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.

Seeds of Destruction

Chris Ruppenthal

Steve Anker

Simon Says

The Beholder

Capitol punishment makes it to primetime. Judgment Day has quickly become the hottest show on the Justice Channel and on television - period. Produced by Jack Parson and hosted by Stan Draper and Heather Cattrell, the show has turned the Justice system on its ear by becoming judge, jury and executioner, allowing a murder victim's family to carry out the death sentence on live television. Today, Allison Channing will hunt down Declan McMahon, the petty criminal who killed her sister Kaitlin. Declan gets a 20 minute head start, but he's got a microchip in his brain that's tuned to the taser that Allison carries.

Judgment Day

When Matthew Logan gets out of prison after serving time for spousal abuse,   his first stop is a gun show. He buys a strange handgun from a mysterious   stranger and uses it to shoot his wife. The gun attaches itself to Logan's   hand and arm, beginning a process which will transform his body.

The Gun

Sid Camden, a rather unremarkable, socially inept sort of guy, works in an accounting   department of a high-tech company known as Veil-Tech. Hal, one of the project managers,   secretly loans Sid a prototype of one of the company's latest developments - a device   known as an image enhancer. With the help of his friend Deb, Sid is able to acquire the   image of good looking co-worker Chad Warner and soon Sid is stepping out on the town   with his new and improved look.

Skin Deep

The UFS Mercury is in route to the planet Trion to do scientific tests in    preparation to establish a colony when they get a distress call from a    battleship, the UFS Rhesos. It was only weeks ago the the Rhesos    dropped bombs on Trion, killing the local flora and fauna, making it ready    for colonization. When the crew of the Mercury boards the Rhesos,   they quickly realize that things are not as they should be.

Manifest Destiny

When Andrew McLaren is fired from his job at Anderson Technology, he    suspects that he's being let go because the company president doesn't want    to give him credit for his work on the CPS-1200, an as-yet untested time machine.   Defiant, Andrew decides to take a trip in the machine. When he reaches his    destination, two days in the future, his head is throbbing with a migraine and he    is shocked to find that the police are looking for him. Fleeing the lab, he returns   home to discover his wife lying in a pool of blood and a man fleeing the scene in    a car. Shocked at his discovery, Andrew is determined to use his time machine    to change what happened.

Breaking Point

Patrick Tarloff, a university English professor, lost his eyesight in a childhood    accident and now, at age 28, he has regained it through a cutting-edge operation.    But when the bandages are removed, he sees more than just the world that has    been dark to him for more than 20 years. He sees a mysterious woman, a vision    that his neurosurgeon Dr. Angus McCadden and his psychologist, Dr. Louise    Burroughs, assure him is only a hallucination. But then Patrick sees her again,    communicates with her, touches her. Her name is Kyra, she writes in glowing    letters that float in the air, and she needs his help to go home.

Gideon Banks lost his wife Liz and son Simon in a horrific car accident some    twenty years ago. At the time of the accident he was involved in something called    the Neural Archiving Project - NAP for short. The technology was developed to    create smart computers - transferring human engrams to computers. The company    eventually gave up on the technology, but Gideon didn't. After years of quietly    perfecting it, he built a small robot, from parts he stole from Concorde Robotics,    where he now works. Zoe, Gideon's niece, discovers Gideon's secret, the robot    contains actual neural engrams from the real Simon. She becomes worried not only    about Gideon but also about the robot that sounds and acts a lot like her little cousin    used to.

In the year 2123, with all but nature destroyed and resources scarce, society    has been divided into three kinds of people. There are Alphas, like Larissa, who    work half of the time and spend the rest in a state of suspended animation called    stasis. There are Betas, like Eric, who alternate work and ""sleep"" modes with the    Alphas. And then there is the Elite, who form a privileged aristocracy that rules    over the Alphas and Betas. In the face of increasing pressure from stasis-jumpers    of the Resistance, the Elite insists that extreme measures are necessary for survival    of the species. Their plan, however, doesn't account for the power of the human heart.    Larissa and Eric have fallen in love even though their only contact, other than furtive    holographic messages, is when they trade places in the stasis pod they share.

Stasis

The true believers have gathered once again for the North American UFO    Convention where there are typically squabbles, petty betrayals and egotistical    grandstanding. Max Buford has in his possession what appears to be afragment    from an alien spaceship. Max's arrival causes a flurry of activity, as the fragment's    true origins are thrown into question.

Down to Earth

Anne Reynolds is a cold young woman, estranged from her mother, Laura,    haunted by memories of her dead father and terrified of intimacy of any kind.    Then one night, while repairing a flat tire she is attacked by a mugger. Severely   wounded, she dies on the operating table only to come back to life five minutes    later. However, it soon becomes clear that something inside her has changed.    Anne learns she was one set of Siamese twins and her mother agreed to an   operation that killed her sister, Marie, while allowing Anne to live. Now the    remnants of Marie are starting to assert themselves changing Anne.

