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Trying to remember a old TV show - Wild cards(?)

  • 14-08-2010 6:13pm
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    Trying to remember a old TV show, recall seeing it a good 10 to 15 years ago; one season only that I saw (but could be more of them).

    Story is humanity is in a war with an alien race (from Alpha Centauri I think) and you follow a rookie squad of fighter pilots (called Wild cards or Jokers or something like that if memory serves). They are guided by an old veteran, an invitro (test tube child, breed specifically for the war) and there is one more invitro in the squad (guy) who gets into a fight with MPs in the first episode. The invitro's had the tub in the neck (so no navel) if memory serves as well.

    You never get to see the alien with out armor, there is one fight against a single one on Mars. The squad also steal a alien cruiser and bombs a alien city with it but gets captured after it and tortured.

    There is a third faction of robots who are on/off fighting. The robots revolted against humanity when the programmer added one more line of code which said "Take a chance". They fought a long war on earth before escaping on a space ship. The leader of the squad's family was killed by this robots and there is a episode where they are captured by them and she finds out why her family is killed.

    Well, I hope that is enough for someone to remember the shows name =)

    Much appreciated in advance for whom ever can remember it.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Google comes to the rescue, it was Space: Above and Beyond

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Tryst


    Yeah that was a great show, last i looked you could only buy the dvd in region 1 though :(


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,461 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    That is the one, thank you very much and yes, it was a great series. Another great series killed by Fox (to add to my list of reasons why I dislike Fox beyond their "news" reporting).

    Don't mind region 1 since my DVD plays all regions and I got friends in the state that can ship it over to me :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16 shakeyabonbon


    i have, surprisingly, actually seen that movie. what i can remember was good.


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