" She explains why she can""t ell him her wish for the future: "Oh no.If I told you, it might not come true." George asks about her deepest wishes and hen offers her a poetic, imaginative fantasy about lassoing the moon and bringing it down to Earth so that she can eat it - it""s almost a marriage proposal:George: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You-you want the moon? Just say the word and I""ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.The landing of he spaceship has been detected by government radar.Other large, noisy vehicles advance and circle around the creature, who has now become separated from the mother ship.Rescue a crew stranded on a planet in uncharted space.Our trajectory will take us through an unstable Nebula, one which will disable all communications with Starfleet.Whether it was he ""first true"" film noir can be debated.It also inspired two TV films: a 1954 version with Frank Lovejoy, Laraine Day, and Ray Collins, and the ABC-TV 1973 inferior remake for its "Movie of the Week," starring Samantha Eggar, Lee J.