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Space: Above and Beyond

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Space: Above and Beyond	comment	Space: Above and Beyond (1995-1996) was a Military Science Fiction series on Fox. Set in space around the middle of the 21st century, it focused on a group of young, ragtag Marines living aboard the carrier U.S.S. Saratoga. Humanity was embroiled in a war with an alien race known as "chigs." The central cast were Marine pilots in the 58th Fighter Squadron, or the Wildcards. The show often focused on current issues and moral dilemmas.Fox cancelled the show after one full season. The show ended with one character presumed dead, another two falling into enemy territory in an escape pod, one reunited with his prisoner-of-war lover, and the others in general limbo.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Space: Above and Beyond / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Invoked when Lt. Herrick hands over his rifle to McQueen... and is immediately (and correctly) chewed out for not opening the breech and checking the chamber first.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: McQueen notes that if he wasn't an InVitro, he would be a general.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Justified: One of the early hints that not all is as it seems with the Chigs is that they appear to learn human languages remarkably quickly despite the apparent We Come in Peace â€” Shoot to Kill situation in the pilot. And not just English: in "Stardust" the protagonists plant disinformation written in Navajo. Whereas humans have almost entirely failed to decipher the Chig language. At the midpoint of the series the Chigs turn out to be in contact with the Silicates. In the Grand Finale it turns out a MegaCorp first encountered the Chigs several years earlier and kept it quiet to protect their newfound source of profit. The war started because of the MegaCorp reneging on the deal it had made with the Chigs.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_115b9907	type	Starfish Language
Space: Above and Beyond / int_115b9907	comment	Starfish Language: Communicating with the Chigs proves extremely difficult.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: In the pilot, Damphousse decides to give the Chig POW some water, to show that humans are not bastards. Unfortunately, Chigs are deathly allergic to water. In the next to last episode, an armourless Chig runs around a wet swamp without problems. It's more likely that that first one committed suicide. Then again, Damphousse might have a degree in Artistic License â€“ Biology, since she started pumping water into what was obviously a gill used for breathing. Odds are, if the first one didn't commit suicide, it drowned. Later the Chig are show to be grown in bee hive like domes and when ready are planned under ground, making them part bee part plant. Also, since they have evolved from microorganisms brought from Earth by a comet, it doesn't make sense for them to be allergic to water.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_136b7ccd	type	Ms. Fanservice
Space: Above and Beyond / int_136b7ccd	comment	Ms Fan Service: the character of Shane Vansen (played by the lovely Kristine Cloke, the wife of one of the producers) is shamelessly exploited in this respect. Despite being a hard as nails Marine officer she is often to be found strutting around in her skimpy underwear/night attire flaunting her leggy supermodel face/figure and huge breasts for no apparent reason. When Coooper fantasises about her in 'Who Monitors the Birds?' she is represented as a seductive, scantily clad Angel of Death. When she decides to earn money as a pool hustler at the Baachus resort she feels the need to wear a revealing skintight minidress and high heels and had the series continued to a second season it was intended that she and Damphouse would have ended up as slavegirls working as hookers at one of its' brothels before being eventually rescued.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_159ce749	type	Ensign Newbie
Space: Above and Beyond / int_159ce749	comment	Ensign Newbie: The entire 58th squadron during the pilot, as it shows them going through basic and flight training and culminates in their first battle with the Chigs. Later on, fresh-from-training Lt. Herrick shows up with a squad of equally raw Marines, and are looked down on by the now-battle-hardened 58th.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Space: Above and Beyond / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: The 127th Attack Wing, AKA the Angry Angels, are hyped up by their fangirl (Vansen) as "The best there is, ever will be." Except for McQueen, they don't survive past the first half of the pilot. Could be justified by claiming that the Chigs would try to hit the humans hard in the first attack, and after both sides took severe losses early on, the general intensity of the battle dialed back down from eleven once it became apparent the war would be on for a while.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Space: Above and Beyond / int_18aff462	comment	Then again, Damphousse might have a degree in Artistic License â€“ Biology, since she started pumping water into what was obviously a gill used for breathing. Odds are, if the first one didn't commit suicide, it drowned.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1994ba0b	comment	Played with in "Stay with the Dead" - West's superiors think he is the only survivor, and he must convince them otherwise in order to save the rest of his unit. The Wild Cards faked a last stand for the Chigs' benefit, only it was too effective and convinced the Saratoga crew as well.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Space: Above and Beyond / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Lt. Col. McQueen, even if it's often the stern-father archetype (although he is often kinder to them when they are under severe stress, like when Nathan's brother was killed). As the series goes on it becomes increasingly clear that the Wildcards are incredibly important to McQueen, and whenever it appears they are dead or lost his distress is obvious. This all counts double for Hawkes, given that both are InVitros and McQueen begins to serve as a Parental Substitute to him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Space: Above and Beyond / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Invoked a couple of times by different characters: In "The Angriest Angel", McQueen says, "This one's for you, Winslow" just before killing Chiggy Von Richthofen. In the finale, during his Heroic Sacrifice, Wang recites the name of every single character killed in the entire course of the series, ending with "This is for you!"
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1b451dbd	type	No-Dialogue Episode
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1b451dbd	comment	No-Dialogue Episode: "Who Monitors The Birds" was an attempt to make an episode with minimal dialogue. Hawkes being alone in enemy territory means he has no-one to talk to, and the flashbacks to his training as a InVitro shows them being conditioned rather than trained, with the instructors interacting with them as little as possible.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: R. Lee Ermey appears as a drill instructor in the pilot. The episode "R&R" has cameos by Coolio and David Duchovny.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1c3423d6	comment	"I believe in you," a hasty message recorded in an audio picture frame by Lt. West's girlfriend; it is his reason to stay in the fight, the hope that he will find her and rescue her after her colony was attacked by the Chigs. At the end of the series, she changes the message to say "I believe in all of you,", addressed to the entire squadron after they saved her.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: This is the real reason for the 58th being Do Anything Soldiers. In real life, USMC naval aviators do not get sent on ground missions, but it's a TV show so this gets fudged for budget and plot reasons.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1e39757d	type	Servant Race
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1e39757d	comment	Servant Race: The Silicates were created for use as laborers and servants to humans, but rebellled thanks to the insertion of "Take a chance" into their programming. Ironically, the InVitros were created to fight the Silicates, but also rebelled. The InVitros a.k.a. "Tanks," are basically created as slaves to the "normal" humans: serving as expendable soldiers (initially to fight the Silicates!), miners, et cetera, and even once they're "freed" from indentured servitude (which is "banned" but still practiced) they still are always assigned the "dirty jobs."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1e669b8e	type	Humanoid Aliens
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1e669b8e	comment	Humanoid Aliens: The Chigs, while usually clad in concealing full-body armor suits, generally are put together the same as humans are. It doesn't help that while the Chigs have very limited communication with the humans, they do appear to be working with the Silicates, who hate the humans, and are rather bastards themselves.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1ee0948e	comment	Cooper Hawkes ends up getting arrested due to a combination of Fantastic Racism and a misunderstanding with the police after a group of thugs try to hang him in an alleyway. The judge sentences him to serve his debt to society via military service... by putting him through a commissioning program to become a space fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. The Drill Sergeant Nasty even goes so far as to describe the entire situation as a cruel prank played at his (the drill sergeant's) expense. While the US military did do this in the past, A) they only recruited enlisted men this way, not officers, and B) they officially ended this practice several decades before the series was made, never mind set. Hawkes would have had to obtain a waiver after the fact; he most certainly would not have been shipped from jail still in a prison jumpsuit and shackles. Besides which, becoming an officer in the US military requires a college degree (whether from a civilian university or a service academy). Of course, in-universe all InVitros technically are the equivalent of fully trained officers, and Cooper in particular is one gone AWOL; in "Who Monitors The Birds" it's revealed that he was going to be killed by his trainer for being too intelligent and curious, and instead killed him and escaped. It's a grotesque miscarriage of justice, but also a way of highlighting the utter amorality of the described process.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Space: Above and Beyond / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: In the pilot, Coop, an unwilling recruit to the Marines, complains to McQueen (who is still with the Angry Angels at this time) that "I won't die for them!" (referring to natural-born humans in general). McQueen retorts, "What would you die for?"
