I don't know your age, Peter--but IF you are MY age (over 70) I watched the original "Twilight Zone" avidly. Rod Serling ran an episode about "the elite" governing people killing off most of the world with their nuclear weaponry while THEY got to take a rocket to a far off planet where they could RULE THE NEW WORLD. But the rocket didn…
I don't know your age, Peter--but IF you are MY age (over 70) I watched the original "Twilight Zone" avidly. Rod Serling ran an episode about "the elite" governing people killing off most of the world with their nuclear weaponry while THEY got to take a rocket to a far off planet where they could RULE THE NEW WORLD. But the rocket didn't last long enough for them to get out of the "earth's gravitational pull" so they just kept CIRCLING THE DESTROYED PLANET EARTH in their "rocket room"--until they died off too!! PROFOUND STUFF came out of Mr. Rod Serling...he was truly a FREEDOM THINKER!!
Wasn't a huge Twilight Zone fan. Those hit _way_ too close to home (which was the point). I do remember a Stargate SG1 episode where there was some alternate world/future/something and a "friendly" race was offering a cure to all of humanity's illnesses. And it worked. The hidden part was that it also resulted in making humanity largely sterile so they would have a massive population drop and then be a subject of the new ruling class.
I seem to remember several sci-fi shows with that "cure for everything that ends up worse than the disease" type plot. _Way_ back when there was a series of sci-fi short stories about people who were put in cryogenic sleep until their problem would be resolved. One person wanted money - and woke up to being a zillionaire in a future where a cheeseburger was ~ $4T. Another wanted a cure for cancer - and woke up to a world where cancer was cured, but he had a cold before going to sleep ... and there was no cure for that, so ....
Oh wow!!! I didn't watch much sci-fi stuff after I married and was a young Mom (which is probably when most of this genre was wildly popular (late '70's early '80's).
I don't know your age, Peter--but IF you are MY age (over 70) I watched the original "Twilight Zone" avidly. Rod Serling ran an episode about "the elite" governing people killing off most of the world with their nuclear weaponry while THEY got to take a rocket to a far off planet where they could RULE THE NEW WORLD. But the rocket didn't last long enough for them to get out of the "earth's gravitational pull" so they just kept CIRCLING THE DESTROYED PLANET EARTH in their "rocket room"--until they died off too!! PROFOUND STUFF came out of Mr. Rod Serling...he was truly a FREEDOM THINKER!!
Wasn't a huge Twilight Zone fan. Those hit _way_ too close to home (which was the point). I do remember a Stargate SG1 episode where there was some alternate world/future/something and a "friendly" race was offering a cure to all of humanity's illnesses. And it worked. The hidden part was that it also resulted in making humanity largely sterile so they would have a massive population drop and then be a subject of the new ruling class.
I seem to remember several sci-fi shows with that "cure for everything that ends up worse than the disease" type plot. _Way_ back when there was a series of sci-fi short stories about people who were put in cryogenic sleep until their problem would be resolved. One person wanted money - and woke up to being a zillionaire in a future where a cheeseburger was ~ $4T. Another wanted a cure for cancer - and woke up to a world where cancer was cured, but he had a cold before going to sleep ... and there was no cure for that, so ....
Oh wow!!! I didn't watch much sci-fi stuff after I married and was a young Mom (which is probably when most of this genre was wildly popular (late '70's early '80's).