When this program turned out to be a failure, with many In Vitroes refusing to fight, they were turned loose and now make up an underclass in Earth society. He is an In Vitro, a member of a race of humans created in laboratories to fight humanity's wars for them. More interesting than West to begin with is Cooper Hawkes (Rodney Rowland). Vowing to follow her into space, he joins the Marine Space Aviators. Due to political wranglings, one of them has to be taken off of the colony program and it is West who is forced to watch as the rocket takes off without him, carrying the love of his life to her new home.
He is a young man who wants nothing more than to be part of the colonisation of another world with his girlfriend, Kylen. Our lead character (although the show is very much an ensemble) is Nathan West, p layed by Morgan Weisser. The pilot episode does not seek to reinvent the wheel, rather to use well-worn tropes to get the story where it needs to go. In the grand tradition of such stories we discover how the characters all end up in the Marines and how they learn to function as a unit, with the requisite amount of tension and resentment along the way. Set in the year 2063, it follows The Wildcards, a squadron in the (sadly still fictional, even fifteen years later) United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry during a war with an implacable alien enemy known as the Chigs, named for their resemblance to a kind of Central American flea. The show opened with a 90 minute pilot episode that introduced the characters and setting of the Space story. In the spirit of Jim's excellent War Of The Worlds reviews I intend to review one episode a week, for 23 weeks, and explore the themes that Space was trying to portray, its success in doing so, whether it deserved to be cancelled and, simply, whether or not it was actually any good. Like many such programs it was cancelled prematurely and is not especially well remembered fifteen years later. It ran from September 1995 until June 1996 on Fox. Space: Above and Beyond is a military science fiction show by X-Files producers Glen Morgan and James Wong. unless it is the battle cry of the United States Marines!"
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