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: The enemy was almost always shown wearing their environmental suits. They have a suicide pill that turns them into goo if someone tries to force their helmets off but you see what they look like near the end.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Space: Above and Beyond / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Lieutenant Herrick, West's brother's CO in the Recon Marines, is gung-ho and caught up in the tales of heroic Marine battles of the past, wanting to imitate them in his own career. Unfortunately, Space: Above and Beyond is a War Is Hell-style series and he isn't the protagonist. As a result, he goes against orders on a routine scouting mission and his entire unit are killed in a Chig ambush, with West's brother fighting to his last bullet.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
Space: Above and Beyond / int_24f4c82a	comment	Not to mention the UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS Battle Cry: In the pilot, Wang is incapable of producing a convincing battlecry without the help of two Drill Sergeant Nasties demonstrating one for him at point blank range. In the series finale, he produces a fine battlecry while making his Heroic sacrifice. To top it off, he even throws in a To Absent Friends by screaming the names of every Wild Card Red Shirt and Mauve Shirt who died on the show as part of his battlecry.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_26ad2fa8	type	Fictional Geneva Conventions
Space: Above and Beyond / int_26ad2fa8	comment	Fictional Geneva Conventions: The Ho Chi Minh City Convention of 2054, which grants AI POWs similar rights and protections.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_26ce6ea7	type	Title by Year
Space: Above and Beyond / int_26ce6ea7	comment	Title by Year: The Market-Based Title Space 2063 (after the year it starts) in several European countries.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
Space: Above and Beyond / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: Averted. Chigs die as easily as humans, and the Silicates, not having been built for fighting, can be beaten by humans in hand to hand combat. In fact, McQueen and Hawkes are able to break into a Silicate-run prison and liberate the others (who had been captured) pretty much entirely on their own. Three of the few enemies not killed by McQueen, Hawkes, or someone they freed are the two Silicates and the Chig that Vansen and Damphousse manage to kill from their prison cell.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Kate Winslow, a minor character that remained in the squadron for several episodes and even had a minor arc in which she coaxes out a more sentimental side of McQueen. She gets killed in that same episode.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Col. Ray Butts has been a Marine for so long and in so many stressful situations that it has seriously compromised his inter-personal skills—all of the 58ths and McQueen absolutely loathe him within a few minutes of meeting him thanks to his Jerkass personality, rude sense of superiority, and refusal to explain any of his mission objectives even when it's necessary to understand the mission. When you make the dour, humorless McQueen seem friendly and approachable, you're obviously doing something wrong.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2cc97423	type	Ultraterrestrials
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2cc97423	comment	Ultraterrestrials: In the final episode the Chig ambassador claims that his species evolved on Earth before humans did, but left before it became suited to oxygen-breathing life. Actually, his species evolved elsewhere, from Earth-originated bacteria that were transported naturally to another planet via Panspermia
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: "Green meanies", a painkiller in the form of green pills that InVitros find highly addictive. Hawkes is prescribed them by an unthinking doctor and spends the rest of the episode either addicted or detoxing; when he offers to help get him clean, Col. McQueen mentions he also had gotten addicted during the AI Wars.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2ef833e7	type	Burial in Space
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2ef833e7	comment	Burial in Space: Notably referred to as "burial at space," in keeping with the show's Space Is an Ocean theme. This is Winslow's ultimate fate, after being killed by Chiggy Von Richthofen.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_2fe5444	type	Fantastic Ship Prefix
Space: Above and Beyond / int_2fe5444	comment	Fantastic Ship Prefix: The Kennedy-class space carriers took the current hull classification for a nuclear carrier, CVN, and put an 'S' (for Space) in front resulting in SCVN. Saratoga is SCVN-2812. The official designation for the Hammerheads also uses the S prefix: SA-43. This is partially true to life; the letter S can be used to denote a spacecraft under the United States' aircraft designation system, however American designations put the "vehicle type" last (i.e. AS-43).
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_30dff15f	type	Physical Fitness Punishment
Space: Above and Beyond / int_30dff15f	comment	Physical Fitness Punishment: Sergeant Major Bougus has several officer recruits drop and start doing pushups: One for mouthing off to him, and another for smirking at the first one doing pushups.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_31237f3e	type	Custom Uniform
Space: Above and Beyond / int_31237f3e	comment	Custom Uniform: The 127th Attack Wing, AKA the "Angry Angels". Black uniforms with leather jackets and black berets is probably not a standard Marine Corps uniform, given that we never see anybody outside of that unit wear them. (And we never see most of the Angry Angels wear them after the pilot episode. See The Worf Effect.)
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Space: Above and Beyond / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Chigs have a habit of chopping up any human they find, dead or alive. This gets subverted later in the series when they explain just why the Chigs do this. A running theme in the show is that the Chigs aren't pure evil per se, just very "alien" from humans. It is eventually learned that the Chigs have no concept of an afterlife, and misinterpret human references to such as being a human ability to come back from the dead. So they are trying to counter that presumed advantage of the humans.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_35ab4cec	type	You Watch Too Much X
Space: Above and Beyond / int_35ab4cec	comment	Lt. Herrick tries to be this with his unit (lampshaded by Wang, who says he's "seen too many war movies"), but McQueen steps in and does the same thing to him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Space: Above and Beyond / int_37fcf16	comment	This gets subverted later in the series when they explain just why the Chigs do this. A running theme in the show is that the Chigs aren't pure evil per se, just very "alien" from humans. It is eventually learned that the Chigs have no concept of an afterlife, and misinterpret human references to such as being a human ability to come back from the dead. So they are trying to counter that presumed advantage of the humans.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
Space: Above and Beyond / int_3d29fed	comment	In one battle, they sent fifteen squadrons out specifically to hunt down and destroy Chiggy Von Richtofen and his Ace Custom. Not only did they fail to destroy him, but of the three squadrons that found and engaged him, only one survived. To clarify, the humans engaged Chiggy with thirty to one odds and barely came away with a stalemate.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Space: Above and Beyond / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Several, including the early fight in the pilot between the Chigs and the USS Hornet and the Angry Angels, and several engagements against Chiggy Von Richtofen. In one battle, they sent fifteen squadrons out specifically to hunt down and destroy Chiggy Von Richtofen and his Ace Custom. Not only did they fail to destroy him, but of the three squadrons that found and engaged him, only one survived. To clarify, the humans engaged Chiggy with thirty to one odds and barely came away with a stalemate.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_40496097	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Space: Above and Beyond / int_40496097	comment	The same episode also had A group of Silicates that had been invited to the gathering for some reason. They don't cause any problems for the entire time they are there.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Space: Above and Beyond / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: One of the Wildcards almost certainly dies in a firefight while two others are falling in an escape pod into enemy territory; McQueen is severely injured in an explosion that kills a handful of important human officials; the war, once within sight of peace, now rages as intense as ever and the human forces have lost the initiative, making Operation Roundhammer irrelevant. On the other hand, the colonists held captive since the series pilot, including West's girlfriend, have been successfully rescued. We also learn that the alien aggression might not have been as unwarranted as we've been told. All in all, it would have been a very interesting second season. Word of God is that the ending, had the series continued into the second season, would still be bittersweet, as the war would've ended not with a victory but with a tenuous peace treaty, in part thanks to a major Earth offensive failing. While the two women would have survived, they would be enslaved and taken to a brothel. Wang would still be dead.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Space: Above and Beyond / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Silicates, who started a Robot War against humanity due to a disgruntled programmer adding a directive to their programming instructing them to "Take a chance."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Space: Above and Beyond / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The Silicates use torture for various reasons. McQueen recounts his own experiences during the Silicate War and how, even with an InVitro's enhanced pain resistance, he was still forced to divulge everything he knew.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_4503f7d4	type	Who Watches the Watchmen?
Space: Above and Beyond / int_4503f7d4	comment	Who Watches the Watchmen?: In a flashback sequence in "Who Monitors the Birds?", Hawkes asks one of his indoctrination monitors the eponymous question. When the monitor replies, "I monitor the birds," Hawkes' next question is, "Who monitors you?" The monitors decide Hawkes must be eliminated at that point, but Hawkes pulls some Assassin Outclassin' and escapes the facility.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
Space: Above and Beyond / int_49f8c18f	comment	The enemy pilot flying the distinctive Ace Custom in later episodes quickly earns the nickname, "Chiggy Von Richtofen". he's even deadlier than his namesake.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_4c23b50f	type	Land Mine Goes "Click!"
