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As sci-fi fans prepare for a new slate of space-themed series this fall, one summer program has them sitting up and taking notice — or rather notes — as fresh-faced stu- dents train to defend Earth. Priscilla Quintana ("Pola- roid," 2019) stars as Jax, a young woman who attends Earth's Space Training Acade- my after she loses everything, in "Pandora," airing Tuesday, Aug. 13, on CW. Set in the year 2199, the series follows Jax and her fellow recruits as they learn to defend the galaxy from human and alien threats. All the while, she works to un- cover secrets about her true identity and learn whether she's to be humanity's savior or the instrument of humankind's destruction. The series was created by Mark A. Altman ("The Librari- ans") and Steven Kriozere ("NCIS"), and Altman serves as the show's head writer. While the futuristic post-apoc- alyptic setting for "Pandora" is very on-trend, Altman has in- sisted that it's more than just flashy eye candy. In a July inter- view with Space, he explained: "It's super important to me to use sci-fi as a lens to examine the world we live in through al- legory and metaphor. So, we're dealing with religious evange- lism, date rape on campus, cor- porate greed and free speech." Tackling such heavy topics might seem daunting, but luck- ily the sci-fi series has assem- bled a talented crew both in front of and behind the cam- era. Quintana may be a relative newcomer, but she has earned a couple of high-profile credits so far. She appeared in the crime drama "Traffik" (2018) and the German horror film "Polaroid" (2019). Her "Pandora" co-stars in- clude Noah Huntley ("28 Days Later," 2002) as Jax's uncle, Prof. Donovan Osborn. The Brit- ish actor got his start on the soap opera "Emmerdale" be- fore hitting the big screen in such films as "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (2005) and "Snow White and the Hunts- man" (2012). Oliver Dench portrays Os- born's teaching assistant, Xan- der Duvall. Dench's credits in- clude the TV series "Ride," but he may be most famous for his connection to his great aunt, Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love," 1998). In "Pandora," Duvall, who's also an intelligence agent, helps Jax investigate why an alien race killed her researcher parents. Jax's fellow students at Earth's Space Training Acade- my offer viewers a diverse mix of sci-fi archetypes, played for the most part by newcomers like Quintana. Her roommate Delaney (Banita Sandhu, "Oc- tober," 2018) is the show's "cy- borg" character, having re- ceived cybernetic implants as a child. Ben Radcliffe ("Ran- som") plays Ralen, the acade- my's only student of Zatarian descent, a race Delaney de- scribes as "violent" and "treacherous." While academy recruit Thomas (Martin Bobb- Semple, "Free Rein," 2017) may look human, he possesses partial telepathic abilities in- herited from his father. John Harlem Kim, who starred in TNT's "The Librarians" when Altman wrote for the series, portrays the academy's charm- ing rogue, Greg. Australian ac- tress Raechelle Banno ("Home and Away") appears as Atria, an Adari clone who's a refugee from a planet where she was considered property. Filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria, "Pandora" attempts to tap into the love of all things space, but many critics and reviewers have compared the show to other CW series such as "River- dale" and "Legacies" because of its "academy" setting, young cast and potential for various romantic entangle- ments. The new sci-fi series premiered on Tuesday, July 16, and drew a little over 700,000 viewers. Sci-fi on campus: Recruits train to save the galaxy in 'Pandora' featurestory Oliver Dench as seen in "Pandora"

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