Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Action & Adventure
Drama
Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.
Top-rated
Sun,
26 May, 1996
S1.E22And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...
The 58th is deployed to a seemingly barren moon to make final preparations for a major offensive by the Earth forces, but when they arrive they discover that the moon is home to an unknown species-and that Operation: Roundhammer may cause its extinction.
Top-rated
Sun,
22 Oct, 1995
S1.E5Ray Butts
The Saratoga has a mysterious new passenger: a battle-scarred special-forces commando whose classified mission directives put the 58th at his disposal, even if it means leading them to certain disaster.
Morgan Weisser
Nathan West
Kristen Cloke
Shane Vansen
Rodney Rowland
Cooper Hawkes
Joel de la Fuente
Paul Wang
Lanei Chapman
Vanessa Damphousse
James Morrison
T. C. McQueen
User reviews1
Review
Featured review
Humanity, believing itself alone in the universe, has one of its off-world colonies destroyed by an alien race.
Thrown into an interplanetary war against an enemy they didn’t know existed, Earth forces take anyone willing to fight.
With the elite 127th squadron wiped out, the half-trained hog-podge 58th “Wild Cards” are sent against the alien threat, nicknamed the Chigs.
Review:
I watched this show as a kid and re-watched it as an adult. The CGI doesn’t really hold up anymore, they reuse the same 6-8 clips of the space fighters zipping around, if that kind of repetitive video gets to you then this is a pass; I don’t mind it at all.
I still love this show.
They change up the action by having land and space battles so it isn’t the same old “awooga” / get to the space ship / space battle – in every episode.
The characters are all individual people who came from a place and generally have places to go back to, this seems to be a concept lost by some modern writers who just plug in a character trait of a person into a situation.
There was a proper sci-fi world built that existed further than just the Chig war that I would have really liked to see in additional seasons but as with all good sci-fi on FOX, it was canceled as soon as possible.
kkaldroma05 May, 2019
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