Quarantine story
An ill weapons designer is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later. Directed by: Martha Coolidge. Story by: Philip DeGuere and Steven Bochco, Alan Brennert.
15 total · 12 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| asteroid impact | major | An asteroid was apparently on impact course with future Earth. |
| astronomical impact avoidance | major | Matthew was commissioned to hack into the old satellite defense system and use it to get rid of, what he was told was, an incoming asteroid. |
| cryogenic technology | major | Cryogenically preserved Matthew, who had been frozen in the 2030s because he had terminal cancer, was revived three centuries later. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | We learned that a "limited" exchange of nuclear weapons in Earth's past resulted in 80% of the world population dying off. |
| nuclear weapons | major | We heard that past humans used nuclear weapons. |
| orbital weapons | major | There were nuclear weapons in orbit around Earth. |
| past point of view | major | We heard the antiquated opinions of 21st century Matthew on 24th century Earth. |
| science as magic to the primitive | major | Matthew first thought that future humans were primitive Luddites but found that their technology was a sort of telepathy magic involving astral bodies. |
| telepathic ability | major | Matthew woke up three centuries in the future to find Earth was populated by telepaths. |
| telepathic utopia | major | The people of the 24th century had built a new and utopian world absent of machine technology out of the ruins an old world that had been mostly destroyed in a nuclear war. |