Space: Above and Beyond / int_4c23b50f	comment	Land Mine Goes "Click!": When one of the 58th steps on a "buzz beam", it does not go off immediately; the rest of the squadron has time to figure out a way to defeat the boobytrap.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Space: Above and Beyond / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From an unarmed Chig ship at the end of "And if they lay us down to rest...", transmitted in English; And in the finale, when the Chigs confront the head of Aero-Tech:
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_50162947	type	No Navel, Novel Birth
Space: Above and Beyond / int_50162947	comment	No Navel, Novel Birth: The InVitros lack standard belly-buttons. Instead, they have nipple-like bumps on the back of their necks from there the artificial placentas attached to them in the womb-tanks (hence the Fantastic Slur "nipple-neck").
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_56855fa3	type	Casual Interstellar Travel
Space: Above and Beyond / int_56855fa3	comment	Casual Interstellar Travel: Averted. Naturally occurring wormholes are used opportunistically to supplement the rarely mentioned "Hawking Drive" (a form of artificial FTL); presumably the wormholes have some unspecified advantage over the Hawking Drive.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Space: Above and Beyond / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: Several examples, most notably the much-foreshadowed "Operation Roundhammer", the all-out invasion of the Chig homeworld.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Space: Above and Beyond / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: There are three or four intelligent races in this show's setting, depending on if you count the InVitros as a separate race from humanity: Humans, InVitros, Silicates, and Chigs. Racism back and forth between the different groups varies from implied to openly expressed.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Space: Above and Beyond / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: It turns out the human higher-ups were aware of the Chigs' existence before they established the colonies at Vesta and Tellus. According to them, when the Chigs warned them against settling those worlds, they concluded that the Chigs had no legal claim to planets so far outside their sphere of influence. The Chigs disagreed.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_5b92d2f	type	Virgin-Shaming
Space: Above and Beyond / int_5b92d2f	comment	Virgin-Shaming: Very downplayed. Most of the cast are sexually active offscreen (West has his MIA girlfriend, McQueen is a divorcee, and Vansen is once mentioned to sometimes have quickies with members of the flight crew), but in "R&R", West hires a prostitute to take care of Hawkes' virginity. Rather understandable that the socially stunted runaway with no family (other than his unit) would be one.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Space: Above and Beyond / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The Chigs' Amygdala weapon turns any mild fear into a crippling phobia.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Space: Above and Beyond / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: Chiggy Von Richtofen's custom Chig fighter. It's hull is Nigh-Invulnerable to Earth weaponry, it has superior handling than the Hammerheads, and it's almost completely invisible to sensors. It consequently slaughters Earth fighters by the squadron before McQueen finally destroys it by planting a salvo of missiles the only place it's vulnerable: the engine exhausts.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
Space: Above and Beyond / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: In "Stay With the Dead", when the 58th receive a message - which they at first don't believe - saying extraction is coming, what convinces them is hearing the title phrase repeated at the end of the transmission. As this was the last thing Vansen said to West before he was rescued, they realize the message is genuine.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Space: Above and Beyond / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Winslow, a character who appears for four episodes about the middle of the series before being killed when Chiggy von Richthofen destroys her Escape Pod. This prompts McQueen to have his cochlear implant removed so he can safely fly a one-man sortie to kill Chiggy. The series finale has Wang cover the escape of West, Hawkes, and Kylen and the other captured colonists by separating the cargo compartment of an APC with him in it so West can grab the one from the other, disabled, APC. He blows away several Chig fighters with a mounted gun before one crashes into him. Word of God is that, had the series not been cancelled, the death would still have stuck.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Space: Above and Beyond / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Major McKendrick, a slightly crazy British officer who got stuck on a planet with nothing to do but listen to Chig transmissions on a broken radio all day, who has managed to at least start to understand the Chig language. He refuses to be evacuated in order for him to finish the job.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: A captured chig uses water as this in the pilot, which unbeknownst to the 58th is fatal for them.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6375f746	comment	In "The Angriest Angel", several of the Wildcards get too familiar with Colonel McQueen (Wang casually invites him to join in a game of pool, while Winslow is in the process of hitting on him. McQueen proceeds to lay down the law on all of them, reminding them that he is not there to be their friend.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Space: Above and Beyond / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: the Chigs are so named because their environmental suits make them resemble chiggers, although Wang points out they look more like praying mantises or walking sticks to him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6439de78	comment	In the finale, during his Heroic Sacrifice, Wang recites the name of every single character killed in the entire course of the series, ending with "This is for you!"
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6575fd50	type	Do-Anything Soldier
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6575fd50	comment	Do-Anything Soldier: The 58th are ostensibly fighter pilots but more than half the episodes have them sent in as infantry or recon instead (see Artistic License â€“ Military). Lampshaded in one episode when the 58th complain about this; Colonel McQueen justifies it with the Marine creed that every Marine is a rifleman. Deconstructed in "Sugar Dirt". The 58th are ordered to land their planes and join in ground combat, which lets their fighters be destroyed on the ground when the Chigs spring their trap.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
Space: Above and Beyond / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: Attempted by the Chigs in "Sugar Dirt", who start playing fake audio clips of wounded UN soldiers calling for help in hopes of baiting survivors to respond. When that fails, they switch to just insulting them. Or trying to, at least.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
Space: Above and Beyond / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: In "Who Monitors the Birds?", Hawkes is Playing Possum after the officer he was working with is killed, and has a flashback to the officer (played by Dale Dye) recruiting him from a firing range after witnessing his marksmanship. We then flash back to the present where three Chig soldiers have finished hacking up the officer's body and are now advancing on Hawke, who promptly puts his shooting skills to the test.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_680c8fd	type	Outranking Your Job
Space: Above and Beyond / int_680c8fd	comment	Outranking Your Job: As the 58th is composed entirely of officers, each member should be leading ground units of enlisted soldiers (or at least be attached individually to such a unit as forward air controllers), not acting as cannon fodder. This is particularly egregious when the unit is depicted fighting alongside a conventional infantry unit, commanded by a lieutenant - he is outranked by ALL members of the 58th. It's Truth in Television when they're acting as pilots, however: In the US military, fixed-wing aircraft pilots are all officers. Lampshaded in the finale, where Damphousse points out that the only reason the 58th has remained as a unit the way they are is that because of attrition the Marines lack the manpower to split them up properly. In "Who Monitors the Birds", the sniper team sent to assassinate a Chig officer consists of Major Colquitt and Lieutenant Hawkes. It's lampshaded pretty early on. Col. McQueen takes time during a briefing to chew the team out for whining about ground duty, remind them that "every Marine is a rifleman!" and that they'll damn well keep their traps shut. (The team actually has the right of it, though: the Rifleman's Creed notwithstanding, Marines are not Do Anything Soldiers, and sending in naval aviators as infantry is a stupid risk of very expensively trained officers.)
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "I Believe In You," by the end of the show, it becomes "I believe... in all of you." Not to mention the UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS Battle Cry: In the pilot, Wang is incapable of producing a convincing battlecry without the help of two Drill Sergeant Nasties demonstrating one for him at point blank range. In the series finale, he produces a fine battlecry while making his Heroic sacrifice. To top it off, he even throws in a To Absent Friends by screaming the names of every Wild Card Red Shirt and Mauve Shirt who died on the show as part of his battlecry.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lieutenant Herrick is likely named after Army Lieutenant Henry Herrick, whose similiar foolhardy and bloodthirsty attitude got his platoon surrounded and himself killed at the battle of the Ia Drang Valley in the Vietnam War. Yes, he's the foolish green officer in We Were Soldiers.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6d6945da	type	Minovsky Physics
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6d6945da	comment	Minovsky Physics: "Sewel Fuel", a glowy form of Un Obtanium which is extremely energy-dense.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: One or more exists for just about every race in the series. Notably: "Chigs" or (less commonly) "Chiggers" for the aliens, after a kind of mite - to the point of being Only Known by Their Nickname. The InVitros are called "Tanks" or occasionally "Nipplenecks." The name "Silicates" may itself have originated as a slur in the AI Wars. The Silicates themselves refer to humans as "Carbonites". The Chigs have a slur for humans that roughly translates to "red stink creature."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6eb4e408	comment	It's lampshaded pretty early on. Col. McQueen takes time during a briefing to chew the team out for whining about ground duty, remind them that "every Marine is a rifleman!" and that they'll damn well keep their traps shut. (The team actually has the right of it, though: the Rifleman's Creed notwithstanding, Marines are not Do Anything Soldiers, and sending in naval aviators as infantry is a stupid risk of very expensively trained officers.)
