TV series

Crusade

1999 · 1 season

A somber, talky space quest with a ticking clock, mixing diplomatic puzzles and shipboard tension with a lingering sense of doom.

Tagline: Who do you serve, and who do you trust?
Overview: Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
How it feels: Tense, earnest, dark and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Survival, science, exploration, politics
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
science
exploration
politics
faith
Places: space
Era: far-future
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild