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{{quote|''"There are powers that you do not understand guarding you, Liam"''|'''Da'an'''}}
Like [[Andromeda]], this is a show [[Gene Roddenberry]] managed to create while being in his grave; it was actually more an effort of his wife. All things Gene Roddenberry demanded from ''[[
The series lasted from October, 1997 to May, 2002. A total of 110 episodes in five seasons. As the title might suggest it takes place on Earth, a very lethal place as all characters seem to die off very swiftly after being introduced. One of the only series to kill of its lead after the first season. At the start it has been three years back since a [[Sufficiently Advanced]] alien race called the Taelons came to Earth who quickly proceeded to remove all hunger, poverty, illness from the human populace and win the admiration of the public at heart. Naturally it turns out they have some form of hidden agenda.
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* [[Baby Factory]]: Not onscreen, though they're occasionally mentioned.
* [[BFG]]: In one episode, we get a glimpse of a project called Forge, which turns out to be a giant anti-space cannon, capable of firing through ID space. Its ammo? A ''cubic mile'' of lava from Earth's core.
* [[Child
* [[Coconut Superpowers]]. Apparently Liam Kincaid has the Shaqarava but he hardly uses it and it's finally explained by that he becomes more human over time.
* [[Continuity Nod]] - Because of season five's radically different premise, any reference it makes to the first four seasons seem like this instead of actual continuity. It's most extreme during the series finale; after an entire season of only hearing the phrase 'core energy' once or twice, down from it being an original, pivotol plot point and mentioned often, we are suddenly reminded of how important it was when the Taelon mothership itself nearly dies from a lack of sustinence. It probably says something about the quality of season five's new characters that the mothership being ''saved'' is a high point of the finale.
* [[Cool Starship]] : The Taelon Mothership. Appearing almost transparent in space, save for strings of light going through the ship, a living being capable of regenerating and indeed, growing or shrinking itself referred to as a "she" by the Taelons, and had firepower capable of destroying a planet.
* [[Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity]]
* [[Energy Beings]] The Taelons, the Kimera. The first seem to be primarily energy based but not entirely in the [[Stargate SG
** Also a rare [[Deconstruction]]; beings made of energy have to contend with the fact that they ''expend'' that energy by living. The true, epic level of Zo'or's arrogance over their evolution into [[Energy Beings]] shows when we learn that they're actually an evolutionary dead-end; they have no way of naturally replenishing that energy.
* [[Expository Theme Tune]] / [[Opening Narration]]
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* [[Properly Paranoid]] - the Resistance
* [[Psychic Link]]: The Taelon Commonality.
* [[Recurring Character]]. Like [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* [[The Starscream]] - Sandoval, the only character to appear in every single season.
** What about Zo'or?
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* [[The Stoic]]. Doors, Sandoval.
* [[Story Arc]]. Probably one of the most convoluted overall plotline in any science fiction show. The writers setting up a major progression towards a climax which never comes.
** To be fair, the end of season four ''did'' end the original story arc, but it was extremely vague and served as a non-event segue into season five's radically different direction. To wit; the entire purpose behind the Taelon's conquest of various non-space-faring species is a search for some sort of genetic missing link they lost when they converted into beings of energy; this deficiency leaves them without the ability to actually ''generate'' the energy they burn by simply ''existing.'' The human genome contains the solution, but by the time its discovered and used, nearly all of the species has died out anyway and the survivors [[Ascend to
* [[They Were Holding You Back]]: Boon's wife.
* [[Twist Ending]] - The show wasn't afraid to [[Retcon|reveal]] that characters which were two seasons old to secretly been plotting against what they seemed the whole time.
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