It does an amazing job of world-building. It’s based on a so-so movie, but the show itself is incredible. It only lasted one season, but they also followed it up with some TV movies. An alien slave ship crash-lands in the desert and the survivors are eventually given citizenship and most live in Los Angeles. It’s basically a procedural involving the human cop (Gary Graham) and a “Newcomer” cop (Eric Pierpoint, who also did a ton of Star Trek) solving crimes together. Between the exploration of Newcomer culture and the exploration of the racism they face- and that some of them have for humans, it’s an amazing show. And I don’t generally like procedurals.
It’s all on the Internet Archive.
Edit: Come to think of it, he essentially plays against a “Vulcan” character in Eric Pierpoint’s George. Newcomers don’t lack emotion, far from it. But George himself is very reserved and awkward and really does not get humans, so it’s a similar relationship humans have with Vulcans. But his character, Sikes, is a definite ‘lead with his emotions’ kind of guy, so it’s the opposite from Soval.
I’ll check it out, probably soon-ish. Thanks. Winter is when I typically watch through new (to me anyway) shows since I don’t like outside when it’s all L-class lol.
I hope you enjoy it. I wouldn’t bother with the original movie except for curiosity’s sake. Much like Stargate SG-1, they went their own way with the TV show and it doesn’t even share a cast.
I have been re-watching Alien Nation and I forgot how great Gary Graham was playing pretty much the opposite character as Soval.
I’ve never seen Alien Nation, but when I typed “opposite character as Soval” into my brain, this was the result:
It does an amazing job of world-building. It’s based on a so-so movie, but the show itself is incredible. It only lasted one season, but they also followed it up with some TV movies. An alien slave ship crash-lands in the desert and the survivors are eventually given citizenship and most live in Los Angeles. It’s basically a procedural involving the human cop (Gary Graham) and a “Newcomer” cop (Eric Pierpoint, who also did a ton of Star Trek) solving crimes together. Between the exploration of Newcomer culture and the exploration of the racism they face- and that some of them have for humans, it’s an amazing show. And I don’t generally like procedurals.
It’s all on the Internet Archive.
Edit: Come to think of it, he essentially plays against a “Vulcan” character in Eric Pierpoint’s George. Newcomers don’t lack emotion, far from it. But George himself is very reserved and awkward and really does not get humans, so it’s a similar relationship humans have with Vulcans. But his character, Sikes, is a definite ‘lead with his emotions’ kind of guy, so it’s the opposite from Soval.
I’ll check it out, probably soon-ish. Thanks. Winter is when I typically watch through new (to me anyway) shows since I don’t like outside when it’s all L-class lol.
I hope you enjoy it. I wouldn’t bother with the original movie except for curiosity’s sake. Much like Stargate SG-1, they went their own way with the TV show and it doesn’t even share a cast.