Tempests
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Outer Limits:
Season Three:
Tempests
The Tempest, a rickety old spaceship piloted by space colonists John Virgil and Captain Parker, is on a mission of mercy. It is ferrying two bigwigs from Earth--Dr. Vasquez and Governor Mudry, along with a lifesaving vial of serum to the Tabloss Colony, where an epidemic of Ellysia C is devastating the population. But things go horribly wrong when the ship shifts down from light-speed and crashes somewhere in space. As he attempts to repair the ship, Virgil is bitten by a strange spider-like creature and passes out. When he awakens, he finds himself sliding between two equally convincing realities. Is he battling for his life against the deadly Ellysia C having already delivered the serum and saved the colony, including his beloved wife and his young son, from certain death? Or is he alive, trapped in a spaceship in the middle of nowhere, with no way out? Or are both realities merely hallucinations, one man's desperate attempt to find hope and heroism in a situation too bleak to face?
By Mike Ransom on Tuesday, April 11, 2000 - 1:14 am: This is definitely the scariest episode of the new Outer Limits!
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Monday, January 01, 2024 - 5:30 am:Of course, in reality, John Virgil, and the others are being devoured by the spiders.
So I guess that colony, which they were delivering the medicine to, is screwed (unless Earth manages to get another ship there in time).
John Virgil was played by a pre-Will and Grace Eric McCormack.