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 Alien Attack, the unsuccessful retaliation, and the prolonged dirty war.
If any show deserves an HD makeover, it is this. Because as good as this show was, the CGI of the time was sometimes not very good at all. Especially in the first few episodes... sometimes it was very good. It simply was not very consistent.
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. All of these characters are well written especially Col TC Mcqueen, Who had a very interesting cadence when he spoke. You never saw these actors very much after the demise of the show, except when they showed up on a Morgan/Wong episode of The X-Files. You will also come across the name "Jack Colquitt"... in an episode with Cooper. That is a name that figures prominently in one of the best X-Files episodes ever made about the cigarette smoking man.
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 high, the CGI rivaling Babylon 5. But remember, Babylon 5 got a CGI makeover recently. So should this show.
If we could just get back THIS level of quality for TV, it happens, but very rarely.
The Commodore (Tucker Smallwood) was an excellent blues guitar player, and that gave the show a lot of character, especially when his guitar picking showed up in the end credits (The River of Stars)
This was "Starship Troopers" before that film was even made, before the look of it was even conceived. We had the Unprovoked Alien Attack, the unsuccessful retaliation, and the prolonged dirty war.
If any show deserves an HD makeover, it is this. Because as good as this show was, the CGI of the time was sometimes not very good at all. Especially in the first few episodes... sometimes it was very good. It simply was not very consistent.
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. All of these characters are well written especially Col TC Mcqueen, Who had a very interesting cadence when he spoke. You never saw these actors very much after the demise of the show, except when they showed up on a Morgan/Wong episode of The X-Files. You will also come across the name "Jack Colquitt"... in an episode with Cooper. That is a name that figures prominently in one of the best X-Files episodes ever made about the cigarette smoking man.
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 high, the CGI rivaling Babylon 5. But remember, Babylon 5 got a CGI makeover recently. So should this show.
If we could just get back THIS level of quality for TV, it happens, but very rarely.
The Commodore (Tucker Smallwood) was an excellent blues guitar player, and that gave the show a lot of character, especially when his guitar picking showed up in the end credits (The River of Stars)