Learned about it not too long ago and apparently the made for tv movie from early 90s is on YouTube so I’ll watch it tonight or tomorrow. It’s about a woman from a parallel earth and apparently Sliders was accused of ripping off the story. I loved Sliders by the way except for the ridiculous idea to make it the Cro-Mag show in later seasons. One of my favorite science fiction subgenres are multiverse/alternate history stories. It’s what got me to read up on quantum physics and multiverse theories.
But anyway I’m gonna check out Doorways as well as Space Above and Beyond (been on this kick of watching short lived shows lately).
They never discuss it in the show, but the fighters have auto cannons that fired whenever someone was on their tail.
There's probably no value in that sort of thing when air combat is with missiles beyond visual range, but it was still cool, and they always do old school dogfighting in those space shows because it's a hell of a lot more fun to watch.
Watching this show I’m surprised it was cancelled. I remember it being on but I was in boot camp and tech school so didn’t have the time.
Fox canceled everything they could. Actually they would first move a show randomly around the schedule so nobody could find it, then they'd cancel it. I was lucky to see Space Above And Beyond in the first run and I still remember the commercials with R Lee Ermey yelling "YOUR DEAD. THE ENTIRE SQUAD IS DEAD. AND IT'S YOUR FAULT!"
This one.
Great commercial. Forgot that was in 95. Thought it was 99. I’m enjoying it so far. You are right about FOX canceling shows. They had some good ones
The thing is real space combat would be so boring that anything on the screen would be absolutely unbearable. It is why that space combat in movies/films is either the age of dreadnoughts or something similar to WW2.
I'm reminded of the greatest space battle in "Irresponsible Captain Tylor". The entire thing was positioning of ships and objectives, on both sides, for most of it. The series had fun dogfights on occasion, but for the true space naval combat, it was all posturing and positioning, you don't actually fire many weapons in a real space battle (after all, they'd keep going and eventually hit SOMETHING if they missed the target, and that's bad).
Just make sure to position yourself so that the enemy is between you and a xenos world.
Win/win, problem solved.
Boring to most but goddammit if i can't get enough of it. I need a game that does it properly too.