The Origin of Species

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Outer Limits: Season Four: The Origin of Species

Dr. Ira Nodel has his body altered to communicate with aliens who have seeded Earth with their genetic material. He is joined on an alien spaceship by son Paul, Paul's girlfriend, Hope, and six students. But, when Dr. Nodel touches a glowing post in the ship's control room, both he and Paul are consumed by a mysterious light. This leads Hope and the students to believe that they've been lead into a trap, a suspicion that is reinforced when the ship captures two of the students and pulls them through the wall. Desperate to find out what's going on, Hope reads Dr. Nodel's journal and risks her life by touching the glowing post. Her body begins the same transformation, and a strange glowing entity speaks in the voices of Dr. Nodel and Paul, trying to communicate with her. The ship, however, continues to snatch the students two by two, until finally they are all suspended, naked and unconscious in a black void. When they awaken some time later, they find the ship has landed on a dead planet. Have the aliens who promised that they were part of a great experiment in hope led them astray?
By Slinky Frog on Monday, November 29, 1999 - 8:30 pm:

So was Dr. Nodel and his son, killed? It didn't explain what happen to them. I hate to think they were killed by the well-intentioned ship.
So does that also say that the students were cryo-genically asleep for about over two hundred years? And Hope was never screened for the experiment. She was pulled out for the trip at the last minute. How is it, she makes into the experiment?


By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 - 5:26 am:

A pointless sequel tat didn't need to be made, IMO.


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