Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.
In the year 2063, the final frontier is a battle field. An earth united in peace takes its first steps toward interplanetary colonization, only to be threatened by an enigmatic ali…
S01E02
The Farthest Man from Home
⭐ 7.5
Oct 1, 199545 min
When the USS Saratoga passes close to the site of the Tellus Colony, where the Earth colonist were attacked, West goes AWOL and flies down to the planet in hopes that his girlfrien…
S01E03
The Dark Side of the Sun
⭐ 7.0
Oct 8, 199545 min
Nightmares come to life for Shane when a sentry-duty assignment on an asteroid leads the 58th into a bloody confrontation with a battalion of rogue androids, among which are the AI…
S01E04
Mutiny
⭐ 7.5
Oct 15, 199545 min
When mutiny erupts aboard a civilian cargo ship carrying 200 In Vitro embryos, Cooper faces a difficult decision-should he protect his fellow soldiers, or join forces with the rebe…
S01E05
Ray Butts
⭐ 8.0
Oct 22, 199545 min
The Saratoga has a mysterious new passenger: a battle-scarred special-forces commando whose classified mission directives put the 58th at his disposal, even if it means leading the…
S01E06
Eyes
⭐ 6.7
Nov 5, 199545 min
The Saratoga becomes a pressure cooker of violence and political intrigue when an assassination on Earth forces a delegation of UN officials to use the craft as the site of an impo…
S01E07
The Enemy
⭐ 8.0
Nov 12, 199545 min
The soldiers of the 58th become their own worst enemies when a routine supply mission goes awry, leaving them stranded in alien territory and suffering from the effects of a myster…
S01E08
Hostile Visit (1)
⭐ 8.0
Nov 19, 199545 min
A commandeered alien battleship provides the 58th with information about an important Chig outpost, giving the Earth forces an opportunity to make a Trojan-horse attack against the…
S01E09
Choice or Chance (2)
⭐ 7.0
Nov 26, 199545 min
After narrowly escaping the crippled alien battleship, the 58th finds itself imprisoned in the catacombs of a Chig penal colony. While Wang suffers in an alien torture chamber, Nat…
S01E10
Stay with the Dead
⭐ 7.0
Dec 3, 199545 min
A failed rescue mission leaves the 58th presumed dead, except for Nathan, who lands in the hospital, where a nagging memory that his comrades are still alive is passed off as a res…
S01E11
The River of Stars
⭐ 7.5
Dec 17, 199545 min
Christmas Eve finds the 58th in dire straits: its transport vehicle, damaged in battle, is hurtling uncontrolled into enemy territory and the pilots must struggle to stay alive wi…
S01E12
Who Monitors the Birds?
⭐ 7.5
Jan 7, 199645 min
Stranded and practically defenseless on an alien world, Hawkes accepts an assassination assignment that's supposed to buy him an immediate Honorable Discharge from the Marines.
S01E13
Level of Necessity
⭐ 8.0
Jan 14, 199645 min
The 58th enters the tunnels to try to find and destroy a Chig ammo dump. In the tunnels on the way to the ammo dump, Lubin is killed, and Damphousse predicts that one more of them …
S01E14
Never No More (1)
⭐ 8.0
Feb 4, 199645 min
Shane risks her life when she volunteers to fight an enemy spacecraft with another squadron, led by a former boyfriend whose new love was killed during a mission.
S01E15
The Angriest Angel (2)
⭐ 6.5
Feb 11, 199645 min
McQueen seeks reinstatement of his pilot status so he can fly what could be a suicide mission: find and destroy a seemingly invincible Chig super-bomber.
S01E16
Toy Soldiers
⭐ 8.0
Feb 18, 199645 min
West discovers that his brother has enlisted in the Corps and is serving under a young, gung-ho lieutenant who's so determined to make a name for himself as a soldier, that he will…
S01E17
Dear Earth
⭐ 7.5
Mar 3, 199645 min
The members of the 58th receive letters from home, some with good news, some with bad, while McQueen and Cooper are ordered to cooperate in a TV documentary about In Vitroes servin…
S01E18
Pearly
⭐ 7.5
Mar 24, 199645 min
On a planet overrun with Chigs, the 58th retreat with a tank driver of the US 7th Cavalry upon a tank named "Pearly". They encounter the eccentric Major Cyril MacKendrick, sole sur…
S01E19
R&R
⭐ 8.0
Apr 12, 199645 min
The exhausted Wild Cards are granted R&R aboard the Bacchus, a pleasure ship where it's said anything can, and does, happen.
S01E20
Stardust
⭐ 8.0
Apr 19, 199645 min
A mysterious group of extremely high-ranking officers disembark on the Saratoga and the 58th are ordered to escort an unresponsive space APC. The mysterious APC suddenly locks on t…
S01E21
Sugar Dirt
⭐ 8.0
Apr 20, 199645 min
When Commodore Ross sees there's an opportunity to launch a potentially crippling offensive against the Chigs. Forced to abandon the 58th on a barren planet, Ross leaves the marin…
S01E22
And If They Lay Us Down to Rest...
⭐ 8.5
May 26, 199645 min
The 58th is deployed to a seemingly barren moon to make final preparations for a major offensive by the Earth forces, but when they arrive they discover that the moon is home to an…
S01E23
...Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best
⭐ 7.0
Jun 2, 199645 min
While peace talks on the USS Saratoga go awry, the disgraced 58th are sent to retrieve POWs trapped in a crippled Space APC. Several enemy space fighters attack and the 58th take h…