Dr. Zachary Smith

Dr. Zachary Smith is the villain of the 1998 Action Adventure Movie, ''Lost In Space. ''He was played by Gary Oldman.

"Never fear, Smith is here."



The year is 2058 and earth is getting to the point where it's unihabitable because of pollution. The United Global Space Force sets to launch for the colonization of a far away planet very similar to earth. In the meantime, a terrorist group, the Global Sedition wants to disrupt the colonization so they can take over the planet earth is after. The Robinsons go on a 10 year journey in suspended animation to the close planet, Alpha Prime, where they build a companion, hypergate.

Dr. Smith, a spy working for the Global Sedition, reprograms the mission's robot to destroy the Robinson's ship. He's later betrayed by the Global Sedition and abandoned. A few hours after launch, the robot activates and starts destroying vital ship and navigation controls. The Robinsons, awakened from their  cryosleep by Dr. Smith, stop the robot, but not before it causes the ship to become trapped in the gravitational pull of the Sun. Their only option to escape the gravity well would be to use the hyperdrive and end up anywhere in the galaxy. Now lost, the ship eventually comes across a "hole in space" and, after entering, finds a planet with two abandoned ships in orbit; the  Proteus, an Earth ship somehow from decades in the future, and another ship that is clearly not human. When they investigate the  Proteus they find navigational data that can be used to get to Alpha Prime (suggesting that humanity has somehow settled on Alpha Prime without the Robinsons) and a young alien  primate that they adopt as a pet. They also find the aging ship is infested with  carnivorous  spider-like  lifeforms, with the leg of one accidentally scratching Dr. Smith during an attack. To escape the spiders' attack, Don reactivates and overloads the Proteus' engine, with the  shock wave from the resulting explosion damaging the  Jupiter II and forcing it to crash on the planet below.

Professor Robinson and Major West go out onto the surface in search of radioactive material to replace the burnt-out part of the ship's core. They find a strange, growing bubble of unknown origin, which they must enter. They learn that the "holes" and "bubbles" are distortions of time and space, caused by future versions of Will and Dr. Smith constructing a time machine. The future Will Robinson wants to travel back in time to prevent the Robinsons from ever taking off. Robinson and West find out the bubble is actually a small schism in time on the same planet. They are all betrayed by the future Smith, who has mutated due to the spider scratch going untreated. He plans to unleash an army of spiders on the Earth. Robinson battles with Spider Smith while Major West returns to the stranded  Jupiter II to evacuate everyone. Robinson stops Spider Smith by tearing open his eggsac, freeing the baby spiders, who then attack the injured Spider Smith. John pushes the mutated Smith into the uncompleted time portal, where he is torn apart and killed by the gravitational field. Dr. Smith is knocked unconcious by Major West and pressumably arrested.