Editing Space: Above and Beyond (section)

==Episodes==
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|Title=Pilot 
|WrittenBy=[[Glen Morgan]] & [[James Wong (producer)|James Wong]]
|DirectedBy=[[David Nutter]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|9|24}}
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|ShortSummary=A human colony sixteen [[light-years]] away is attacked and destroyed by an unknown alien force (the "Chigs") while a group of youngsters enlist in the [[United States Marine Corps]]. While they train to become aviators, war is declared and human military forces suffer several costly defeats. The recruits are sent on a routine training mission where captured enemy information reveals the apparent battle plans of the alien attackers. The half-trained 58th ''the Wild Cards'' squadron, based upon the space carrier ''[[USS Saratoga]]'' is deployed to the far rear. However, not everything is as it seems, and the inexperienced 58th are suddenly thrown into a desperate battle (the Battle of the Belt).

''Note'': Originally aired as 2-hour movie.
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|EpisodeNumber=3
|Title=The Farthest Man from Home
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=David Nutter
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|1}}
|ProdCode=3S01
|ShortSummary=The Space carrier ''USS Saratoga'' passes close to the planet Tellus where human colonists were ambushed. Hoping that his missing girlfriend Kylen somehow survived, Lt. West goes [[AWOL]] with a "Hammerhead" and flies down to the planet.
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|EpisodeNumber=4
|Title=The Dark Side of the Sun
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=[[Charles Martin Smith]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|8}}
|ProdCode=3S02
|ShortSummary=The Wild Cards are sent to secure a major fuel ore mining facility, only to find it in the hands of enemy A.I. Silicates.
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|EpisodeNumber=5
|Title=Mutiny
|WrittenBy=Stephen Zito
|DirectedBy=Stephen Cragg
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|15}}
|ProdCode=3S03
|ShortSummary=The 58th travel upon a civilian cargo hauler. The ship is attacked, and the captain decides to sacrifice part of his In Vitro cargo in order to save his ship. A [[mutiny]] forces Hawkes and McQueen, both In Vitroes, to make a difficult decision.
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|EpisodeNumber=6
|Title=Ray Butts
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=Charles Martin Smith
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|10|22}}
|ProdCode=3S04
|ShortSummary=A mysterious Lt. Colonel arrives unexpectedly on the ''USS Saratoga''. Recruiting the Wild Cards for a classified mission, he changes the mission's objective as soon as they're behind enemy lines.
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|EpisodeNumber=7
|Title=Eyes
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=[[Félix Enríquez Alcalá|Felix Alcala]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|5}}
|ProdCode=3S06
|ShortSummary=The [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] is assassinated by an In Vitro. The UN assembly decides to gather aboard the ''USS Saratoga'' to choose a replacement, while a mandatory loyalty test (influenced by the [[Voight-Kampff test]] in ''[[Blade Runner]]'') is imposed upon all In Vitroes in the military, including Lt. Colonel McQueen and Cooper Hawkes. Meanwhile, West is informed that high-ranking UN officials knew about the alien threat before the colonists were sent to the Vesta colony.
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|EpisodeNumber=8
|Title=The Enemy
|WrittenBy=[[Marilyn Osborn]]
|DirectedBy=[[Michael Katleman]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|12}}
|ProdCode=3S05
|ShortSummary=While escorting military supplies to the contested planet Tartarus, the 58th become victims of a Chig mind-altering weapon. Unable to control their innermost fears, they begin to turn on each other.
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|EpisodeNumber=9
|Title=Hostile Visit
|WrittenBy=Peyton Webb
|DirectedBy=[[Thomas J. Wright]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|19}}
|ProdCode=3S07
|ShortSummary=The ''USS Saratoga'' captures a Chig [[bomber]], and McQueen suggests that they use the vessel as a [[Trojan Horse]]. The plan is to attack the aliens' home base in order to raise troop morale, but the plan goes horribly wrong.

