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Season Four
Criminal
Nature
Sequel to
the Season Two episode Unnatural
Selection finds a cop with a hidden past related to one of
the GRS mutated children now returns to haunt him.
With:
Gary Cole
The
Hunt
Hunting
live animals is forbidden, so the traditional makes way for the
new, with hunting humanoid machines now all the rage.
(Guest cast
unknown)
Relativity
Theory
After
discovering a new alien race on a planet where no life was
supposed to exist, a biologist loses command of her ship in a
mutiny.
With:
Melissa Gilbert
Josh
A young
man with mysterious, god-like powers is pursued by the military,
and an eager, cocky young reporter.
(Guest cast
unknown)
Identity
Crises
Tests
involving the transfer of a soldier's mind to an android body
capable of carrying out superhuman work carries a high price when
the man's body is irretrievably damaged while his mind is in the
machine.
With:
Lou Diamond Philips
Glyphic
A health
worker begins to unravel a mystery as a hidden extraterrestrial
object tries to communicate with a young girl. The attempt could
mean large-scale death.
(Guest cast
unknown)
Monster
A group
of telekinetics are trained by the Government to assassinate a
Serbian dictator. Then something horribly destructive is released
by their combined power.
With:
Harry Hamlin and Robert Guillaume
Fear
Itself
A man is
haunted by the death of his sister, and regularly has visions of
his own suffering as punishment. Then an experiment causes those
visions to be transferred to others who cause him problems.
With:
Arye Gross
The
Joining
The lone
survivor of a mission to Venus begins to mutate when he returns to
Earth, growing increasingly complex versions of his own body
within himself. (As a kind of in-joke to illustrate actor Jim
Byrne's connection with the series of the same name, the Venus
probe ship is named Highlander.)
With:
C Thomas Howell, Amanda Tapping, and Jim Byrne
To
Tell The Truth
A
scientist's efforts to save a space colony are stifled by
political interference and lies, with a secret motive that will be
revealed too late.
With:
Gregory Harrison and Alan Scarfe
Mary
25
In a
sequel to the episode Valerie 23,
an inventor uses his own family to test out a new nanny android.
The results are predictable. (It is at this point that the series
begins to get more risqué with its depiction of nudity, unusual
for an American programme of such standing.)
With:
Cynthia Geary, Tom Butler, Sofia Shinas, and Michael
Shanks
(Contains adult content)
Final
Exam
A nuclear
fusion student threatens to prove his unbelieved discovery by
detonating a fusion bomb that will destroy most of the city.
With:
Kevin Tighe
Lithia
In a
post-Apocalyptic society populated solely by women, the arrival of
a man who has survived until 2055 in cryogenic suspension causes
tension and conflict (and produces an interesting shower scene!).
With:
David Keith and Claire Rankin
(Contains adult content)
The
Vaccine
A nurse
in charge of a small group of people who have survived a worldwide
epidemic has to decide who will receive the limited amount of a
new vaccine.
With:
Maria Conchito Alonso
Sarcophagus
The
discovery of a Neolithic tomb in Alaska, with mutilated bodies
inside raises questions that might only be answered by the alien
body at the back of the tomb.
With:
Lisa Zane and Robert Picardo
Nightmare
An Earth
warship crew delivering an unknown cargo are captured by their
alien enemy and subjected to intense torture to try and break
them. Little do they realise the devastating consequences of that
action.
With:
Robin Shou
Promised
Land
In a low
quality sequel to the Season Three episode The
Camp, the few survivors are whittled down by their
oppressive surroundings until the last few are fighting for food
against the alien inhabitants of a nearby farm.
With:
Caroline Goodall and Rene Auberjonois
The
Origin Of Species
In a
continuation of the Season Three episode Double
Helix, the volunteers continue their journey on a ship
that appears to want them dead. Can they survive to reach a
destination that may seem horribly familiar?
Doctor Nydell Ron
Rifkin
With: Ryan Reynolds, Kathleen Dubong and Tara Spencer-Nairn
(Contains adult content)
The
Balance Of Nature
A
scientist who is searching for a cure for cancer discovers how to
reverse the ageing process. Although his ageing woman neighbour is
helped by this, her bullying husband isn't so accommodating.
With:
Maurice Godin, Lisa Maris and Barbara Rush
Phobos
Rising
Two Mars
colonies, living under an uneasy truce, fear that war is imminent
when suspicion and mistrust take hold. Can the human race survive
when Earth appears to have been destroyed? (Essentially, whether
consciously or not, a remake of the Moonbase 3 episode, View
of a Dead Planet.)
With:
Adam Baldwin and Joan Chen
Black
Box
A dying
soldier's last hours are spent in a techno-dream, where he can
finally meet his estranged daughter.
With:
Ron Perlman, Maria del Mar, Michael David Sims and Peter
deLuise
In
Our Own Image
A
robotics expert tricks a rebellious android into revealing its
development of emotions. The truth dawns throughout a series of
flashbacks and flash-forwards to previous episodes.
With:
Nana Visitor and Nicholas Lea
(Contains adult content)
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