Tag: Lithia

“Lithia” is an episode of The Outer Limits (new series) television show. It was first aired on 3 July 1998, during the fourth season.
Major Jason Mercer wakes from a cryogenically frozen state to find that he is the only male left alive.
“Lithia” is set in 2055, in a world populated only by women. Almost all the previous population was killed years earlier in a war, followed by a plague that killed the remaining men.
The women are living in a commune, and seem to be living full and happy lives, although they must work very hard, lacking some of the technology of the past. Neighboring villages have many of the resources, all in control of a council governing their use and trade. When a neighboring village refuses to defy the council and trade electricity prior to completion of an impact study, Mercer tells the women living in his commune that they must make sure that they have enough resources for themselves. Their leader tells him that kind of thinking is what led to war, she being…