''Note'': Part 1 of 2.
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|EpisodeNumber=10
|Title=Choice or Chance
|WrittenBy=Doc Johnson
|DirectedBy=Felix Alcala
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|11|26}}
|ProdCode=3S08
|ShortSummary=The 58th crash-land on a moon deep inside enemy territory, and Wang, West, Vansen, and Damphousse are captured by Silicates, while Cooper and McQueen manage to flee and evade capture. Wang is tortured and broken by a ruthless Silicate, while West discovers that Kylen is among other prisoners. A Silicate says that either Vansen or Damphousse will die and leaves the choice up to them. The Wild Cards attempt to escape.

''Note'': Part 2 of 2.
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|EpisodeNumber=11
|Title=Stay with the Dead
|WrittenBy=Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkenmeyer
|DirectedBy=Thomas J. Wright
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|12|3}}
|ProdCode=3S09
|ShortSummary=Suffering a [[brain concussion]], West is rescued among the corpses of several U.S. Marines. His incoherent ravings that the 58th are still alive are dismissed due to an earlier transmission in which West stated that all his comrades were dead.
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|EpisodeNumber=12
|Title=The River of Stars
|WrittenBy=Marilyn Osborn
|DirectedBy=[[Tucker Gates]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1995|12|17}}
|ProdCode=3S10
|ShortSummary=When the 58th are trapped inside a damaged space [[Armoured personnel carrier|APC]] stranded deep inside enemy territory on Christmas Day, they receive a cryptic transmission which tells them how to "hitch a ride" back to safety upon an incoming [[comet]]'s orbit.
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|EpisodeNumber=13
|Title=Who Monitors the Birds?
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=[[Winrich Kolbe]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|1|7}}
|ProdCode=3S11
|ShortSummary=Undertaking a covert assassination operation in exchange for an [[honorable discharge]], Cooper Hawkes is wounded while his team member is killed. All alone inside enemy territory, he struggles to stay alive and is haunted by visions of death trying to seduce him in the [[incarnation]] of Shane Vansen. He remembers his past In Vitro education and how he was scheduled to be terminated because he asked too many questions.
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|EpisodeNumber=14
|Title=Level of Necessity
|WrittenBy=Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkenmeyer
|DirectedBy=Thomas J. Wright
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|1|14}}
|ProdCode=3S12
|ShortSummary=After experiencing an anomalous precognition which saved the lives of the 58th, Damphousse is investigated by a Marine Colonel in charge of the psy operations. The Colonel is convinced that she possesses [[psychic power]]s and deduces that only true mortal danger activates her [[precognition]]. Therefore, he joins the 58th in a very dangerous mission.
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|EpisodeNumber=15
|Title=Never No More
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=James Charleston
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|2|4}}
|ProdCode=3S13
|ShortSummary=Several fighter squadrons gather upon the ''USS Saratoga'' in preparation for a rumored, future offensive. Vansen meets a former boyfriend, who is now the Captain of the 35th ''the Faithful'' squadron. A single enemy [[Flying ace|fighter ace]], nicknamed "Chiggy [[Manfred von Richthofen|von Richthofen]]", is rumored to be hunting and destroying entire squadrons. The [[Officer (armed forces)|brass]] decides that all knowledge about "Chiggy von Richthofen" has to be suppressed and officially denied by all high-ranking officers for the sake of [[morale]]. A [[spy satellite]] has to be deployed for the planned invasion; the 35th gets the assignment, and Vansen decides to transfer to that unit. McQueen, risking a [[court-martial]], gives her a warning to be extremely cautious.

''Note'': Part 1 of 2.
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|EpisodeNumber=16
|Title=The Angriest Angel
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=Henri Safran
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|2|11}}
|ProdCode=3S14
|ShortSummary=A plan to trap and destroy "Chiggy von Richthofen", who pilots a prototype [[Stealth aircraft|stealth space fighter]], fails. Lt. Colonel T. C. McQueen, a survivor of the destroyed elite 127th ''the Angry Angels'' squadron, prepares himself to search, find, and engage the enemy ace.

