Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

Space: Above and Beyond

created by boghog

(thing) by boghog (7.7 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Nov 14 1999 at 9:07:32

A brilliant sci-fi series which, sadly, lost in the competition with Babylon 5 only after one season. Set ca. 100 years in the future, Earth has finally managed to colonize planets light years away. Then, from out of nowhere, aliens attack. The "chigs" are merciless, slaughtering hundreds of colonists. We follow Squadron 58, the "wildcards", in their fight against the enemy. The plot is truly good, with sort of a non-linear history. Brilliant acting, and person gallery.

(thing) by Ads (1.4 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Apr 13 2000 at 8:57:41

A true masterpiece. This will stand out in my mind as a truely great tv-series, it's genre being a fine-line between sci-fi and cyberpunk.

Regrettably it only lasted one season - 23 episodes - due to lack of popularity amongst the majority. You damn peons! You know not what you are doing!

Characters include The 58th, the notable Commodore Glen Ross, who starred and burned out in the pilot episode, and Lt. Col T C McQueen. The season lasted 23 episodes, and there is now a role-playing-game and comic book series based on it.

(thing) by NSA (4.1 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Wed Mar 28 2001 at 4:43:02

Cast list for Space: Above and Beyond

The 58th
Morgan Weisser - 1st Lt. Nathan West
Kristen Cloke - Capt. Shane Vansen
Joel de la Fuente - 1st Lt. Paul Wang
Rodney Rowland - 1st Lt. Cooper Hawkes
Lanai Chapman - 1st Lt. Vanessa Damphousse
James Morrison - Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen

Other
Tucker Smallwood - Commodore Glen Van Ross
Amanda Douge - Kylen Celina
Doug Hutchison - Elroy L

Notable guest stars
French Stewart - Chig attack survivor ("The Farthest Man from Home")
Adam Goldberg - Sgt. Louie Fox ("Pearlie")
David Duchovny - Alvin ("R&R")
Coolio - Bacchus greeter ("R&R")

It's interesting to note that a number of the main actors have shown up as guest stars on series creators Morgan and Wong's other show... The X-Files. Cloke (Melissa Ephesian, "The Field Where I Died"), Weisser (Lee Harvey Oswald, "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"), Rowland (Edward Jerse, "Never Again"), Morrison (Dr. Weider, "Theef"), and Smallwood (Andy Taylor, "Home") all made appearances, much to the delight of fans of both shows. Doug Hutchison also played liver-eating mutant Eugene Victor Tooms in the memorable first-season X-Files episode "Squeeze", well before his role on S:AaB.


printable version
chaos

The 58th Kristen Cloke chig Starship Troopers
Max Headroom The Original Series Episodes - Season 2 Conspiracy Theory: Did we land on the Moon? Babylon 5
Silicate Lt. Col. Dave Grossman David Duchovny Duct tape does not make a good bra
Saab Super Furry Animals Choose Your Own Adventure Air Medal
The Gallery of Regrettable Food The Adventures of Pluto Nash Lex A Vacation Too Far
black hole jambalaya Homeworld Naked Singularity
Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
The best nodes of all time:
Quorn
Singularity
I'm a pig, not a god!
Heroes of Destiny
the knife edge of snowcrash
The principles of nuclear weapon safety and meeting girls are remarkably similar
Frito Pie
Marriage
oyako donburi
Henry Kissinger
Too Shy to be Pretty
Three-year-old boys are usually not very interesting people
Fresh rioting began at dusk Tuesday
New Writeups
octillion369
Frost wyrm(person)
kalen
Three "T"s(idea)
octillion369
Undead(idea)
archiewood
Ico(fiction)
Heisenberg
Why I love Everything2(log)
octillion369
Death Knight(person)
XWiz
Are you hoping for a miracle?(review)
santo
The Host(review)
LostPsion
"Shut the Fuck Up" Theaters(idea)
Vanish
The line between normal and not(place)
Vanish
insanity(thing)
beatrice
You've been slowly taking me over for nearly a year, do you know that?(idea)
Berek
YouTube(thing)
shaogo
How to Pretend to Have a Job(idea)
hapax
Les Provinciales(review)
E2 is a by-product of the existence of The Everything Development Company