According to more dubious sources (ones that have vanished to the annals of internet history, where even the Wayback Machine can’t find them), the female commander would’ve had a lot of friction with most of the surviving WildCards, the exception being Vansen, who’d have looked up to her. Having his former enemies now, in some way, a part of himself might have proven difficult to accept. In a separate chat with McQueen’s actor James Morrison, he described McQueen’s season 2 arc as a “warrior without a war,” and part of his recovery would’ve meant accepting his new prosthetic leg, built off the same technology used to construct the Silicates. It sounds like it would’ve been an “Umbridge” situation, to borrow a phrase from TVTropes, which is itself a fairly common plot when introducing a change in leadership. His replacement would’ve been a woman, although there’s very little detail about her character. In a chat held by the Sci-Fi Channel after the show’s cancellation, Wong and Morgan stated that McQueen would’ve returned to Earth and had to face his new disabilities. Even if everyone somehow returned and survived, the plan was to introduce new characters anyway. Essentially, they’d have been able to write out anyone who wanted out fairly easily. But even with the finale the way it ended up, there were plans to continue the story. So let’s dig in and find out where this very military show might have headed had it continued.įirst and foremost, the finale wouldn’t have been as it was had they known in advance they’d get another season, it wouldn’t have ended with nearly all the characters dead or in mortal danger. 
And while this show is hardly a well-planned out 5 year arc like Babylon 5, the creators, James Wong and Glen Morgan, did have some plans for Space: Above & Beyond season 2 sketched out before the show was canceled (and even discussed the possibility of a theatrical continuation). From the start, the creators had hoped the show would last at least 5 seasons, which in and of itself is a pretty common desire for showrunners (5 seasons times 22 episodes equals 110 total, enough to secure syndication, which in the 90s is where the big money came from). Like so many other Fox shows, Space: Above & Beyond was canceled before it had a chance, after being yanked around by the network for a few months. This month’s edition returns to a show that had its moment in the Obscure Sci-Fi Primer spotlight just a few months ago.
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