Voices in the Earth is the second segment of the thirty-fourth episode (the tenth episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Donald Knowles is a professor and joint commander of an expedition team who returns to a barren Earth a thousand years after it died from abuse and greed. His fellow commander, Jacinda Carlyle, is less interested in the exploration but more of whatever resources are left to stri...
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Voices in the Earth is the second segment of the thirty-fourth episode (the tenth episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Donald Knowles is a professor and joint commander of an expedition team who returns to a barren Earth a thousand years after it died from abuse and greed. His fellow commander, Jacinda Carlyle, is less interested in the exploration but more of whatever resources are left to strip. He only has four days to explore before mining ships come to strip the planet of whatever useful resources it may have left. As he explores the ruins of the planet, he proceeds to play a cd on an old found cdplayer. As Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 begins to play he is confronted by ghosts of those that died in the disaster that has befallen the planet. He finds them in an abandoned café, where the voices ask him not to forget them. Knowles attempts to make a plea not to strip the planet because of its nostalgic value of where we came from,...
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