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[Season 1, Episode 1]
Decisions
This episode starts whith a crowd of terrans [along with a brass band] awaiting the arrival of an alien space-shuttle with a near-human alien aboard. Sound familiar? Yes, it seems that this has more than a passing resemblance to V! The differences? Well, these aliens are called Taelons instead of Visitors, and the SPFX are 1990s CGI instead of 1980s models. That's about it, really. Of course, the lack of Jane Badler doesn't do it any good.
This series is credited as Created by Gene Roddenbury, and this episode is apparently written by Gene Roddenbury. His widow Majel Barret guest-stars as a doctor. The aliens seem more Vulcan than Visitor, but the plot is delightfully sceptical about their intentions.
[Season 1, Episode 2]
Truth
Following directly on from the first ep, Boone decides to investigate his wife's death. He comes up with a theory, and discovers a shocking fact.
[Season 1, Episode 3]
Miracle
In true Roddenbury spirit, this was written by Star Trek: TOS writer DC Fontana. It concerns a teenage girl who is suicidal because ten years previously she lost her hands in a car crash. The Companions grow her new hands, but there are a couple of unpleasant side-effects. Firstly she perceives the aliens as Angels, and thus starts a new worldwide religion. Secondly, the aliens have a policy of covering up their failures ...
[Season 1, Episode 4]
Avatar
A super-genius serial killer breaks out of an asylum. Unfortunately, as part of his rehabilitation he was implanted with a CVI! Yes, Boone and Sandoval must track down a man who has the same powers that they do.
The killer acts out ancient Taelon mythology. It seems that, thanks to his dying CVI implant, he knows something about their secret agenda. And he knows what the Taelons fear.
The Sleeper will awake.
[Season 1, Episode 5]
Old Flame
[Season 1, Episode 6]
Float Like A Butterfly
A small Amish town is beset by a series of suicides. Boone and Lili investigate, and discover that Taelon technology is responsible.
Reference is made to Companion Reaction Syndrome, where humans could not come to terms with the existence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life and committed suicide.
[Season 1, Episode 7]
Resurrection
We get to meet the token black guy - a bookie.
Johnathan Doors reveals that he has faked his death. His intention is to provoke Earth into open rebellion against the Taelons.
The Taelons react by employing a Kristine Walsh type reporter.
[Season 1, Episode 8]
Horizon Zero
Lilli's shuttle is stolen by the resistance. She and Boone must help Doors' men use it, before Sandoval and the Taelons can get it back. But without blowing their covers.
The humans want to use it to visit Mars. The Taelons know that human space travel is inevitable, but Zo'or [a hologram from the mothership] insists the Synod wants it prevented.
It turns out that Zo'or was right to worry. Doors' little recon plan include more than Mars. He pinpoints the mothership, behind the Earth's moon ... and a far more frightening development!
[Season 1, Episode 9]
Scorpion's Dream
A Skrell weapon goes astray. It has bonded with a weak-willed human, and uses him to its will.
[Season 1, Episode 10]
Live Free Or Die
Da'an is kidnapped by some renegade ex-Special Forces troopers led by Nigel Bennett [ Lexx ]. They want to trade him for some of their men who became the victim of botched experiments. However, Da'an decides to meditate himself to death rather than be a prisoner.
Zo'or and the Synod are willing to sacrifice Da'an, so they can use him as an excuse to increase control. Sandoval, however, has loyalty and FBI detective skills. He may be Da'an's only hope!
[Season 1, Episode 11]
The Scarecrow Returns
This is a sequel to the episode set in the Amish village. The human rebels examine the alien probe, but it decides to defend itself.
Boone also looks over records of a human test subject who learned the Taelon language, but became a serial killer. Boone asks Da'an's permission to learn the Taelon language, and it is grudgingly given.
[Season 1, Episode 12]
Sandoval's Run
Sandoval's brain implant starts to malfunction, and has to be removed. A new one must be implanted within twenty hours, or he will die. However, free of Alien control he goes on the run, rescues his wife [who he had committed to an asylum as a threat to the Aliens] and tries to find sanctuary.
We know the writers are going to use the reset button, but this is a nice mix of characterisation and background. The Aliens want Sandoval dead because he was privvy to their secrets, and we get hints of what their long-term agenda might be. Also, we get confirmation of the causes of the death of Boone's wife.
Most importantly, we get to see Sandoval as a much more sympathetic character [he actually has HUMANITY], while Jonathan Doors is a bit of a bastard in comparison.
[Season 1, Episode 13]
The Secret of Strandhill
This episode concerns the events in the spin-off novel, First Companion, by James White . Taelon artefacts are discovered in an ancient tomb ...
