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* BittersweetEnding: The good Grippians do a HeroicSacrifice so their pursuers will go away and leave the surviving humans alone.

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* BittersweetEnding: The good Grippians do a HeroicSacrifice HeroicSuicide so their pursuers will go away and leave the surviving humans alone.
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* TokenMinority: Lt. Ernie Travers (Hari Rhodes), who may be the very first African-American astronaut in television history.

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* TokenMinority: Lt. Ernie Travers (Hari Rhodes), who may be one of the very first African-American astronaut astronauts in television history.history. (Lt. Willowmore from "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E10Nightmare Nightmare]]" got there first.)
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* TokenMinority: Lt. Ernie Travers (Hari Rhodes), who may be the very first African-American astronaut in television history.

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->'''The Control Voice:''' In Man's conquest of space, his own moon must be the first to surrender. From there he will step his way across the heavens to the edge of infinity. Each step will be as uncertain as the last, yet each will bring him closer to ultimate truth. Lunar Expedition One: Here a handful of brave scientists and technicians pave the way to the future. Their mission: to collect information that will eventually enable Man to inhabit the Moon; to use the Moon as a springboard to the stars. Once during each twenty-four-hour period, a force of three, commanded by General Lee Stocker and including Lieutenant Travers and Major Clint Anderson, makes its slow, uncharted way across the lunar surface, a surface whose depths and desires are, as yet, unprobed…



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!!Moontropes:->'''The Control Voice:''' The steps Man takes across the heavens of his universe are as uncertain as those steps he takes across the rooms of his own life. And yet if he walks with an open mind, those steps must lead him eventually to that most perfect of all destinations, truth.

!!"The mind earns by doing, the heart earns by troping":

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* MyGreatestFailure: During his service in Korea, an entire village was destroyed on Stocker's watch. He can't stop blaming himself for it, and neither can Anderson -- until the tragic encounter with the Grippians causes him to realize that Stocker was equally helpless in both situations.

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* MyGreatestFailure: During his service in Korea, an entire village was destroyed on Stocker's watch. He can't stop blaming himself for it, and neither can Anderson -- until the tragic encounter with the Grippians causes him Anderson to realize that Stocker was equally helpless in both situations.


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* TheResenter: Anderson blames Stocker for the destruction of the Korean village.
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* ReturningWarVeteran: Part of the humans' BackStory is that Stocker and Anderson served together in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar.

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* ReturningWarVeteran: ReturningWarVet: Part of the humans' BackStory is that Stocker and Anderson served together in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar.
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* BittersweetEnding: The good Grippians do a HeroicSacrifice so their pursuers will go away and leave the surviving humans alone.
* MyGreatestFailure: During his service in Korea, an entire village was destroyed on Stocker's watch. He can't stop blaming himself for it, and neither can Anderson -- until the tragic encounter with the Grippians causes him to realize that Stocker was equally helpless in both situations.



* PlantAliens: The anenome-like Grippians.

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* PlantAliens: The anenome-like Grippians.Grippians.
* ReturningWarVeteran: Part of the humans' BackStory is that Stocker and Anderson served together in UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar.
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* PlantAliens: The anenome-like Grippians.
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Plant-like aliens threaten to terrorize a lunar base unless they surrender the sphere containing refuges from a tyrannical government.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Nosy Grippians eavesdrop on Stocker and Diana.]]

Plant-like aliens threaten to terrorize a lunar base unless they surrender the sphere containing refuges refugees from a their tyrannical government.government.
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