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Space: Above and Beyond / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "The River of Stars".
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7064ec04	type	Cassette Futurism
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7064ec04	comment	Cassette Futurism: The show had lots of CRT screens (not disguised) as well as CDs and other mid-nineties tech.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper: In "Who Monitors The Birds?", Hawkes is Trapped Behind Enemy Lines and hallucinates a nightmarish Vansen beckoning to him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_722d0026	type	Vanity Plate
Space: Above and Beyond / int_722d0026	comment	"Sugar Dirt" = Guadalcanal, with a landing force being abandoned to fend for themselves for months in favor of taking advantage of a more strategic position elsewhere (New Guinea in real life, the planet Ixion near the Chig homeworld in the episode). Complete with a Vanity Plate dedicating the episode to Guadalcanal veterans.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Played With, given the setting. The squad includes several women, at least two African Americans, and an Asian guy. The only minorities in the squad, however, are caucasian Hawkes and McQueen, the only InVitros in the squad, and amongst the few in military service.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7464705c	comment	The Silicates were created for use as laborers and servants to humans, but rebellled thanks to the insertion of "Take a chance" into their programming. Ironically, the InVitros were created to fight the Silicates, but also rebelled.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Space: Above and Beyond / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Elroy-EL loves to wax poetical about how kind and benevolent the Chigs are compared to humans.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Space: Above and Beyond / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: How the 58th defeats the Chig bioweapon in "The Enemy."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_784a71d0	type	Crime of Self-Defense
Space: Above and Beyond / int_784a71d0	comment	Crime of Self-Defense: How Cooper ends up in the Marines, thanks to some creative sentencing by the judge.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Inverted, albeit under protest, in "Sugar Dirt". A landing to capture a strategic airstrip goes south because the Chigs suckered the UN high command, but the Navy realizes that in order to pull this off the Chigs withdrew forces from an even more strategic target, which is now open to attack. But there isn't time to retrieve the troops already on the ground so the ships are forced to abandon 25,000 troops, including the 58th, for two months until they've captured the new target and can return to retrieve them... by which point the 58th have nearly starved to death and only 2,000 survivors remain. Commodore Ross says it best at the end:
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Space: Above and Beyond / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: InVitros are pejoratively called Tanks. A Tank is also a type of armored ground combat vehicle. Pearly is not an Armored Personnel Carrier. Sgt. Fox is initially misunderstood when he tries to clarify this. note Hawkes kept calling Pearly an APC, leading to the vitriol-filled correction from Fox.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7a26356	type	Dork Knight
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7a26356	comment	Dork Knight: Once his harsh exterior wears down Hawkes begins to show signs of this trope, being Book Dumb, a tad naive, and incredibly appreciative whenever someone else on the squad is nice to him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: The United States Marine Corps Battlecry. Turns out to be a Meaningful Echo, being prominently featured in the very first episode and at the climax of the very last episode of the series.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7c18042f	type	"What Do They Fear?" Episode
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7c18042f	comment	"What Do They Fear?" Episode: "The Enemy." The members of the 58th are exposed to a Chig bioweapon which amplifies their fears to crippling levels.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7cf3fe52	type	ISOStandardHumanSpaceship
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7cf3fe52	comment	ISO Standard Human Spaceship: Human warships play this to the letter as big, flat, gray boxes.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	"Choice or Chance" sees the 58th escaping and evading after their Trojan Horse Chig bomber is shot down.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_7d97ab06	type	Space Is an Ocean
Space: Above and Beyond / int_7d97ab06	comment	Space Is an Ocean: References are made to "dropping anchor", "setting sail" and "burial at space" (and yes, it's at space, not in space).
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Space: Above and Beyond / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: Like many, many, many other Fox shows, due to premature cancellation. Word of God is that the creators did this deliberately in hopes that the show might someday be brought back.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Space: Above and Beyond / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: How T.C. finally takes down Chiggy von Richthofen: by planting a salvo of missiles in its engine intakes, apparently the only part of the fighter that isn't armored to shrug off human weapons.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8243d94c	type	All Planets Are Earth-Like
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8243d94c	comment	All Planets Are Earth-Like: Both averted and played straight in different episodes. Some planets can be operated on in plainclothes, while others require full space suits. The Chigs' native atmosphere is apparently methane-based.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Space: Above and Beyond / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name/Embarrassing Middle Name: Colonel T.C. McQueen never goes by any other name than "Colonel" or "Sir", to cover up the fact that T.C. stands for Tyrus Cassius.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_835d1cd2	type	Satellite Love Interest
Space: Above and Beyond / int_835d1cd2	comment	Satellite Love Interest: West's girlfriend has no real role in the plot other than to be a Damsel in Distress to motivate him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Averted with West. The photo of his girlfriend recovered from the wreck of her colony ship is specifically what keeps him going. In an interesting twist, Nathan's brother Neil dies in the episode where he gives Nathan a photo of himself in his Marine dress uniform.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Space: Above and Beyond / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the episode "Choice or Chance" he Wildcards are captured and thrown into a Silicate prison where they discover what looks like the missing Tellus colonists imprisoned, including West's girlfriend Kylen, mining fuels for the Silicates. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that "Kylen" was some sort of shapeshifter, but what about the rest of the prisoners?
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Space: Above and Beyond / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Left ambiguous, if not outright subverted: an entire episode is devoted to how the military (specifically, one officer who really wants to "see what you see") turns what is likely common intuition into a deal that endangers the whole of the squadron.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Space: Above and Beyond / int_875615dd	comment	As the 58th is composed entirely of officers, each member should be leading ground units of enlisted soldiers (or at least be attached individually to such a unit as forward air controllers), not acting as cannon fodder. This is particularly egregious when the unit is depicted fighting alongside a conventional infantry unit, commanded by a lieutenant - he is outranked by ALL members of the 58th. It's Truth in Television when they're acting as pilots, however: In the US military, fixed-wing aircraft pilots are all officers. Lampshaded in the finale, where Damphousse points out that the only reason the 58th has remained as a unit the way they are is that because of attrition the Marines lack the manpower to split them up properly.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Space: Above and Beyond / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Major McKendrick, a British logistics officer who refuses to let his being trapped alone behind enemy lines after the loss of his entire unit get him down. Instead, he forges on finding ways to keep himself occupied, including monitoring and analyzing the Chigs' communications to try and gain intel on them.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_89c7249b	type	Space Plane
Space: Above and Beyond / int_89c7249b	comment	Space Plane: The Hammerhead Space Fighter, which is specifically designed to operate both in an atmosphere and in space.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8b1c3017	type	Triple Nipple
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8b1c3017	comment	Triple Nipple: Lt. Hawkes is an InVitro, meaning he spent his embryonic period in a tank. The mark where the feeding tube was connected at his neck resembles a nipple (hence the Fantastic Slur "nipple-neck"), though he insists it's more like a "belly button".
