I saw this episode when it first aired. I was seven years old.
It was always there in back of my mind so that I purchased it on video cassette when it was first available.
There were a few things I misremembered. I thought that Quarlo was caught by the teenage daughter eating cat food instead of thrown out food, and I thought there was some kind of teen party thrown while Quarlo was living with the Kagens. Chalk that up to memories getting mixed up. I did remember Quarlo talking to the cat.
This episode played again recently on a new HD channel that shows old TV shows and movies. I logged on to IMDb and saw these comments. I had never thought of the connection to Terminator until I read these comments. I'll have to watch the show again, but it seems to me that one of the scenes from the future world shows human skulls on the ground - much like Terminator - and the beams of light in the sky sort of remind me of Skynet, but those could be too generic to draw a comparison.
Michael Ansara, who later played the Klingon Kang in Star Trek OS and DS9 is great in this role. One of the best of the old Outer Limits series.
It was always there in back of my mind so that I purchased it on video cassette when it was first available.
There were a few things I misremembered. I thought that Quarlo was caught by the teenage daughter eating cat food instead of thrown out food, and I thought there was some kind of teen party thrown while Quarlo was living with the Kagens. Chalk that up to memories getting mixed up. I did remember Quarlo talking to the cat.
This episode played again recently on a new HD channel that shows old TV shows and movies. I logged on to IMDb and saw these comments. I had never thought of the connection to Terminator until I read these comments. I'll have to watch the show again, but it seems to me that one of the scenes from the future world shows human skulls on the ground - much like Terminator - and the beams of light in the sky sort of remind me of Skynet, but those could be too generic to draw a comparison.
Michael Ansara, who later played the Klingon Kang in Star Trek OS and DS9 is great in this role. One of the best of the old Outer Limits series.