Identify this B-Grade Sci-fi Television Show!

December 6, 2008 7:14 PM

Help me with the name of this obscure military science fiction television show. I'm presuming it was the early nineties when it was on. It focused on a small unit of soldiers which had a mix of clones and humans. I believe they were fighting evil robots that looked like humans and were obsessed with the notion of chance or fate. The only other thing I remember is that the clones were called nipple necks since that's where the tank's umbilical cord was attached.
posted by TorontoSandy to society & culture (11 comments total)

Space: Above and Beyond
posted by orthogonality at 7:19 PM on December 6, 2008

Space: Above and Beyond

The "nipple necks" are the In Vitroes
posted by snowleopard at 7:20 PM on December 6, 2008

Here's what I found by googling "nipple necks," just out of curiosity. Says the show was Space: Above and Beyond. Was it, in fact, Space: Above and Beyond? I'm still curious.
posted by not that girl at 7:20 PM on December 6, 2008

On preview: curiosity satisfied.
posted by not that girl at 7:21 PM on December 6, 2008

Totally Space: Above and Beyond. It's even in the Wikipedia page.

Also, the show was only B-Grade Sci-Fi if you classify 'freakin awesome' as 'B-Grade'.
posted by Science! at 7:35 PM on December 6, 2008

It's definitely Space:Above and Beyond. No question.

But Space wasn't neither obscure nor B-Grade. S:AaB was the baby of Glen Morgan and James Wong, the two best writers for the X-Files not named "Darin Morgan". It was a big, hugely advertised show on Fox even if the ratings weren't great. And it wasn't B-Grade; S:AaB was very much a sort of proto-Battlestar Galactica. Same aesthetic, same gritty feel.

Even one or two BSG episodes were clearly "inspired" by S:AaB; particularly the one with the Cylon ace named "Scar". In Space:Above and Beyond the pilots called it "Chiggy von Richthofen". "Chig" being a slur used against the aliens.

You can see why I'm popular with the ladies.
posted by Justinian at 8:04 PM on December 6, 2008

WAS neither. "Wasn't neither" is just plain embarrassing.
posted by Justinian at 8:05 PM on December 6, 2008

That was a great show and I was rather bummed when it got canceled.
posted by fenriq at 9:03 PM on December 6, 2008

Thanks everyone, now to Netflix!
posted by TorontoSandy at 7:37 AM on December 7, 2008

Ditto, it was a great show I always looked forward to watching. Thanks again, Fox!
posted by Atreides at 8:36 AM on December 7, 2008

It's on DVD; I got it from Amazon a while ago.
posted by andreap at 4:14 PM on December 7, 2008