The Joining
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Outer Limits:
Season Four:
The Joining
When a transport ship crashed and wiped out the colony on Venus, Capt. Miles Davidow was the sole survivor. But, after he's rescued by a team that includes his fiancee, Kate Girard, and Scott Perkins, it soon becomes clear that Davidow did not escape unscathed. Removed from the high radiation atmosphere of Venus, his body is reacting to the earth's air like that of a chemotherapy patient. When doctors give him the radiation his body seems to crave, strange things start to happen. Davidow's body begins to spawn duplicate parts--a hand, a torso, and more from wounds that miraculously heal. In spite of this, Miles and Kate get married while he's still in isolation, but his time on Venus and the strange creatures he encountered there have had a profound change on Miles. As the mysterious changes continue, it becomes clear that although Davidow did what it took to survive, the price of survival may be exile from everything he knows and loves.
The survivor injected the DNA of an alien organism on Venus, which meiotically reproduces itself, into himself and gradually causes himself to be fully cloned. And when it comes time for the decision as to whether or not the survivor is to be immediately eliminated so that no threat of contamination to Earth's inhabitants occurs, the survivor's recently married wife requests that he is returned to Venus. This option is executed, and the survivor remains on Venus with his increasingly large compendium of identical clones.
By D. Stuart, The Outer Limits moderator on Thursday, December 23, 1999 - 1:49 pm: My nitpicks are as numerically proceeds:
1) Apparently, we shall still be using the same handguns and corresponding ammunition some odd years in the future when we are advanced enough to construct an examination center on Venus.
2) The survivor's colleague in a flashback places the handgun below his head two to three times identically in two to three sequential scenes.
3) There is no reflection on the male scientist's black glasses when he is initially simulating Venus's radiation on the survivor, yet a reflection does indeed appear on the black glasses in a sequential scene and display the survivor and device in a reversed direction.
4) The female scientist could not enter the quarantine in a protective suit, as was the case for numerous other individuals?
5) The survivor's hand is meiotically copied, but then his finger, an organism inferior to the hand to which it pertains, is meiotically copied. Ought the facsimile go up in development, not down?
6) The female scientist turned wife is exposed to her recently married husband. However, she is in the conference room at the conclusion--for all we know--further dispersing the apparent epidemic.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Thursday, February 08, 2024 - 5:47 am:Why would we colonize Venus? The place is hostile to human life.