The Outer Limits: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Outer Limits Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Family Values
Mar 16, 2001 · 45 min
A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.
Patient Zero
Mar 23, 2001 · 45 min
A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.
A New Life
Mar 30, 2001 · 45 min
A stressed out businessman and his girlfriend leave town to join an influential cult.
The Surrogate
Apr 6, 2001 · 45 min
A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.
The Vessel
Apr 13, 2001 · 45 min
The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he is indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an alien living within himself.
Mona Lisa
Apr 20, 2001 · 45 min
An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.
Think Like a Dinosaur
Jun 15, 2001 · 45 min
One human is the only permanent occupant of a station located on a vast empty plain of the moon. His companions are an emotionless lizard-like alien species who have developed a
Alien Shop
Jun 22, 2001 · 45 min
An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon Schaech) accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way tha
Worlds Within
Jun 29, 2001 · 45 min
A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.
In the Blood
Jul 6, 2001 · 45 min
An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters another continuum, a trans-space just beneath its surface.
Flower Child
Jul 21, 2001 · 45 min
A seductive woman challenges a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy.
Free Spirit
Jul 28, 2001 · 45 min
A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.
Mindreacher
Aug 4, 2001 · 45 min
A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.
Time to Time
Aug 11, 2001 · 45 min
A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny.
Rule of Law
Aug 25, 2001 · 45 min
A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of being in an attack where several humans were
Lion's Den
Sep 8, 2001 · 45 min
A high-school wrestling team takes new drugs which cause some unexpected changes.
The Tipping Point
Sep 15, 2001 · 45 min
A project to develop a universal computer language may lead to all the computers in the world to link and form an artificial intelligence that one computer whiz feels that he must
Dark Child
Jan 4, 2002 · 45 min
An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.
The Human Factor
Jan 11, 2002 · 45 min
In the year 2059 humans fight an android who's artificial intelligence has determined that the spread of colonization by destructive humans must be stopped.
Human Trials
Jan 18, 2002 · 45 min
A decorated soldier undergoes life-and-death tests for a mysterious mission.