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Wong: "There's a class in college that Glenn and I took together, and we read all these great novels and books about war. And basically came up with the idea of doing Combat!, but set in the future and in space. We were thinking, at the time, that people didn't have anything to believe in. So it's like where's the good war? And if we're going to do a show on combat, is there a good war?"
Morgan: "We wanted this show to be about, you know, I believe in you. You know, in war, that's what it breaks down to -- its like, what will you do for the friend that's next to you? And more than that, you know, what would you do for the guy who's out in the street? That's what we're shooting for."
[first half of the pilot - Vesta, Tellus, intro of the latter Cards]
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#2 Wong: "When you have the In Vitro thing, then you have to go Well why did we have to kind of create these other beings? We wanted to be able to deal with racism and bigotry - I feel that's an important issue because I have dealt with it myself. I hope to God that by 2063 we're beyond color of our skin. And we thought, well, then we have to create something new. We have to create an underclass that, wrongly of course, people are bigoted against or have problems with."
[Boot Camp training]
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#3 Wong: Shane was a natural leader. At the same time, she didn't want to mother anybody anymore. She had been taking care of her sisters all her life and she felt this responsibility to others, and that's the reason why she joined the Marines. As fate would have it, she becomes the leader of this group."
Morgan: "The cast dynamic was very similar to the ... off-camera, was similar to what had happened on camera, and I think that there's a lot of ways that Kristen was sort of ... more of a boss."
[Asteroids bar fight, announcement of enemy attack, Mars mission]
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#4 Morgan: "When dealing with the future, you can sort of come pretty close to predicting the technology. What you can't really hit are the social issues, you know - you don't know what technological event is going to kick-off some change in social attitude. The science-fiction audience is pretty intelligent and they know the technology of today, and they can go No, that's not going to be there in 2063. We had compromised on 2063 because it was the century anniversary of Kennedy's death, which a lot of people would say, you know, is the death of innocence in America."
[Mars Mission, death of Pags]
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#5 Morgan: "I think that Cooper came a lot out of that 20th century American myth of the totally green kid who sort of wanted to believe in this thing that he was fighting for, but didn't really see it in front of him, you know. And then came to realize that the importance was to try to keep the friends around you alive."
[Chig is captured and commits suicide, Pags is buried]
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#6 Morgan: "We kind of knew that by the end of the series that we wanted to get to the fact that the aliens weren't as bad as they'd been depicted to be. For our young soldiers, where they have the prisoner and they're like He's scared. Wow - our enemy has emotions. Here's this big, metallic, green, horrifying enemy, to be so afraid that it'd be willing to kill itself. That was the effect...like Wow, what are we?
[Nathan & Shane visit West's family, Angry Angels destroyed]
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#7 Wong: "We had a full-scale model of the Hammerhead on the docks waiting to ship to the United States, and they wrapped it up, and it's sitting on the dock, and a Russian freighter pulled in. That night, they arrested two guys from the Russian freighter, taking pictures of the Hammerhead. Cause, I think they thought it was a top-secret, you know...
Morgan: "They probably figured that in 5 years we were all going to be bombed by Hammerheads."
[Briefing, flight to the Saratoga]
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#8Wong: "Planes now-a-days, if you get blown up then your plane's gone. And as I recall, we had a thing were the cockpit can detach itself from the rest of the stuff. So we had a set that is very reminiscent of this set here that has these huge bay doors that had these cockpits rise up into the flight deck."
[Saratoga briefing, battle of the belt]
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#9 Morgan: "I can't stress enough certain people - the guys at Area 51, Tim McHugh, Shirley Walker, our cast, and our producers, and Charlie Goldstein at 20th...without them, there's no show."
Wong: "I think, looking back, it's so much better then when we were actually going through it."
Morgan: "It was great. I loved the themes, I loved all the people that we worked with... umm, I miss it severely, I know I'm gonna be like some old guy like 65 years old going Look at that show - look at what we did."
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