Adam and Eve Plot: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' [[Revival]] did this in a two-part story with the episodes "Double Helix" and "Origin of Species". The sample size was 8 students and one professor, and it is immediately pointed out that they could not possibly repopulate the planet alone. It's [[Hand Wave|hand waved]] by the {{spoiler|spaceship that took them into the future, which altered their genes to ensure maximum diversity and created hundreds of babies to further pad the gap}}. Subtly played with in the fact that both the professor and his son are exempt from being "Adams" due to a genetic disease (and are therefore vaporized), {{spoiler|but live on as holograms to assist their friends}}.

** The episode "Phobos Rising" also hints at this plot, with the Earth possibly destroyed and only two Mars colonies with a combined population of less than fifty as survivors. Unfortunately, accidents fueling [[Enforced Cold War]] paranoia ends up destroying both colonies with only a pair of [[Capulet Counterpart]]s surviving. {{spoiler|Subverted in the final few minutes, when the surviving pair on Mars receive a transmission from Earth, telling them that the Moon was accidentally destroyed and in the wake of the devastation on Earth, both sides have called a truce.}}

** Several episodes feature the destruction of nearly all life on Earth. In fact, in one case, Parker is the only survivor of a plot by an alien conveniently nicknamed "Adam" and has to manually start the Sphere to backstep.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The villain's plan in ''Timelash'' is essentially to cause this trope with his own planet—and he wants [[Ms. Fanservice|Peri]] to be his Eve.

** Another episode has the crew encounter a disembodied creature known as Sargon, who claims that the human Adam and Eve were explorers from his race. When the humans refute this claim by citing evolution, Spock admits that the Vulcan creation myth also fits Sargon's story.

* An episode of ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' reveals that, thanks to a [[Timey-Wimey Ball]], an alternate version of the ''Destiny'' crew (minus Rush and Telford) got thrown 2000 years into the past and had to set up a settlement on planet Novus. When "our" ''Destiny'' crew encounters them, they're a formerly thriving civilization of millions, forced to abandon their planet when a black hole was detected approaching the system. There is no mention of any inbreeding, although it is possible the crew's descendants have figured out how to maintain genetic diversity, even though all of them are descended from a few dozen people.

 

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