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Not In Our Stars

The episode starts with Jesse running through swamps and forests while being chased and shot at by a SWAT team. Jesse is picked up by a spaceship where it is revealed that it was Jesse's vice commander who ordered the assassination of the Grand Elder, not Jesse. Then Jesse wakes up on a bus to learn that it was only a dream. Control ridicules Jesse for believing his dream and is unable to contact the Council, so Jesse investigates on his own. He seeks out a university professor who is working on communicating with extraterrestrials. Jesse designs a microchip that will make possible faster-than-light communication so that he can use their radio telescope to try to contact the Council. The professor and a security team try to take the chip. When Jesse resists, he is shot and eventually captured. Jesse wakes up in a hospital and flees. He manages to recover the chip before the professor can use it—Earth is not ready for contact with extraterrestrials. Rather than risk it being used, Jesse destroys the chip, giving up his chance for absolution.

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  • Originally Aired May 31, 1989
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Network CBS
  • Created July 23, 2017 by
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Name Type Role
Rob Swigart Writer
Al Waxman Director