Relativity Theory

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The Outer Limits episode
“Relativity theory”
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 68
Guest star(s) Hiro Kanagawa, Tim Guinee, Melissa Gilbert, Jeremy Ratchford, Michael Kopsa, Robert Lewis, Mary Ann Skoll, Doug Jones, Eg Mahan
Writer(s) Carleton Eastlake
Director Ken Girotti
Production no.  ?
Original airdate 2/27, 1998
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"Relativity Theory" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It was first broadcast on February 27th, of 1998, during the fourth season.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Biologist Teresa Janovitch is a civilian among military men, traveling on the Resource Survey Vehicle Cortez to Tau Ceti Prime in search of minerals for an Earth that has squandered its own. Initial signs indicate that the planet is both uninhabited and rich in mineral resources, which could mean a million dollar payday for both the crew and the company that owns the Cortez. But on the first exploration, the crew is attacked by gigantic and apparently primitive aliens. After the command falls to Janovitch, she is overpowered by her crew: Sgt. Adam Sears, a veteran of pacification missions on Earth, who favors annihilation of the new race and an ambiguous Corporal Charles Pendelton. Sears leads a patrol that hunts down and kills the aliens, in the process seizing a golden object that appears to be a religious totem. As he celebrates his slaughter, Janovitch examines his victims and makes a shocking discovery. The primitive aliens are in fact alien boy scout teams and the other aliens are coming ..

Control Voice: “When we have conquered interstellar space, what will we gain? A new perspective on ourselves or only a wider scope for our arrogance.”

Control Voice: “Cultural relativity. It doesn’t need to be a complicated theory. Indeed, it can be as simple, and as deadly, as a two-edged sword.”

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