When you think about it, science ought to make great theater. Still, empirical evidence seems to suggest an alternate reality. With few exceptions, science has rarely played a starring role in theater.
Real science is typically complicated, sometimes remote, occasionally esoteric.
Frequently the conclusions reached fall short of a grand finale. Each, to some degree, attempts to depict real science. In the early 1990s, Biosphere 2 was the site of an elaborate but ultimately doomed experiment in human colonization. The biospherians, as the inhabitants were called, would use these resources to grow their own food, while also completely recycling all water, air and waste. But the experiment was a well-publicized bust.