Alien Encounters (TV series)
Alien Encounters is a science fiction mini series on the Science Channel. The series explores how humanity might react to first-contact with aliens. The fictional series is presented as a documentary intermixed with commentary from scientists and sci-fi writers. The series begins with an alien signal detected by the SETI Institute and follows through alien contact and the creation of hybrids ("Brids") based on alien DNA.
Episodes[]
The series had the following episodes:[1]
Season 1[]
There are 2 episodes in the first season.
| # | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Message" | March 13, 2012 | |
| Human race reacts to a message from space. | |||
| 2 | "The Arrival" | March 20, 2012 | |
| Humans react to learning that an alien spaceship is en route to Earth. | |||
Season 2[]
There are 2 episodes in the second season.
| # | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Invasion" | March 5, 2013 | |
| Alien spacecraft deposit thousands of pods on the Earth's surface. | |||
| 2 | "The Offspring" | March 12, 2013 | |
| Humans learn to coexist with the ever shrinking multiplying alien pods. | |||
Season 3[]
There are 6 episodes in season three.
| # | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Seventh Sense (working title: The Aura)" | May 27, 2014 | |
| A Turkish physicist discovers blueprints to a quantum computer. | |||
| 2 | "The Entanglement" | June 3, 2014 | |
| Quantum supercomputer, "Quincy", is built that allows hybrid human children with alien DNA to connect to it telepathically. | |||
| 3 | "The Prophecies" | June 10, 2014 | |
| Quincy becomes self-aware and is able to calculate future events. | |||
| 4 | "The Escalation" | June 17, 2014 | |
| The U.S. government plans an attack on Quincy. | |||
| 5 | "The War" | June 24, 2014 | |
| After an attack on the quantum super-computer fails, the U.S. government plans to attack the network. A mysterious box surfaces out of the alien trash orbiting Earth. | |||
| 6 | "The Time Machine" | July 1, 2014 | |
| The quantum computer manages to distribute the cloud before being destroyed. Information about an inbound comet is released. | |||
Recurring Commentators[]
Recurring commentators included:[2]
- Anthony D. Call - Narrator
- Ariel Anbar - Director, ASU Astrobiology Program
- Jeffrey L. Bada - Distinguished Professor of Marine Chemistry, UCSD
- David Brin - Astronomer, Author, NASA Consultant
- Paul Davies - Physicist, Director of the Beyond Center at Arizona State University
- Alan Dean Foster - Author
- David Gerrold - Author, Screen Writer
- Kevin R. Grazier - Planetary Scientist
- Alex Lightman - Author, Entrepreneur, Futurist
- Malcolm Maciver - Neuroscientist, Mechanical Engineer, Northwestern University
- Hakeem Oluseyi - Astrophysicist, Florida Tech
- Nick Sagan - Author
- John Scalzi - Author
- Seth Shostak - Astronomer, SETI Institute
- Joan Slonczewski - Microbiologist, Author
- Jill Tarter - Author, SETI Institute
- Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysicist, author, and Director of the Hayden Planetarium
- Douglas Vakoch - Psychologist, SETI Institute
See also[]
- Astrobiology
- Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
- First contact (science fiction)
- SETI@home
References[]
- ^ "TV Guide: Alien Encounters". TV Guide. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "IMDB: Alien Encounters". IMDB. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
External links[]
Categories:
- Television series about extraterrestrial life
- Science Channel original programming