Category: Earth: Final Conflict

Against Boone’s objections, the resistance embarks on a risky gambit to infect the Taelons’ biotechnology with Augur’s latest invention – a deadly computer virus that will render the Companions helpless. But Augur has underestimated the power of his own creation. Not only does it shut down Da’an’s headquarters, but it infects other Taelon technology whenever a distress call is placed. Before long, the entire Earth presence of the Taelons is crippled, but the damage is only beginning – since the Taelons have shared their technology with humanity, the entire world is left at its knees. Boone tries to help, while Lili and Da’an crash-land their shuttle in a distant location. Now the movement to liberate humanity may become the death of mankind.

written by Damian Kindler
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Peter Kelly Gaudreault (Agent Lassiter)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Boone, Lili and Sandoval are present for the first demonstration of a powerful electromagnetic weapon made possible by Taelon technology, but Lili’s study of the weapon’s immense power is interrupted when she receives word that her father has died. Boone is warning Doors of the weapon’s potential uses against the resistance when news arrives that the weapon has already been stolen. The thief quickly offers to sell the weapon to the resistance, an almost too-convenient coincidence, and also makes a stunning revelation to Lili.

written by Raymond Hartung
directed by Stephen Williams
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Anita Le Selva (Zo’or), Jim Codringham (Blanchard), Doug Lennox (Colonel Purcell), Patricia Gage (Rachel Purcell), Laura Press (Anne Portnoy)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Rho-ha, the Taelon whose experiment with human DNA went disastrously wrong, stands trial for murder, with Boone and Sandoval assigned to defend him. Boone is skeptical of his legal prowess, but Sandoval insists that secret knowledge of the Taelons’ experiments cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of a non-implant. The prosecuting attorney is none other than Joshua Doors, son of the resistance leader. As the trial progresses and numerous disturbing discoveries are made, it becomes apparent that the Taelon Synod wishes to enforce its own brand of justice, regardless of what fate the human court may decide for Rho-ha.

written by Paul Gertz
directed by Joe Scanlan
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Anita Le Selva (Zo’or), Kari Matchett (Rho-ha), William de Vry (Joshua Doors), Diego Chambers (Travis Perkins), Walker Boone (Willie)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Boone and Sandoval launch an investigation when a young boy vanishes during one of the inaugural voyages of a commercial interdimensional transit system opened by the Companions. While trying to calm the child’s mother – or, in Sandoval’s case, trying to silence her before her panic scares further customers away from using the interdimensional transport system – Boone also discovers that his sister has mysteriously become pregnant, at the same time that the child re-emerges from the transport. Boone’s darkest suspicion seems to be confirmed – the Taelons have begun picking experiment subjects from the public at large through their transit system.

written by Malcolm MacRury
directed by Milan Cheylov
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Anita La Selva (Zo’or), Damon D’Oliveira (Sahjit Jinnah), Diana Reis (Anna Sims), William Greenblatt (Jamie Sims), Wendy Lyon (Sarah Boone), Michael Burgess (Dr. Walkin), Kate Trotter (Dr. Park)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Augur is startled when a holographic image of Rayna, a dead researcher for the resistance, appears and warns him that the alien probe’s secrets – including all that it learned about the resistance – are about to be accessed by the Taelons. Fellow rebel Sahjit, who was going to marry Rayna before the probe killed her, insists on leading the fight to retrieve the probe before the Taelons crack its security systems, perhaps with the misguided hope that he can save Rayna. But the objective of the resistance mission is to destroy the probe if necessary – and at any cost.

written by Alan Templeton
directed by Ross Clyde
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Brooke Johnson (Quo’on), Anita La Selva (Zo’or), Stavroula Logothettis (Kee’sha), Paul Johansson (Sloane), Damon D’Oliveira (Sahjit Jinnah), Sonia Dhillon (Rayna), William de Vry (Joshua Doors), Vint Cerf (Cy Vincent)

Notes: Guest star Vint Cerf also served as the science advisor during the first season of Earth: Final Conflict. He was also one of the originators of the TCP/IP protocol that makes the entire internet possible, so in a way, he’s also responsible for the site hosting this episode listing. This episode mentions the plague unleashed in the preceeding episode produced, Infection… but Infection didn’t air on schedule, and was held back to air in July 1998, two months after this episode.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Though they don’t realize it, the crew of a seagoing salvage ship have discovered more evidence of alien visitors that predate the recent arrival of the Taelons. When a member of the crew tries to steal the alien artifact for his own financial gain, the artifact is activated, kills him, and inhabits his body. Da’an is instantly aware of the alien presence and puts Boone and Sandoval on alert. The alien Ha’gel has come with a warning about what the Taelons do to those less developed races to whom they become Companions – but his own actions are proving lethal to the same race he has come to help.

written by Jonas McCord
directed by Neill Fearnley
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Anita Le Selva (Zo’or), Brooke Johnson (Quo’on), Raymond Accolas (Claude Bertrand), Graeme Millington (Randy / Ha’gel), Kari Matchett (Beckett), John Evans (Morovsky), Scott Gibson (Officer Reed)

Notes: This marks Kevin Kilner’s last appearance as a regular cast member on Earth: Final Conflict, as distributor Tribune Entertainment pressured the producers to replace Boone with a younger, more traditionally heroic character. He would return as a guest star during season 5.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The continued study of the alien probe results in the release of a deadly virus which kills a Taelon researcher very quickly, and that death raises the possibility that humankind may be even more vulnerable to the airborne disease. But not everyone can agree on what to do about the crisis – Doors thinks it’s evidence of an accident during Taelon attempts to create agents for use in biological warfare. And a hate group decides that the virus is ideal for their purposes in wiping out an African-American community as their first strike in a new wave of racial terror.

written by Julie G. Beers
directed by Milan Cheylov
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Dr. Belman), Stavroula Logothettis (Kee’sha), Janet Zenik (Ne’eg), James Kee (Robert Howard), Derwin Jordan (Albert Cooper), Conrad Coates (Reverend Billy Mitchell), James Purcell (Steve Burton), Austin Strungnell (Charles Burton)

Notes: This episode was not broadcast until after the season finale, Joining, even though it was intended to air between Through The Looking Glass and Destruction.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

In the wake of Boone’s heroic but costly defeat of Ha’gel, a mysterious individual named Liam Kincaid appears, assuming Boone’s unique position as both protector of the Taelons and the eyes and ears of the resistance. The alien probe, which had previously killed Rayna, reappears and performs its final and deadliest task – sending a homing signal from Earth to the Jaridians, the Taelons’ sworn enemies. And when Zo’or ascends to lead the Taelon Synod, he reveals the fate of William Boone – something that will make Kincaid’s position more permanent than anyone imagined.

Season 2 Regular Cast: Robert Leeshock (Liam Kincaid), Lisa Howard (Lili Marquette), Von Flores (Ronald Sandoval), Leni Parker (Da’an), Anita La Selva (Zo’or), Richard Chevolleau (Augur), David Hemblen (Jonathan Doors), Montse Viader (Maiya)

written by Paul Gertz & Jonas Moise
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Sonia Dhillon (Rayna), Kari Matchett (Siobhan Beckett), William De Vry (Joshua Doors), Brooke Johnson (Quo’on), Janet Laine Green (Dr. Melissa Park), Kevin Kilner (Boone)

LogBook entry by Earl Green