Rather, we are on a spaceship hurtling into the unknown, just like the solitary passenger in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey after he had tried to regain control by dismantling his spaceship's computer.
As the futuristic tale unfolds, we find the spaceship Covenant hurtling through the ether on a mission to colonize a distant star with its cargo of 2,000 cryogenic humans and 1,140 frozen embryos.