Yours, your buddies, the one certainty in war is that in an hour, maybe two, you’ll either still be alive or you’ll be dead.” “Courage, Honour, Dedication, Sacrifice, these are just the words they used to get you here, now the only word that means a damn to you, is life. It was ranked “50” in IGN’s top 50 Sci-Fi TV Shows, described as “yet another sci-fi show that went before its time”. It was nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Saturn Award. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season, due to low ratings. But a lot of time, though, the show has more in common with Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers film, albeit on a much lower budget and is unintentionally much more shallow. In a lot of ways, Space: Above and Beyond was ahead of the game, at its better moments it could pass for scenes from the newer Battlestar Galactica series.
The show explores other well-established sci-fi concepts by bringing in some traitorous androids (‘the silicates’), vat-grown humans (“in vitro”, cool psychics and featuring almost every other science fiction cliché short of time travel. The Wild Cards are members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron, stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga. It also had a strong base in five new-meat marines – a squadron of Marine pilots called the “Wildcards” – all cast in the multi-ethnic Captain Planet style with their commander, all caught up in mankind’s desperate struggle of survival in a massive interplanetary war against flea-like aliens called “Chigs”. The show had a lot of promise in the show’s obvious inspirations: Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War and other classic tales of realistic warfare in space. The series ‘Space: Above and Beyond’ was released in 1995 and created by two X-Files writers Glen Morgan and James Wong.
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