The SciFi Channel series FTL Newsfeed begins in the year 2142.
• The Flipside of Dominick Hide is about a time traveler from 2130 looking for his ancestor in 1980.
• Sleeper, a Woody Allen movie, is set in 2173.
• Many characters from the TV series Red Dwarf were born in the mid-22nd century.
• The Futurama Central Bureaucracy was established in 2158.
• The events in the series Time Trax begin in 2193.
• The comedy sci-fi anime series Martian Successor Nadesico is set in the year 2196.
• The first mobile suit in the sci-fi anime series Mobile Suit Gundam is completed at space colony cluster Side 3 in 2118 (U.C. 0073). The One Year War begins on January 3, 2124 (U.C. 0079).
• WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film in which a distress signal is sent from Earth to all autopilots in 2110 saying that Earth's rising toxicity levels has made life unsustainable and that all the starliners should remain in space.
• Transformers Animated is set in 22nd century Detroit, which has become the US's biggest manufacturer of robots.
• In a Mac vs. PC commercial, PC travels to 2150 to see if the problems with PCs have been fixed. The PC of 2150 freezes when he gets there.
• Astro Boy is set in 2108.
• CBBC show Mission:2110 is set in the year 2110.
• Medabots takes place in the 22nd century; first mentioned during the show's initial dubbed intro song.