QWhere did all the horses come from?
AThis is a tricky question to answer. It seems unlikely that horses would be brought on the Oberon for experimentation. It is up to viewers to come up with their own explanation.
QWhen does the film take place?
AThe year 2029 is shown in the beginning of the film. A video postcard was sent from Earth to Leo Davidson on February 7th according to the novelization. He gets the postcard on the Oberon about a week later, right before he goes into the electromagnetic storm that takes him to Ashlar in the year 5021. According to the novelization, the chronometer reads 5021.946 when Davidson gets to the ruins of the Oberon, now known as the Temple of Calima.
QHow did apes take over the world?
AAfter Leo Davidson went through the electromagnetic storm, the Oberon went through as well, and crashed on Ashlar. However, the electrical storm sent Davidson through time, almost 3000 years into the future; this apparently didn't happen with the Oberon, which therefore crashed some 3000 years before Davidson arrived on the planet. The surviving humans and apes had no choice but to settle on Ashlar and try to survive. The origins of the intelligent apes are described in the novels by William T. Quick, Planet of the Apes: The Fall and Planet of the Apes: Colony. The novels are about how an intelligent ape named Jonathan rose to power and fathered a new race of apes. This is the ape who changes his name to Semos, who is mentioned in the film. The apes subdued the humans and became the dominant species; over the centuries, with no records or memories of the crashed Oberon surviving, the apes started to revere the mythical ruins as the sacred grounds of Calima, while the humans survived as uncivilized tribes.
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