Even Fox Mulder showed up in this show on one occasion.
This was "Starship Troopers" before that film was even made, before the look of it was even conceived. We had the Unprovoked Alken Attack, the unsuccessful retaliation, and the prolonged dirty war.
It's an unrequited Love Story - Two young people, Morgan Weisser as Nathan West and his girlfriend "Kylen" (Amanda Douge) are slated to be colonists to a planet on the other side of a cyclic wormhole. But Unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, another colony world has been attacked by Aliens referred to later as "Chigs". But at the last minute, 9 hours to liftoff, Religious Beancounters at the Colonization Agency are ordered to replace 10 colonists with "In Vitros" aka "Tanks" - And guess who has to give up his seat? West tries to Stow Away, but his air breathing apparatus gives him away and they unceremoniously escort him off the grounds of the launch site as his Girlfriend launches away to Oblivion.
But Nathan's story intersects with several other people - Shane Vanson (Kristen Cloke) whose parents had been killed by Synthetics during the AI war... And most of all, Cooper Hawkes (Rodney Rowland), who is an In Vitro.
Ironically, Rodney Rowland also played a genetically grown person in the film "The Sixth Day"- One that kept on getting killed then re-grown.
There are others, "Vanessa 'Damn-Fool' Damphousse" played by Lanei Chapman, and you will recognize her as a Helm Officer in Star Trek, Next Generation and Joel De la Fuente as Paul Wang.And the Pilot Episode sports one R. Lee Ermey as his usual Drill Instructor, very much based on his role from Full Metal Jacket except that his character here is a lot nicer in some ways.
I remember seeing this show advertised in Comic Books in the early 90's - It was originally shown right after X-Files, on Friday Nights, before they moved X-Files to Sunday Nights. So every Friday, I would watch the shows back to back - And about halfway through the season they just started preempting it, one time for about six weeks.
For when it was made, the production value was very high, the CGI done very well rivaling Babylon 5.
If we could just get back THIS level of quality for TV, it happens, but very rarely.
This was "Starship Troopers" before that film was even made, before the look of it was even conceived. We had the Unprovoked Alken Attack, the unsuccessful retaliation, and the prolonged dirty war.
It's an unrequited Love Story - Two young people, Morgan Weisser as Nathan West and his girlfriend "Kylen" (Amanda Douge) are slated to be colonists to a planet on the other side of a cyclic wormhole. But Unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, another colony world has been attacked by Aliens referred to later as "Chigs". But at the last minute, 9 hours to liftoff, Religious Beancounters at the Colonization Agency are ordered to replace 10 colonists with "In Vitros" aka "Tanks" - And guess who has to give up his seat? West tries to Stow Away, but his air breathing apparatus gives him away and they unceremoniously escort him off the grounds of the launch site as his Girlfriend launches away to Oblivion.
But Nathan's story intersects with several other people - Shane Vanson (Kristen Cloke) whose parents had been killed by Synthetics during the AI war... And most of all, Cooper Hawkes (Rodney Rowland), who is an In Vitro.
Ironically, Rodney Rowland also played a genetically grown person in the film "The Sixth Day"- One that kept on getting killed then re-grown.
There are others, "Vanessa 'Damn-Fool' Damphousse" played by Lanei Chapman, and you will recognize her as a Helm Officer in Star Trek, Next Generation and Joel De la Fuente as Paul Wang.And the Pilot Episode sports one R. Lee Ermey as his usual Drill Instructor, very much based on his role from Full Metal Jacket except that his character here is a lot nicer in some ways.
I remember seeing this show advertised in Comic Books in the early 90's - It was originally shown right after X-Files, on Friday Nights, before they moved X-Files to Sunday Nights. So every Friday, I would watch the shows back to back - And about halfway through the season they just started preempting it, one time for about six weeks.
For when it was made, the production value was very high, the CGI done very well rivaling Babylon 5.
If we could just get back THIS level of quality for TV, it happens, but very rarely.