"Foundation", Season 2, adapting the 1951 award-winning science fiction trilogy by Issac Asmov, stars Jared Harris as 'Dr. Hari Seldon', Lee Pace as 'Brother Day', Lou Llobell as 'Gaal Dornick', Leah Harvey as 'Salvor Hardin', Laura Birn as 'Demerzel', Terrence Mann as 'Brother Dusk', Cassian Bilton as 'Brother Dawn' and Alfred Enoch as 'Raych', now streaming on AppleTV+:
"...in the waning days of a 'Galactic Empire', mathematician 'Hari Seldon' (Harris)...
"...in the waning days of a 'Galactic Empire', mathematician 'Hari Seldon' (Harris)...
"...spends his life developing a theory of 'psychohistory'.
"Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire...
"Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations. Seldon foresees the imminent fall of the Empire...
"...which encompasses the entire 'Milky Way' and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises.
"Although the inertia of the Empire's fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which 'the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little'...
"Although the inertia of the Empire's fall is too great to stop, Seldon devises a plan by which 'the onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little'...
"...to eventually limit this to just one thousand years.
"To implement his plan, Seldon creates the 'Foundations' – two groups of scientists and engineers settled at opposite ends of the galaxy – to preserve the spirit of science and civilization, and thus become the cornerstones of the new galactic empire..."
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"To implement his plan, Seldon creates the 'Foundations' – two groups of scientists and engineers settled at opposite ends of the galaxy – to preserve the spirit of science and civilization, and thus become the cornerstones of the new galactic empire..."
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