- Location
- Western New York
I've got it in mind to make another fake TV show, this time a sci-fi/martial arts action thing inspired by Babylon 5 and the more mystical Shaw Brothers movies, along with a dash of Firefly and the underworld bits of Star Wars. It ran for three seasons on Syfy between 2017 and 2020.
Set in the 24th century when humanity has begun to expand beyond the Lagidze Gap, a sort of funnel allowing hyper-light travel outside a small area centered on Earth's solar system. A wide galaxy lies beyond the Gap, one that was once governed by a vast, peaceful Confederation that has recently collapsed with great loss of life and technological regression.
Anne and Maggie Brophy were once among the high and mighty, their family reaping great rewards from fat government contracts to explore and trade beyond the Gap... only for it to all come crashing down in a single bloody night of treachery and murder. Now they operate a single aging freighter on the farthest fringes of known space... one seeks to reclaim what they lost, the other to start a new life. They are joined by Tang Zhaoan, an ex-soldier and gun for hire, Isabel Ramirez, the pilot and joint-owner of the Silver Star, and OWL, the ship's AI.
A few more ideas...
The 'home base' of the Silver Star is Barrier 7, one of hundreds of massive space stations that were once placed along the whole length of the Gap (which is about 2 light years across and 100 light years long). It was once exclusively a military facility but since the Civil War has become home to a huge civilian population, including the Brophy sisters (when they're around, anyway). The station is still nominally under command of Senya Kem (Leven Rambin), a Varyar general, but she has allowed the creation of a civilian advisory council representing the major population factions of Barrier 7. She commands a small fleet, increasingly ragged as each season goes by, and tries to maintain a semblance of the old law and prosperity in the area around Barrier 7.
Aside from the Varyar, the other major local species is the Sethos, a reptilian folk and a relatively new and brash member of the old Commonwealth. There are tens of thousands of them on Barrier 7, including two members of the advisory council.
Main Cast
Emily Beecham as Anne Brophy
Molly Quinn as Maggie Brophy
Lewis Tan as Tang Zhaoan
Tania Raymonde as Isabel Ramirez
Robert Picardo as OWL (voice only)
Mark Dacascos as Senior Captain Zau Canwing (season 3 only)
Parminder Nagra as Commodore Chandani Gujral (season 3 only)
Recurring Cast
Leven Rambin as Senya Kem
Daniel Wu as Father Gwok Lin Git
Morena Baccarin as Elisabeta Zorzi
Katheryn Winnick as Risia Bephan
Keith David as Soryan (Senya's bond-father)
Michael Dorn as Rust (seasons 1-2)
Laetitia Casta as Captain General Catina Finco of the Zove (seasons 2-3)
Tala Ashe as Rust (season 3)
Season One (mostly focused on capers with the metaplot exploding - literally - in the last episode)
1 Caper pt 1 with Sofia Boutella
2 Caper pt 2 with Sofia Boutella
3 Plot episode with Jeri Ryan
4 Caper episode with Summer Glau
5 Caper episode with Eugenia Yuan
6 Plot episode with Alexis Denisof
7 Caper on a train pt 1 with Jewel
8 Caper on a train pt 2 with Jewel
9 Plot episode with Mark Sheppard
10 Caper episode with Sherman Augustus - Sherman Augustus is a bounty hunter who Isabel’s family hires to bring their prodigal scion home. Cue caper involving the crew (Anne esp.) rescuing her, with the connivance of a sympathetic sibling.
11 Caper episode with Summer Glau
12 Plot episode with Alexis Denisof - the dead moon that Barrier 7 orbits suddenly breaks open, revealing the presence of thousands of enormous flying saucers - the dreaded ships of the Not, a stunted and sinister ancient species of aliens with grey skin and huge black eyes. They overwhelm Barrier 7's defense fleet and cut through the barrier walls of the Gap in all directions...
Season Two (an even mix of caper and plot as the show's main arc develops and the Not start rampaging and threatening to release their demonic masters)
1 Plot episode with Aldis Hodge (flashback to Night of Long Knives where the Brophy family was wiped out)
2 Caper episode with Max Martini
3 Plot episode about the creation of the Free Trader Alliance
4 Caper episode with Orla Brady
5 Plot episode with Laetitia Casta as Captain General Catina Finco of the Zove
6 Caper episode with Clancy Brown
7 Plot centered on the Free Trader Alliance
8 Caper episode with Claudia Black
9 Plot episode Free Trader Alliance and Tim Matheson
10 Caper episode with Nathan Fillion
11 Plot episode introducing Mark Dacascos and his strike group of the Tingwok Space Force
12 Plot episode introducing Parminder Nagra of the Sinha Coalition Fleet
Season Three (humanity and their fellow free species form a Coalition against the Not; Dacascos and Nagra join the main cast)
1 Plot focused on building an alliance against the Not and their masters with Laetitia Casta as Captain General Finco
2 "Three Conversations" about the formation of the Coalition against the Not.
