7.0/101 votes#1 - Descent
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 6/25/1999
Dr. Arthur Zeller is the doormat of the anthropology department, a mild-mannered professor who is the butt of his colleague's jokes and who never gets the respect he deserves. After the department head, Prof. Martin Stansfield passes over his cutting-edge research into evolutionary psychology and funds the project of his rival, Dr. James Feind, Zeller takes matters into his own hands.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Erik Saltzgaber
- 6.5/102 votes
#2 - Dark Child
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 1/4/2002
An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 6.0/101 votes
#3 - Stranded
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/1999
Thirteen-year-old Kevin Buchannon (Adam Hann-Byrd) lives at the bottom of the high-school food chain, scorned by other geeks, picked on by the jocks. At home, he lives in the shadow of his older brother Josh, a football star whose every accomplishment is celebrated by the boys' father, Alex (Daniel Hugh Kelly). Then one day, Kevin sees a plane crash in the woods near his house. He rushes to the scene with his dog Cody to find a mysterious ship occupied by the severely injured Captain Turner (Chris Potter).
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.0/101 votes
#4 - Seeds of Destruction
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/2000
Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40. This is a new genetically- engineered strain of fast-growing corn that, it hopes, will increase yields and make the company millions. Linda, the veterinarian in Hobson, begins to wonder about the safety of TX-40 when Old Man Rivers brings in a dead cat from his field that has horrible mutations, including a giant tumor which sprouts a fifth leg.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Chris Ruppenthal
- 6.0/101 votes
#5 - Abaddon
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 7/7/2000
It's late in the 23rd century and the aging interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod is on a ten-year reclamation project on behalf of The Company, the corporation that has run North America since 2102. The crew is tucked away in hyper-sleep when the ship comes across a mysterious object floating in space. Awakened from their artificial slumber, they retrieve the pod and are shocked to discover the body of Virgil Nygard, executed 150 years earlier for leading his militia in the slaughter of more than a million people. They are even more shocked to discover that Nygard is alive.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: A L Katz
- 5.0/101 votes
#6 - Criminal Nature
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1998
Genetic Engineering has produced a generation of super-babies, but the technology is not perfect. It has also produced horribly deformed children who suffer from Genetic Rejection Syndrome (GRS), a condition which makes them even stronger, faster, smarter than the super-babies and more deadly to boot. Detective Ray Venable (Gary Cole), is in charge of the team that must hunt down the most severe GRS cases, but he carries with him a dark secret. Years before, he and his wife Marie (Lynda Boyd) had a child, Dylan (Jason Gray-Stanford), who developed GRS and who they secretly sent away to a home. Now, Ray suspects that Dylan is behind a series of brutal murders and is closing in on his old family. The only way Ray can stop him is to take a genetic serum that will make him more like the son he rejected.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Brad Markowitz
- 5.0/101 votes
#7 - Fear Itself
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/1998
For as long as he can remember, Bernard Selden (AYRE GROSS) has been haunted by a paralyzing fear. It started when he was six, when he set a fire that killed his four-year-old sister and today, at 27, the fear clings to him like a blanket. But, Dr. Adam Pike (Jeffrey Demunn) has hope for a cure. He has diagnosed Bernard's condition and believes that if he can isolate the part of the brain responsible for fear, the amyglada, he can cure him. The series of injections and radiation designed to build a layer of calcium around the amyglada produces stunning results; Bernard's fear recedes. He even starts a relationship with his neighbor Lisa (Tanya Allen). But there are side effects. Now, Bernard can use his brain to make others feel the kind of crippling fear he used to feel. He is still a prisoner of the past, haunted by images of Mr. Wilkes (Alex Diakun), the owner of the foster home where Bernard's sister died.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Naren Shankar
5.0/101 votes#8 - In Our Own Image
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 12/18/1998
The Mac 27 (Nicolas Lea) is the Innobotics Corporation's most advanced android. It is incapable of emotions - in order to avoid the murderous failures associated with earlier models. But, the new prototype begins showing some disturbing glitches, and escapes during a debugging session, killing a scientist, a security guard and taking Celia (Nana Visitor) hostage. They drive to a deserted warehouse where Celia becomes a reluctant nurse, patching up Mac's mangled circuitry. Along with instructions for his repairs, Mac transfers visual data on the history of different android projects directly to Celia's optic nerve. As she becomes more comfortable with her captor, she detects some very human qualities in the motivations behind his flight. As Innobotics' security closes in, Celia tries to convince Mac that the act of rebelling against his creators is emotionally based, and that he does, in fact have feelings.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Naren Shankar
- 5.0/101 votes
#9 - Worlds Within
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2001
A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Michael Sloan
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"Descent" is the best rated episode directed by Steve Anker. It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Erik Saltzgaber. It aired on 6/25/1999 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Dark Child".