The BEST episodes of Earth: Final Conflict

Every episode of Earth: Final Conflict ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Earth: Final Conflict!

An androgynous alien species called the Taelons arrive on earth, claiming to be companions of humanity, putting an end to crime, illness, and famine. Some are suspicious of the Taleons, and form a resistance movement. The resistance soon learned that the force that sustains the Taelons are breaking down, and they are using humans as test subjects in experiments to help save their species. The initial focus of the show was Commander William Boone and his partner, Captain Lili Marquette, who worked for both the Taelons and the resistance. After Boone was killed, the show introduced a new protagonist, Major Liam Kincaid, and began to play on the strengths of it's ensemble cast.

Last Updated: 3/6/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Epiphany
star
9.03
98 votes

#1 - Epiphany

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/2001

The Taelons' decision to enter death stasis causes a rift between Zu'or and Da'an, who refuses to share the core energy he has accumulated. Meanwhile, Liam learns that he only has days to live.

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Emancipation
star
8.92
129 votes

#2 - Emancipation

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1999

Liam learns more about the skrills while searching for the missing skrill queen.

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Hearts and Minds
star
8.91
120 votes

#3 - Hearts and Minds

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/2001

Renee is torn between love and duty when her boyfriend is captured by the Taelons.

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Keep Your Enemies Closer
star
8.86
98 votes

#4 - Keep Your Enemies Closer

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2000

Zo'or and Liam crash in a remote area of Wyoming. Naraina Durrant, a resident of a local commune of natural purists known as the Children of the Earth, rescues Liam from his crash bubble and assists him in his search for Zo'or. Meanwhile Zo'or's bitter rival T'than calles an emergency meeting to propose Da'an take Zo'or's place as the Synod leader.

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Arrival
star
8.81
98 votes

#5 - Arrival

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2000

While Lili returns to earth after being tricked into giving the jaridians interdimensional transportation, an auction is held at the Antartic Republic of Rostok for some mysterious alien weapons. Sandoval must stop the bidding taking place while Liam and Renee try to find out what the weapons are.

Directors: Brenton Spicer
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The Summit
star
8.80
122 votes

#6 - The Summit

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/2001

Liam is implanted with a neural surveillance device to track Da'an, who leaves earth on a mysterious final journey.

Directors: Bruce Pittman
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The Vanished
star
8.75
130 votes

#7 - The Vanished

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1999

Liam and Augur discover that Volunteers all over the world are breaking into homes and arresting civillians. Meanwhile, Sandoval genetically alters Lili and sends her off into space.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Cory Tynan
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Crackdown
star
8.69
133 votes

#8 - Crackdown

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1999

President Thompson declares a state of emergency to crush the resistance while Liam and Auger try to prove that the resistance was not behind the assasination attempt of President Thompson.

Directors: Allan Kroeker
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Point of No Return
star
8.65
124 votes

#9 - Point of No Return

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/15/2001

The Taelons' fate - and possibly Liam's - is decided after Liam and Renee find Ma'el's regeneration chamber. The discovery of the secret location causes the surviving Taelons and Jaridians to seek the mechanism, which promises to restore their draining energy. Street, meanwhile, solves the riddle of Ma'el which will allow the Taelons and the Jaridians to join.

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Street Chase
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8.65
123 votes

#10 - Street Chase

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/2001

J Street learns a lesson in trust while on the run from Sandoval.

Writer: John Wheaply
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Subversion
star
8.64
59 votes

#11 - Subversion

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2002

Renee is put on trial for opening an Atavus stasis chamber.

Directors: Martin Wood
Writer: David Ransil
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The Cloister
star
8.60
65 votes

#12 - The Cloister

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1999

The Companions are invited to join with a religious order in a ceremony. The group is made up entirely of women and seeks that special spiritual connection with the Taelons that will bring them to an enlightened state. Liam finds a former resistance member, Elizabeth, in the group. During the ceremony, the Companions share their energy with The Cloister. Worried about the possible security leak, Liam and Renee have to stop Elizabeth from telling the cult everything.

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Second Chances
star
8.58
125 votes

#13 - Second Chances

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1999

Zu'or sponsors a "fountain of youth" program, called Second Chances, which makes old and ailing people young again. The resistance are trying to replace Doors as leader. Pearl Bell says that she had no previous use for the Taelons before she undergoes the first public transformation. While being interviewed afterward she states how Taelons had before helped her son live. Resistance talks with Doors about the need to go underground again. At a press conference, a Resistance member challenges new transformation group, which provokes one of them to fire a gun into the crowd. The Resistance grabs Pearl, and find that her brain scan reveals memory alternations but they need to prove that they have become Taelon supporters.

