In de loop der jaren zijn er zoveel coole sci-fi TV shows verschenen die allang en breed door de grote massa is vergeten. Maar bij de echte geeks en nerds nog altijd aanbeden worden. Aangezien we in een remake tijdperk leven, heeft de website GiantFreakingRobot deze lijst gemaakt met TV Shows die een remake verdienen. Mijn favoriet van de lijst is Space: Above and Beyond die een onwijs cool verhaal had en de toen nog zeer lekkere Kristen Cloke, die ook wel eens in de X-Files en Millenium op dook.

Space: Above and Beyond (1995 - 1996)

This is one that I don't think I'd champion for a reboot simply because the cast was so great at the time. Created by X-Files wunderkinds Glen Morgan and James Wong, Space: Above and Beyond followed the men and women of the "Wildcards," otherwise known as the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They serve as both infantry and spacefighter pilots in humanity's war against the insectile "Chigs," a species that came out of nowhere to attack mankind's first extra-solar colony world. The top-notch cast included genre veterans such as Kristen Cloke (Millennium, Final Destination) and James Morrison (Quantum Leap, The X-Files), but honestly there wasn't a weak link in the entire cast, and it actually helped the show's veracity that most of them weren't recognizable faces.

While the concept of a "military space campaign" is hardly original, Morgan and Wong still found ways to tell fresh and interesting stories, and the world is one I would have loved to explore more, a world of vat-grown "in vitro" humans and rebellious A.I. "silicates" who collaborate with the Chigs against their creators. To this day, some 16 years later, the almost dialogue-free "Who Monitors the Birds?" is still one of the best hours of science fiction television I've ever seen. And while part of me feels that the show's time has come and gone, and certainly Morgan and Wong have moved on to many other things, I think about the fact that the show's creators purportedly planned for a five-season run, and man...I would have liked to see what those other four years had to offer.

You can pick up Space: Above and Beyond on DVD right here. And a bright light at the end of this tunnel: Spartacus: Blood and Sand creator Steven S. DeKnight is working on Incursion, a military SF series for Starz that sounds like it could become the show Space: Above and Beyond might have if given time.