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre McQueen kills Chiggy von Richthofen with one.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8c4b72dd	type	United Nations Is a Superpower
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8c4b72dd	comment	United Nations Is a Superpower: Very much in effect, though countries like the UK and the USA are shown to still exist, the UN will have a lot more political authority in the mid-21st century, according to this show.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8dd49b83	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8dd49b83	comment	Distracted Bythe Sexy: Played with. Vansen is suspicious about some strange events, including the 58 being denied access to their fighter craft. She has West be her lookout while dives in head first into her cockpit, with her shapely butt in the air. West takes a quick look before remembering he's suppose to be on the look out. It is possible the West actor was more into the quick look as older TVs with smaller screens might not have picked it up.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_8fe962f3	type	Battle Discretion Shot
Space: Above and Beyond / int_8fe962f3	comment	Battle Discretion Shot: The fight between a Chig force and the USS Hornet is only seen by means of a reporter broadcasting from aboard the ship (where we can't see anything except the ship shaking, things breaking, smoke, etc.), and the view from Earth as the entire battle is seen only as a series of flashing lights in the sky.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Space: Above and Beyond / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The show draws heavily from World War II, including elements of both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operations. Often lampshaded with the officers explicitely drawing inspiration from their own homeworld's military history, or making historical allusions while discussing the strategic situation. The show's setting of 2061 is also meant to draw a paralell to the Civil Rights Movement and The Space Race of the 1960s. In particular, "Stardust" referernces Operation Mincemeat, a British misinformation ploy against the Germans, and the series two part finale reveals that Operation Roundhammer to be an obvious nod to Operation Downfall, the planned Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_9311f1d8	type	Gung Holier Than Thou
Space: Above and Beyond / int_9311f1d8	comment	Gung Holier Than Thou: Lt. Herrick straddles the line between this and The Neidermeyer - as a commissioned officer, he does have authority over the men in his platoon (who revere him) but his antics provoke eye rolls at best from the 58th, all of whom outrank him.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_93311f8e	type	The Squadette
Space: Above and Beyond / int_93311f8e	comment	The Squadette: Vansen, a Military Brat, is very much a tomboy and is arguably the best pilot and fighter among the squadron, and is eventually even made XO.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_9518ba73	type	Red-plica Baron
Space: Above and Beyond / int_9518ba73	comment	Red-plica Baron: A recurring antagonist is a chig ace named Chiggy Von Richthofen.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
Space: Above and Beyond / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Averted. Plenty of female soldiers fight and die over the course of the series, on and off screen. At the end of the finale, the only two members of the 58th still fit to fight are West and Hawkes.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Space: Above and Beyond / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: Not a literal example, although the humans' nickname for the enemy is The Chigs. It is revealed along the way that the Chigs have a nickname with similar connotations for the humans.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_99be89b5	type	Send in the Clones
Space: Above and Beyond / int_99be89b5	comment	Send in the Clones: Much like Cylons in the later Battlestar Galactica remake, there's only about a dozen models of Silicates, all of whom share memories with others of the same model. This means an individual of one type of Silicate can be killed in one episode only to come back for more later (c.f. Wang's experience with two different Elroy EL Torture Technicians).
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Space: Above and Beyond / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: In Mutiny, the ship the 58th faces destruction by the chigs if they don't divert power from one section to get away. That section happens to be where the InVitros are being stored, and the InVitro crewers refuse their orders. A mutiny occurs, but eventually they're persuaded to stand down because if they don't do this, everyone will die. In the end, they do it.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_9b1e50bd	type	During the War
Space: Above and Beyond / int_9b1e50bd	comment	During the War: T.C. McQueen recounts some stories about the Silicate War where his kind were discriminated against. Likewise, the leader of the squadron has flashbacks to her childhood. Hawkes also spends an episode having flashbacks to his training in preparation for fighting against the Silicates.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_9bfe4c17	type	Supernatural Fear Inducer
Space: Above and Beyond / int_9bfe4c17	comment	Supernatural Fear Inducer: In the episode "The Enemy", US troops on a desolate planet the 58th have been sent to resupply are reported to be stuck in a meat grinder of a battle. It turns out that there aren't actually any Chigs on-planet, but they left behind a panic-inducing weapon that's causing the troopers to turn on each other or blunder into minefields.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Space: Above and Beyond / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Most of the problems that the humans have with the Silicates and the Tanks are because the humans keep treating their creations like slave labor or cannon fodder. A decade or more after the Silicate War, racism against the Tanks is rampant because they are perceived as cowards at best, or freaks at worst. McQueen convinces a captured Silicate saboteur to divulge needed information by yanking pieces of his internal circuitry out, despite both the silicate and Lieutenant Wang protesting that Silicates are specifically reserved certain rights as intelligent beings, including protection from torture. After the silicate dies, McQueen orders that the "pile of scrap" be disposed of.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: The term "Chigs" is used to refer to their alien enemies, apparently because they look like chiggers. The enemy pilot flying the distinctive Ace Custom in later episodes quickly earns the nickname, "Chiggy Von Richtofen". he's even deadlier than his namesake.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a1588c2a	type	Living Ship
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a1588c2a	comment	Living Ship: the Chigs' spacecraft were at least partly biological and may or may not have been sentient.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a679184b	comment	Lt. Col. Butts is ultimately revealed to be this; one of his motives for taking command of the 58th was to return to the site of his previous unit's last stand and give them a proper burial.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a7850fbf	comment	"Chigs" or (less commonly) "Chiggers" for the aliens, after a kind of mite - to the point of being Only Known by Their Nickname.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen, call-sign "Queen Six". He suffered a crippling injury to his inner ear during a battle with the Chigs in the first episode, being the only survivor from his squadron. He has an artificial implant which allows him to not suffer crippling nausea, but high-g maneuvers (such as those experienced during Space Fighter combat) would cause it to explode. In the second episode featuring Chiggy Von Richthofen, he has the implant removed, trains himself to be able to stand upright and function without a working inner ear, and proceeds to defeat Chiggy Von Richthofen in one-on-one combat while presumably suffering the kind of nausea that would leave most badasses vomiting and sobbing inside their space helmets.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: A feature of several episodes: "Choice or Chance" sees the 58th escaping and evading after their Trojan Horse Chig bomber is shot down. "The River of Stars" sees the 58th in a damaged APC drifting through Chig space. "Stay with the Dead" sees all but one of the 58th given up for dead on an enemy held planet, with the "sole survivor" struggling to convince his superiors the rest of the squadron is still alive. "Who Monitors the Birds?" sees Hawkes alone in enemy territory when a mission to assassinate a Chig officer goes wrong. "Pearly" has the 58th encounter a British Major who has been hiding behind Chig lines long enough to begin to decipher their language. "Sugar Dirt" sees the 58th and 25,000 other Marines marooned on an enemy planet when the Saratoga and the rest of the fleet must suddenly leave orbit.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a89efe3c	type	Unusable Enemy Equipment
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a89efe3c	comment	Unusable Enemy Equipment: Hawkes at one point tries to use a Chig rifle but either can't figure out how to fire it or is technologically prevented from doing so. The team also manages to capture a Chig bomber and use it in a redux of the Doolittle Raid, but they're not good enough at flying it to actually hit their target and are instead shot down and captured.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_a96b8b63	type	Space Marine
Space: Above and Beyond / int_a96b8b63	comment	Space Marine: Notably US Marines, but since it's the future their role has been extended to space.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Space: Above and Beyond / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: A few characters are depicted as the last surviving members of their (former) units. Major McKendrick's ordeal behind enemy lines began when his unit was wiped out. Lt. Col. Butts is ultimately revealed to be this; one of his motives for taking command of the 58th was to return to the site of his previous unit's last stand and give them a proper burial. Possibly McQueen himself, as he is the only member of the Angry Angels explicitly shown to have survived their battle with the Chigs. Played with in "Stay with the Dead" - West's superiors think he is the only survivor, and he must convince them otherwise in order to save the rest of his unit. The Wild Cards faked a last stand for the Chigs' benefit, only it was too effective and convinced the Saratoga crew as well.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_aa4fa3d5	type	Ancient Astronauts
Space: Above and Beyond / int_aa4fa3d5	comment	Ancient Astronauts: It's all but confirmed in "Stardust" that the Chigs have encountered humans for a long time: they can apparently understand Navajo enough that the Marines are able to successfully plant disinformation written in it. In the series finale, the Chig ambassador claims his people are originally from Earth, but left home hundreds of thousands of years before humans evolved. This was in an ancestral form, as bacteria that survived in space and found their way to a new life-bearing planet, but the familiarity with the Navajo language does imply that the 21st century wasn't the first time they dealt with Homo sapiens.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Space: Above and Beyond / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Aerotech, having enough power that their corporate reps are able to march onto the Saratoga and send the 58th on missions for them. At one point, a powerful new missile that they hope to use is stated to be Aerotech property even as they are preparing to use it in action. The UN Secretary General sat on their board of directors, the Chigs demanded that the CEO attend the peace conference, and they appear to have paid informants all over the military. they knew about the existence of the aliens for years, but never even told their own government.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Any members of the 58th that aren't part of the main cast can be assumed to be dead men walking.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: In his Dying Moment of Awesome, Wang yells out the names of all the 58th Squadron Red Shirts who died over the course of the series during his heroic Last Stand.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