The episode also introduces a female Implant, Lieutenant Beckett [ Kari Matchett ]. She is a Counter-Terrorist Officer in Ireland.
[Season 1, Episode 14]
Pandora's Box
The episode starts with a new voice-over that gives Boone's background. There are also a couple of reference to previous episodes in the storyline. Boone gets psychic flashes of Captain Johnson, one of Da'an's kidnappers in a previous episode. He tells the doctor [Majel Barrett] and the other rebels ...
The plot itself concerns a Taelon experiment in de-evolution. The aliens use a human donor to provide a catalyst substance that will restore a Taelon scientist with potency and aggression. Do they seek to start a Taelon warrior caste? This also brings in a reference to a serial killer's wall-painting in a previous episode.
[Season 1, Episode 15]
If You Could Read My Mind
A human psychic has discovered how to invade the Taelon Commonality. Da'an, Boone, Lili and Sandoval descend upon a psychics' Convention to find the perp. Sandoval has secretly arranged to have the perp assassinated after arrest ...
The main suspect is a beautiful Russian woman. Boone falls in love with her ... Meanwhile, Augur the token Black guy makes moves on Lili.
[Season 1, Episode 16]
The Wrath of Achilles
Auger's computer virus is used against the Taelons.
[Season 1, Episode 17]
The Devil You Know
Boone and Lily learn that the Taelons have used Doors Industries to develop a weapon that can paralyse humans without killing them. Shocking as this is, it gets worse. The weapon is stolen ... Luckily the thief decides to sell it via Johnathan Doors' dealer ... But is it a Taelon trap?
Lily's father has died. However, the Taelons have secretly perfected a kind of brain transplant.
Blu Mankuma, the chubby African-American who has been in EVERY US TV show ever made, pops up as a Taelon sidekick.
[Season 1, Episode 18]
Law & Order
This is a sequel to the warrior caste episode. The Taelon who killed a human is now on trial for murder. The DA, Doors' son, is targeted by a Taelon worshipper. The trial is also affected by Zo'or's backstabbing.
[Season 1, Episode 19]
Through the Looking Glass
The ID terminals, which teleport humans around the world, have a flaw. People temporarily go missing ...
Zo'or and Sandoval stage a coverup. Of course, Zo'or knows more about the problem than he lets Da'an know.
Meanwhile, Boone secretly helps Doors investigate.
[Season 1, Episode 20]
Infection
A Taelon scientist who worked on the probe is infected with a deadly bacterium. The fact that the bacterium was engineered by Taelons is further implication of their dubious intent.
The bacterium is stolen and used by a White Supremacist group.
[Season 1, Episode 21]
Destruction
Auger is contacted by the Taelon probe - or rather, by the babe who got scanned into it and now exists as a computer virus on its Hard Drive. Our heroes have to destroy the probe, which is now at a Taelon base in Siberia. Auger helps them hire an infiltration specialist.
Joshua Doors, NYC DA and son of the Resistance leader, is now the official liaison between Earth and the Taelons. He makes moves on Lili.
[Season 1, Episode 22]
The Joining
This is the last episode of the season, and probably the best of the lot. We get a mix of great characterisation, plot development and action.
A SCUBA diving team uncover a strange pod, seemingly of alien origin. The pod's occupant escapes, using chameleon-like skills to take the identity of a human male. The Taelons say that he is a war criminal they exiled 10 million years ago, and must be killed ASAP. But we finally get to see how blatantly duplicitous and untrustworthy the Taelons are.
Lieutenant Beckett [ Kari Matchett ], a female Implant with a VERY bad Oirish accent, has convinced herself that Lili is working for the Liberation. She tries to convince Sandoval - whom she also attempts to seduce. This is a nice glimpse we get of the mental workings of an Implant other than Sandoval [the robotic, unemotional fanatic] and Boone [the fake].
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 1]
First of Its Kind
Beckett's baby grows up super-fast to become a full-grown human-looking male. He has super-fast learning skills, so they call him Liam Kincaid and send him undercover.
A beautiful woman in a catsuit is actually a Jarridian killing-machine. The Jarridians are aliens who intend to attack Earth and kill atll the Taelons.
Da'an selects Kincaid as a new protector to replace Boone. Lilli is now assigned as Sandoval's pilot. Auger's AI has a hologram of Lili - in lingerie!
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 2]
Atavus
Shown 17 Oct 98
Auger and his AI hologram [now dressed as the title character from I Dream Of Jeanie ] hack into the Taelon mass-consciousness. This gives Auger a spiritual high, but kicks Da'an out.
