Tempests

"Tempests" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 7 March 1997, during the third season. A spaceship crashes while on a mission of mercy. One of the crew is bitten by a strange spider-like creature and begins to hallucinate — unable to tell what is real, and what is fantasy. Commander Virgil is desperately attempting to deliver a serum to his home colony, which is being devastated by a virus, Ellycia C. His wife and ... more

"Tempests" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 7 March 1997, during the third season. A spaceship crashes while on a mission of mercy. One of the crew is bitten by a strange spider-like creature and begins to hallucinate — unable to tell what is real, and what is fantasy. Commander Virgil is desperately attempting to deliver a serum to his home colony, which is being devastated by a virus, Ellycia C. His wife and young son are there. After his ship crashes on a moon and he attempted to fix it, he is bitten by a poisonous spider-like creature. He finds himself shifting between two realities. In the "bad" reality, he is stuck on the moon, trying to survive with his crew mates and apparently hallucinating from the spider's poison. In the "good" reality, he and his crewmates were rescued, he delivered the serum, he is with his family and heralded as a hero and hallucinating due to Ellycia C. In both realities, the "other" reality is explained away as a... less