* AccidentalDownerEnding: The series ran one full season, with the final episode intended as a cliffhanger: it ended with a failed peace conference (so the war will continue), one of the main characters dead, two more either dead or captured, a fourth severely injured in an explosion, and a very strong hint that the enemy "Chigs" never wanted the war in the first place. Then the series was canceled, so none of these plotlines ever got resolved.
* TheCastShowoff: Creator/TuckerSmallwood as Commodore Ross played blues guitar as often as possible.
* CastTheExpert: Both of Hollywood's resident Marines make appearances in the show; Creator/RLeeErmey appears as the 58th's [[DrillSergeantNasty drill instructor]] in the pilot episode, while Creator/DaleDye plays a Marine officer in "Who Monitors the Birds".
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Holy, holy moly. Fox actively moved or pre-empted the show on a fairly routine basis, which made it hard to follow during its initial run, and it also dropped the show on a ''massive'' cliffhanger, which was teasing some shocking reveals about the origin of the conflict and the relationship between the antagonist races, and also left a number of characters in total limbo.
* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** CRT Monitors and [=CD-ROMs=] are used aboard the ''Saratoga''.
** MiniDisc players on the Hammerhead fighters.
** The silicates can communicate with each other totally wirelessly...complete with 56k dial-up sounds.
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