Odyssey 5
Five years into the future, five Odyssey astronauts and a NASA technician are setting up NASA's latest high tech satellite just outside of Earth's orbit. The five are: Chuck Taggart - a charismatic authoritative and stoic mission commander and former ace pilot, Kurt Mendel - a likable pompous horny quip-prone British science author and NASA's special celebrity guest on the flight who actually does know a lot about science and can be brave and cunning despite claiming otherwise, Neil Taggart - Chuck's young adult son and genuine computer expert, Sarah Forbes - a popular news anchor and TV reporter who's there to make an exclusive piece about the mission, and Angela Perry - Chuck's experienced co-pilot who's father is a powerful senator. Everything is going fine until the Earth is suddenly caught on fire and then implodes for no apparent reason. This horrifying mysterious event damages the crew's shuttle, which leads to the death of the technician and also leaves Angela badly hurt and unconscious. Just before their oxygen runs out, the crew is saved by a friendly alien AI construct, who calls himself the Seeker and who's been investigating similar planetary destructions for some time now. Since each destroyed planet was home to a developing civilization like human on Earth, the Seeker believes that someone or something is intentionally causing these catastrophes to happen with the goal of eradicating sentient life entirely. He asks the crew for help and they agree. The Seeker sends their consciousnesses through time and they all wake up on Earth five years in the past. This gives them the chance to find out who or what caused the destruction of Earth and stop it. However, the fact that they know the future and that they act on this knowledge causes slight changes and some things happen differently, which sometimes proves to be beneficial but at other times leads to tragedy. They also have new problems in their personal lives. Chuck can't convince his wife that he's seen the future, which jeopardizes their marriage. Also, his other son Marc tries to impress him by trying to become an astronaut despite the fact that he hates the job. Kurt tries to use his knowledge of the future for his personal benefit but it backfires. Neil is now a teenager again and has to go back to high school. Also, his girlfriend is now underage as well which makes things a bit awkward for him. Sarah's little son has died from cancer in the original timeline, so she does all she can to prevent this from happening this time. However, her obsession causes her husband at the time to think that she's insane and potentially dangerous for the boy. On the other hand, Sarah has to deal with the fact that her future husband is now just one of her coworkers, who's still with his future ex. Angela's ability to perform her duty is questioned after an accident caused by the time travel and there's danger that she won't be on the Odyssey mission in five years if she fails her psych test. Also, her father may or may not be somehow involved with what happens to Earth. The crew's favorite hangout place is a nice quiet local diner where they can consult one another and plan their next moves or simply unwind. They soon finds evidence of a major conspiracy but they'll have to dig much deeper to determine who's behind it, what it's goals are and whether or not it actually has anything to do with the future destruction of Earth. Their only clue is the word Leviathan that showed up on their shuttle's monitor just before Earth's destruction and suspects include human conspirators within NASA and the US government, powerful mysterious AI beings called Sentients and possibly even aliens. Due to cancellation, the show ends on an unresolved cliffhanger but some answers are given.
- 2002-2004
- 1 season
- Showtime Networks
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-14
Five years into the future, five Odyssey astronauts and a NASA technician are setting up NASA's latest high tech satellite just outside of Earth's orbit. The five are: Chuck Taggart - a charismatic authoritative and stoic mission commander and former ace pilot, Kurt Mendel - a likable pompous horny quip-prone British science author and NASA's special celebrity guest on the flight who actually does know a lot about science and can be brave and cunning despite claiming otherwise, Neil Taggart - Chuck's young adult son and genuine computer expert, Sarah Forbes - a popular news anchor and TV reporter who's there to make an exclusive piece about the mission, and Angela Perry - Chuck's experienced co-pilot who's father is a powerful senator. Everything is going fine until the Earth is suddenly caught on fire and then implodes for no apparent reason. This horrifying mysterious event damages the crew's shuttle, which leads to the death of the technician and also leaves Angela badly hurt and unconscious. Just before their oxygen runs out, the crew is saved by a friendly alien AI construct, who calls himself the Seeker and who's been investigating similar planetary destructions for some time now. Since each destroyed planet was home to a developing civilization like human on Earth, the Seeker believes that someone or something is intentionally causing these catastrophes to happen with the goal of eradicating sentient life entirely. He asks the crew for help and they