There are some people in the world that are almost impossible to negotiate with, the reason being is that not all people are understanding, some people play games, think if someone agrees to their terms that they are genius, even some people who have Law Degrees, are very selfish and just don't care what is in stake, they are on power streak.It seems primitive and that almost impossible in modern day society, but the fact of the matter is good number of people who pursue career in politics, or "leadership" positions enjoy totally controlling, and use for own benefit/enjoyment (until they get caught and "resign"). This have been proven by numerous surveys and case studies.Its very hard to deal with those kind of people and the only solution against them is their own mind games, solid facts, law. Great episode on Diplomacy and Political mind games, One of the best Outer Limits Episodes, I've seen.

This is one of THE BEST episodes of the Outer Limits. The story demonstrated the moral perfectly.*** SPOILER ALERT ***@Robert Wieneke
The Human General ordered his ship to escape and not to return fire. Unfortunately they disobeyed, returned fire, destroyed the Dreg carrier and were themselves destroyed. Had the Human ship left, they would not have been destroyed.The Dreg Admiral had no way of knowing that the Dreg shuttle crash was an accident. From his perspective, the Humans shot down the shuttle, captured his people, tortured them for the codes, and then sent the stand down signals to trick his fleet. At some predetermined time, the Humans would simply ambush the Dreg as they turned around to go back.Since both high commanders had their guns at each others heads and the finger on the trigger, the Diplomat had to convince the Dreg Admiral to stand down. If the Admiral shot, the Humans would retaliate and then - annihilation.Since no Dreg was alive to prove that peace had been agreed upon, she had to prove something else. She proved that under no circumstances would she be able to benefit if the Humans ambushed the Dregs. She gave up everything she had, to prove that her words were true. Because a liar would only lie if she could benefit somehow Read up on the parable of King Solomon, the two mothers and their infant child. This is an old story reworked, and retold with a modern twist.

This has to be the stupidest script in a Outer Limits ever. First off the idiot Liberal orders their star ship not to return fire, result; scratch one star ship from the Humans side. Any race that would require Humans to kill them selves ( to make up for the loss of their people due to circumstances no fault of the Humans, eg: the Dregs ship crashing in the storm. ) should be exterminated from existence with extreme prejudice. It would be better to be at war than to have a truce with savages such as this. How many Humans died on the Human star ship destroyed by the Dreg star ship at the beginning of the episode? Didn't their deaths count for anything?

To give it all up it to recieve it all.

This is probably the only time suicide is unselfish.