The Star (The Twilight Zone)
|
The Star is an episode of The Twilight Zone, from its first revival season in 1985-6.
Fritz Weaver stars as a priest on an interstellar journey. Far in the future an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons. They discover that the planet holds the last remains of a civilization, which died when their star went supernova. This star was the same star that shone down on Earth the day Jesus Christ was born, "The Star of Bethlehem".
The episode is based on a short story "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke, which was first published in Infinity Science Fiction (November, 1955).