''Note'': Part 2 of 2.
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|EpisodeNumber=17
|Title=Toy Soldiers
|WrittenBy=Marilyn Osborn
|DirectedBy=Stephen Posey
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|2|18}}
|ProdCode=3S15
|ShortSummary=West is upset when his younger brother, who has joined the U.S. Marines, arrives upon the ''USS Saratoga'' under the command of an inexperienced, foolish, [[Gung-ho]] [[Second lieutenant#United States|Second Lieutenant]].
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|EpisodeNumber=18
|Title=Dear Earth
|WrittenBy=[[Richard Whitley]]
|DirectedBy=Winrich Kolbe
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|3|3}}
|ProdCode=3S16
|ShortSummary=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 serving in the United States Marine Corps.
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|EpisodeNumber=19
|Title=Pearly
|WrittenBy=Richard Whitley
|DirectedBy=Charles Martin Smith
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|3|24}}
|ProdCode=3S18
|ShortSummary=On a planet overrun with Chigs, the 58th retreat with a [[tank]] driver of the [[U.S. 7th Cavalry]] upon a tank named "Pearly". They encounter the eccentric Major Cyril MacKendrick, sole survivor of a [[Battalion#British Army|battalion]] of the British [[Coldstream Guards]]. Wang again encounters a Silicate of the same model that previously tortured him.
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|EpisodeNumber=20
|Title=R&R
|WrittenBy=Jule Selbo
|DirectedBy=Thomas J. Wright
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|12}}
|ProdCode=3S19
|ShortSummary=The exhausted Wild Cards are granted [[R&R (military)|R&R]] aboard the Bacchus, a pleasure ship where it's said anything can, and does, happen.
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|EpisodeNumber=21
|Title=Stardust
|WrittenBy=Howard Grigsby
|DirectedBy=[[Jesús Salvador Treviño|Jesus Trevino]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|19}}
|ProdCode=3S20
|ShortSummary=A mysterious group of extremely high-ranking officers disembark on the ''USS Saratoga'', and the 58th are ordered to escort an unresponsive space APC. The mysterious APC suddenly locks onto their Hammerhead fighters and opens fire.
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|EpisodeNumber=22
|Title=Sugar Dirt
|WrittenBy=Matt Kiene & Joe Reinkenmeyer
|DirectedBy=Thomas J. Wright
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|4|20}}
|ProdCode=3S17
|ShortSummary=A planetary invasion by Earth military forces is ambushed and turns into a military disaster. There is no air support and no ground reinforcement as the supporting fleet, among it the ''USS Saratoga'', is forced to abandon 25,000 stranded troops in order to launch another assault, which could ultimately save millions of lives, upon a more strategic planet. Before departing, Commodore Ross issues instructions: ''"You're strongly encouraged, but not ordered to do so, to keep engaging the enemy. If however the situation becomes untenable, you're authorized to surrender. [[Semper fidelis]]."''. Among the scattered, abandoned, and demoralized troops are the 58th, who are struggling to survive.
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|EpisodeNumber=23
|Title=And If They Lay Us Down to Rest ...
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=[[Vern Gillum]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|5|26}}
|ProdCode=3S21
|ShortSummary=The Wild Cards land on the moon of the Chig's home planet and encounter an extraterrestrial creature, which may be an entirely different life form or an unarmoured Chig. Soon afterwards, the enemy proposes a [[truce]].
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|EpisodeNumber=24
|Title=... Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best
|WrittenBy=Glen Morgan & James Wong
|DirectedBy=Thomas J. Wright
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1996|6|2}}
|ProdCode=3S22
|ShortSummary=While [[peace talks]] on the ''USS Saratoga'' go awry, the disgraced 58th are sent to retrieve [[POW]]s trapped in a crippled space APC. Several enemy space fighters attack, and the 58th takes heavy losses. It is discovered that the Chigs are only offering peace because they know Earth's military will defeat them.
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