The Inner Child

Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much    in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memories about being    stuck in a burning building with a crying baby. The nightmares, however, aren't   real and neither is Tom. He's an android and the ""memories"" are bugs placed in    his artificial intelligence by his creator, the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally    created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. However    he anticipated that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the    android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy and planted the bugs as a way of forcing    Normandy to upgrade Tom so the android could think for itself.

Glitch

Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting    a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign    for the Presidency. As the plane files south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its    passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private    quarters and warns him the strike has damaged the airplane, which will crash on    landing, killing him and six others. She explains she is a projection from the future,    a virtual time-traveler sent here to save him because his presidency is the key to    preventing an apocalyptic future. If he is to live he must shoot out the emergency exit    and allow himself to be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will    be saved by the stranger's sophisticated technology.

Decompression

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.

Abaddon

When Scott Bowman gets an urgent message from his brother Peter, he    decides to drive back to their hometown of Halford, Washington to see what    is wrong. When he gets there, he discovers that Peter is dead and his wife    Eilleen has been charged with his murder. But that's not the only shock awaiting    Scott. The town where he grew up has been transformed. Antenna towers dot the    landscape and people act strangely, as if they are under some kind of sporadic   mind control.

The Grid

Ezra Burnham and his daughter Sarah are old hands at the business of faith    healing. Ezra, a preacher who lost his faith when his wife died, is the front man,    the one who lays his hands on the deaf and lame. But Sarah is the key to the act,   working backstage and communicating with Ezra through a tiny earphone about    the plants she's scattered through the audience. It's all going well until one day a    strange young man in a wheelchair approaches Ezra near the end of a revival meeting.    Luke is not a plant, but when Ezra lays his hands on him, he not only rises from his    wheelchair, he begins to float six inches off the ground. After the meeting, Luke and    his mother Serna approach Ezra with a proposition. If Ezra will teach Luke the secret    of the revival circuit, Luke will continue to work his mysterious magic at Ezra's side.

Revival

Andy and Vince are Civil War buffs who spend their weekends re-enacting  battles from the historic conflict with others of similar persuasion. On this  weekend, they're in Gettysburg for a giant recreation of the war's bloodiest  battle when a photographer, Prentice asks to take their picture with his ancient  tin-type camera. But when the shutter clicks, Andy and Vince find themselves  transported back to the Confederate camp of Col. Angus Devine on the eve of the  infamous 1863 battle. Prentice, who joins them in the past, explains that he has  sent them back as a grand experiment, to see if history can in fact be changed, proving destiny is not final.

Gettysburg

After her husband is killed in a car accident, Nancy Henninger rents out her backyard apartment to try to make ends meet. But her teenage son, Zak, is suspicious of her new tenant, Harry Longworth, who says he has come to the suburban community of Hunterville to set up a new factory for his company. When three people disappear from town Zak decides to conduct his own investigation.

Something About Harry

The bombs are in place, ready to destroy the super-computers at the Department    of Information Technology. Inside, the members of the Syndrome, the anti-technology    group that planted the bombs, lay dead or dying. All of them, that is, except Cliff    Unger, or as he calls himself now, Zig Fowler. Unger has his finger on the detonator as    he negotiates with Pete Yastremski, the head of the department. As the two men talk    and FBI agents prepare to storm the building, we move back in time, through the hours,    days and years leading up to the attack.

Zig Zag

William Grimes, the leader of an exploration team from an Arctic research facility,  goes crazy while exploring an ice cave and kills two colleagues before dying himself.  Psychologist Jack Burrell is sent up to counsel the staff at the facility. Among his  patients is the head of the facility, Robby Archer, a friend from his boyhood. It is not  a happy reunion because of a traumatic childhood incident they shared but now they  must work together. Grimes has infected the facility with polar mites, a strange ant-like  species who take up residence in the warm tissue of the human body and create sort of psychosis.

Nest

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century  has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-techology laws  passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed  most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that  existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve. Her  lawyer, Nicole Whitely has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body headed  by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright. The balance of the court is divided evenly between  conservatives who support the ban on technology and liberals who favor a review. In light  of the importance of the case, the government has sent Solicitor General Wallace Gannon,  a fierce defender of the law, to argue its case. The court has suspended the normal rules, allowing Theresa to join her lawyer in speaking in her defense.

Final Appeal (1)

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century  has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-techology laws  passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed  most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that  existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve.  Her lawyer, Nicole Whitely has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body  headed by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright. The balance of the court is divided  evenly between conservatives who support the ban on technology and liberals who  favor a review. In light of the importance of the case, the government has sent  Solicitor General Wallace Gannon, a fierce defender of the law, to argue its case.  The court has suspended the normal rules, allowing Theresa to join her lawyer in speaking in her defense.

Final Appeal (2)

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

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