Titan in Fiction - Film and Television

Film and Television

• "The Glowing Eggs of Titan" (1962), episode Space Patrol TV series. Husky's discovery of a luminous egg of the Saturnian moon of Titan could prove to be the solution of the Martian energy crisis.
• The Invisible Enemy (1977), a Doctor Who serial. Takes place partly on a manned base on Titan in the year 5000, by which time the human race has spread across the galaxy. Titan's methane atmosphere bursts into flames after the Doctor releases vast amounts of oxygen as a trap to destroy an enlarged virus.
• Transformers G1 (1985), TV series. In the episode, The God Gambit, a group of people, known as Titans, live on Titan and have a belief in the Sky Gods. However, this is only a ruse from the temple workers to deceive the people and give them harsh laws. Talaria and her group of rebels attempt to stop them. Talaria's group and the people worship the Decepticons when they arrive, who deem themselves as gods and hold Cosmos, who they were chasing, captive. Jazz and Perceptor, with the help of Omega Supreme, rescue Cosmos and Talaria (who Jazz had developed a special relationship with) and free the peoples of the Decepticons' ruse. They rebuild their homes on another side of the moon, as the side with the temple on it was burned.
• Creature (The Titan Find) (1985), horror film. Titan is where ancient aliens preserved dormant creatures from all over the galaxy.
• Red Dwarf (1988), BBC TV series. The character Lister illegally imports a cat from Titan that, through the action of hard radiation over millions of years, becomes the progenitor of a well-dressed, but not particularly intelligent species called Felis sapiens. In the first series Lister also often sings a song mentioning Titan, as well as Ganymede.
• "Chain of Command" (1992), Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Titan's Turn is a daring spacecraft maneuver around Titan, often carried out by shuttle pilots flying between outposts in orbit of Jupiter and Saturn.
• The U.S.S. Titan is the name of William Riker's first command as noted in Star Trek Nemesis. The Titan is a Luna-Class ship, all of which are named after moons in the Terran System, with Starfleet construction number NCC-80102.
• Gattaca (1997), film. Titan is the goal for a manned space mission, which is seen lifting off in the final sequence.
• Starhunter (2001), TV series. Titan features prominently as the former home of the character Dante, and is the site of a large colony.
• Star Trek (2009). The USS Enterprise drops out of warp inside Titan's atmosphere, using its magnetic field to hide from the Romulans' sensors long enough for Kirk and Spock to beam aboard the enemy ship.
• Eureka (2010), TV series. The second half of the fourth season centers around the secret preparations for the first human expedition to Titan.
• Oblivion (2013) The narrator in the film states that all humans have left planet Earth and moved onto Titan.