The Pollitt family has begun to gather to celebrate he sixty-fifth birthday of the domineering Mississippi plantation owner and patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives).The maker of the artificial hand reached for a meat cleaver with his left hand, and chopped off his right hand -- causing the amputated wrist to squirt blood - and others standing around to wince.Strange beings making contortions, moon inhabitants (Selenites - acrobats from the Folies Bergere), emerge from under the mushrooms..." Her idea was to give Mitch a gift of something hat would remind him of her (from their encounter in the shop and his labeling of her as a bird in a gilded cage) - and possibly to avenge his insulting treatment.On the space station laboratoryRegula I, scientist Dr.Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch) headed up Project Genesis, a computer-simulated endeavor that sought to transform uninhabitable worlds into lush paradises ("life from lifelessness"), with her son Dr.