Andromedan (The Galaxy Being)

"Electromagnetic force, intelligence, matter, space, time... All the same."

- Andromedan, "The Galaxy Being"

The Andromedans are a sapient extra-galactic race which can exist in a material state or in a state of pure electromagnetic energy. They hail from the galaxy of Andromeda, and consider some races, such as humans, to be a danger to other galaxies. As a result, individual Andromedans are forbidden to establish communication with such races.

Biology
Physically, members of this race look like blue humanoids with large spherical eyes, silverish blue to white hair and don five-fingers and a thumb. They are telepathic and can live to be 800 yrs old.

Their craft generates amounts of electromagnetic radiation that can emit so much energy that they can, if needed, disrupt machinery and shatter glass structures as they get near them. They also have the technology to heal wounds in humans in approximately one-fourth the time as normal.

History
In 1963, an engineer named Allan Maxwell received a transmission broadcast by one of these aliens, who was breaking his race's rules by contacting Earth. When asked by Maxwell about God, the alien responded that electromagnetic force permeates everything, claimed that this force could possess intelligence, and equated it with infinity and God. This conversation suggests that the Andromedans' religion is pantheistic.

Later, when a radio station operator increases the station's power - unaware that Maxwell was using it to contact the alien -, the Andromedan ends up being transmitted to Earth like an electromagnetic signal, causing him to materialize on Earth in his physical humanoid form. As he wanders the Earth, the alien inadvertently provokes chaos and even deaths due to the powerful radiation emitted by his body. Maxwell tries to use the radio equipment to send the alien back home, but the military open fire and accidentally shoot Maxwell's wife, Carol. Fortunately, the alien manages to heal her. Realizing that he would be punished if he returned to his people, the alien chooses instead to dissipate his material body and live on as pure energy. Maxwell expresses worry, but the alien merely waves goodbye to Maxwell and his wife saying "end of transmission" and disappears to parts unknown.

Appearances

 * The Outer Limits - s01e01 - "The Galaxy Being" (1963)