The Star (The Twilight Zone)

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The Star is an episode of The Twilight Zone, from its first revival season in 1985-6.

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Fritz Weaver stars as a priest on an interstellar journey. Far in the future an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons. They discover that the planet holds the last remains of a civilization, which died when their star went supernova. This star was the same star that shone down on Earth the day Jesus was born, "The Star of Bethlehem".

The episode is based on a short story "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke, which was first published in Infinity Science Fiction (November, 1955). However, while Clarke's story ended with the priest in despair after the revelation that the alien civilization had perished in order to light "the Christmas Star," the TV episode included the addition of an epitaph by the aliens, revealing their optimism about their place in the universe.

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