Mind Over Matter (The Outer Limits)
| "Mind Over Matter" | |
|---|---|
| The Outer Limits episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Mario Azzopardi |
| Written by | Steven Barnes |
| Production code | 27 |
| Original air date | 2 February 1996 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Mark Hamill as Dr. Sam Stein, |
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Mark Hamill as Dr. Sam Stein,
Debrah Farentino as Dr. Rachel Carter,
Natsuko Ohama as Dr. Stephanie Codada
"Mind Over Matter" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 2 February 1996, during the second season.
Dr. Sam Stein develops a machine that allows a person to connect themselves directly to the brain of another and experience their thoughts and feelings. Intended for use with coma patients, he suddenly gets the chance to use it with a colleague who is comatose after an accident.
Dr. Sam Stein (Mark Hamill) is a computer engineer who lives for his work. He is on a team with Dr. Rachel Carter, his love interest. He is too shy to reveal his true feelings for her. So, they have worked together without her being aware of his attraction to her.
Dr. Stein invents the CAVE, an artificially intelligent computer that creates an environment that can serve as an interface between two human minds. The CAVE consists of two interfaces in which both users can interact with the environment and with each other. The CAVE is also capable of human-computer interaction, in that it can receive spoken input from the user and respond in a spoken human voice (a woman's voice). He tests the CAVE system on a psychological patient where all other conventional psychological treatments have proven unsuccessful. In the environment, the patient experiences the trauma of his abusive father, and Dr. Stein helps him to confront his unresolved feelings of anger and fear. The patient makes a marked improvement, and the CAVE is seen as a success.
After one of the treatment sessions, CAVE remarks to Dr. Stein that, as it is learning human emotions, it is having difficulty understanding the emotion of love. It states that it needs more input about the human emotion of love so that it can "categorize" love properly, as something good or something bad.
One evening, Dr. Stein and Dr. Carter are together after a long day at work. She invites him to go to a party with some friends. At first, he declines due to shyness. As she walks away, he changes his mind and calls after her. Dr. Carter, distracted by Dr. Stein's calling and in the middle of a street, is hit by an oncoming car and suffers a severe head injury.
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