Summit (The Outer Limits)
| "Summit" | |
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| The Outer Limits episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 13 |
| Directed by | James Head |
| Written by | Scott Peters |
| Production code | 101 |
| Original air date | 21 May 1999 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Michael Ironside as Ambassador Prosser |
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Michael Ironside as Ambassador Prosser
Marcia Cross as Katherine "Kate" Woods
Kevin Conway as Mr. Portis
John Spencer as Col. Wallis Thurman
Andrew Airlie as Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Walker as Brent Secor
Dave Adams as Desmond Shiff
Campbell Lane as Noel Bachman
Matthew Prior as Todd Woods
Darryl Scheelar as Gorum
Eric Schneider as High Commander Reese
"Summit" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 21 May 1999, during the fifth season.
On a barren planetoid, diplomats from Earth and Dregocia meet to discuss peace.
Several centuries in the future Humans from Earth (The United Coalition) and a genetically-engineered race from Dregocia (Dregocian High Command) agree to meet to work out a peace accord on a neutral planetoid. An envoy named Kate Woods is part of the Earth delegation. She leaves a love message to her son that she left on Earth in the care of his Grandmother and then prepares to land.
After making planet-fall and disembarking the delegation from Earth enters their portion of the habitat. The shuttle carrying the Dregocian delegation malfunctions and crashes, while the delegation from Earth watches in horror. After some tense moments and the destruction of both the Earth and Dregocian motherships the Earth delegation attempts to figure out what went wrong. The last transmission from the Dregocian shuttle mentioned that it was sabotaged but by whom is the mystery. Before anymore questions can be answered a warhead launched from one of the motherships toward the planet explodes some distance away from the habitat holding the peace accord, damaging the habitat and causing the communications to be broken on both sides.
With both sides now prepping for war, the human contingent on the planet tries desperately to restore power and re-establish communications with the Dregocians in an attempt to salvage what remains of the valuable accords. After a journey outside, the human delegation finds their transmitter destroyed and their power plant damaged but salvageable. Kate Woods first sees something in the hazy atmosphere of the planetoid, as she investigates someone snatches her respirator off her face from behind. She manages to find another on the ground but it is not functioning. The rest of her party finds her in time before she can suffocate in the toxic air. They return to the inside and regain power, but they still have no communications and both sides are sending ships to meet in an all out war.
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