Season 1 • Episode 19
LatestAlerted to a planet size object transmitting a message to Earth, Bach orders Dr Carl Sagan to decode it while he keeps the news from Majestic's directors. And though he's kept in the dark, Albano agrees to ask the captured Gray to shed some light on its contents. Meanwhile, Loengard and Juliet use Dr Timothy Leary to find the San Francisco lab where the Hive has been producing a hallucinogen under the direction of Steele and Kim. And when Kim tosses the drug into John's face, it causes him to see their son aboard a Hive ship.
Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction shows, resulting in NBC commissioning this proposed competitor following a pitch from producers Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman. The series debuted September 21, 1996 on NBC, and was later rerun by the Sci-Fi Channel. Its tagline was "History as we know it is a lie."
Production
Seamlessly weaves aliens into actual 1960s events.
Acting
Eric Close and Megan Ward sell the domestic-invasion dread.
Costume
Authentic Mad Men-era suits and alien rubber suits both on point.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dark Skies arrived six months before Men in Black and three years before The Matrix, making it a bridge between earnest 90s paranoia and slick millennium sci-fi.
Jeri Ryan's Juliet Stuart was so compelling that she was promoted from recurring to main cast — then the show got canceled immediately after, becoming her pre-Seven of Nine 'what if' moment.
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