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The Twilight Zone: A Small Talent of War
The Ambassador of the alien race that engineered human beings for "finer things" two million years ago makes a startling decree.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x37 Airdate: Friday January 24th, 1986 |
Recap
The UN Security Council has gathered to discuss the arrival of an alien saucer and a message from their ambassador. The USSR representative is skeptical but the American Ambassador, Mr. Fraser, refuses to put his military on alert. The alien ambassador teleports into the chamber and tells them that two million years ago, his race seeded life on planets. Earth was one such planet and they’ve kept an eye on them. He informs them that they haven’t come far enough. They have a “small talent for war” and spend their time bickering over borders and building arsenals to put them at deadlock. The alien tells them that they haven’t evolved as intended and the experiment is over. His race’s armada will arrive in one day and destroy Earth. The USSR Ambassador doesn’t believe he can do it and the alien ambassador tells him to watch the skies. The American Ambassador asks for one last chance to present a defense. He asks the ambassador to let them prove they can rise to the potential the aliens saw in them when they seeded the Earth...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
No opening voiceover.
8 minute length
Episode Quotes
Mr. Fraser / American Diplomat: Mr. Ambassador, surely you don't mean to condemn our race to death without giving us a chance to speak in our own defense. Surely, that's not fair.
Alien Ambassador: The universe, Mr. Fraser, is not fair.
Alien Ambassador: The universe, Mr. Fraser, is not fair.
Alien Ambassador: I think you have misunderstood me. Your savagery is an issue. That's true. But, you see, on the thousands of planets under our control, we breed warriors, gentleman. Warriors to fight for us across the galaxy! In your case, your savagery has not bred true. You are woefully backwards in the act of war. you fight erratically and clumsily. Your weapons are shockingly crude. And worst of all, in your hearts you long for peace. A small talent for war. Too small. Too small to be of any use to us.
Alien Ambassador: But I thank you for a most amusing day. You people have a delightful sense of the absurd. You might take some comfort in that. After all, as one of your fine Earth actors, Edmund Wynn, once said, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard."
(Closing Voiceover)
Narrator: If we are pawns of dark powers, then our own high aspirations become a grim joke. But if not, then no one will goad us toward world peace or take it away once we have achieved it. Doubters please note, you have just seen it achieved once, however briefly, in The Twilight Zone.
Narrator: If we are pawns of dark powers, then our own high aspirations become a grim joke. But if not, then no one will goad us toward world peace or take it away once we have achieved it. Doubters please note, you have just seen it achieved once, however briefly, in The Twilight Zone.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Executive Producer | Philip DeGuere |
| • Supervising Producer | James Crocker |
| • Producer | Harvey Frand |
| • Associate Producer | Mark Michaels (1) |
| • Production Designer | Ward Preston |
| • Editor | Noel Rogers |
| • Casting | Penny Ellers | Joyce Robinson |
| • Line Producer | Ken Swor |
| • Unit Production Manager | Paul Wurtzel |
| • First Assistant Director | Richard Luke Rothschild |
| • Second Assistant Director | Dawn Easterling | Kelly Wimberly |
| • Music | Christopher Young (3) | Marius Constant |
| • Costume Designer | Robert M. Moore |
| • Set Decorator | Robert L. Zilliox | Rochelle Moser |
| • Property Master | Jim Zemansky |
| • Production Sound Mixer | Lowell Harris |
| • Script Supervisor | Kenneth Gilbert (1) |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Phillip Seretti |
| • Director of Photography | Frank Beascoechea |
| • Story Editor | Rockne S. O'Bannon |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Hali Paul | Howard Brock |
| • Creative Consultant | Harlan Ellison |
| • Sound Editor | Jeremy Hoenack |
| • Costume Supervisor | Judith Grant |
| • Visual Effects Coordinator | Bruno George |
| • Main Title Theme | The Grateful Dead | Merl Saunders |
| • Production Executive | Paul Tucker |
| • Executive Story Consultant | Alan Brennert |
| • Post Production Executive | Cosmas P. Bolger |
| • Sound Design | Mickey Hart (1) |
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