Directors: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Paul Gertz
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Gauntlet
star
8.58
96 votes

#14 - Gauntlet

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/1999

Lili is taken hostage as a Jaridian escapes from the Taelons in a shuttle. Liam pursues and both shuttles are drawn into a alien vessel. Liam explains that the vessel is a repository for the Kimera's accumulated knowledge. In order to leave, they must go to the vessel's core. Da'an confronts Zo'or about the Jaridian's escape, and challenges his authority. The Jaridian reveals his race and the Taelons were one until the Taelons separated. Now the Taelons want to force a union with the Jaridians by using humans as soldiers against them.

Directors: William Gereghty
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Message in a Bottle
star
8.58
127 votes

#15 - Message in a Bottle

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/1999

A probe crashs on earth. The Resistance finds the probe, before Sandoval arrives, and takes it to a hideout. The hideout is ambushed and they are taken to a 'Dark Knight' base. The Resistance deals with this unexpected new player as they try to stop a Jaridian probe from an assault on Earth. The probe takes the shape of Augur, and delivers a message to humanity.

Directors: James Head
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Dark Matter
star
8.58
125 votes

#16 - Dark Matter

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2001

The mothership is damaged when a peice of dark matter colides with it.

Directors: David Winning
Writer: Brad Falchuk
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Thicker Than Blood
star
8.56
68 votes

#17 - Thicker Than Blood

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1999

Da'an hires a professional hit man to seek out Augur. Liam and Renee meet with 10 Resistance leaders whose cells have been discovered and destroyed. In order to avoid one cell from crushing the entire network in the future, Liam proposes that he be the only communication link between cells. Sandoval learns that he will die unless he gets a blood transfusion from an immediate family relative.

Directors: James Head
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Bad Genes
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8.54
59 votes

#18 - Bad Genes

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2002

Renee's personal image of mankind's greatest enemy is forever changed when she becomes emotionally involved with a young atavus child, Yulyn, whom reveals he has a very human-like soul. Renee must now protect Yulyn, also a royal, from Howlyn's evil clutches.

Directors: Bruce Pittman
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Deep Sleep
star
8.54
56 votes

#19 - Deep Sleep

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2002

This pivotal episode brings Renee Palmer to a hybrid-infested hospital where comatose patients are being used as a food source for the Atavus. It is only when Renee is ultimately able to expose these atrocities that the FBI finally takes seriously the threat of the Atavus, who must feed on the life force of humans in order to survive. The FBI pledges to join Renee's crusade to destroy this formidable alien menace before they take over the world.

Directors: Brenton Spencer
Writer: Mark Amato
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Street Wise
star
8.53
58 votes

#20 - Street Wise

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2002

J Street has become an Atavus hybrid, Renee rushes to locate an antidote.

Directors: Will Dixon
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Boone's Assassin
star
8.53
62 votes

#21 - Boone's Assassin

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2001

Renee visits Boone and shows him a crystal that can project the location of every Atavan on Earth. In an effort to retrieve the crystal, Sandoval brings Zo'or back to life as an Atavus so that she can battle her old nemesis Boone.

Directors: David Winning
Writer: Paul Gertz
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Apparition
star
8.52
122 votes

#22 - Apparition

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/24/2000

While Carson Briggs works overtime at the New World Commonwealth Bank, a hopeless cry introduces a blue light that swirls around him. The energy light chases and tortures Carson, pushing him onto the floor. The energy whirls in circular motions around Carson, setting him on fire. At the same time, Liam dreams of the exact horrifying events that Carson experiences. Liam goes to the death scene. Recalling the events of his dream to a investigater, he offers a piece of evidence that had not yet recovered - Carson's ring, which designed with the bank's logo and the ancient Taelon symbol for impurity. At Carson's home, Liam discovers circular burn marks throughout the house. The blue energy appears, which leads Liam to a Taelon datalog. The energy takes the shape of the deceased Taelon Ku'don, who mutters the word 'exile' before disappearing. Suddenly, Liam hears loud banging and he hides the datalog as commandos storm the house. Liam overpowers one of the commandos and escapes as a command

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Lost Generation
star
8.51
122 votes

#23 - Lost Generation

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/2001

Liam and Renee discover that a baby is born with a CVI implant.

Directors: Rod Pridy
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Honor and Duty
star
8.51
61 votes

#24 - Honor and Duty

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/8/2002

Renee and boyfriend Captain Michaels "do-the-right-thing" as they risk their own personal integrity in an attempt to secure plans to the one military weapon that can kill the atavus.

Directors: Martin Wood
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Deportation
star
8.50
58 votes

#25 - Deportation

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2002

Renee has a change of heart and sympathy for her unwilling enemy as she becomes aware of the inhumane treatment the atavus hybrids must endure in government run internment camps.

Directors: Kelly Makin
Writer: Mark Amato
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