The Triangle (miniseries)

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The Triangle
Promotional poster for the miniseries.
Directed by	Craig R. Baxley
Produced by	Dean Devlin Alex Garcia Rockne S. O'Bannon Bryan Singer
Written by	Bryan Singer Dean Devlin
Starring	Sam Neill Michael E. Rodgers Eric Stoltz John Sloan Charles Martin Smith Lou Diamond Phillips Bruce Davison Catherine Bell Shannon Esra
Music by	Joseph LoDuca
Cinematography	David Connell
Editing by	Sonny Baskin Randy Jon Morgan
Distributed by	The Sci-Fi Channel
Release date(s)	December 5, 2005
Running time	240 min. (3 episodes)
Language	English
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The Triangle is a science fiction miniseries concerning the Bermuda Triangle, which first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel from December 5 to December 7, 2005. It was developed by Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin and is owned by film production company Electric Entertainment.

1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot

A shipping tycoon employs four people; a reporter, a psychic, a meteorologist and an oceanographer to discover the secret of the Bermuda Triangle.

[edit] Characters

Howard Gregory Thomas (Eric Stoltz)

Howard Thomas is a reporter for a supermarket tabloid and an "expert" on the Bermuda Triangle. He is a hardcore cynic and a walking encyclopedia of fringe knowledge. Howard is recruited by Benirall to be the team's "ultimate arbiter", applying his experience with debunking the "paranormal" as a litmus test for the rest of the team's theories. With a young daughter and an ex-wife (Shannon Esra) to whom he can barely afford to pay alimony, his personal life might be in even worse shape then his career.

Eric Benirall (Sam Neill)

Shipping tycoon Eric Benirall has lost numerous ships in the Bermuda Triangle. Benirall is the architect of a historic expedition. He brings together a team of desperate experts by making them an offer they can't refuse... but his intentions might not be all that they appear.

Meeno Paloma (Lou Diamond Phillips)

Meeno Paloma is the sole survivor of a Triangle event that killed the crews of two ships. He returns from his ordeal to a loving family, but one that is not quite as he remembers it. Confronted with a son he doesn't know and smaller details that aren't as they should be, Meeno is increasingly tormented by the possibility that either his memory has been damaged... or that he has somehow rejoined a world in which he doesn't belong.

Emily Meredith Patterson (Catherine Bell)

Deep ocean resource engineer Emily Patterson has recently been fired from an off-shore drilling company, for not backing off of safety concerns that would have shut down their operations. She is a smart woman with strong convictions, but, despite her multiple degrees and expert knowledge of oceanography (among other subjects), it's financial need that drives her to accept Benirall's far-fetched proposal.

Stan Lathem (Bruce Davison)

Stan Lathem is a man with genuine psychic abilities, but he has been reduced to hawking self-promotional tapes at New Age fairs to make a living. Low-key but deeply emotional, Stan is attuned to an entire invisible world filled with clues to the Triangle's origins. His intuition complements the rest of the team's literal and scientific approaches to discovery.

Bruce Geller (Michael E. Rodgers)

Australian native Bruce Geller is a thrill-seeking (and often reckless) professor of meteorology who has an often questionable moral fiber. Initially, he joins Benirall's team purely for the money, and he starts by looking for the fastest and easiest way to collect the $5 million payoff. He has a childlike enthusiasm for discovery, however, and his passion for the task at hand soon reveals itself.

[edit] Trivia

The plot of this series is similar to that of the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale All Good Things.... The anomaly that is at the centre of the Bermuda Triangle in The Triangle is similar to that of the temporal anomaly that was central part of the final TNG episode. In the attempt to study the anomaly (in both series), it was discovered that it was actually that attempt that would ultimately cause the anomaly, and start its journey back through time. Although the problems were solved differently in each series (in TNG the ship and it's crew were sacrificed to collapse the anomaly, and in The Triangle a lack of action closed it) it is interesting to note the similarity between them.