A Small Talent for War
"A Small Talent for War" is the second segment of the fifteenth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series "The Twilight Zone". In this segment, an advanced alien race claims to have created human beings and proposes to wipe them out unless they change their ways. Plot. An ambassador from an alien race arrives and claims that his race genetically engineered the people of Earth. He tells the United Nations Security Council that his race is displeased with Earth's "small talent for war," as they have failed to produce the potential  that the aliens had nurtured, and his fleet will destroy all life on Earth. The Security Council pleads for and is granted a 24-hour reprieve to prove humanity's worth. The Security Council and the General Assembly negotiate an accord for lasting global peace and present it to the alien ambassador. He is amused at the peace accord and explains that his race were, in fact, seeking a "greater" talent for war, as they had genetically seeded thousands of planets to breed warriors to fight for them across the galaxy. They perceived humanity's conflicts as erratic and clumsy , our weapons as crude and primitive, and our longing for peace as a fatal flaw. As the ambassador calls down his fleet to destroy Earth, he thanks the Security Council for an amusing day.