The best part about this were the sarcastic jokes in my head in between each poorly uttered, stagnant, piece of detritus dialogue. Atrocious acting, unbearably slow direction and what the hell is with the constant ear grating sound track?!? From beginning to end my only hope was for them to all just die already and be done. It's only saving grace being that it was cancelled after just 23 banal and facile episodes. Having read many of the good reviews here before watching, it was beyond disappointing. The only reason I've bothered to write a review is in the faint hope that if per chance one day another bored little sci-fi geek comes along looking for something fun to watch after running out of "Dark Matter" Episodes... is that they see and heed this as a warning! Would be more aptly titled: TIME(A complete waste there of): Below average and Beyond comprehensionCould be fun to watch with friends as a drinking game, if you take a drink every time there is a shudder or cringe inducing line or scene. Might take a few sittings due to 'black-outs' (alcohol induced time travel) but at least you'd likely forget where you were what you were doing and maybe even the entire show... If you could be that lucky!Enjoy

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.

Well I must admit from the beginning that the idea, rather simple, it's not bad. It was done before , it will happen again as the commercial goes...But it smells from the beginning to the bitter end as..."Battlestar Galactica", in other words something real bad. Don't get me wrong, I love S.F. and good quality S.F. movies so that is why I can't tolerate low-bad-made quality shows and I must make a stand for it. I said "real bad" because "Battlestar Galactica" it's a pathetic attempt of a S.F. show, in fact it's not a show at all , it's just joke they want us to believe it could be taken for a T.V. show. The only changes are that the script this time is a better one (but with no gain whatsoever for the show) and that the no-name young-macho type actors are pathetic. They act so bad that if the show wouldn't be canceled you didn't remember them at all when the show would end. The only funny guy is the typical training Sargent. On the other hand, this script with some real good cast, a skilled director and with some polishing a bit here and there could've been a winner. Unless you are teenager and SF fan..don't waste your time on this. You will thank me later. One more thing...the person who decided to kill this show was , for sure, a wise one.

This series caught my eye when it first aired . The script writing was top notch and the stories were often intense. The characters were well played by the actors especially James Morrison as Lt. Mcqueen. Its didn't have the politically correct fluff of Star Trek's sequels likeStar Trek's The Next Generation and Voyager. Its special effects were reasonable for when it was made but not spectacular.Anti-war types wont like the show but who cares about those fluff balls anyway. You will care about these characters and will be left wishing that their virtual lives could have been prolonged more than a season.Great shows sometimes don't appeal to the masses or they are moved around in their time slot too often as this one was. Some are expensive to produce and need exceptional early success to pay the bills.As Emerson wrote ""War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man" In this series the characters grow and their measure becomes greater as they embark on the missions that make this show memorable and engrossing.