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Alien Encounters (TV series)

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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

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The series had the following episodes:[1]

Season 1

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There are 2 episodes in the first season.

#TitleOriginal air date
1"The Message"March 13, 2012 (2012-03-13)
Human race reacts to a message from space.
2"The Arrival"March 20, 2012 (2012-03-20)
Humans react to learning that an alien spaceship is en route to Earth.

Season 2

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There are 2 episodes in the second season.

#TitleOriginal air date
1"The Invasion"March 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)
Alien spacecraft deposit thousands of pods on the Earth's surface.
2"The Offspring"March 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)
Humans learn to coexist with the ever shrinking multiplying alien pods.

Season 3

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There are 6 episodes in season three.

#TitleOriginal air date
1"The Seventh Sense (working title: The Aura)"May 27, 2014 (2014-05-27)
A Turkish physicist discovers blueprints to a quantum computer.
2"The Entanglement"June 3, 2014 (2014-06-03)
Quantum supercomputer, "Quincy", is built that allows hybrid human children with alien DNA to connect to it telepathically.
3"The Prophecies"June 10, 2014 (2014-06-10)
Quincy becomes self-aware and is able to calculate future events.
4"The Escalation"June 17, 2014 (2014-06-17)
The U.S. government plans an attack on Quincy.
5"The War"June 24, 2014 (2014-06-24)
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 (2014-07-01)
The quantum computer manages to distribute the cloud before being destroyed. Information about an inbound comet is released.

Recurring Commentators

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Recurring commentators included:[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "TV Guide: Alien Encounters". TV Guide. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  2. ^ "IMDB: Alien Encounters". IMDB. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
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