Wolf 359 (The Outer Limits)

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The Outer Limits episode
“Wolf 359”

Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 8
Guest star(s)	Patrick O'Neal Sara Shane
Writer(s)	Seeleg Lester (teleplay & story) Richard Landau (story)
Director	Laslo Benedek
Cinematographer	Kenneth Peach
Production no.	38
Original airdate	November 7, 1964
Episode chronology
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“The Invisible Enemy”	“I, Robot”

"Wolf 359" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 7 November 1964, during the second season.

1 Opening narration
2 Plot synopsis
3 Closing narration
4 Cast
5 Trivia
6 External links and references

[edit] Opening narration

Outward stretches the quest for truth. Stars without end. Timeless infinities. A billion, billion galaxies. Man's imagination reaches out and out, while betimes the farthest reaches of knowledge are found in the smallest places...

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A simulation of the planetary evolution on a microscopic scale has strange side-effects when an energy being starts migrating outside the biosphere to prey on terran beings.

[edit] Closing narration

"'There is a theory that Earth and sun and galaxy and all the known universes are only a dust mote on some policeman's uniform in some gigantic superworld. Couldn't we be under some supermicroscope, right now?"

[edit] Cast

Patrick O'Neal – as Jonathan Meridith
Sara Shane – as Ethel Meridith
Peter Haskell – as Peter Jellicoe
Ben Wright – as Philip Exeter Dundee
Dabney Coleman – as James Custer

[edit] Trivia

The sand shark from the previous episode The Invisible Enemy appears in a photograph.
The landscape from the episode Soldier is seen in a photograph of the microplanet's landscape.
In the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds", the Borg defeated a fleet of Federation starships near a planet named Wolf 359. The battle is known in Star Trek canon as the Battle of Wolf 359.