"The Light Brigade" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 23 June 1996, during the second season.
Three soldiers, including repatriated prisoner of war Major John Skokes, are the last survivors of a space battle. Onboard a crippled cruiser they are slowly dying of radiation poisoning... but they are the only remaining chance to launch a strike against the alien enemy.
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"The Light Brigade" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 23 June 1996, during the second season.
Three soldiers, including repatriated prisoner of war Major John Skokes, are the last survivors of a space battle. Onboard a crippled cruiser they are slowly dying of radiation poisoning... but they are the only remaining chance to launch a strike against the alien enemy.
In this episode, "The Light Brigade" refers to the ship on which the story takes place. This leads the captain of the vessel to read a verse of the original poem to the men before the commencing of their mission. This ship is the last hope of humanity in a war against an alien race. In an attempt to turn the tide of the war, humanity is resorting to a Hiroshima type strike. The Light Brigade carries a new, subatomic bomb, to be delivered to the enemy homeworld. This bomb works by breaking down the forces which hold subatomic particles together to form an atom. As with the original atomic...
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