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…
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).
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).