Now I could be wrong, I'm too lazy to double check if this is the story, but I believe this is the story that Harrlan Ellison claims was where james Cameron stole the idea for The Terminator. I do know he claimed that about one of his stories, just can't remember which. Anyway, two soldiers from the future are transported into 'present day'. Ok that's like saying that L Frank Baum stole the idea for Oz from Alice in Wonderland because it's little girls in fantastical lands. How often do we see stories with similar themes and ideas. I guarantee if you go back some you'll find a story before this that's similar too. Unless it's exactly the same thing take it as the flattery that it is and move on. But this is Harlan Ellison who has a reputation for being ... a less than agreeable person, I'll be nice.

The story is thought-provoking. I think I read the original short story some time ago. A conflict gone on so long that everything is subsumed to it would have seemed all too probable in the Cold War world (and we seem in danger of doing it with the War on Terror). The costumes and props demonstrate the difficulty of predicting what the technology of the future will look like. Especially with a limited budget and fabricating technology. Michael Ansara looks like he could be the result of generations of cross-breeding to produce a perfect warrior.