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The Outer Limits 1995 S 1 E 1 And 2 The Sandkings
(aka: The Outer Limits 1995 S 1 E 2 The Sandkings Part Two)

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The Outer Limits 1995 S 1 E 1 And 2 The Sandkings Recap
The sandkings' image of Dr. Kress.

The Control Voice: Some of man's greatest achievements have been motivated by a driving need for love and acceptance. What happens when that need for recognition becomes a desire to be revered and then worshiped... like a god?

A scientist illegally raises a colony of ant-like aliens and begins to see himself as a god among the colony.


The Sandtropes:

  • Ant War: The antlike sandkings quickly evolve into two distinct groups, white sandkings and red sandkings, and position their colonies at opposite ends of the glass enclosure in which Dr. Simon Kress has placed them. The two colonies soon go to war with each other. The conflict is exacerbated by Kress denying them food as part of his experiment.
  • Big "NO!": At the end of the teaser of the first part, Dr. Simon Kress delivers one when the sandking which escaped from his lab is torched with a flamethrower.
  • The End... Or Is It?: Despite Dr. Simon Kress' attempts to kill off the sandkings (a race of intelligent, possibly sentient, ants from Mars) by blowing up his home with him inside, some have managed to survive and are building a colony deep inside a nearby woods.
  • Fed to the Beast: Dr. Simon Kress, whose mind has become increasingly warped since being infected with the venom of a red sandking, feeds his former supervisor Dave Stockley to the starving sandkings.
  • Humans Are Cthulhu: The sandkings see the human scientist examining them, Dr. Simon Kress, as a god. They even build a statue of him. Kress then mistreats them — cue to Rage Against the Heavens. They then get free. Solution: Kill It with Fire. If any of them survived, it would just reinforce them in their belief...
  • Setting Update: Inverted. While the 1980 novelette of the same name by George R. R. Martin takes place on the planet Baldur hundreds of years in the future, the adaptation takes place in the United States in the present.
  • The Swarm: The sandkings are a swarm that digs through sand and builds things in it.

The Control Voice: Increasingly, modern science pursues powers traditionally reserved for the Almighty. But those who encroach upon the province of the gods realize too late that the price for entrance... is destruction.

Alternative Title(s): The Outer Limits 1995 S 1 E 2 The Sandkings Part Two, The Outer Limits 1995 S 1 E 1 The Sandkings Part One

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