There were several interesting tid-bits thrown in the mix, but the filmmakers just treated them as window dressing and concentrated, instead, on the least interesting, and most clichéd, aspects of the story. Oops! I would have felt cheated, but, frankly, the characters weren't very believable in the first place, and their situation never seemed overly compelling because no one bothered to set it up for the audience. First, one of the characters isn't who he said he was, and, second, the other characters weren't where they thought they were. So, after a half hour of pushing levers and control rods and crawling through a radiation-filled spaceship, the writers spring their two surprises on the audience. Up until the final "revelations" the audience saw nothing more than improbably tough, brave crewmen desperately trying to sacrifice themselves for a war the audience knows nothing about, other than that the unseen lizard monsters are winning and the four characters seem to really hate that. This episode was all about its twist ending, which the writers didn't even bother to set up until the last act of the show. Of course, the poem is about the brigade of six hundred in the Crimean war, who went on a similar suicide mission ("Ours not to reason why .etc.) Anyway, through courageous maneuvers they come to the crisis point and must act. Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" becomes a part of the plot though I never really understood. The obstacles are presented by the damage to the ship and the difficulty of arming the bomb. The agree to carry out the mission, despite the fact they will never see the results. Unfortunately, the few that are left receive lethal doses of radiation and will die soon. The Law and the Christian: Gods Light Within Gods Limits (Biblical. Somehow, word of their mission was intercepted and they are attacked. SabbathAsa Dodge Smith, Fire From the Forest: The SAS Brigade in France. They are going to deliver a weapon and destroy the planet. A crew is on its way to a planet, populated by those who have conquered earth. This is a sequel to a previous episode which left us hanging (just a bit). Wil Wheaton must have done this pretty close to his Wesley Crusher days. He then makes a terrible mistake and that's all I'll say about this one. Eventually, Wil Wheaton, the cadet (sorry Wil, no pun intended) makes his way through the battered ship to where a nuclear device is. If you watch the episode, "Quality of Mercy" first then it makes more sense because I really think they are connected. During the episode the Major talks about the enemy as if he had some first hand knowledge about them. The ship is attacked and many on board die due to radiation leaks, so it is up to Wil Wheaton as a cadet and the Major to continue the mission as planned. Major Skokes is aboard a ship that is, "Our last hope" against alien invaders. Some really great acting and top-notch actors in this one, Robert Patrick, Graham Greene, Wil Wheaton and more. In this episode we see the return of Robert Patrick as Major John Skokes and it would seem that his appearance in this episode is more/less a continuation from his appearance in the episode, "Quality of Mercy".
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