Note the helmet designation C-57 named after the ship in the 1956 classic, “Forbidden Planet”. Nathan and his fiancée Kylen in happier times, as they were about to lift off for the Tellus colony. This affirmative action costs West his seat on the colony ship and separates him from his fiancée Kylen, but arguably saves his life. Though legally human, the tanks were denied many basic rights until affirmative action programs allow them to hold greater positions of respect and authority. A ship is discovered to have a cargo of in-vitro ‘tanks’ as its cargo in “Mutiny.” Nathan West (Morgan Weisser) is a former civilian colonist who lost his seat to an in-vitro “tank.” In-vitro tanks are an artificially developed race of people, born at age 18, who were originally created for slave labor. Would-be civilian colonist turned hardcore Marine, Lt. Enter the 58th Marine Squadron, aka the “Wild Cards”… The Chigs aggressively press on into the our own solar system, and a desperate Earth sends scores of space marines to retaliate.
Rumor has it that some of the colonists were taken as prisoners of the Chigs. The Chigs pay a hostile visit to the Tellus colony. Earth’s first extra-solar colony on the planet Tellus (16 light years away) is destroyed in a devastating attack by an alien race known as “Chigs” (an epithet given by humans, due to the aliens’ armor resembling a chigoe flea). Humans have cracked faster-than-light space travel, and are beginning to colonize local solar systems. *****MAJOR SPOILERS!!***** The human colony on Tellus, in the Epsilon Indi star system, 16 light-years from Earth. It told many kinds of war stories, from “Patton” to “Platoon.” For a series that only ran a single season, “Space: Above and Beyond” (SAAB) created a gritty, richly-detailed war-torn universe. Superficially, the series seemingly owed a lot to Robert Heinlein’s jingoistic 1959 novel “Starship Troopers” (later a 1997 Paul Verhoeven feature film), but it was much more than that. The Wild Cards find an unusual alien in “And If They Lay Us Down To Rest…” This single-season series (it was planned for five) was the ambitious, Australian-lensed space war series called “Space: Above and Beyond” (1995-1996). In 1995, a new series debuted on the network that had an unfortunate, but mostly earned reputation of killing many a promising sci-fi series (“Alien Nation” “Firefly” and a few others). The Wild Cards of the 58th Marine Squadron do a tour on Mars in the pilot episode.
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