AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

XweAponX Even Fox Mulder showed up in this show on one occasion.This was "Starship Troopers" before that film was even made, before the look of it was even conceived. We had the Unprovoked Alken Attack, the unsuccessful retaliation, and the prolonged dirty war.It's an unrequited Love Story - Two young people, Morgan Weisser as Nathan West and his girlfriend "Kylen" (Amanda Douge) are slated to be colonists to a planet on the other side of a cyclic wormhole. But Unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, another colony world has been attacked by Aliens referred to later as "Chigs". But at the last minute, 9 hours to liftoff, Religious Beancounters at the Colonization Agency are ordered to replace 10 colonists with "In Vitros" aka "Tanks" - And guess who has to give up his seat? West tries to Stow Away, but his air breathing apparatus gives him away and they unceremoniously escort him off the grounds of the launch site as his Girlfriend launches away to Oblivion.But Nathan's story intersects with several other people - Shane Vanson (Kristen Cloke) whose parents had been killed by Synthetics during the AI war... And most of all, Cooper Hawkes (Rodney Rowland), who is an In Vitro.Ironically, Rodney Rowland also played a genetically grown person in the film "The Sixth Day"- One that kept on getting killed then re-grown.There are others, "Vanessa 'Damn-Fool' Damphousse" played by Lanei Chapman, and you will recognize her as a Helm Officer in Star Trek, Next Generation and Joel De la Fuente as Paul Wang.And the Pilot Episode sports one R. Lee Ermey as his usual Drill Instructor, very much based on his role from Full Metal Jacket except that his character here is a lot nicer in some ways.I remember seeing this show advertised in Comic Books in the early 90's - It was originally shown right after X-Files, on Friday Nights, before they moved X-Files to Sunday Nights. So every Friday, I would watch the shows back to back - And about halfway through the season they just started preempting it, one time for about six weeks.For when it was made, the production value was very high, the CGI done very well rivaling Babylon 5.If we could just get back THIS level of quality for TV, it happens, but very rarely.

majestik46 I thought this series was excellent when i first saw it in the 90,s and having watched the box set,my opinion has'nt changed.And i have been watching and reading sci fi for coming up to 50 years. The schedule to watch the show was always late at night in the U.K and i never really understood the logic behind that. You'd think that someone did'nt want the show to succeed. I believe Fox were also making X-files at the same time and i,m not sure if there was competition for money between the two? X-files was OK for a few seasons but went down hill rapidly. S.A.A.B had the right mix of drama and humour and if the Americans will forgive me,reminded me of a battle of Britain squadron(when in space).Any remake would be interesting but you,d be hard pressed in my opinion to replace the original cast.I,m still depressed having watched the last episode to know it was cancelled! Someone,somewhere,remake it please!!

Joxerlives Recently bought this when it came out on DVD and very glad I did. Excellent, highly enjoyable show, essentially World War 2 in outer space but not just flag-waving propaganda, dealing with real issues such as drug abuse, racial discrimination, bravery, cowardice, political intrigue and the fog of war. Very interesting to listen to Joss Whedon's DVD commentary for the 'Angel' story 'Conviction' guest-starring Rodney Rowland, apparently 'Who Monitors the Birds?' inspired the famous Buffy silent story 'Hush'. Also interesting to look at it's influence on 'Firefly', especially the scene in the story 'Dear Earth' where Shane eats a strawberry.For the good points this series has some fantastic individual stories, notably 'Who Monitors the Birds?' and 'The Angriest Angel'. Also very fond of 'Pearly' not least because it stars Martin Jarvis who is a very familiar face to Britons of my generation. The series gets some aspects of military life spot-on, even in this age of the internet, satellite TV and mobile phones everyone still gets excited about mail call. The exhaustion we see in 'R&R' is utterly accurate and there is no feeling like shore leave. So what went wrong? No offence to Morgan Weisser but he's a terrible choice as a leading man, not that good an actor, not really handsome enough and totally lacking charisma. He gets top billing yet he's one of the least interesting characters, his relationship with his lost girlfriend should be the focus for the series but it just doesn't ring true or hook us in. Wang and Damphouse are OK but it rapidly becomes apparent that Shane, McQueen and Hawkes are the true stars and the eps focusing on them are the most successful, the story lines with the In-Vitros especially good.Oh and did I mention that Kristine Cloke is GORGEOUS!? She's like a cross between Megan Fox and Jennifer Connolly. Such a shame she never really did that much after this. A shame we never got a second season, I'd have loved to have seen them cope with Wang's death, get court-martialed for leaking Earth's war plans to the enemy and Damphouse and Vansen as POWs/Baachus slave girls (Princess Leia in the gold bikini anyone?). Ultimately S:AAB was a great series that had terrific potential but unfortunately never had the opportunity to fulfil it.

skyking-14 I loved this show, but to the reviewer who chose to bash Star Trek in the process... as one who saw the original when it was originally aired, I can say that you should consider that without Star Trek, SAAB might never have been made! Whatever else you might think, the original Star Trek did the most that could've possibly been done with the technology and special effects of the time. They had to make up with talent, what later shows were able to disguise with fancy effects.No other science fiction series but Star Trek continues to have it's following. There is, to be sure, plenty of room to praise SAAB without slighting any other series. Star Trek changed the way we looked at the future, it's legacy is secure!