The Outer Limits - The New Breed (Season 1, Episode 15) Part 5

The Outer Limits - The New Breed (Season 1, Episode 15) Part 5

"The New Breed" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 23 June 1995, during the first season.

Intro:
Dr. Stephen Ledbetter makes a technological and medical breakthrough when he creates a type of tiny machine, known as nanobots, capable of curing any disease or imperfections in the human body.

Opening Narration:
Man has long worked to stave off the diseases that can ravage us. But what can happen when the cure grows more fearsome than the disease?

Closing Narration:
Over millions of years man has become the very paragon of animals but we must take care not to alter what nature has taken so long to forge — or risk being burned by the very fires of creation.

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[badger5079]

There is a theory that mitochondria were microbes that adapted to living inside the cells of their hosts. They became an integral part of the animal cell.

[Perilous3D]

@badger5079 I've always been quite fond of the Endosymbiotic theory ;)

[RanRightRealty]

The bots are not unlike the parasites that first inhabited our bodies many many years ago. The first parasites were so overwhlemed with the expereince, they killed the hosts off hence killing themselves with it. Over time, they learned to modify that behavior and compliment the host so that as long as it lived, they would too. That was the first time they experienced long life. The bots learned to respect the host for their own survival reasons. He could have done the same, but he panicked.

[Perilous3D]

An interesting approach... But one must ask himself would the nanos react the same way as parasites? After all, they are machines and only capable of being programmed to function a certain way where as the parasites would have evolved their behavior over thousands of years through evolution. Hard to say but I like the your outlook on it. Thanks for sharing!

[JonPasqual]

he should of stuck with the cancer if you think about it. The nanobots killed him in weeks, the cancer would kill him in a year

[Perilous3D]

Yeah plus cancer doesn't smell like burned hair.

[frankconjr]

the Nanobots should get their own spin-off show "Meet the Nanobots"

[skeaneable]

yeah just fucking great now she contracted Nano Aids!

[pushpop2002]

So much for doing better than God.

[mybrownb]

NOW IT'S PASSED ON TO HER.... like a sexually transmitted disease. She was probably on some form of Birth Control so there was no need for Condom Use to prevent pregnancy. They were engaged to be married so no worries of infedelity. WOW.... Now she's gonna have to be Burnt as Well.

[PortVienna80]

Don't mess with nature!

[kelamuni]

ya but john boy found god again and started voting republican

[kelamuni]

i know! let's talk about the evolution of mankind, and not this episode! that would be fun!

[HolyBomb]

And this is how a new zombie outbreak begun..

[chrlpolk]

Why does he destroy everything? He could have started with the animal testing now!

[Potatopte]

See what city life did to John Boy!!

[paulosio]

I was expecting him to come back to life again even after he got fried :|