The Captain was wrong. There were no aliens, no interference, no necessary time warp. They are dead, they were dead the whole time. It was death playing tricks with them. The three explorers were dead, just like their families. The bodies they found on the ship were theirs, in some strange time warp.
The captain was a fool to repeat their actions but it wouldn’t matter anyway. Fate was trying to tell them that they were dead. They crashed onto the planet below someoehow and they either died crashing or crashed in space and the ship went down to that planet. Dead.
The guy who played second in command was one of the scecret service agents on the western, Wild Wild West along with Robert Conrad. They worked for President Grant and that show saw him exit early. But this is the Twilight Zone.
The plot for this episode was good but drawn out and made the science fiction theory weak. This was entertaining but too long, just like all the episodes in season four, of The Twilight Zone.