agree. The Seeker sends their consciousnesses through time and they all wake up on Earth five years in the past. This gives them the chance to find out who or what caused the destruction of Earth and stop it. However, the fact that they know the future and that they act on this knowledge causes slight changes and some things happen differently, which sometimes proves to be beneficial but at other times leads to tragedy. They also have new problems in their personal lives. Chuck can't convince his wife that he's seen the future, which jeopardizes their marriage. Also, his other son Marc tries to impress him by trying to become an astronaut despite the fact that he hates the job. Kurt tries to use his knowledge of the future for his personal benefit but it backfires. Neil is now a teenager again and has to go back to high school. Also, his girlfriend is now underage as well which makes things a bit awkward for him. Sarah's little son has died from cancer in the original timeline, so she does all she can to prevent this from happening this time. However, her obsession causes her husband at the time to think that she's insane and potentially dangerous for the boy. On the other hand, Sarah has to deal with the fact that her future husband is now just one of her coworkers, who's still with his future ex. Angela's ability to perform her duty is questioned after an accident caused by the time travel and there's danger that she won't be on the Odyssey mission in five years if she fails her psych test. Also, her father may or may not be somehow involved with what happens to Earth. The crew's favorite hangout place is a nice quiet local diner where they can consult one another and plan their next moves or simply unwind. They soon finds evidence of a major conspiracy but they'll have to dig much deeper to determine who's behind it, what it's goals are and whether or not it actually has anything to do with the future destruction of Earth. Their only clue is the word Leviathan that showed up on their shuttle's monitor just before Earth's destruction and suspects include human conspirators within NASA and the US government, powerful mysterious AI beings called Sentients and possibly even aliens. Due to cancellation, the show ends on an unresolved cliffhanger but some answers are given.
Season 1 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
Pilot
Fri, Jun 21, 2002 120 mins
The astronaut crew of a space shuttle looks on in horror as they witness the violent destruction of the Earth. However, they are given a chance to change humanity's fate when a sympathetic alien sends them five years into the past. Their mission--find out who's responsible for the plot to destroy the planet. Can they deal with their own pasts while saving the world from the mysterious organism known only as "Leviathan?"
Episode 2
Shatterer
Fri, Jun 28, 2002 44 mins
The crew tries to prevent the suicide of a notable mathematician who developed sentient AI programs. Sarah and Angela investigate a suspicious gene therapy treatment. Neil returns to high school and meets his now underage girlfriend.
Episode 3
Astronaut Dreams
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 46 mins
Fearing it might destroy Earth, Chuck plans to sabotage NASA's new satellite project Bright Sky. Sarah tries to prevent a crime that happened in the original timeline but now it happens differently. Kurt finds a way to detect synthetics.
Episode 4
Time Out of Mind
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 46 mins
Kurt Mendell marries Karen, a woman who is destined to become a major pop star. Meanwhile the Odyssey crew begin to lose their memories of the future and of each other. Eventually it is up to Kurt to figure out what happened and how to reverse it. The only clue he has is an unintelligible coded message that Chuck wrote in a trance. Kurt desperately tries to decrypt it before he loses his memories as well, which jeopardizes his marriage.
Episode 5
Symbiosis
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 44 mins
Kurt Mendell marries Karen, a woman who is destined to become a major pop star. Meanwhile the Odyssey crew begin to lose their memories of the future and of each other. Eventually it is up to Kurt to figure out what happened and how to reverse it. The only clue he has is an unintelligible coded message that Chuck wrote in a trance. Kurt desperately tries to decrypt it before he loses his memories as well, which jeopardizes his marriage.
Episode 6
The Choices We Make
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 50 mins
The crew has visions of people asking them if they believe that anything is possible. This leads to Chuck and Neil confronting a painful memory, Sarah dealing with her son's cancer and Kurt and Angela seeing the future they could've had.
Episode 7
Rapture
Fri, Aug 2, 2002 46 mins
Neil's classmate hooks Niel's girlfriend and some other kids on a strange psychoactive drug that seemingly makes people smarter. Chuck learns that NASA's new flight director is part of "The Cadre" cabal. Angela's psych evaluation is up.
Episode 8
L.D.U. 7
Fri, Aug 9, 2002 47 mins
Chuck, Kurt and Sarah infiltrate a high tech private prison dubbed Lock Down Unit 7 to find a convict who claims he killed the synthetic replicas of his parents. Meanwhile, Neil must deal with his brother who's having an identity crisis.