Da'an regresses to an earlier evolutionary stage - the Atavus. This is a Nosferatu-faced hulk, totally unlike Zo-Whore from Season 5!
Kincaid and Beckett team up, while Sandoval and Lilli work together.
25. 2- 3 203 24 Oct 98 A Stitch in Time
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 4]
Dimensions
Liam and Auger accidentally fly into a parallel universe where Mael never went to Earth. Humans never developed cities after the fall of Rome [ignoring non-European civilisations, of coure] and the Taelons had to attack using brute force to enslave humanity.
Lili is head of the Volunteers, while Sandoval and wife Isobel lead the Resistance.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 5]
Moonscape
Sandoval meets his parallel-universe wife.
Auger gets a taelon brain implant - they make him a supersoldier to fight the Jaridians.
There is a rebellion.
28. 2- 6 206 14 Nov 98 The Sleepers 29. 2- 7 207 21 Nov 98 Fissures 30. 2- 8 208 28 Nov 98 Redemption
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 9]
Isabel
s2 - credits show wrong names with photos.
Isabel and Maiya [Sandoval's parallel wife] must be joined or die. Sandoval's depth is not explored by the story. Typical!
Doors launches his campaign for US President! Auger takes over Doors' secret lair.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 10]
Between Heaven and hell
Dr Bellman [GR's wife] experiments with Taelon DNA, her daughter injects herself, gets ESP powers to destroy Taelons and humans.
Lili and Joshua Doors want dad for POTUS.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 11]
Gauntlet
A Jarridian escapes from cryo on mothership, kidnaps Lili.
Liam follows to abandoned spaceship, must evade boobytraps.
Carolyn Dunn is a chimera.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 12]
One Man's Castle
A Steven Hawkings Geneticist [Maya's new BF] creates bio-surrogate. It goes on the rampage [it's an anti-Jarridian biobot].
Doors is on the campaign trail.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 13]
Second Chances
The Taelons invent a de-aging process for humans. They use it to Brain-wash voters!
The Resistance select new leader.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 14]
Payback
Portal Station, scientist assassinated. Majel Barrat does autopsy.
Unabomber with teleporter. Sandoval still officially an FBI Agent.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 15]
Friendly Fire
Someone takes a stolen Taelon shuttle on suicide mission.
The man responsible is Lili's ex-BF [fighter pilot] - predictable outcome.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 16]
Volunteers
The Resistance capture female volunteers [one looks like Amber Benson ] - Liam deprogrammes them.
A Female Resister joins the Volunteers as a spy.
39. 2-17 217 6 Mar 99 Bliss
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 2, Episode 18]
High Jacked
Taelons hire a spin doctor and TV interviewer. The Mothership is hijacked.
There is a Jarridian conspiracy.
41. 2-19 219 1 May 99 Defectors 42. 2-20 220 8 May 99 Heroes and Heartbreak 43. 2-21 221 15 May 99 Message In a Bottle 44. 2-22 222 22 May 99 Crossfire
[Season 3, Episode 1]
Crackdown
[Season 3, Episode 2]
The Vanished
[Season 3, Episode 3]
Déja Vu
Kincaid and Renee investigate a VR chair, the product of Taelon technology, which has killed several of its users.
As usual, Sandoval is involved. But the Taelons have their own sinister agenda.
48. 3- 4 304 30 Oct 99 Emancipation 49. 3- 5 305 6 Nov 99 The Once and Future World 50. 3- 6 306 13 Nov 99 Thicker Than Blood 51. 3- 7 307 20 Nov 99 A Little Bit of Heaven 52. 3- 8 308 27 Nov 99 Pad'ar 53. 3- 9 309 4 Dec 99 In Memory 54. 3-10 310 11 Dec 99 The Cloister 55. 3-11 311 22 Jan 00 Interview 56. 3-12 312 29 Jan 00 Keep Your Enemies Closer 57. 3-13 313 5 Feb 00 Subterfuge 58. 3-14 314 12 Feb 00 Scorched Earth 59. 3-15 315 19 Feb 00 Sanctuary 60. 3-16 316 26 Feb 00 Through Your Eyes 61. 3-17 317 4 Mar 00 Time Bomb 62. 3-18 318 22 Apr 00 The Fields 63. 3-19 319 29 Apr 00 Apparition 64. 3-20 320 6 May 00 One Taelon Avenue 65. 3-21 321 13 May 00 Abduction 66. 3-22 322 20 May 00 The Arrival
[Season 4, Episode 2]
Sins Of The Father
Lili has had a child with a Jaridian, a kind of repulsive-looking alien. It's done her a lot of good, tho - she has grown her hair, and looks more womanly and less straight-laced. However, the Alien DNA in her and the baby mean that Earth's environment is killing her.
