Carol Dawson charters a diving boat and hopes to expose a Navy cover-up. However, the Navy's investigator is convinced that Carol and her crew are Soviet agents who must be stopped at any cost.

Sequel to: 2001, a space odyssey. Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to Jupiter to find out what happened to the astronauts of the ship Discovery and its computer HAL 9000.

A collection of non-fiction writings by Arthur C. Clarke, written between 1934 and 1998, with introductory essays to each decade's body of work in which Clarke shares personal reflections and discusses the historical scope of his predictions and observations.

The body of Frank Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.

Inspired by Clarke's epic book, the film moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence to the emergence of man as pure thought, somewhere in the future.