Dr. Dave Bowman is the mission commander aboard Discovery One. In many ways, he's a typical science fiction protagonist since he sports the three Cs: curiosity, courage, and cleverness.And Be a Sci...

HAL 9000 is the computer that runs the spacecraft of the Jupiter Mission. It watches over the ship through a glowing red eye on top of the unit. Whenever Kubrick gives us a closeup of that eye, we...

Let's face it; it can be kind of hard to pin down Dr. Heywood Floyd in a character analysis. He spends most of his screen time in transit from the Earth to the moon, and while the imagery is specta...

2001: A Space Odyssey opens 4 million years in the past on a species of early hominids that haven't developed a single tool or language. No spaceships, no androids, no virtual realities. Heck, ther...

Frank Poole is the deputy aboard the Discovery One. We don't get to spend a lot of time with Dr. Poole, thanks to a rogue A.I. getting a little murdery on him (more on that later).But like Dr. Floy...