Night of the Meek / But Can She Type? / The Star

Overview

A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it. An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machine and wakes up in a parallel reality where no one has heard of her. In this reality, however, secretaries are a revered, rare commodity. Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons. They discover that the planet holds the last remains of a civilization, which died when their star went supernova.

Episode Information

Guest Stars

Ken Sagoes

(segment "But Can She Type?")

Fritz Weaver

(segment "The Star")

Jonathan Frakes

Steve (segment "But Can She Type?")

Donald Moffat

(segment "The Star")

Richard Mulligan

(segment "Night of the Meek")

Larenz Tate

(segment "Night of the Meek")