Adaptations
The story was later dramatized as a Christmas episode of the first revival of The Twilight Zone. Although the original story ended on a negative note, this version had a more upbeat ending, as the ship's captain reminds the scientist that the planet's population knew that they were about to die and were prepared for it, and had celebrated the fact that their deaths would bring light to a new civilization — humanity.
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