3 Plot - Barrier 7 is under attack
4 Plot - The Coalition gets its first real victory against the Not
5 Plot - counterattack, with Gary Coleman
6 Plot - major battle against the Not, with Gary Coleman
7 Plot - the Coalition suffers a major defeat, with Gary Coleman
8 Plot - the Coalition hits the low point and Anne dies
9 Plot - some kind of hope
10 Plot - the Coalition regroups and recovers
11 Plot - the final battle is set up
12 Plot - series finale
Set in the 24th century when humanity has begun to expand beyond the Lagidze Gap, a sort of funnel allowing hyper-light travel outside a small area centered on Earth's solar system. A wide galaxy lies beyond the Gap, one that was once governed by a vast, peaceful Confederation that has recently collapsed with great loss of life and technological regression.
Anne and Maggie Brophy were once among the high and mighty, their family reaping great rewards from fat government contracts to explore and trade beyond the Gap... only for it to all come crashing down in a single bloody night of treachery and murder. Now they operate a single aging freighter on the farthest fringes of known space... one seeks to reclaim what they lost, the other to start a new life. They are joined by Tang Zhaoan, an ex-soldier and gun for hire, Isabel Ramirez, the pilot and joint-owner of the Silver Star, and OWL, the ship's AI.
A few more ideas...
The 'home base' of the Silver Star is Barrier 7, one of hundreds of massive space stations that were once placed along the whole length of the Gap (which is about 2 light years across and 100 light years long). It was once exclusively a military facility but since the Civil War has become home to a huge civilian population, including the Brophy sisters (when they're around, anyway). The station is still nominally under command of Senya Kem (Leven Rambin), a Varyar general, but she has allowed the creation of a civilian advisory council representing the major population factions of Barrier 7. She commands a small fleet, increasingly ragged as each season goes by, and tries to maintain a semblance of the old law and prosperity in the area around Barrier 7.
Aside from the Varyar, the other major local species is the Sethos, a reptilian folk and a relatively new and brash member of the old Commonwealth. There are tens of thousands of them on Barrier 7, including two members of the advisory council.
Main Cast
Emily Beecham as Anne Brophy
Molly Quinn as Maggie Brophy
Lewis Tan as Tang Zhaoan
Tania Raymonde as Isabel Ramirez
Robert Picardo as OWL (voice only)
Mark Dacascos as Senior Captain Zau Canwing (season 3 only)
Parminder Nagra as Commodore Chandani Gujral (season 3 only)
Recurring Cast
Leven Rambin as Senya Kem
Daniel Wu as Father Gwok Lin Git
Morena Baccarin as Elisabeta Zorzi
Katheryn Winnick as Risia Bephan
Keith David as Soryan (Senya's bond-father)
Michael Dorn as Rust (seasons 1-2)
Laetitia Casta as Captain General Catina Finco of the Zove (seasons 2-3)
Tala Ashe as Rust (season 3)
Season One (mostly focused on capers with the metaplot exploding - literally - in the last episode)
1 Caper pt 1 with Sofia Boutella
2 Caper pt 2 with Sofia Boutella
3 Plot episode with Jeri Ryan
4 Caper episode with Summer Glau
5 Caper episode with Eugenia Yuan
6 Plot episode with Alexis Denisof
7 Caper on a train pt 1 with Jewel
8 Caper on a train pt 2 with Jewel
9 Plot episode with Mark Sheppard
10 Caper episode with Sherman Augustus - Sherman Augustus is a bounty hunter who Isabel’s family hires to bring their prodigal scion home. Cue caper involving the crew (Anne esp.) rescuing her, with the connivance of a sympathetic sibling.
11 Caper episode with Summer Glau
12 Plot episode with Alexis Denisof - the dead moon that Barrier 7 orbits suddenly breaks open, revealing the presence of thousands of enormous flying saucers - the dreaded ships of the Not, a stunted and sinister ancient species of aliens with grey skin and huge black eyes. They overwhelm Barrier 7's defense fleet and cut through the barrier walls of the Gap in all directions...
Season Two (an even mix of caper and plot as the show's main arc develops and the Not start rampaging and threatening to release their demonic masters)
1 Plot episode with Aldis Hodge (flashback to Night of Long Knives where the Brophy family was wiped out)
2 Caper episode with Max Martini
3 Plot episode about the creation of the Free Trader Alliance
4 Caper episode with Orla Brady
5 Plot episode with Laetitia Casta as Captain General Catina Finco of the Zove
6 Caper episode with Clancy Brown
7 Plot centered on the Free Trader Alliance
8 Caper episode with Claudia Black
9 Plot episode Free Trader Alliance and Tim Matheson
10 Caper episode with Nathan Fillion
11 Plot episode introducing Mark Dacascos and his strike group of the Tingwok Space Force
12 Plot episode introducing Parminder Nagra of the Sinha Coalition Fleet
Season Three (humanity and their fellow free species form a Coalition against the Not; Dacascos and Nagra join the main cast)
1 Plot focused on building an alliance against the Not and their masters with Laetitia Casta as Captain General Finco
2 "Three Conversations" about the formation of the Coalition against the Not.
3 Plot - Barrier 7 is under attack
4 Plot - The Coalition gets its first real victory against the Not
5 Plot - counterattack, with Gary Coleman
6 Plot - major battle against the Not, with Gary Coleman
7 Plot - the Coalition suffers a major defeat, with Gary Coleman
8 Plot - the Coalition hits the low point and Anne dies
9 Plot - some kind of hope
10 Plot - the Coalition regroups and recovers
11 Plot - the final battle is set up
12 Plot - series finale