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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1592921" data-attributes="member: 505">It was too much of a plot convention for me.  Films like this don't stand up to intense scrutiny and including something that forces you to think of the logic behind it doesn't help.   For example, you have solar powered vehicles that only work in sunlight.  This means that they wouldn't work at night.  The planet has 3 suns.  This doesn't mean that there's never any night, but let's assume that there isn't.  Now you have a mining colony set up on a planet that experiences perpetual daylight.  Not exactly the best condition for human beings, let alone people doing labor.  So, whatever they're looking for on that planet must be pretty important to subject people to this enviornment.  This then leads up back to the 22 year missing colony.Simply saying that the battery is drained and didn't have time to recharge avoids all that.</blockquote>