The Outer Limits: Resurrection

Work Title: The Outer Limits: Resurrection
Medium: TV Episode
Episode Title: Resurrection
Year: 1996
Writer(s): Chris Brancato
"Original" Writer: Yes Writer(s): Chris Dickie
"Original" Writer: Yes Writer(s): Jonathan Walker
"Original" Writer: Yes Own work?: No
Summary:

from wikipedia.org Humanity has destroyed itself in a biological war, and only a few hundred androids remain. Two of the androids have a plan to recreate the human race from DNA samples... but the ruling military androids are violently opposed to recreating their former masters.

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Era/Year of Portrayal: distant_future
Distinctive characteristics of the world in portrayal:

Post-Apocolyse Earth is only inhabited by androids - humanity has been eradicated.

Technology

  • Name of portrayed presence-evoking technology: androids
  • Description of the technology: There are 2 types of androids: military and servile. The servile androids resemble humans in form and appearence. They commmunicate through speaking. The military androids are taller than the average human, covered in black rubber, masked, and armed. Generally, the androids hate humans and prefer to remain on Earth without them. The androids are completely mobile and are composed of high quality materials.
  • Nature of task or activity: 2 androids clone a human, teaching him about life.
  • Performance of the Technology: It works well, allthough Alicia causes the end of the androids by telling Cain, the human, how to turn off the central power grid, thus bringing the demise of all the androids.
  • Description of creator(s): The Innobotics Corporation.
  • Major goal(s) of creator(s): unknown. presumably to serve humanity, make money, and advance science.
  • Description of users of technology: Cain is a cloned human - male, in his 30s in physical years, white.
  • Type(s) of presence experience in the portrayal: social_presence
  • Description of presence experience: For Cain, the experience is confusing. The majority of androids are out to kill him, except for the 2 androids that created him. So, the experience is at once kind and loving, as well as fearful and harrowing.
  • User awareness of technology during experience: yes.
  • Valence of experience: Both pleasent and unpleasent.
  • Specific responses: involvement, improved skill training, intense parasocial relationships, mother son relationship, fear, danger.
Long-term consequences:

Bittersweet. In order for Cain to live, he must cut off power to all the androids, including his android mother figure, in effect killing her. However, she has created a mate for him and left him the power to clone other humans from residual DNA.

Other:

Coder name: Amanda Scheiner
Coder email: amandags@temple.edu
Coder affiliation: Temple University