Worlds Apart (The Outer Limits)

"Worlds Apart" is an episode of The Outer Limits television series. It first aired on 22 March 1996, during the second season.

Introduction

An astronaut crashes on an alien planet—but by some miracle he is quickly able to contact Earth and speak directly to the space agency behind his mission. Unfortunately, twenty years have passed for them and his former lover is now married and the director of the agency.

Opening narration

Plot

An astronaut makes a water landing on an alien planet but when he contacts home he discovers 20 years have passed. In those years the new head of the space agency, his former lover, has moved on with her life. A senator critical of the space agency interjects himself into the situation as they debate the possibility and merits of a rescue through an unstable wormhole. Once the astronaut learns of the risk to the rescue team he requests not to be rescued. A care package is sent through the wormhole but the rescue attempt is aborted. The final scene is of him listening to a song, Ella Fitzgerald's Someone To Watch Over Me, his former lover gave to him to remember her by, as the portal to home closes and he is left to his fate on an alien world. However as dawn breaks on the alien planet, it is revealed to be a tropical paradise.

Worlds Apart (band)

Worlds Apart are a multi-national boy band of the 1990s, with a changing line-up that variously included Marcus Patrick (billed as 'Patric Osborne') in the original (five piece) group and, from 1994, Brother Beyond's Nathan Moore. After scoring a few hits in the United Kingdom, the band re-emerged as a four piece and became chart stars in France.

Discography

Albums

Singles

French singles

References

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Worlds Apart (2008 film)

Worlds Apart (Original title: To verdener) is a 2008 Danish drama directed by Niels Arden Oplev and written by Oplev and Steen Bille. The film stars Rosalinde Mynster and Pilou Asbæk. Based upon a true story, the film is about a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness girl who struggles to reconcile her faith and her secret romance with a non-believer boy. Worlds Apart played at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival and was submitted by Denmark for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Plot

Sara is a teenager who lives with her family, who are Jehovah's Witnesses. The family's devout image is questioned when the parents divorce as a consequence of the father's infidelity. One night at a party Sara meets Teis, an older boy who takes an interest in her. Teis is not a Witness, and their relationship is rejected by her father, but Sara falls in love and begins to doubt her faith. Facing ostracism from her faith and family, Sara must make the toughest choice of her young life.