Space-cop: Savannah Steyn stars in Sky One s stuttering sci-fi drama
Credit: Des Willie
Sky One’s new sci-fi drama,
Intergalactic, begins promisingly. We are thrown straight into a fast-paced police chase in the year 2143 with Ash Harper (played by Savannah Steyn), a budding space-cop, making a smooth high-profile arrest. Then a quickfire transition into what looks like an extraordinarily ordinary space-cop workplace, and a heart-warmingly human work night out; a neat hybrid of space sci-fi and domestic drama.
The decline and disappointment, however, is imminent. After about five minutes insided a vaguely futuristic nightclub-bar, where Harper is having a celebratory drink with her boss, Wendell (Neil Maskell), and discussing a potential move to Shanghai, Harper is arrested and the drama never really recovers. She has been framed for the theft of the Aurum – something which is a heinous crime in the Commonworld, a future realm of Earth to which all nation states have