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Show broadcast on US television in... I want to say the mid-90s. It was another "world at war with aliens", set in the future, with the main cast being a small squadron led by a young woman. One of the characters was a clone, apparently grown in a vat along with his hundreds of siblings, "born" as a teenager to provide more cannon-fodder. For the life of me, I can't recall the show's name, only that it was (sadly) cancelled maybe halfway through the season. Is this ringing bells for anyone?

ETA: Found it. Space: Above and Beyond, which is a dorky name but overall, the show should go in the list of all the other things that were awesome in the 90s and against which the US media backtracked severely in the decades since. Like, say, a SF show where the Captain is a woman, and her crew is a white guy, a guy created in a test-tube, a black woman, and a Hispanic guy (though oddly, the character has a surname of Wang). I still recall the way the show tackled racial issues head-on, mostly revolving around whether a person created in-vitro deserved the same rights/humanity as the full-humans. But mostly I remember thinking it was awesome that once a week I got to see women kicking ass and taking names, and that the captain didn't take anyone's shit -- and more importantly, the guys on her team didn't dare to give her any, either.

Date: 3 Jul 2011 09:23 pm (UTC)
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It's been released (http://www.amazon.com/Space-Above-Beyond-Morgan-Weisser/dp/B000BCCAEQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309727825&sr=8-1) (wish I had the money to buy it--unemployed--it's only $30 for the complete series though). I loved that show! I still remember when clone guy got addicted to a painkiller a doc had used on him after being told not to since it was addictive to clones! Yeah, looking back at it, I'm shocked they even aired the show.

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