Space: Above and Beyond / int_aec3e0b8	comment	Glory Hound: Lt. Herrick to the core - he's obsessed with wanting to see action and prove himself to the veterans around him, even if it means disobeying orders. His unit is wiped out when he leads them on an ill-advised attack.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_affbcbb	type	Cool Helmet
Space: Above and Beyond / int_affbcbb	comment	Cool Helmet: The Wild Cards all have custom artwork on their flight helmets, including their (poker card) themed callsigns.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b1ce5419	type	The Brigadier
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b1ce5419	comment	The Brigadier: Commodore Ross. His rank is even the naval equivalent of brigadier.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b3de39a6	type	SexBot
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b3de39a6	comment	Sex Bot: The original programming for some of the Silicates, notably Felicity OH.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b3e3a659	type	Trading Bars for Stripes
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b3e3a659	comment	Trading Bars for Stripes: Hawkes. Unusually, his deal included becoming an officer and a fighter pilot, rather than being pressed into duty as an enlisted soldier.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b4eff8a8	comment	In "Hostile Visit", the Wild Cards use a captured Chig bomber to mount a sneak attack on a Chig base, likening it to the Doolittle Raid. The operation is an Epic Failure, mainly due to their poor ability to pilot the alien ship: they miss their intended target completely (the Chigs claim they hit a civilian target) and get shot down and captured.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b5ab695c	type	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b5ab695c	comment	Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: Later battles are directly based on parts of the Pacific and Normandy campaigns in World War II, with the similarities usually directly called out in the episodes. In "Hostile Visit", the Wild Cards use a captured Chig bomber to mount a sneak attack on a Chig base, likening it to the Doolittle Raid. The operation is an Epic Failure, mainly due to their poor ability to pilot the alien ship: they miss their intended target completely (the Chigs claim they hit a civilian target) and get shot down and captured. "Stardust" = a disinformation op in the leadup to D-Day. Also referenced are the code talkers, with the Marines using missives written in Navajo and attached to corpses to mislead the Chigs. "Sugar Dirt" = Guadalcanal, with a landing force being abandoned to fend for themselves for months in favor of taking advantage of a more strategic position elsewhere (New Guinea in real life, the planet Ixion near the Chig homeworld in the episode). Complete with a Vanity Plate dedicating the episode to Guadalcanal veterans. Round Hammer itself is inspired by Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. The UN brass even refers to their strategy as 'planet-hopping', a reference to the USN's island hopping campaign in the Pacific. But unlike the real one that never happened because the Japanese surrendered after the American nuclear attacks, Round Hammer is called off in the finale because the Wild Cards screw up and give away the battle plan to the Chigs,note They meet an unarmored Chig while scouting a moon of the Chig homeworld and, not knowing what unarmored Chigs look like, mistake him for a different alien species and tell him about the planned assault to save his life. He is apparently a guardian of a Chig breeding ground and tells his government about the invasion. who offer to open peace negotiations instead of taking advantage. The negotiations go badly awry and the war restarts, but the UN has lost the initiative. The new Lieutenant in "Toy Soldiers" is named after Lieutenant Henry Herrick who was killed in the opening minutes of the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam in 1965 made famous in the book and movie "We Were Soldiers." Depending on who you ask, the actual Herrick was overly gung-ho and allowed his men to be separated from the main force of his battalion and most were killed or wounded.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b6e75430	type	Bald of Authority
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b6e75430	comment	Bald of Authority: Commodore Ross, the CO of the Saratoga and the guy who gives McQueen, essentially the ship's Commander, Air Group, his orders (as well as being as close to a best friend as commander and subordinate can be). He's the only major black character other than Damphousse.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
Space: Above and Beyond / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: InVitro growth tanks.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_bb44f503	type	Robot War
Space: Above and Beyond / int_bb44f503	comment	Robot War: The Silicate War, shown in flashbacks and alluded to often. Literally an Origin Story for Lt. Hawkes and Lt. Colonel McQueen.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_bd31fda5	type	ArtificialHumans
Space: Above and Beyond / int_bd31fda5	comment	The InVitros are called "Tanks" or occasionally "Nipplenecks."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Space: Above and Beyond / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Sgt. Fox takes his morning coffee by swallowing a mouthful of coffee grounds washed down with canteen water.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Space: Above and Beyond / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Ray Butts, due to a combination of He Who Fights Monsters and Poor Communication Kills, is generally despised by the 58th. Played with, in that once the rest of the 58th learn why he's co-opted them from Col. McQueen - his previous unit was wiped out; he wanted to go back to the site of their last stand in part to give his men a proper burial - they gain some respect for him. Zigzagged with Lt. Herrick. His inexperience (bordering on willful ignorance), Drill Sergeant Nasty tendencies, and gung ho attitude would ordinarily make him a decent example... but the equally raw men under his command revere him. It's those outside his chain of command who see him for what he is.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Space: Above and Beyond / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Downplayed: The first episode of the Chiggy von Richthofen arc has an offhand mention that Vansen has an offscreen habit of having quickies with members of the flight crew.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Space: Above and Beyond / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: The fresh-from-training 5th Force Recon in the appropriately named episode "Toy Soldiers".
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c18c22e8	type	Colonel Kilgore
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c18c22e8	comment	Colonel Kilgore: Herrick is only a lieutenant, but otherwise fits this trope rather well, being overly eager to fight the Chigs and gain prestige and honor—even when he's commanding the reserve in a recon mission and has been specifically ordered not to engage the enemy. He disobeys a direct order from Vansen (a superior officer) and decides on his own initiative to attack a Chig satellite tower. He ends up getting his entire squad killed, including Nathan's younger brother, as the tower was a decoy and a trap.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: "Eyes" features an election of a new United Nations secretary general (which has apparently gone to a worldwide popular vote instead of selection by the Security Council delegates) after the previous one is assassinated by an InVitro. One of the candidates is Nicholas Chaput, a Frenchman who is said to be the leader of a far-right political movement and wears military-styled uniforms with a badge clearly meant to be a stylized swastika.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: This M.A.R.I.N.E.S. chant.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Played with in "Sugar Dirt": the Chigs use recorded human voices to try and lure surviving UN forces into booby traps. When that doesn't work, they try taunting them, which works even less well: Major McKendrick in "Pearly" is a straight example, almost to the point of deconstruction. Translating the Chigs' language - a language seemingly completely unknown to humanity - is hard, and he's far from fluent in it, but he's made more progress in deciphering it than any other human we've seen.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: The war with the Chigs is a UN operation, and the People's Liberation Army, Coldstream Guards, and Finnish Air Force all make appearances. However, the US Navy and Marine Corps forces are both the focus of the series and consistently the most successful fighters.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c64a7400	comment	In the episode "Eyes", one of the candidates for UN Secretary-General is the "far right wing" Nicholas Chaput. He's set up to look like the bad guy via the swastika-like emblem of his political party, his distrust of InVitros, and his penchant for polygraph loyalty tests (but only from InVitros). He then reveals that his opponent's corporation provoked the Chig attacks in the first place, and said exec (who winds up getting elected as world leader) tries to have Chaput assassinated.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c7079bc8	type	GuiltyPleasure
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c7079bc8	comment	Guilty Pleasure: When the 58th gets R&R on a pleasure ship, they're offered whatever their hearts desire. Colonel McQueen's desire is to kick back and watch W. C. Fields movies all day.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Space: Above and Beyond / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Space, no one can hear you scream... Unless it's the BATTLECRY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!!! In "Dear Earth", Commodore Ross gets angry over some missing strawberrys. Fortunately he doesn't full Queeg.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ca198bc3	type	Paintball Episode
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ca198bc3	comment	Paintball Episode: When Lt. Col. Butts (briefly) takes command of the 58th, one of his first actions is to put the squadron through a training exercise with paintball pistols.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Played with. The Angry Angels are reputed as the top pilots in the Marine Corps, so much so that they get a Custom Uniform. The entire unit is obliterated in the first major battle with the Chigs in the pilot. Possibly justified: it's indicated in the pilot that there hasn't been a major Earth conflict since the A.I. War about twenty years earlier, so it would appear the Angels actually attained their reputation during military exercises in peacetime. It's only much later in "The Angriest Angel" that we see their real skill, when T.C. McQueen, the only member of the unit to remain on active duty after the battle in the pilot, personally goes out and kills Chiggy von Richthofen in a solo sortie despite having been crippled during the Angels' last battle.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cafdaf4e	type	Trust Password
