Not only is this adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's novel riddled with dumb dialogue and ridiculous scenes, but the makers added injury to insult. The movie's unbearably loud soundtrack approaches aural torture. John Travolta tried for 18 years to get Hubbard's novel made into a movie and this is the result. It's very odd. It's the year 3000.
Humans are nearly extinct.
The few who haven't been enslaved by the Psychlos are scattered about in tribes where they live a Stone Age kind of life. When captured, the humans are put to work mining ore. They tramp about pushing cartloads of rocks and are fed gruel that oozes from hoses. For a civilization that exists 1,000 years in the future, one would expect less primitive slave quarters. But then, nothing makes sense.