The Outer Limits: Season 2, Episode 15

2 - 15: The Brain of Colonel Barham

An experiment to use a human brain to control and direct a future flight to another world is undertaken for a developing space project. Colonel Barham, who has been gravely crippled in the past and is dying of a disease, volunteers for the project to his brain as a merging of human and machine. However things go awry as unexpected consequences of the project occur.