Space: Above and Beyond season 1 The Dark Side of the Sun - Metacritic

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FOX
Oct 8, 1995
45 m

FOX
Oct 8, 1995
45 m

Space: Above and Beyond

Summary Space: Above and Beyond. It is the year 2063. Five rookie marines are thrown into active service when mankind is unexpectedly attacked by an alien race. But all the enemies are not from a distant planet, and not all of those who appear to be human can be trusted. It's up to the Wildcards to defeat the enemy wherever they find them, in sp...

Directed By: Charles Martin Smith

Written By: Glen Morgan, James Wong, Marilyn Osborn

FOX
Oct 8, 1995
45 m

FOX
Oct 8, 1995
45 m

Space: Above and Beyond

S1 • Episode 3

The Dark Side of the Sun

Air Date: Oct 8, 1995

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Summary Space: Above and Beyond. It is the year 2063. Five rookie marines are thrown into active service when mankind is unexpectedly attacked by an alien race. But all the enemies are not from a distant planet, and not all of those who appear to be human can be trusted. It's up to the Wildcards to defeat the enemy wherever they find them, in sp...

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Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1995 • 1 h 30 m

Episode 2 • Oct 1, 1995 • 45 m

The Farthest Man from Home

When the USS Saratoga passes close to the planet, Vesta Colony, where the Earth colonist were attacked, West goes AWOL and flies down to the planet in hopes that his girlfriend, Kylen, somehow survived.

Episode 3 • Oct 8, 1995 • 45 m

The Dark Side of the Sun

Episode 4 • Oct 15, 1995 • 45 m

Episode 5 • Oct 22, 1995 • 45 m

Legendary Lt. Colonel Ray Butts ('Kick Butts') of the Marine Special Operations Command team shows up and takes over command of the 58th wing for a special secret mission.

Episode 6 • Nov 5, 1995 • 45 m

In an effort to get West to help with an assassination plot, the young marine is told that high ranking Earth officials knew about the aliens before the colonists were sent to Vesta Colony.

Episode 7 • Nov 12, 1995 • 45 m

The members of the 58th turn on each other after they land on the planet Tartarus and encounter a Chig mind-altering weapon that wreaks havoc on the area of the brain that controls fear.

Episode 8 • Nov 19, 1995 • 45 m

During a space battle, a Chig spaceship is damaged but not destroyed and left floating in space. McQueen proposes they use the damaged ship as a Trojan Horse to attack an enemy base.

Episode 9 • Nov 26, 1995 • 45 m

Choice or Chance

Trapped on a hostile planet and captured by silicates, Vanessa and Damphousse are given a choice to make, while Wang is tortured and West finds someone unexpected. Meanwhile, McQueen and Hawkes must find a way to free their comrades alone.

Episode 10 • Dec 3, 1995 • 45 m

Stay with the Dead

After a dangerous mission, Nathan West is the only survivor of the 58th. Severely injured, he's returned to the Saratoga in complete shock, but was he really the only survivor? Traumatised, he tries to make sense of it and find out the truth.

Episode 11 • Dec 17, 1995 • 45 m

The River of Stars

Disabled ship, far from searchers, no transmitter, cold and dark at Christmas. Team, feeling lost, exchange thoughts, fears and gifts. CO sends the 1968 Apollo 8 Genesis message. With mysterious help, team does just enough to make it home.

Episode 12 • Jan 7, 1996 • 45 m

Who Monitors the Birds?

Promised an honorable discharge from his sentence to the Marines, Hawkes is recruited for an assassination mission deep behind enemy lines.

Episode 13 • Jan 14, 1996 • 45 m

Level of Necessity

Episode 14 • Feb 4, 1996 • 45 m

While a new Chig stealth fighter is killing off squadron after squadron with impunity, Vansen has to deal with a failed relationship from her past.

Episode 15 • Feb 11, 1996 • 45 m

The Angriest Angel

As a new, "unbeatable" Chig fighter emerges that's equipped with a new source of energy, it could possibly be the prototype of a deadly weapon that could change the course of the war against Earth. McQueen eventually realizes that he's the only pilot able to confront the new threat.

Episode 16 • Feb 18, 1996 • 45 m

A rookie Marine squad accompany the 58th on a simple recon mission. The Gung Ho, untested rookie squad commander makes reckless decisions against standing orders, and West's kid brother is under his command.

Episode 17 • Mar 3, 1996 • 45 m

Mail delivery from Earth brings differing news for members of the 58th. A mission doesn't go well for Damphousse. Hawkes and McQueen become documentary stars, but who stole the Commodore's strawberries?

Episode 18 • Mar 24, 1996 • 45 m

The 58th have to make an extraction point rendezvous off of a planet so they use the aid of the eponymous tank "Pearly" to take them there. On the way, they meet an eccentric British soldier and a pair of AI's. Wang has a crisis of conscience.

Episode 19 • Apr 12, 1996 • 45 m

The exhausted 58th are given 48 hours leave on the pleasure ship Bachhus. Hawkes takes a trip he really shouldn't have, Damphousse and Wang get close, Vansen shows a hidden talent, and McQueen and West take in a movie.

Episode 20 • Apr 19, 1996 • 45 m

The 58th are given the highest top secret mission of the whole Earth war effort. It is so secret that they don't even know the whole details of the mission's objectives, but the mission must not and can not fail.

Episode 21 • Apr 20, 1996 • 45 m

Episode 22 • May 26, 1996 • 45 m

And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...

The 58th recon a moon orbiting the Chig homeworld before a major invasion is set to begin. Among hostile Chig confrontations, they encounter a single alien of unknown species that appears to be of no threat. Then, the unexpected happens.

Episode 23 • Jun 2, 1996 • 45 m

...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best

A Chig ambassador could be the key to peace, an end to the war, and home for the Earth forces. The head of Aerotech is requested by the amassador to be at the peace talks, but, when he arrives, he knows more than it appears.

Top Cast

Morgan Weisser

Lt. Nathan West

Kristen Cloke

Lt. Shane Vansen, Capt. Shane Vansen

Rodney Rowland

Lt. Cooper Hawkes

Joel de la Fuente

Lt. Paul Wang

Lanei Chapman

Lt. Vanessa Damphousse

James Morrison

Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen, Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen

Tucker Smallwood

Commodore Ross

Robert Crow

Controller, Communications Officer, Crow

Tasia Valenza

Lt. Kelly Anne Winslow

Michael Mantell

Howard Sewell

Ashlyn Gere

Feliciti OH, Feliciti OH 483, Feliciti OH 519

Edmund L. Shaff

Chaplain

David Jean Thomas

Alcott, General Alcott

Doug Hutchison

Elroy-El

Amanda Douge

Kylen

David St. James

Broden, Adm. Broden

Christopher Kirby

Kelcher, Stone, Technician

Steven Jang

Connor, Intelligence Officer Connor

John L. Bennett

Master of Arms, Guard

Harriet Sansom Harris

Ambassador Diane Hayden, Secretary General Diane Hayden

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