ORBzine - Odyssey 5 TV Review
Season 1
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot (1)
Shown 21 Jun 02
This was written by Manny Coto . Peter Weller ( Robocop ) is commander of a space shuttle in orbit. Christopher Gorman ( Jake 2.0 ) is Weller's son. Sebastian Roche ( Roar ) is a chilled-out scientist, and he seems a lot younger than he used to.
The civilian astronauts are on a satellite recovery mission wen the Earth is destroyed.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 2]
Pilot (2)
Shown 21 Jun 02
As the only humans still alive in the Universe, they are contacted by a benevolent Alien. The astronauts have their memories sent back five years. There is an alien conspiracy - the aliens look human, and the heroes must uncover them in order to save the world.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 3]
The Shatterer
Shown 28 Jun 02
Lindy Booth is Christopher Gorman's teenage GF. She has new hair, and looks about ten years younger than she does in every other show she's been in. The heroes get a lead in the AI investigation. However, the story is still full of cliches.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 4]
Astronaut Dreams
Shown 5 Jul 02
Roche works with an Infra-Red camera
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 5]
Time Out of Mind
Shown 12 Jul 02
The babes investigate a child kidnapping.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 6]
Symbiosis
Shown 19 Jul 02
Weller and his son sabotage a satellite.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 7]
The Choices We Make
Shown 26 Jul 02
The heroes start to suffer memory loss. Roche marries a girl who will become the biggest singing sensation ever.
Andrew Gillies ( Codename Eternity ) guest-stars as a Sci-Fi novelist who picks holes in plots. Aliens disguised as human beings? That's just a television convention to cover for the fact that they have limited budgets!
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 8]
Rapture
Shown 2 Aug 02
Shadow Play a girl goes on the run. She's six years old and deaf. Her father, a scientist, is dead. Meanwhile, the black reporter meets her second husband-to-be.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 9]
L.D.U.-7
Shown 9 Aug 02
An Alien drug is on the market.
The kid most likely to Columbine
Lindy Booth is back.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 10]
Flux
Shown 16 Aug 02
The reporter, the doc and the pilot go undercover for a prison interview. They use the pseudonyms Buck and Rogers. the son is in school, and the babe is on the space station.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 11]
Kitten
Shown 23 Aug 02
Peter Weller is infected. His son spies.
The black woman is in custody.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 12]
Dark at the End of the Tunnel
Shown 30 Aug 02
Reporter - heatwave.
Kurt goes undercover, joins a Cult. Weller and his son try to rescue him.
The babe has a problem with her father.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 13]
The Trouble with Harry
Shown 6 Sep 02
Ted Raimi ( Xena ) is a synthetic, but he's a friendly one. There are lots of references - the Bionic Man music when Ted runs, for example.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 14]
Skin
Shown 13 Sep 02
The babe's father is shot. A Skin is responsible, jumping bodies, the heroes must track it down.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 15]
Begotten
Shown 1 Oct 04
Weller deals with the results of the previous ep (FBI interference). Roche grows an Alien clone.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 16]
Vanishing Point
Shown 1 Oct 04
Weller is kidnapped. A sentient tries to download his brain.
Lindy Booth appears again.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 17]
Follow the Leader
Shown 8 Oct 04
A sentient gets kids to build a secret weapon in a swimming pool.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 18]
Half-Life
Shown 8 Oct 04
The babe is haunted by her ex. Kurt helps her. They investigate a NASA conspiacy.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 19]
Rage
Shown 15 Oct 04
block Wars: Kurt and the babe pretend to be married.
Odyssey 5 [Season 1, Episode 20]
Fossil
Shown 15 Oct 04
The astro-babe is kidnapped, and Kurt is the main suspect.
The Cadre has moon rock.
