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).
'Space Above and Beyond' had some good elements to it but the entire 'girl marine leads the show' spiel was obnoxious even then. It had a lot of progressive elements, which is probably why it never really took off at the time.
There were in vitro-soldiers, homicidal AI androids and aliens. Also, a zero-grav 'recreational' room, which was amusing. Battle Star Galactica borrowed from the show as well, with regards to the bio-tech fighters. All-in-all it deserved a second season.
That show was really cool, and could have been something worthwhile. I remember it was around the same time as Starship Troopers but was short lived. I watched a retrospective about that show and it was impressive for what it was, but yeah the diversity back then was still annoying.
I need to find old episodes of Lightning Force to see if it's still as good as I used to think it was or if it aged horribly like some other shows.