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cafdaf4e	comment	Trust Password: When investigating a mining facility in "The Dark Side of the Sun", the 58th use "Bulldog" and "Chesty" as a sign/countersign. As it was Vansen who came up with the code words, they are likely in reference to famed Marine Corps General Chesty Puller.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cb83d23b	type	I Just Want to Be Special
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cb83d23b	comment	I Just Want to Be Special: The officer attached to the 58th in "Level of Necessity" to investigate Damphousse's apparent psychic abilities would like nothing more than to become psychic himself.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cbd5e41a	type	Vehicular Turnabout
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cbd5e41a	comment	Vehicular Turnabout: The Earth military captured an alien Bomber. They had to spend some time learning how to operate it before they could use it against the Chigs, though.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: to a small degree as the Saratoga comms officer gets frustrated with the 58th sending mundane reports over the radio during the raging battles in "Sugardirt." McQueen cuts her off and sends the team an uplifting reply, and then chews her out reminding her to "never make them think they are not needed!" After two months on their own, these generally useless reports were the only thing keeping the 58th from collapsing from exhaustion.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Almost every Aero-Tech employee in the series.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cc4b45f6	comment	The series finale has Wang cover the escape of West, Hawkes, and Kylen and the other captured colonists by separating the cargo compartment of an APC with him in it so West can grab the one from the other, disabled, APC. He blows away several Chig fighters with a mounted gun before one crashes into him. Word of God is that, had the series not been cancelled, the death would still have stuck.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: T.C. McQueen repeatedly was shown to be the only guy who knew what the Hell he was doing - especially when he fought Chiggy Von Richthofen. Lieutenant Colonel Raymond T. Butts, who crosses this with The Neidermeyer, can not only take on entire groups of Marines in a brawl, but manages to lure a group of Chig fighters into falling into a Black Hole, singing along to Johnny Cash as he gets pulled in with them.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: Has noisy space like almost every other sci-fi show, but also parodied in the pilot with R. Lee Ermey's line, "In space, no one can hear you scream, unless it's the battle cry of a United States Marine!"
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness and Tanks, but No Tanks: Discussed in "Pearly". The Wildcards end up taking refuge inside an armored vehicle on the battlefield. They keep referring to it as an Armored Personnel Carrier, much to the driver's annoyance. Finally he screams "TANK!", briefly being Mistaken for Racist because Hawke is there - but it turns out that Pearly is a battle tank, not an APC.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Vansen goes on one when she learns why the Silicates killed her parents: they flipped a coin,note Heads, they kill Vansen's family. Tails, the family across the street as Silicates view betting as a semi-religious experience. She starts her rampage off by beating a Silicate to death with her bare hands.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Space: Above and Beyond / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In "Stay with the Dead", West is believed to be the only survivor of the 58th after a disastrous mission. When he tries to tell his superiors the rest of the Wildcards are still alive, they think he's suffering from PTSD. Eventually, he manages to convince Col. McQueen, and the squadron is rescued.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_d043100b	type	Nose Art
Space: Above and Beyond / int_d043100b	comment	Nose Art: Chiggy Von Richtofen's Ace Custom has a human skull painted on the nose, and the words "Abandon All Hope". In English, as the characters note. When the 58th becomes operational late in the the pilot episode, several of their Hammerheads have slogans painted on, including "Pags' Payback" (on Hawkes' fighter) and "Above and Beyond" (on West's).
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Space: Above and Beyond / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded in one episode when the 58th complain about this; Colonel McQueen justifies it with the Marine creed that every Marine is a rifleman.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
Space: Above and Beyond / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: The Silicates launched a brutal Robot War against humanity, and would later sign on with the Chigs when their war with humanity broke out. The InVitros were a more minor example, created by humanity to fight the Silicates, but turned out to make poor soldiers as they had no stake in the fight and gained little motivation from being used as easily-replaced Cannon Fodder. Rather than actually turn against their creators, they mostly just refused to fight for them with a few exceptions.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
Space: Above and Beyond / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: When a Chig ambassador aboard the Saratoga takes off it's helmet, revealing itself as the same alien species the 58th aided on Anvil.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Space: Above and Beyond / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The InVitros awoke from their tanks, were informed they had been created to fight a war they had no stake in, and promptly deserted.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_da1e24b7	type	Recovered Addict
Space: Above and Beyond / int_da1e24b7	comment	Recovered Addict: The In Vitros have severe problems with addictions to certain pain meds. Col. McQueen has had problems with the same "Green Meanies" prescribed to Hawkes in one episode.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Space: Above and Beyond / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Wang, who stopped believing in religion after seeing the horrors of war, although he still has a tendency to cross himself before battle and when he thinks he's going to die. When Damphousse (a devout Christian) calls him on it, he claims it's just superstition and habit.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Many of the female Marines, but particularly Captain Vansen, the most gung-ho of the squad.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_db30c9d0	comment	Deconstructed in "Sugar Dirt". The 58th are ordered to land their planes and join in ground combat, which lets their fighters be destroyed on the ground when the Chigs spring their trap.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Space: Above and Beyond / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Elroy-EL, a line of Silicates that specialize as torturers.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Space: Above and Beyond / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In the episode "Eyes", one of the candidates for UN Secretary-General is the "far right wing" Nicholas Chaput. He's set up to look like the bad guy via the swastika-like emblem of his political party, his distrust of InVitros, and his penchant for polygraph loyalty tests (but only from InVitros). He then reveals that his opponent's corporation provoked the Chig attacks in the first place, and said exec (who winds up getting elected as world leader) tries to have Chaput assassinated. The same episode also had A group of Silicates that had been invited to the gathering for some reason. They don't cause any problems for the entire time they are there.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_dc3df63a	type	Death Notification
Space: Above and Beyond / int_dc3df63a	comment	Death Notification: After the death of Nathan West's younger brother Neil, Nathan is shocked to discover that the notification letter was sent to the wrong address. He ends up writing a letter of his own home to inform their mother himself. It is implied that rather than being hand-delivered, the notices are sent in the mail in "ugly yellow envelopes".
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Space: Above and Beyond / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Hawkes and to lesser degree, Vansen had some interest in each other. If the show had continued on, Hawkes likely would have become a lifer like Vansenm which would make them more compatible.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_dd95a27b	type	I Never Told You My Name
Space: Above and Beyond / int_dd95a27b	comment	I Never Told You My Name: Invoked by Nathan in "Choice or Chance", when "Kylen" calls for two of Nathan's squadmates to follow, he coldly shoots her.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_de62575	type	Mix-and-Match Man
Space: Above and Beyond / int_de62575	comment	The InVitro "Tanks" were how the world government fought an enemy that marched off of assembly lines ready, willing and able to fight; they developed a way to mass-produce soldiers. InVitros are made from chromosomes mixed and matched from hundreds of separate donors for optimal results, so their "parents" never existed as two living, breathing human beings and artificially gestated — a process with a 90% failure rate which produces humans physically 18 years of age — to be full-grown Child Soldiers, socially awkward children with the bodies and training of elite military operatives, but with no life experiences. Though skilled fighters, they actually made poor soldiers; without familial or social ties to humanity, they were hesitant to risk their lives in heated combat and many deserted. Lacking equal rights under the law when they were first created, every single one was obviously a draftee, and Really Was Born Yesterday. This led to their entire "race" being condemned as lazy and cowardly, and post-war are condemned to the drudge work of society — and often predictably go From Camouflage to Criminal, adding "violent lawbreaker" to the litany of bigotry. As an InVitro, Lieutenant Cooper Hawkes of the 58th constantly endured slurs like "nipple-neck" (InVitro were trained through Neural Implanting via a second umbilical cords at the base of the neck which left a puckered scar after removal) and "tank."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_dfdcd12d	comment	2 + Torture = 5: Wang confesses under torture to war crimes he didn't commit.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent: "Eyes" involves the possibility that one of the 58th's own might be one. It turns out to be one of the squadron's new replacements, although Hawkes finds himself getting this treatment as well and coming within a hair of killing his target.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Cooper Hawkes, Justified since he is not only just a few years old, but also very poorly socialized due to being a runaway. He improves over time as he fights and serves alongside the other Wild Cards.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: McQueen torturing a captured Silicate saboteur to death to find out where Chiggy Von Richthofen is.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e206977a	type	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e206977a	comment	In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face: Those lighted helmets must make good aiming points for Chig soldiers in the dark.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e2145533	type	Android Identifier
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e2145533	comment	Android Identifier: "InVitros", artificially-created humans, do not have belly buttons, but rather nipple-like bumps on the back of their necks from where artificial placentas attached to them in the womb-tanks (hence the Fantastic Slurs "nipple-neck" and "tanks").
