"Possibly the best of the hour-long episodes."
Prophetic?
Excerpt of a critic.....
When a good guy becomes a megalomaniac, the results lead to his destruction, but not to the destruction of his followers. Capain Benteen is a leader who has saved his followers from the elements and from each other, but could not save himself from his own inner shortcomings, and left himself marooned both physically and spiritually. Kind of like Moses who could save his people but never enter the promised land, or John Wayne in "The Searchers," a man needed to win the West, but once the West was won, a man who needed to be left behind. Clearly the best of the one hour long Twilight Zones, this episode had character and complexity. The setting could easily have been Antarctica or an Earthly desert as opposed to an alien one, and shows that people have the same feelings, needs, emotions, and failings both now and a hundred years from now.
Nice post. It also reminded me of Harvey Dent's line from the Dark Knight.
So, you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.