The Outer Limits: Season 2

Season 2 overview

The season opens with explorers and soldiers crossing temporal and spatial boundaries. Early episodes establish a tone of scientific curiosity mixed with underlying dread as characters encounter unknown phenomena. These initial stories focus on the immediate shock of first contact and the disorientation of altered realities.

Key story beats

  1. Temporal Displacement of Soldiers — Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.
  2. Venus Mission Anomalies — An astronaut returning from Venus experiences persistent cold and encounters a wraith-like being outside the window.
  3. Dimensional Glasses Discovery — A scientist invents glasses that allow him to see and communicate with a two-dimensional being.
  4. Consciousness Expansion Experiment — A man experimenting with consciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and loses his humanity.
  5. Glass Hand Protagonist Emerges — The continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with a glass hand and no memory of his past.
  6. Desert Tumbleweed Stalking — A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.
  7. Martian Sand Swarm Threat — A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.
  8. Accelerated Evolution Simulation — A college professor recreates a distant planet environment in a lab to study its evolution, which happens quickly.
  9. Robot Murder Trial — A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.
  10. Traumatic Brain Injury & Genius IQ — After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.
  11. Secret Spaceship Project — An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.
  12. Emotion for Technology Trade — An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.
  13. Clone Deployment for Hazardous Mission — A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature and has his clone do it to avoid personal danger.
  14. Long-Duration Space Simulation — Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.
  15. Cerebral Transfer to Android — A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.

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