History Trivia / DarkMatter2015

* GenderblindCasting: Although both had been male in the graphic novel, the roles of Four and the Android were open for both men and women to audition for. Creator/MelissaONeil auditioned for both Two and Four before getting a callback for Two. Four ultimately remained male with the casting of Creator/AlexMallariJr, while the Android was GenderFlipped when Creator/ZoiePalmer was cast.

** As revealed in "Built, Not Born", the Android was made in the image of Dr Irena Shaw, inventor of the modern android, who was Two's lover back when the latter went by her original name, "Rebecca". The Android was originally created to be a new body for Dr Shaw to survive her [[IllGirl terminal illness]], but Shaw decided not to go through with it. Another example of Acting for Three, as there is also the Alt Android with the Alt ''Raza'' crew. All are played by Creator/ZoiePalmer. And if the Alt Shaw ever appeared, it would be Acting for Four.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/MarcBendavid plays both One and [[spoiler:Jace Corso, the sociopathic career criminal whose appearance One copied through SurgicalImpersonation. One's former self, Derrick Moss, is played by Creator/DanJeannotte instead. An interesting case where technically Marc Bendavid's face is Jace Corso's face, but he spends the vast majority of his screentime playing One, the imposter, and only occasionally appears as Corso, the person whose face it really is, a SoftSpokenSadist with LackOfEmpathy. So most of the time that we're seeing Corso's face and hearing his voice they're on someone who's doing and saying humane, friendly things Corso would never say or do, and making [[BuffySpeak actual-feeling-human]] expressions like genuinely warm smiles and PuppyDogEyes that he would never make. Jeannotte appears as One's original face only in "Episode Eight"]].

*** Alt Portia would have brought Three to the planet where Alt Boone had his stash in order to raid it for useful items, since she was ditching Boone whose growing alcoholism made him a liability, using Three's knowledge of himself to get past the security systems. Triggering an alarm would have brought Boone there, and Three would have tricked Portia and Boone into being locked in the vault while he escaped back to the ''Raza''.

** Mallozzi also indicated, when asked, that a FreakyFridayFlip episode was a possibility in the future.

*** Meanwhile, Ryo would refuse Teku's entreaties that he return to the throne of Zairon and decide to let the Android reset him to Four using his neural imprint from the last time he used Transfer Transit pre-Ryo (in Season Two, "She's One of Them Now"). Four would grapple with the guilt of knowing he betrayed the crew and indirectly caused Nyx's death, even though he couldn't remember it anymore, and would start slipping up and cutting himself during sword practice in an apparent form of SelfHarm.

** In an earlier version of the script for "Welcome to Your New Home", Felicia was in One's hotel room when Corso came in and he shot her as well, and Corso had a CirclingMonologue about everyone thinking they're the hero of their own movie and the hero never dying before shooting One (which was a bit meta). In an even earlier plan, One's seeming death would have been in a shuttle explosion, but it would have turned out to be Corso who died.

** In an earlier version of the script for "Welcome to Your New Home", Felicia was in One's hotel room when Corso came in and he shot her as well, and Corso had a longer monologue about everyone thinking they're the hero of their own movie and the hero never dying before shooting One (which was a bit meta). In an even earlier plan, One's seeming death would have been in a shuttle explosion, but it would have turned out to be Corso who died.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Par for the course for a Syfy show, it was canceled a week after the third season finished airing despite maintaining its audience numbers from the previous season. According to creator and showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi in an interview, the show was passed over by the Los Angeles branch of Syfy but given the greenlight by the New York branch. And it was licensed from Canada, not a Syfy Original. After watching it outperform much of the LA branch's original programming, once the person in New York who had kept greenlighting ''Dark Matter'' left for another job, the show was unceremoniously tossed out.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Par for the course for a Syfy show, it was canceled a week after the third season finished airing despite maintaining its audience numbers from the previous season. According to creator and showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi in an interview, the show was passed over by the Los Angeles branch of Syfy but given the greenlight by the New York branch. And it was licensed from Canada, not a Syfy Original. After watching it outperform much of the LA branch's original programming, once the person in New York who had kept greenlighting the show left for another job, the show was unceremoniously tossed out.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Par for the course for a Syfy show, it was canceled a week after the third season finished airing despite maintaining its audience numbers from the previous season. According to creator and showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi in an interview, the show was passed over by the Los Angeles branch of Syfy but given the greenlight by the New York branch. After watching it outperform much of the LA branch's original programming, once the person in New York who had kept greenlighting the show left for another job, the show was unceremoniously tossed out.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Par for the course for a Syfy show, it was canceled a week after the third season finished airing despite maintaining its audience numbers from the previous season. According to creator and showrunner Creator/JosephMallozzi in an interview, the show was passed over by the Los Angeles branch of Syfy but given the greenlight by the New York branch. After watching it outperform much of the LA branch's original programming, once the person in New York who greenlit the show left for another job, the show was unceremoniously tossed out.

