The Outer Limits: The Tribunal

Work Title: The Outer Limits: The Tribunal
Medium: TV Episode
Episode Title: The Tribunal
Year: 1995
Writer(s): Sam Egan
"Original" Writer: Yes Own work?: No
Summary:

from imdb.com A lawyer looking to convict a Nazi war criminal gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from the place of the crimes, Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

  • Self-Written?:
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Era/Year of Portrayal: present_day
Distinctive characteristics of the world in portrayal:

Present day 1995, America - and present day 1944, Germany.

Technology

  • Name of portrayed presence-evoking technology: pocket watch device
  • Description of the technology: A device that appears as a pocket watch, with a gold chain. It is handheld and filled with small moving parts. When opened, the inside glows green, and transports the holder through time to a date that was preset.
  • Nature of task or activity: Time travel. trying to find evidence to punish a WWII criminal.
  • Performance of the Technology: works very well.
  • Description of creator(s): unknown. all time travel and alteration of events must be approved by the tribunal.
  • Major goal(s) of creator(s): to travel through time, affecting the future for the better.
  • Description of users of technology: The time traveler, Nicholas Prentice, is a white man in his 50s or 40s, from the future. Aaron Zgierski is a lawyer, white, 40s, Jewish, ancestor of a Holocaust survivor.
  • Type(s) of presence experience in the portrayal: spatial_presence
  • Description of presence experience: The experience is frightening, creepy, and disconcerting. They travel in time to a Nazi death camp in 1944. They witness murder and atrocity.
  • User awareness of technology during experience: Yes.
  • Valence of experience: unpleasant. They witness terrible crimes, hunger, and abject cruelty. However, the actual traveling experience is instantaneous and not unpleasant.
  • Specific responses: feelings of self-motion (vection)
Long-term consequences:

They punish the Nazi by bringing him back in time to be a prisoner in the concentration camp. They consequenecs are good - they also save a little girl.

Other:

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