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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
Fanzines
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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
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