In the future, Earth's entire population is being wiped out by an unstoppable virus. Mankind's only hope for survival is to launch a spaceship stocked with clones in cryogenic freeze, which will return to a devastated planet and re-populate it. Prior to its arrival, however, its crew of 6 is awoken to face a threat to the ship. They must come to terms with the workings of the ship, the dangers faced by their ship, the realization that they are clones, and their ultimate destiny: to save their race.
Review
Deepwater Black / Mission Genesis was a short lived children's sci-fi show, the first original production to be made by the Sci-Fi Channel. The half hour shows were based on the series of popular children books by Ken Catran.
With it's shaky effects and fast paced action due to lack of time per episode, Deepwater Black suffered on a number of fronts, most of all by not being true to the books that are a very enjoyable read. However you can't really bash the show too much, in its own way it has a charm that makes it watchable - and clothes that simply have to be seen to be believed and will forever date it to the nineties! The thing I liked most about this was the power struggle between Reb and Yuna, Gordon and Nicole worked so well together and it's the one gem in this otherwise struggling series.
It needed more time, more money and more to work with - it really should have stayed truer to the books, and as a fan of the books I can't help but think of the wasted opportunities when I watch this. The yellow/bleached hair is probably one of the main things that people associate with this show and Gordon, and that's if you ever get a chance to see it as it's yet to be released on dvd or re-shown on tv.
Pointless trivia: for some reason the title credits for episode two (Lullaby) has GMW's name mis-spelt as 'Woolvet', its the only time the error occurs in the entire run... the same error occurred on Andromeda for Gordon's only writing credit in season four - oh yes, you can't have enough pointless trivia in your lives.