History YMMV / SpaceCases

* TearJerker: The end of the season 1 finale, most intense is [[spoiler: when the airlock closes between Harlan and Catalina]].

** Kaylee was played by Creator/JewelStaite years before ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' and ''Series/TheLAComplex''. You might say they had a lousy timeslot.

** Suzee was played by Rebecca Herbst several years before she was cast as Elizabeth Webber on ''Series/GeneralHospital''.

** [[Creator/JewelStaite They had a]] [[Series/TheLAComplex lousy timeslot]].
** Besides Kaylee, you also have [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the original Black Ranger]] as Harlan Band and [[Series/GeneralHospital Elizabeth Webber]] as Suzee.

* SoBadItsGood: Since it was 1) A Kid's Show and 2) A Cable Show, it had a laughably small budget. They used handheld video games for control consoles (functioning as "control panels" on walls), compact discs on a chair, and props kitbashed together from other Nickelodeon shows such as ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'', which, like this series, was also produced by CINAR (now DHX Media). All of it somehow came out on the other side of awful and ended up looking cute.
** Compared to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KNS_4tYfY the pilot episode]], the series looks cutting edge and expensive.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Creator/JewelStaite They had a]] [[Series/TheLAComplex lousy timeslot]].

** Creator/GeorgeTakei as the BigBad, Warlord Shank. He was in [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries some low-budget sci-fi show in the sixties.]]
*** Was even given a ShoutOut in his first appearance, when Harlan attempts to bluff that the Christa has a [[Recap/StarTrekS1E10TheCorbomiteManeuver corbomite hull]] that will reflect any attack back and destroy his ship. It's not surprising Shank doesn't fall for it.

* CreatorsPet: Suzee.

* ReplacementScrappy: Suzee

** The episode in which the kids receive a warning from their future selves; the video shows them all about 40 years older and still on the same ship. At worst, this means the kids will ''never'' get home and may spend the rest of their lives lost in space in the tiny ship (and what's worse Harlan isn't even in the video, so who knows what happened to him).
** Speaking of the same future-video, there's something rather unsettling about the way Radu, Bova, and Rosie just stare lifelessly into the camera making hand motions.

* SoBadItsGood: Since it was 1) A Kid's Show and 2) A Cable Show, it had a laughably small budget. They used handheld video games for control consoles (functioning as "control panels" on walls), compact discs on a chair, and props kitbashed together from other Nickelodeon shows such as ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'', which, like this series, was also produced by CINAR (now DHX Media). All of it somehow came out on the other side of awful and ended up looking cute.

* FridgeHorror: The episode in which the kids receive a warning from their future selves; the video shows them all about 40 years older and still on the same ship. At worst, this means the kids will ''never'' get home and may spend the rest of their lives lost in space in the tiny ship (and what's worse Harlan isn't even in the video, so who knows what happened to him).

* NarmCharm: Best summed up by [[http://rigelianculture.livejournal.com/88117.html this recap:]] "Despite the fact that the show had a budget raised from the sale of somebody's old Gremlin, and had plot holes so large you could drive a Mack truck through them, it was whimsical, fun, bright and hopeful." And that is why we love it.

* SoBadItsGood: Since it was 1) A Kid's Show and 2) A Cable Show, it had a laughably small budget. They used handheld video games for control consoles (functioning as "control panels" on walls), compact discs on a chair, and props kitbashed together from other Nickelodeon shows such as ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'', which, like this series, was also produced by CINAR (now CookieJarEntertainment). All of it somehow came out on the other side of awful and ended up looking cute.

* TearJerker: The end of the season 1 finale, most intense is [[spoiler: when the airlock closes between Harlan and Catalina]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As mentioned before, at the end of season 1, the intention was to have Catalina stay dead, and have Elmira take her place on the ''Christa.'' However, Nickelodeon squashed both parts of that, saying that 1) children wouldn't be emotionally capable enough to comprehend a character death and 2) Elmira was too alien. Thus Catalina's death was rewritten as being pushed into another dimension, and Elmira was written out and Suzee was written in.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Nickelodeon put the series finale opposite the SuperBowl. Yeah.

* TooGoodToLast

* TooGoodToLast

* SoBadItsGood: Since it was 1) A Kid's Show and 2) A Cable Show, it had a laughably small budget. They used handheld video games for control consoles, compact discs on a chair, and props kitbashed together from other Nickelodeon shows. All of it somehow came out on the other side of awful and ended up looking cute.

* CanonSue: Suzee.
* CreatorsPet: Again, Suzee.

* TooGoodToLast
* TheWesley: Again, Suzee.

* TooGoodToLast: TheFireflyEffect before there was a {{Firefly}} Effect...[[PutOnABus sadly, "Kaylee" was off the show even before it got canceled.]]
** I'm noticing a trend here.

TheWesley: Again, Suzee.

** I'm noticing a trend here.