Space: Above and Beyond

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Name:	Space: Above and Beyond
Abbreviation(s):	SAAB, S:AAB
Creator:	Glen Morgan, James Wong
Date(s):	September 1995 – June 1996
Medium:	television
Country of Origin:	USA
External Links:	Wikipedia, IMDB, TV.com
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Space: Above and Beyond was a short-lived Space Opera television series created by James Wong and Glen Morgan after their departure at the end the second season of The X-Files. The first season originally consisted of 13 episodes, but due the successful sale in non US countroes, the season was expanded to 22 episodes. The show tells the story of 5 young members of the US Marine Corps who defend the Earth against enemy aliens, the Chigs.

The show has a small but very loyal fanbase.

Cast

• Kristen Cloke as Capt. Shane Vansen
• Rodney Rowland as Lt. Cooper Hawkes
• Morgan Weisser as Lt. Nathan West
• Joel de la Fuente as Lt. Paul Wang
• Lanei Chapman as Lt. Vanessa Damphousse
• James Morrison as Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius McQueen
• Tucker Smallwood as Commodore Glen van Ross

Interactions with Fans

A 2008 comment by lapillus at The Long-Delayed Fourth Wall Meta:

A dozen years ago Space:Above and Beyond fandom had an incredibly permeable fourth wall, more so than I've heard about today -- admittedly I'm not in Bandom so I'm not sure just how much permeability there is there, generally, but certainly more than any of the TV or Movie-centric fandoms I know currently. S:AAB was on just when AOL was first getting big and folks who hadn't been online previously were giving it a try. This includes one of the producers, several of the actors, a whole host of the techie types not to mention the parents, siblings and nieces of those involved. It made for very interesting chats and some interesting email exchanges. It had a gathering where only about 50% of the attendees were fans, the rest being folks involved with the production or their relatives (it also had a zine which we basically ended up using like a school year book with everybody signing copies and yes, the folks involved with the production getting copies of it and of the vids I made). It's the only fandom I've been in where I've plotted vids based on unaired scripts (which yes, I had copies of). It was fun and wild and intense and on the balance didn't seem to hurt either side.

Virtual Seasons

• Space: Above and Beyond The Virtual Seasons

Fanzines

Gen:

• Five Eight
• Incoming!

Gen, multimedia:

• Enarraré
• The Hot Corner

Het:

• The Bridge and The Warchild

Slash:

• Chains of Being
• Dispatches

Slash, multimedia:

• Concupiscence
• Frisky: Above and Beyond
• Once, Twice, Three Times a Frisky

Fanfic Archives

• Works tagged Space:Above and Beyond at Archive of Our Own
• Space: Above And Beyond FanFic Flightdeck
• SAAB at ff.net
• Space Smut Files - this is the archived version of the 1996 website. Later archived years can be found here
• RiverRat's Space: Above and Beyond Fanfic Depot
• Alys' Space: Above and Beyond Fan-Fiction (via wayback)

LJ Communities

• angry_angels
• saab_icons

Meta

• Space Above and Beyond - A Hidden Sci-Fi Gem by Rowan J Coleman, premiered on YouTube on an 24, 2020
• Space: Above and Beyond”: In memory of the 58th… Posted by A MIDDLE AGED GEEK on JULY 3, 2019
• Space – Above and Beyond: Dissension in the Ranks by Rob Comans, essay that was published in February 2017
• A Subjectively Obscure SciFi Primer: Space: Above and Beyond, posted on December 15th, 2014 by RetroPhaseShift
• Why Space: Above And Beyond Blazed New Trails by Jesse Alexander, posted on 8/25/09

Resources

• Beyond the Bitter End
• SPACE: ABOVE AND BEYOND ONLINE - unofficial fansite
• Space Above and Beyond Ready Room Website available in German and English
• Space Above and Beyond Fans - Fanpage on Facebook
• Space: Above and Beyond / 2063 another Facebok Fanpage
• space-above-and-beyond tag on tumblr
• r/spaceaboveandbeyond Community on reddit
• Space: Above and Beyond on TVTropes