The Joining (The Outer Limits)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Joining
Series = The Outer Limits


Caption =
Season = 4
Episode = 13
Airdate = April 17, 1998
Production = ?
Writer = Sam Egan
Director = Brad Turner
Photographer =
Guests = C. Thomas Howell
Amanda Tapping
Jim Byrnes
Michael Tiernan
Jeffrey Jones
Episode list = List of "The Outer Limits" episodes
Prev = Fear Itself
Next = To Tell the Truth"The Joining" is an episode of "The Outer Limits" television show. It was first broadcast on 17 April 1998, during the fourth season.

Opening Narration

: "Our history abounds with the exploits of heroes who brave overwhelming odds and live to tell the tale. But is there a point at which the determination to survive... comes at too high a price?"

Plot

When a transport ship crashed and wiped out the colony on Venus, Capt.Miles Davidow (C. Thomas Howell) was the sole survivor. But, after he'srescued by a team that includes his fiancee, Kate Girard (Amanda Tapping)and Scott Perkins (Jeffrey Jones), it soon becomes clear thatDavidow did not escape unscathed. Removed from the high radiationatmosphere of Venus, his body is reacting to the Earth's air like that of achemotherapy patient. When doctors give him the radiation his bodyseems to crave, strange things start to happen. Davidow's body begins tospawn duplicate parts - a hand, a torso and more from wounds thatmiraculously heal. In spite of this, Miles and Kate get married while he'sstill in isolation, but his time on Venus and the strange creatures heencountered there have had a profound change on Miles. As themysterious changes continue, it becomes clear that although Davidow didwhat it took to survive, the price of survival may be exile from everything heknows and loves.

Closing Narration

: "It is nature’s imperative that the differences among us endure. But what if we can no longer distinguish one being from another?"

Trivia

The name of the ship is Highlander, possibly a reference to the series Jim Byrnes also appears in.