6.7/10169 votes#1 - Decision
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1997
After Police Captain William Boone's wife is killed, he is recruited to work for the taelons, a seemingly benevolent alien race that has been on Earth for 3 years. To do so he will be implanted with a CVI- a cyber viral implant that will expand his mental abilities and allow him to control a bio-weapon of unlimited power. However before he can make his decision he is also recruited by the resistance, a group of humans who oppose the taelons being on Earth. Lead by Jonathan Doors, the resistance informs Boone that the taelons are not what they appear to be. The CVI implant brainwashes its subjects into following the taelon blindly, in effect controlling them. The resistance informs Boone that they can remove this aspect from the CVI on the condition that he works for both the taelons and the resistance. Boone accepts and now searches for the truth of why the taelons are on earth and if they are responsible for the death of his wife.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
6.9/10128 votes#2 - Truth
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1997
Boone attempts to track his wife's murderer. He is determined to find out if it was the taelon companion Da'an who ordered her death to get Boone to work for the companions or if it was the resistance that killed her, securing Boone as the resistance's eyes and ears of the companions.
Director: Allan Eastman
Writer: Richard C. Okie, Raymond Hartung
6.8/10111 votes#3 - Miracle
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1997
Boone encounters Julie, a suicidal young woman with artificial limbs as hands, who is being used by a religious leader as a miracle when her hands are regenerated by taelon technology.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.5/10105 votes#4 - Avatar
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1997
Boone investigates a serial killer programmed with a CVI who tried to kill Da'an when he enacted an ancient taelon myth of good conquering evil.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Malcolm MacRury
6.5/10102 votes#5 - Old Flame
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1997
Boone is caught in the middle of his double life when his old flame comes back in his life claiming to be working against the companions.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Paul Gertz
6.7/10102 votes#6 - Float Like A Butterfly
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1997
Boone and Lili investigate a small Amish town after several of its citizens mysteriously die.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Paul Gertz
7.0/1096 votes#7 - Resurrection
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1997
Oblivious to Boone and the resistance, Jonathan Doors comes out of hiding and launches a media campaign against the taelons, leaving Boone to clean up the mess.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Paul Gertz
7.1/1092 votes#8 - Horizon Zero
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1997
When Lili's shuttle is stolen by a friend whose mission to Mars was cancelled, Boone, without breaking orders to find the shuttle for the taelons, has to help the resistance make the most of the stolen shuttle.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Richard C. Okie
6.7/1089 votes#9 - Scorpions Dream
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/29/1997
The "Skrills" have been bio-engineered on the Earth to be a weapon for the humans who assist the Companions. A "skrill" from the first generation infests a bio-engineer who goes underground, bent on freeing all "skrills" from the oppression of the Companions.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Harry 'Doc' Kloor
6.8/1089 votes#10 - Live Free Or Die
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/1998
Several soldiers who have volunteered to train in Taelon Interdimensional flight have instead been the victims of strange experiments - some have disappeared all together. A high ranking officer kidnaps Da'an in an attempt to have his men released.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Malcolm MacRury
6.6/1090 votes#11 - The Scarecrow Returns
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/1998
At resistance headquarters, Boone meets two molecular biologists, Sahjit Jinnah and his fiancee Rayna Armitraj, who are studying the alien probe captured after it wreaked havoc in an Amish community. A power surge causes Rayna to cut off the top of the probe, which responds by dematerializing her. Unaware of the situation, Sahjit and Boone discuss with Doors and Auger the probe's purpose, recalling its ability to replicate butterflies into killers. Launching the resistance into battle with the probe that may be studying Earth.
Director: David Warry-Smith
Writer: Malcolm MacRury, Paul Gertz
7.4/1095 votes#12 - Sandoval's Run
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1998
Sandoval's CVI is degenerating. While Dr Belman works to restore his CVI and save his life, Sandoval, free from his CVI, escapes to reunite with his wife, only to put her life in danger. Boone learns that Sandoval's CVI contained information about the Taelon's mission on earth, and tries to save Sandoval's life.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Paul Aitken
6.8/1090 votes#13 - The Secret Of Strandhill
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1998
A construction blast unearths a grave marker belonging to a Taelon scout sent to size up earth for Companion occupation thousands of years ago. Boone must find the grave which contains the research, before Sandoval finds the grave. Da'an loses his position as the United Nations Companion to Zu'or, but keeps the American Companionship.
Director: Gordon Langevin
Writer: George Carson
6.7/1084 votes#14 - Pandora's Box
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1998
When a taelon experiment to create an new hybrid warrior goes wrong, an ancient alien evil is unleashed upon the Earth.
