The Space Agency picked him, Psych OK'd him, Congress ratified him, the taxpayers pay him and l like him. Gentlemen ! Can l have your attention, please? This is Professor Stephen Grave, this country's Official Historian of lnterplanetary Events.ĭid l get that title right? Which means he will be observing everything and everyone, asking all sorts of non -technical questions, writing down everything that he sees and hears and thinks. Have you had contact with the Zantis? -Not yet. Lt's not quite as messy as the old style but, of course, computers don 't bleed. This is the new style of battlefield here. You're a new kind of war correspondent. L told them commissioned officers make history. L was ready to leave Washington when some five-star personality decided maybe this invasion oughta be covered by a commissioned officer. ![]() Anything on the screen over there? -No, nothing yet. The general is waiting for you, Professor Grave. L'm having your car parked in the stable behind the building. They wanted it to be ''a non -hostile sequence''.īut they didn 't hesitate to let us understand they would attack, devastatingly.įrom our viewpoint, Professor, they're either superhuman or subhuman. Or else what? Did they say? They assured us they didn 't want to attack. We were instructed to keep out of its way. We were told when the penal ship would land. But why are we allowing this to happen ? - We weren 't given any choice, Professor. Ordinarily, l don 't ask you space people such questions, Major. L wish we could feel the same about them. You don 't think they'll land in broad daylight? Why not? They have no reason to be afraid of us. (buzzer) History has been recorded in some pretty morbid places, Major, but when a historian named Grave finds himself in a ghost town called Morgue You see it? l thought l did. This is the story of how the perfectionist rulers of the planet Zanti attempted to solve the problem of the Zanti misfits. Today, on this planet, Earth, the criminal is incarcerated in humane institutions or he is executed. Misfits have been burned, branded and banished. ![]() What is society to do with those members who are a threat to society, those malcontents and misfits whose behaviour undermines and destroys the foundations of civilisation ? Different ages have found different answers. ( man ) Throughout history, compassionate minds have pondered this dark and disturbing question. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to The Outer Limits. You are about to participate in a great adventure. ![]() We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.įor the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all you see and hear. (whistling and whirring ) ( man ) There is nothing wrong with your television set. '' lf anyone is anywhere near that ship when it lands, it'll be over somebody's dead body. ''Total destruction to anyone who invades it. Total destruction to anyone who invades it.
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