Jurassic Park tackles the issue of cloning for commercial gain, the
consequences of scientific advancement with more
regard for speed than
safety, and irresponsible exploitation of new discoveries to make money
as quickly as possible without accepting moral or legal responsibility.
InGen, led by John Hammond, is breeding
dinosaurs, which have been
extinct for millions of years, to create an exclusive kind of
zoo. Already, an employee has been killed by a raptor and word
has gotten out that children on Costa Rica are being bitten by some new
kind of lizard. John Hammond is under pressure to prove that his
island is safe and that InGen can turn a profit without being sued out of
existence.
Scientific secrets are as fleeting as they are lucrative. A rival
company, Biosyn, discovers what is happening on Isla Nublar and hires
Lewis Dodgson to find a disaffected employee to steal fifteen frozen
dinosaur embryos and smuggle them off the island on the same weekend
that an inspection team visits. A saboteur is being introduced
into an already dangerous situation.
The inspection team includes paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, his
assistant Dr. Ellie Sattler, mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm, and lawyer
Donald Gennaro. John Hammond’s grandchildren, Tim and Lex,
are also visiting to see the park. Dr. Malcolm is outspoken in
his opinion that the experiment is going to lead to disaster – and
sooner rather than later. He is about to be proven right.
When island security is deliberately sabotaged by lead programmer
Dennis Nedry to allow him to steal the embryos for Biosyn, the sequence
of disintegration predicted by Dr. Malcolm begins and people start to
die. Dr. Grant is stranded in the park with Tim and Lex and the
three are hunted by various dinosaurs throughout their journey back to
the visitors’ centre. The people left in the living compound find
themselves nearly overwhelmed. Human ingenuity and technology are
pitted against animal strength and cunning. At the end of the
weekend, many on both sides are dead.
Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler represent science with a conscience. At
great risk to themselves, they attempt to find out where all the
dinosaurs are to ensure that they all are destroyed.
But can they be destroyed? Were they?