Director: Tibor Takács
Writer: Malcolm MacRury
6.3/1083 votes#15 - If You Could Read My Mind
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1998
At a Conference of Psychic Sciences, "The Commonality" the Taelon psychic link has been invaded and the secret plans for Earth are known. Katya Petrenko possesses incredible psychic gifts and an interest in Boone. She confronts Zu'or, telling him that the Taelons must change their approach to humans, or they will destroy both races. Katya reveals that a taelon named Ma'el gave some humans the gift to break into "The Commonality". As Katya dies, Dr. Belman performs a brain transfer of all of Katya's knowledge to Boone.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Paul Gertz, Julie Beers
6.9/1081 votes#16 - Wrath of Achilles
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/1998
Lili loads Augur's computer virus into the Taelon system and it takes affect immediately. System after system crashes and Lili and Da'an are in grave danger as the virus infiltrates the shuttle's computer and lurches them out of control. Augur thinks he can stop the virus, but he must send Boone deep into the building to access the central computer.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Damian Kindler
6.7/1078 votes#17 - The Devil You Know
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/13/1998
Colonel Purcell and agent Carter discuss if the body of Thomas Blanchard, a thief who was beaten brain dead, is suitable for them. Doors International head, Anne Portnoy, demonstrates a new Taelon device, an EMP (ElectroMagnetic Pulse) weapon. Boone meets with Doors and Augur to warn them of the EMP. They plot to steal the weapon to prevent the Taelons from using it against Earth. Before they can obtain the EMP, Blanchard steals it. Lili sneaks into Blanchard's hideout, but is discovered and taken hostage. Blanchard reveals to Lili that he is really her father, Colonel Purcell.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Raymond Hartung
7.2/1082 votes#18 - Law & Order
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/20/1998
Major McIntyre confronted Rho-ha in Johnson's hospital room, a struggle ensued and McIntyre was killed. Boone and Sandoval defend Rho-ha, who is ordered to stand trial facing the death penalty for murder. The prosecuting attorney is Joshua Doors, the estranged son of Jonathan Doors. Travis Perkins, delusional Taelon supporter, has vowed to kill those who pose a threat to Rho-ha. Joshua confronts Rho-ha on the stand about the DNA experiments, Rho-ha becomes enraged and threatens to kill Joshua. Perkins is angry at the treatment of the Taelon and attempts a suicide bombing.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Paul Gertz, David Kirschner
7.5/1081 votes#19 - Through The Looking Glass
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/1998
The Taelons introduce interdimensional travel to human customers. A young deaf-mute boy and his mother become separated during their travels through the portal. The boy appears and is now able to speak and hear. The boy is examined by Dr. Park, a resistance doctor, who discovers that he has been implanted with a device to restore his missing senses. Boone suspects that the Taelons are using the portal to perform experiments on humans. Doors sends Sahjit through the portal with a tracking device.
Director: Bruce Pittman, Milan Cheylov
Writer: Malcolm MacRury
6.5/1092 votes#20 - Infection
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/27/1998
Ne'eg dies from being exposed to a devastating virus that was unleashed from an alien probe. The virus falls into the hands of a group of white supremacists, they release the virus into the Lincoln Hills homeless shelter. The deadly virus quickly spreads, threatening to decimate both the human and Taelon races. Boone, infected with the virus, comes up with an idea to develop anti-bodies against the virus but it may not be in time to prevent the virus spreading over earth.
Director: Ross Clyde
Writer: N/A
7.0/1081 votes#21 - Destruction
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1998
A holographic image of Rayna, who was consumed by an alien probe, tells Augur that the Taelons are dismantling the probe which will kill her, and they will learn about the Resistance's secrets. Hearing of Rayna's appearance, Sahjit is determined to bring her back. The Taelon lab is under intense security and Augur hires a special operative, Michael Sloane, to lead the resistance team to infiltrate the Taelon compound to destroy the alien probe.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Jonas McCord
7.4/1089 votes#22 - The Joining
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1998
Divers stumble across a strange radiant canister while searching for sunken treasure. Upon opening the canister an alien being known as Ha'gel is released from its prison and assumes the identity of one of the crew and destroys the others. Boone is called to the crime scene and his suspicions are raised when he finds Taelon writing on the empty canister. Upon questioning, the Taelons tell Boone that Ha'gel is the last of an alien criminal caste. Afraid that Earth will learn the truth, the Companion's recruit the help of Beckett to deal with Ha'gel. Ha'gel assumes Sandoval's form, and confronts Beckett.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Paul Gertz, Julie Beers
The Best Episodes of Earth: Final Conflict Season 1
Every episode of Earth: Final Conflict Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Earth: Final Conflict Season 1!
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & AdventureMystery
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Decision" is the best rated episode of "Earth: Final Conflict" season 1. It scored 6.7/10 based on 169 votes. Directed by Allan Eastman and written by Gene Roddenberry, it aired on 10/6/1997. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Truth".