The Light Brigade

Humanity is at war with an alien species, when a lone ship is sent out to the alien home world with a final solution to the conflict. A weapon of massive destructive capabilities, capable of annihilating life from the entire planet. However, the ship is intercepted en route and the crew rendered unconscious. Upon awakening, several members of the crew realise that the enemy have boarded the ship and endangered the mission. Suffering from increasing radiation poisoning, Wil Wheaton and several other crew members engage in a last ditch attempt to save the mission. Cut off from their chain of command, and knowing that they will not survive the radiation sickness that is slowly killing them, they must face one final shocking twist that will blow you away in true Outer Limits style. This episode will not disappoint!

The 90s Outer Limits hit when I was 9 but even back then there was few things I loved more than Sci Fiction and Astronomy and this episode has both and whereas most series wouldn't even have the balls to attempt a series where a good half(if not more) of the episodes end far from Happy and of the over 150 episodes of top of my head this has the worse fate of any of em, and i absolutely love it, i like happy endings too but the best episodes of this series end in a pretty unhappy way..if characters of the episode are lucky they'll get an unhappy ending on a personal or small group type of level but this episode is far on the other side of any kind of happiness, I won't spoil the ending but again I'll say episodes like this one are a major reason why i love this series so damn much...i remember first seeing this back in 1997 and it took me like a third of the episode to realize Robert Patrick(damn i love that guy, T-1000 use to scare me) is playing Skokes, the same character from the season 1 episode "Quality of Mercy" and that this episode is the sequel to it and i recommend watching that episode before this one, though imo u don't need to see Quality of Mercy to love this episode but that episode is also pretty good and I think it's better watching it first then onto this episode, Quality of Mercy has yet another of the seemingly countless unhappy endings throughout the series, but the ending of Quality of Mercy(while that ending is very bad, it can't compete with this one though and Robert Patrick does a pretty damn good job in both episodes then we got Wes-i mean Wil Wheaton as an engineer, all he was missing was his handmade sweaters from his grandma and I'd wonder if I'm watching TNG of if this was set in the same universe but plain and simple I absolutely love this series, everything from the stories to the laughably bad CG to of course the unhappy endings to the low budget makes me love it even more...this episode is no question in my top 5 of the series, any complaints i have are absolute nitpicks.

Wil Wheaton must have done this pretty close to his Wesley Crusher days. This is a sequel to a previous episode which left us hanging (just a bit). A crew is on its way to a planet, populated by those who have conquered earth. They are going to deliver a weapon and destroy the planet. However, it is a suicide mission. Somehow, word of their mission was intercepted and they are attacked. Unfortunately, the few that are left receive lethal doses of radiation and will die soon. The agree to carry out the mission, despite the fact they will never see the results. The obstacles are presented by the damage to the ship and the difficulty of arming the bomb. There is the usual macho stuff going on. Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" becomes a part of the plot though I never really understood. 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. It just seemed a bit trite for me.