We""re gonna be on our own."After traveling through a cluster of asteroids and moving through the rock-filled Nebula, heEnterpriseemerged near the Earth-like planet of Altamid, a Class-M planet where Kalara""s ship had reportedly crash-landed and became stranded.The downbeat screenplay was based on Geoffrey Homes"" (a pseudonym - his real name was Daniel Mainwaring) 1946 novelBuild My Gallows High, a book that consciously imitated Dashiell Hammett""sThe Maltese Falcon (1941).)Although Mildred""s maternal sacrifice is portrayed as noble, some have claimed that the film is cautionary and anti-feminist, with Mildred presented as a typical 1940""s post-war housewife whose ""American dream-fulfilling"" role-switching movement from suburban, middle-class home-maker to divorced, successful business entrepreneur (restaurant-chain owner) results in corruptive, destructive disaster (both financial and personal)." The reluctant managing editor is eventually impressed and convinced that they should recruit and hire an unemployed hobo as a bogus hero (who can claim he wrote the letter) so they can fulfill the public""s interest in an "typical average man" hero for the little man.