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The problem with Space Above and Beyond was that they didn't know if they wanted their Marines to be pilots or ground pounders -- so they chose both. Ugh. No one is going to send pilot in as ground forces. If they had made them some sort of special ops force instead of misfits, it might have made a little more sense. Then again, Hollywood seems to think that misfits are the cream of the military since most military action movies are about misfits.

That's one of the big problems. It also suffered from a poorly designed universe, one episode the enemy was on Mars the next everything was many solar systems away, nobody seemed to be able to construct an arc for the war. Finally there was a clear attempt to work an anti-war message into it which really didn't make sense given the back plot (how do you project a war where humans are defending themselves from an invading species they never even heard of before they attacked as a "bad war"). Overall a very poorly done TV show that had a lot of potential but not the right people to bring it out.