The villain of the piece is Sandoval. Once the mind-controlled puppet and slave of the aliens, he now has a sinister agenda of his own.
[Season 4, Episode 3]
First Breath
[Season 4, Episode 4]
Limbo
Sandoval is tasked with retrieving a new source of Cold Fusion. However, it is stolen before he can get it to Zo'or.
The Taelons show unnecessary cruelty - they create a tsunami that destroys his village in the Pacific! This is a long way from the subtlety of Season One.
[Season 4, Episode 5]
Motherlode
Auger has been captured by Sandoval, and placed in a secret Black Ops prison that uses sensory deprivation.
Our heroes try to save their pal, but they have a rival - a thief who wants to steal a vast hoard of gold from the Taelons.
[Season 4, Episode 6]
Take No Prisoners
Sandoval's position has been compromised by a new Terran Intelligence Agency. They know about his CVI and his secret bank accounts - and they want him to be their secret source on the Mothership.
The Resistance have managed to negotiate an amnesty. The good guys have to talk Resistance leader Christina Cox into coming in from the cold.
However, Zo'or plans to disrupt the amnesty. His scientists have discovered a parasite that burrows into the human brain and removes all fear and willpower from the victim. With a hive of such suicide troopers ...
[Season 4, Episode 7]
The Second Wave
Some Resistance types get through the portal, but somehow the Jaridians manage to send a team through as well. Yes, the Second Wave of Jaridian attackers is here!
The Taelons get word that a vast Jaridian battle-fleet is en route to destroy Earth. Zo'or's reaction is decisive - he recalls all Taelons to the mothership and heads out of the Solar System ASAP. The humans, abandoned to their fate, riot.
Can the Resistance weed out the Jaridian fifth column before the planet is destroyed? Not as easy as it sounds, because the Jaridians have access to all the information in Lili Marquette's brain. And since Lili worked for both the Taelons and the Resistance ...
[Season 4, Episode 8]
Essence
Renee's brother Robert escapes from a genocidal Bosnian Warlord. Renee and Kincaid retrieve the brother and try to get him over the trauma. However, unknown to them the Warlord was secretly in league with Sandoval.
Sandoval's plot is to drain human emotions and distill them into an essense that the Taelons can consume. Just why he chose to do this immediately under the noses of his greatest enemies is a question in itself.
The de-emotioned Robert goes after Sandoval, who is apparently unable to use his arm-blaster thing. Only Renee and Kincaid can save their arch-enemy ...
[Season 4, Episode 9]
Phantom Companion
[Season 4, Episode 10]
Dream Stalker
A man dreams that he kills his rival, and wakes up to find the man dead. Kincaid's babelicious accountant gets him to investigate: her friend has been arrested for the murder, but she is convinced of his innocence.
The killers use adapted Taelon technology - a lightsaber! However, humans have also mastered Taelon technology that allows interactive dreaming ...
Renee Palmer is now running Doors Industries, and she has access to the dream-surfing technology. When Zo'or finds out about it, he has Sandoval obtain it.
[Season 4, Episode 11]
Lost Generation
Kincaid investigates the death of a man whose CVI caused feedback that fried his brain.
Renee discovers that she has been sterilised by Taelon radiation. Thousands of other women are in the same boat, and have been flocking to Taelon-backed fertility clinics. This gives Zo'or the perfect opportunity to implant genetically altered embryos ...
Apparently Ron Sandoval is genetically predisposed to violence and criminal tendancies. Hmm, that must be what made him such an exemplary FBI Officer.
[Season 4, Episode 12]
The Summit
[Season 4, Episode 13]
Dark Matter
A piece of space debris crashes into the Taelon mothership. The debris is Dark Matter - it causes the Taelons to freeze, leaving Sandoval the highest-ranking person aboard. He uses this as an opportunity to get revenge on Zo'or, who killed his wife and destroyed his birthplace.
The US President and the Atlantic National Alliance [!] want Kincaid and Renee to get Da'an to stage a coup and replace Zo'or as head of the Taelon Synod. They decide to destroy the Dark Matter and save the mothership.
[Season 4, Episode 14]
Keys to the Kingdom
Kincaid and Zo'or try to decipher Ma'el's manuscript. The ancient Taelon apparently uncovered a way of creating core energy, and encoded it in such a way that it needs a human to help read it.
Someone hires Ramona Milano to have the manuscript stolen from the mothership. Sandoval is hot on the thief's tail. However, when Zo'or discovers the theft he threatens to attack the USA.
