The Excessive Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard Okay. O'Neill tells the untold story of the life and affect of the late physicist and area colony pioneer Dr. Gerard Okay. O'Neill. In 1977, O'Neill wrote the e book The Excessive Frontier: Human Colonies in House, which sparked an unlimited grassroots motion to construct Earth-like habitats in area to be able to clear up Earth's best crises. The movie is advised via "Gerry's Youngsters" as they affectionately name themselves; his friends, household, and the youthful era who adopted that motion and at the moment are main the fashionable day area trade.