The Twilight Zone cap.108

[Damned Martian]

La Nave de la Muerte

Título V.O.: "Death Ship"

Guión: Richard Matheson

Director: Don Medford

Fecha de emisión en USA: 07/02/1963

Guest Starring: Jack Klugman (Capitán Paul Ross), Ross Martin (Tnte. Ted Mason), Fredrick Beir (Tnte. Mike Carter), Mary Webster (Ruth), Tammy Marihugh (Jeannie), Ross Elliott (Kramer), Sara Taft (Mrs. Nolan)


Sinopsis: En un vuelo de reconocimiento por un alejado planeta de otro sistema solar, para analizar posibles destinos de colonización humana, una tripulación de tres hombres encontrará algo inesperado: una nave similar a la suya estrellada en el planeta, con tres cadáveres dentro. Tres cadáveres que parecen ser los suyos.


Frases destacadas:

Opening Narration: Picture of the spaceship E-89, cruising above the thirteenth planet of star system fifty-one, the year 1997. In a little while, supposedly, the ship will be landed and specimens taken: vegetable, mineral and, if any, animal. These will be brought back to overpopulated Earth, where technicians will evaluate them and, if everything is satisfactory, stamp their findings with the word "inhabitable" and open up yet another planet for colonization. These are the things that are supposed to happen . . . Picture of the crew of the spaceship E-89: Captain Ross, Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Carter. Three men who have just reached a place which is as far from home as they will ever be. Three men who in a matter of minutes will be plunged into the darkest nightmare reaches of the Twilight Zone.

Closing Narration: Picture of a man who will not see anything he does not chose to see--including his own death. A man of such indomitable will that even the two men beneath his command are not allowed to see the truth; which truth is, that they are no longer among the living, that the movements they make and the words they speak have all been made and spoken countless times before--and will be made and spoken countless times again, perhaps even unto eternity. Picture of a latter-day Flying Dutchman, sailing into the Twilight Zone.


Curiosidades:

- Parte de la música de este episodio fue tomada de la del episodio 49, Back There.

- De nuevo, la nave en miniatura es la misma que Planeta Prohibido.

- Basado en un relato corto de Richard Matheson.