Auger pops up again, this time as one of the few people who might be able to break the Taelon code.
[Season 4, Episode 15]
Street Chase
Street, the hacker babe, discovers that Sandoval infected her with nanites. She goes on the run, with the entire episode told pretty much from her point of view. She can't trust the two main heroes, Kincaid and Renee, because they both have their own agendas. Also, we get to see her background: she has trust issues because her parents abandoned her when she was a child.
For some reason, Sandoval has let Zo'or in on the secret fact that he inserted the nanobots. That seems to be why Sandoval has his old job back, even though he got demoted in the previous episode.
[Season 4, Episode 16]
Trapped by Time
[Season 4, Episode 17]
Atonement
Sandoval's conscience is getting to him. His night terrors almost result in the strangulation of the hooker he's sleeping with in the oriental bath-house. He approaches Renee Palmer and offers to testify at a NATO tribuneral for Taelon atrocities.
[Season 4, Episode 18]
Hearts and Minds
[Season 4, Episode 19]
Blood Ties
[Season 4, Episode 20]
Epiphany
Da'an and Zo'or take the Taelons to the brink of civil war.
Kincaid is dying, and has visions of a glowing humanoid. His overzealous rookie babe is plotting against him.
[Season 4, Episode 21]
Dark Horizon
Protectors start to kill their Taelons. It appears that their CVIs havre been tampered with. Luckily Kincaid has no CVI, and Sandoval's is inactive.
This episode has hints of a story arc. There are references to previous episodes, such as the appearance of the Jaridians, and Sandoval and his sidekick Tate are allowed to appear somewhat sympathetic.
[Season 4, Episode 22]
Point of No Return
Kincaid steers the Taelon mothership back to Earth. However, Earth doesn't want the Taelons back. The US President is willing to nuke them ...
Street the hacker-girl has decided to give up working on Mael's riddle. However, she accidentally solves the 8th dimension of it. This reveals the location of Mael's hidden regeneration chamber, inside a volcano. Kincaid explores, and gets trapped ...
Zo'or steals Mael's relic, and wants to keep the regeneration for himself. Sandoval is still out for power, and the Jaridians are out for revenge.
This builds up to a typically apocalyptic climax, so we don't know who gets killed off and who will be back in the next Season.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 5, Episode 1]
Unearthed
Renee gets a Sub and goes to the bottom of the sea. She hopes that Kincaid survived the cataclysmic events of last ep.
The sub capt is Andrew Gillies [ Codename: Eternity ] - he's unrecognisable as a beardy 50 year-old gruff scotsman!
Something DID survive the cataclysm. Unfortunately, it's a new and hostile species ... the Atavus!
90. 5- 2 502 13 Oct 01 Pariahs 91. 5- 3 503 20 Oct 01 The Seduction 92. 5- 4 504 27 Oct 01 Subterra 93. 5- 5 505 3 Nov 01 Boone's Awakening 94. 5- 6 506 10 Nov 01 Termination
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 5, Episode 7]
Guilty Concience
Seymour [La femme Nikita] sabotaged Sandoval's plot to mass-produce Hybrid chambers.
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 5, Episode 8]
Boone's Assassin
sandoval infuses the essense of the Taelon Zo'or into an Atavus. The result is a sexy female Atavus with Zo'or's personality ... Zo-whore!
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 5, Episode 9]
Entombed
1588, the year of the Spanish Armada. Stonehenge is an atavus hive. Then there is an earthquake!
Palmer and Juliet Street hide out in Antartica. An Atavus tries to seduce Street.
98. 5-10 510 19 Jan 02 Legacy 99. 5-11 511 26 Jan 02 Death Suite
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 5, Episode 12]
Atavus High
Teenage Goths set up website, become Atavus [metaphor for drugs]
Earth: Final Conflict [Season 5, Episode 13]
Deep Sleep
The Atavus are feasting in a coma care ward. By strange coincidence, Renee's war buddy and his wife are both involved.
Will Renee get enough evidence to convince Ulrich, her FBI contact?
102. 5-14 514 16 Feb 02 The Art of War 103. 5-15 515 23 Feb 02 Grave Danger 104. 5-16 516 2 Mar 02 Deportation 105. 5-17 517 13 Apr 02 Bad Genes 106. 5-18 518 20 Apr 02 Street Wise 107. 5-19 519 27 Apr 02 Ground Zero 108. 5-20 520 4 May 02 Honor and Duty 109. 5-21 521 11 May 02 The Journey 110. 5-22 522 18 May 02 Final Conflict
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