Late 1990s pilot episode or miniseries with space cadets.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2012-05-24 05:17am

I watched it at a friend's house; Late 1990s or early 2000s, I think on UPN. Involved space cadets who have to fight a real battle, evil militaristic humans versus good humans but all sort of militarized and authoritarian, like Starship Troopers but with spaceships with generic CGI graphics laser clusters instead of fighting on the ground. Was not put into regular production but heavily hyped at the time. I'd like to know the name and any information about it, as I can't remember that.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-05-24 05:24am

Did it resemble CGI Starship Troopers at all? I distinctly remember one or two shows from the early '00s that literally just reused character models from that show.

That might help narrow it down, if true.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2012-05-24 07:27am

Star Command 1996. Funny enough I looked that one up not that long ago. The writer did a couple dozen episodes of Star Trek TNG.
http://www.90lostminutes.com/2011/02/star-command.html

Themightytom · Post by **Themightytom** » 2012-05-24 10:54am

Did it have mechs? There was a series called hypernauts that lasted maybe five episodes

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-05-24 04:00pm

Ah I see, I saw "Starship troopers" and "CGI" in the same sentence and thought of the TV series.

I was rather fond of that TV series for a while back around... it came out in '99, so that must have been it.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2012-05-27 06:38pm

Thanks guys!

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2012-05-27 06:41pm

Star Command is not actually it. The bad guys wore solid red uniforms and there was no torture dungeon. Much more slick production values.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2012-05-27 06:42pm

Themightytom wrote:Did it have mechs? There was a series called hypernauts that lasted maybe five episodes

No Mechs.

Simon: It did resemble CGI Starship Troopers a lot.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2012-05-27 06:46pm

Actually, I'm sort of thinking it was Star Command, the more I think about it--the revelation that it was 1996 sort of makes sense but that means it was when I was a lot younger than I thought so the memory is probably fuzzier than I expected.

Simon_Jester · Post by **Simon_Jester** » 2012-05-27 11:10pm

Might be conflating features of two or more different series- I've done that from time to time.

AMT · Post by **AMT** » 2012-05-29 07:18am

If not are you thinking Space Above and Beyond?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2012-05-29 09:26am

Can't be, humans fight aliens in that series.

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