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e234ddbf	type	Escape Pod
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e234ddbf	comment	Winslow, a character who appears for four episodes about the middle of the series before being killed when Chiggy von Richthofen destroys her Escape Pod. This prompts McQueen to have his cochlear implant removed so he can safely fly a one-man sortie to kill Chiggy.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: The Silicates, who look like regular humans with crosshairs for eyes, along with some uncanny behavioral tics.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: McQueen's inner ear was injured badly enough that he relies on an electric implant to maintain his balance. This keeps him off flight status because the implant will fail under heavy maneuvering. When he decides to take on Chiggy von Richtoferson, he has the implant removed and battles through intense vertigo until he overcomes it through sheer willpower.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e7c671f3	comment	The show is of course known for averting Mildly Military, but they even go so far as to include little touches like having the deployed servicemen read The Stars and Stripes.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e8760868	comment	Of course, in-universe all InVitros technically are the equivalent of fully trained officers, and Cooper in particular is one gone AWOL; in "Who Monitors The Birds" it's revealed that he was going to be killed by his trainer for being too intelligent and curious, and instead killed him and escaped. It's a grotesque miscarriage of justice, but also a way of highlighting the utter amorality of the described process.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e8a6e896	type	The Battlestar
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e8a6e896	comment	The Battlestar: Though primarily used as a spacecraft carrier, the USS Saratoga is shown from time to time to engage in ship-to-ship combat against enemy capital ships. Presumably her sister ships (including the USS Eisenhower and presumably the USS Hornet)
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Space: Above and Beyond / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: In Vitros are all considerably younger than their physical age, since they're force-grown to eighteen while still in the tank.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ee7a60e9	comment	Commodore as a United States Navy rank was phased out in the 1980s. While officers in certain posts may still be referred to by that title, none would be in the chain of command of a carrier. Additionally, all present day commodores are senior captains, whereas Commodore Ross wears the single star of a rear admiral. This may again be the result of the show drawing heavily on World War II for inspiration, as the conflict saw a revival of the rank. It may also be due to a case of rank-based One-Steve Limit, allowing the show to sidestep questions of why Lt. Col. McQueen would outrank (Marine) Captain Vansen but not a (Navy) Captain Ross, or why an Admiral Ross would answer to other admirals and generals.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f0982bbf	type	Aliens Steal Cable
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f0982bbf	comment	Aliens Steal Cable: This is the explanation for the Chigs mutilating human dead: it's not really malicious, they just misunderstood the Gospel narrative as indicating that humans can come back to life after being killed.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: Major McKendrick is a subversion of sorts. In fact, when McQueen points out his refusal to be rescued and evacuated is technically desertion, he gets extremely offended, as he considers his current work decoding the Chig language to be much more important than the pencil pushing the British Army would undoubtedly reassign him to. This doesn't stop the Wildcards from suspecting him first when a power cell goes missing. it was actually Wang who stole the power cell
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: A reporter is broadcasting from aboard the USS Yorktown in the pilot, as the humans are about to fight their first major battle against the Chigs. From what we can see of the broadcast and the aftermath, it didn't go well. (Fridge Logic: One wonders if the reporter's live feed from aboard the flagship might have made it easier for the Chigs to defeat the human force with such uncharacteristic ease, compared to later in the series.)
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: "Hey! Abe Lincoln's dead!" Said by Chigs in "Sugar Dirt" to the bemusement of the Wild Cards.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The AI Wars. Several senior officers including McQueen, Ross, and Butts are veterans of that war.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: West spends the entire series searching for his girlfriend, whose colony ship was attacked by the Chigs shortly after he was pulled off the colony mission. He and his squadron rescue her and the other surviving colonists in the series finale.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Space: Above and Beyond / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In "Stay with the Dead", the 58th use this as a ploy against the Chigs. Unfortunately, their fellow Marines believe it too.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
Space: Above and Beyond / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: At several times in the series, Vansen and West appeared to be getting set up as a couple. The Finale sank this ship by having West rescue Kylen and Vansen getting stranded behind enemy lines.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_fb4e0f18	type	Asian and Nerdy
Space: Above and Beyond / int_fb4e0f18	comment	Asian and Nerdy: Wang is an interesting take on this trope, as he's a sports nerd (his parents once send him sod from Wrigley Field, and he claims he can figure out where exactly in the field it's from by the smell).
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Space: Above and Beyond / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The True Companions' squadron is called The Wildcards. Their callsigns are all based on poker cards.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_fdeed2aa	type	Old-School Dogfight
Space: Above and Beyond / int_fdeed2aa	comment	Old-School Dogfight: Played with a little. The Human SA-43 "Hammerhead" fighters have guns in front and behind so they can shoot at targets that aren't in fount of them. Often zigzagged during space combat sequences. While the Hammerheads are typically seen executing maneuvers that wouldn't look out of place for a World War I or World War II fighter, they are also shown to be capable of feats of agility matched only by present day attack helicopters and aircraft like the Harrier... as befitting craft maneuvering via thrust vectoring and operating outside of an atmosphere.
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Space: Above and Beyond / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: "You will be issued one urine and fecal collection device. A yellow flashing light on the flight suit indicates full capacity."
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Space: Above and Beyond / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Space: Above and Beyond / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The show is of course known for averting Mildly Military, but they even go so far as to include little touches like having the deployed servicemen read The Stars and Stripes. The song that that 7th Cav Sergeant sings at the beginning of "Pearly"? That's not a random tune, that's Garry Owen, the 7th's regimental song.
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Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Macross Missile Massacre / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Market-Based Title / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Medal of Dishonor / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Mocking Music / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Naming Your Colony World / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Nicknaming the Enemy / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	No-Dialogue Episode / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	No Navel, Novel Birth / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Nose Art / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Numbered Homeworld / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Obligatory War Crime Scene / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Old-School Dogfight / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Ominous Visual Glitch / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Only Useful as Toilet Paper / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Panspermia / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	People Jars / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Physical Fitness Punishment / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Pleasure Planet / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Post-Injury Desk Job / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Ramming Always Works / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Recovered Addict / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Red Ones Go Faster / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Red-plica Baron / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Reunion Vow / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Ghetto / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Semper Fi / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Servant Race / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Sexbot / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Shooting Gallery / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Single Mom Stripper / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Sink the Lifeboats / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Space Fighter / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Space Is an Ocean / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Space Marine / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Space Navy / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Space Plane / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Space Stories / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Squad Nickname / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Standard Human Spaceship / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Army / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Fleet / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Supernatural Fear Inducer / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Tank Goodness / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Tanks, but No Tanks / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Thank the Maker / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	The Battlestar / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	The Brigadier / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	The Grim Reaper / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	The Needs of the Many / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Title by Year / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	To Absent Friends / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Too Good to Last / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Trading Bars for Stripes / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Tragic One-Shot Character / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Treachery Cover-Up / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Triple Nipple / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Turned Against Their Masters / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Twisted Christmas / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Ultraterrestrials / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Uncanny Valley / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Unusual User Interface / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Vehicular Turnabout / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	War Crime Subverts Heroism / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	"What Do They Fear?" Episode / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Who Watches the Watchmen? / int_c007e9c8
SpaceAboveandBeyond	sameAs	Space: Above and Beyond
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Hey, It's That Gun! / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	Paintball Episode / int_c007e9c8
Space: Above and Beyond	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_c007e9c8

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