Episode 9
Flux
Fri, Aug 16, 2002 48 mins
Chuck gets infected by a synthetic and starts turning into one. The other synthetics want him to join them. Sarah tries to get joint custody of her son, after his father takes him away. Marc is tested by his supervisor.
Episode 10
Kitten
Fri, Aug 23, 2002 47 mins
While working late one night, Neil begins an online chat with a mysterious girl who only identifies herself as Kitten. Over the next several days, Kitten begins to harass Neil via his computer and cellphone. With no clue about Kitten's identity, Neil begins to suspect that his school's new computer system is actually Kitten, and sets out to rid himself of the obsessive system.
Episode 11
Dark at the End of the Tunnel
Fri, Aug 30, 2002 48 mins
While watching a BDSM pornographic film, Kurt sees a hidden message in the video and immediately gets the uncontrollable urge to leave for a small rural town he's never been to of heard of before. Chuck is having trouble proving to his wife that he knows the future. She doesn't believe in his story about Earth being destroyed and asks him to see a psychiatrist or she'll file for divorce. When she gets the word that her mother has suffered a heart attack, Chuck convinces her that it's just false alarm and to trust him and stay home. If her mother calls her back and says she's okay, she'll have to take his time travel story seriously. If it turns out that it actually was a heart attack, it'll prove that he doesn't know the future and she will leave him for good. A heat wave has hit Texas and Neil is taking it very poorly. Sarah is angry that her TV station has brought in a gimmicky weatherman. Angela remembers that her father will have a car accident and tries to prevent it. However, she also remembers that the last time there were no heat wave and it was raining all day. This clews in the others that something is wrong. They eventually find out about Kurt's departure, so Chuck and Neil, with the help of Sarah, travel to the small town Kurt's in to see what's going on both there and with him. Meanwhile, Kurt's become a part of the local religious cult of zealots that's awaiting the arrival of the Messiah that night.
Episode 12
Trouble with Harry
Fri, Sep 6, 2002 46 mins
Friendly geeky and nerdy sentient takes over a synthetic body and goes on the run. As a big fan of Star Trek and Sci-Fi in general, he decides to call himself Harry Mudd. He finds the gang and warns them that an insane sentient called Phaedra plans to destroy Earth. The crew visits the scientific research center that holds the atom collider that Phaedra took over. Meanwhile, Harry tries to satisfy his enormous curiosity about what it's like to be human by engaging in various human activities such as cooking and group sex. In the end, love conquers all.
Episode 13
Skin
Fri, Sep 13, 2002 50 mins
Man-made artificially intelligent synthetic organism that imitates human skin and can attach itself to a person and take them over jumps from one person to another in an attempt to kill Angela's father. Chuck's worst nightmare comes true.
Episode 14
Begotten
Fri, Oct 1, 2004 43 mins
Chuck takes a trip down memory lane with a young female hitchhiker. Kurt grows a human-synthetic hybrid. It attacks him and escapes. He suffers a mental breakdown and becomes convinced that the crew has been replaced by synthetics.
Episode 15
Vanishing Point
Fri, Oct 1, 2004 48 mins
Chuck suddenly wakes up in a hospital with his dead wife by his side. She claims that it was he who almost died, not she. Sarah and Angela investigate a mass grave tied to a Transhumanist group. Neil loses his virginity - again.
Episode 16
Follow the Leader
Fri, Oct 8, 2004 44 mins
A group of children who all visit the same computer lab receive a strange signal over the Internet and become obsessed with it to the point of killing anyone who tries to interfere. Chuck's estranged sister helps him deal with his grief.
Episode 17
Half-Life
Fri, Oct 8, 2004 44 mins
Angela believes that the ghost of her dead ex boyfriend, a pilot who got killed in an experiment, is haunting her. Sarah starts dating a colleague she ended up marrying in the original timeline.
Episode 18
Rage
Fri, Oct 15, 2004 43 mins
Dr. Chandra dies under suspicious circumstances and leaves the crew a disk that synthetics want. The crew investigates what caused a strange riot in a peaceful suburbanite neighborhood in the original timeline and tries to prevent it.
Episode 19
Fossil
Fri, Oct 15, 2004 52 mins
Chuck analyzes a strange Moon rock concealed by NASA and finally gets some answers. Angela is kidnapped. A cop falsely suspects Kurt. Sarah's wish comes true - as well as her worst nightmare. The show ends on an unresolved cliffhanger.