Influence in Other Works
- WALL-E director Andrew Stanton said he was influenced by this film, as was Duncan Jones in making his feature debut, Moon.
- Doug Naylor, Rob Grant and Ed Bye cite Silent Running as an inspiration for Red Dwarf, the British science fiction-comedy television series of the 1980s and 1990s.
- Scenic shots of the American Airlines geodesic freighters were reused in the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Magnificent Warriors".
- Joel Hodgson has claimed that the film influenced the premise of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- John Hodgman's compendium of fictional trivia, The Areas of My Expertise, makes several references to Dern's acting.
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