The episode that stayed with me over the years

Christianne Hirt and Terence Knox in The Twilight Zone (1985)

On the frontier, any frontier, there can be little margin for error. Just as the first covered wagons making their way across the American desert had a finite supply of food and water, so too on this even vaster frontier are there laws that must be strictly observed. Thomas Barton has been piloting Emergency Dispatch Ships for five years. He has never been faced with this particular law of the frontier until now. Thomas Barton is about to discover firsthand that there are limits, even here in the boundless reaches... of the Twilight Zone.

Terence Knox

Christianne Hirt

Barclay Hope

Alan Brennert

Tom Godwin

Paul Chitlik

Marilyn Lee Cross may not survive after she stows away on board a spacecraft.

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This episode of The Twilight Zone is unusual in that it doesn&apos;t contain anything supernatural or otherwise inexplicable. Just hard sci-fi and a moral dilemma on par with the best that the Star Trek universe has to offer (think of Spock&apos;s warp drive scene in &quot;Wrath of Khan&quot;). The writers, director, and actors all deserve credit for turning a relatively simple story into a television masterpiece.

This episode of The Twilight Zone is unusual in that it doesn't contain anything supernatural or otherwise inexplicable. Just hard sci-fi and a moral dilemma on par with the best that the Star Trek universe has to offer (think of Spock's warp drive scene in "Wrath of Khan"). The writers, director, and actors all deserve credit for turning a relatively simple story into a television masterpiece.

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