* FakeNationality: Karl Ang, who is mixed race, plays Ishida Hiro, the son of two Asian characters.

* FanNickname: Misaki Han has been called "Swords Chau" by some fans because Creator/EllenWong played Knives Chau in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''.

** As noted above, One was never originally meant to be killed off. If not for this ExecutiveMeddling, he was planned to still be a crewmember in Seasons Two and Three, and would have helped orchestrate the crew's escape in "Kill Them All" and rejoined them. There would have been a confrontation between him and Three where they realized that Marcus Boone did not kill Catherine Moss, that Darius van Hoeven was responsible for the hit and the frame job, and that Derrick Moss had been the actual intended target. Then they would have teamed up to take van Hoeven down.

** In an earlier version of the script for "Welcome to Your New Home", Felicia was in One's hotel room when Corso came in and he shot her as well, and had a longer monologue about everyone thinking they're the hero of their own movie and the hero never dying before shooting One (which was a bit meta). In an even earlier plan, One's seeming death would have been in a shuttle explosion, but it would have turned out to be Corso who died.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JhydC4cW20 As posted by Mallozzi on Youtube]], an episode late in the first season would have featured voiceovers from the crew hinting at backstory and future plot elements for Season Two, but they were ultimately cut:

'''Three:''' Her husband set me up. (About the Catherine Moss storyline; Three/Boone thinks Derrick Moss set him up when he says this.)\\

* PlayingAgainstType: While Five is [[MysteriousWaif somewhat odd and enigmatic]] to begin with, she's ultimately far more wholesome and normal than the CreepyChild and EnfantTerrible roles that Creator/JodelleFerland has been known for.

* {{Typecasting}}: As he noted in an interview, Creator/MarcBendavid's past roles were largely either the romantic lead/NiceGuy, or the "baby-faced killer"/unexpected murderer as in ''Series/{{Bitten}}''. [[spoiler:On this show, he got to play both types]].

* StarMakingRole: For Creator/MelissaONeil, for whom Two was her first role in a scripted television after winning ''Series/CanadianIdol'' and acting on Broadway.

** Mallozzi also indicated, when asked, that a BodySwap episode was a possibility in the future.

** Season Four would have focused on the ''Raza'', the G.A., the independent worlds and the corporations all fighting the alien invasion. A method developed to detect alien-possessed simulants would have had the side effect of also exposing the androids who were hiding amongst humans. There would have been an incident where Sarah, in her new android body, rescued Three but displayed a level of cruelty that shocked him, causing him to reject her, which would embitter her against humanity. The android liberation movement would have split into two factions, a more moderate one led by Dr Shaw and a more violent one led by Sarah. Ultimately, Sarah's android faction would have expelled the aliens from the galaxy but also overcome Dr Shaw's faction. Season Five would then have focused on the android rebellion, with Sarah as the final BigBad of the series.

*** According to Mallozzi, the future glimpsed by the Android in "All the Time in the World" was basically this dark timeline. However, the future she'd seen could still be averted, and he had come to believe that a less DownerEnding was more appropriate, though he won't yet share what the new ending he came up with is.

* ActingForTwo: [[spoiler:Creator/MarcBendavid plays both One and Jace Corso, the sociopathic career criminal whose appearance One copied through SurgicalImpersonation. One's former self, Derrick Moss, is played by Creator/DanJeannotte instead. An interesting case where technically Marc Bendavid's face is Jace Corso's face, but he spends the vast majority of his screentime playing One, the imposter, and only occasionally appears as Corso, the person whose face it really is, a SoftSpokenSadist with LackOfEmpathy. So most of the time that we're seeing Corso's face and hearing his voice they're on someone who's doing and saying humane, friendly things Corso would never say or do, and making [[BuffySpeak actual-feeling-human]] expressions like genuinely warm smiles and PuppyDogEyes that he would never make. Jeannotte appears as One's original face only in "Episode Eight"]].

** As revealed in "Built, Not Born", the Android was made in the image of Dr Irena Shaw, inventor of the modern android, who was Two's lover back when the latter went by her original name, "Rebecca". The Android was originally created to be a new body for Dr Shaw to survive her [[IllGirl terminal illness]], but Shaw decided not to go through with it. Another example of Acting for Three, as there is also the Alt Android with the Alt ''Raza'' crew. All are played by Creator/ZoiePalmer. And if the Alt Shaw ever appeared, it would be Acting for Four.

** Technically Acting for Three, as Bendavid also plays the AlternateUniverse Corso in a parallel dimension where the crew's memories were never wiped [[spoiler:- at least, his evil behavior seems more consistent with an AU Corso than an AU Moss, though this isn't 100% confirmed]].