MERCY POINT

POSTED BY: Kelso
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 4, 2005 20:54
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KELSO

Monday, January 5, 2004 8:31 PM

Hey, did anyone ever catch the series MERCY POINT when it was airing a few years back? It looked interesting, but I never got around to watching it.

I wonder if the episodes are available out there in any format... I'd be interested in checking it out.

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Well, here I am.

SAMURAIX47

Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:52 PM

It sucked. What they should have done for that show was take James White's Sector General series of short stories and novels and used that as a basis for a hospital in space tv series.

Jaymes

DYAIRVATREE

Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:11 AM

You know something I learned a lot from that series. You see they advertized the hell out of the piliot episode but I missed it. I ment to watch it but forgot. I thought it was a series and tooned in to the apointed time week after week but it was never on. This is the reason I was carefull to tape Firefly because I knew if I didn't it would dissapear without a trace.

I'm glad Firefly didn't dissapear but if it wasn't for Mercy Point I wouldn't have taped with such fear and wouldn't today be such a great fan of Firefly.

I'm glad SamuriX47 says it sucks it makes me feel beter about the thing. But I will allways remember Mercy Point teaching me to enjoy sci-fi while I can cause tomarrow my be to late.

God bless Mercy Point.

CREVANREAVER

Monday, September 20, 2004 6:13 PM

Here is the Mercy Point Timeline that was posted on the now defunct official website for the show!

I managed to find it a long time ago, cached on the search engine Gigablast. However it can no longer be found.

Good thing I saved it!

YEAR EVENT

2001 First Comprehensive Computerized Medical Database Created (very early predecessor to HIPPOCRATES).

2002 International Space Station construction completed - becomes operational in Earth's orbit.

2009 AIDS virus cure found.

2012 Complete map of the human brain specifically identifies all physiological and emotional centers of activity.

2024 First Lunar Colony established - for mine workers and families.

2031 Advances in genetic technology make human organ growing and cloning possible.

2038 Energy Depletion Crisis on Earth - Global Environmental Alliance established to resolve crisis.

2046 Lunar Colony expanded to accomodate Earth's growing population.

2054 First experimental cyborg completed.

2097 Mars colony established - first officially documented encounter with alien life form - Krell species - lower life form used as slave labor.

2103 Human cloning experiment approved and successfully attempted - breed new workers, among other purposes.

2143 Space exploration to Jupiter discovers planet is too unstable for colonization.

2166 Space exploration goes beyond Neptune into Pluto's orbit.

2181 Probes dispatched into unknown areas of deep space known as the Sahartic Divide - none return.

2196 Visgear/Mem-print technology first successfully used to download/record human memory.

2200 HIPPOCRATES Medical Interface created.

2210 Grote Maxwell born on Callisto Gas Mine.

2213 Haylen Breslauer born on Earth.

2217 Caleb Jurado born on L.E.O. colony.

2218 Dru Breslauer born on Aries Station, off Venus.

2222 Grote Maxwell's mother dies from alien-contracted disease.

2230 As a member of an Environmental Response Team, Caleb Jurado makesfirst trip to Earth to fight the threat of deforestation.

2231 Haylen and Dru Breslauer are abandoned by their mother.

2233 Dru Breslauer leaves the supervision of sister, Haylen.

2239 Caleb Jurado meets Dru Breslauer and they become romantically involved.

2244 Haylen Breslauer arrives at Mercy Point.

2247 Grote Maxwell begins his tenure as Primary Alien Physiologist at Mercy Point.

2248 Caleb Jurado is made Director of Extra-Vehicular Medicine at Mercy Point.

2249 MERCY POINT IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL.

Here is the address I found it at. Like I wrote, it doesn't work anymore.

http://www.gigablast.com/get?q=mercy+point+timeline&rtq=0&d=1922440248
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CREVANREAVER

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 8:54 PM

Using the Internet Archive, I was able to find some other things from the now-defunct UPN site.

The World of Mercy Point

250 years into the future, the galaxy is a very different place. However,in many ways it is still very similar to the world we know today. Driven toward exploration and expansion, the people of Earth have ventured into the outer reaches of our solar system, encountering both higher and lower forms of life along the way - and with some difficulty, ultimately embracing the undeniable fact that we are not alone in the universe. Earth, once the only potential home for human beings in the galaxy, has now become the "beachfront property" of the universe, an exclusive enclave home only to those fortunate enough to be part of the upper crust of the galactic caste system. Other humans have been forced to take up residence on the mines of the moon or move to one of a series of space stations sprinkled throughout the galaxy. The end result thus far of this inter-stellar colonization is a flotilla of independent space stations known collectively as Jericho.

With approximately 50,000 human and alien residents, Jericho is a frontier outpost perched on the boundary of an unknown and "unstable" region of deepspace known as - the Sahartic Divide. Because many probes have been sent into the Sahartic but very few have returned, Jericho has sprung up overthe past two decades as part of an inter-species alliance so that collectively we may begin to explore the Sahartic interior. Yet, as competing interests actively direct these pursuits, they set the stage for the colony's socio-political structure. From corporate interest and financial opportunists, to independent prospecting and scientific research, to a continued presence of the military establishment, all of these often opposing forces are governed by a body known as the Inter-Species Council, or ISC.

In spite of the differing agendas of the colony's stations and its populus, there still remains on Jericho a necessary concern about the impermanent, uncertain, and evolving nature of life. Humans and aliens still get sick, still get hurt, and yes, even this far in the future - still die. Forthose reasons and a host of others, Mercy Point was first constructed -rotating at the center of Jericho itself. A self-contained, state-of-the-art emergency hospital with a uniquely skilled staff and an experimental charter to treat both humans and aliens, Mercy Point represents the vanguard of interstellar medicine. At this space-age hospital, a month's journey from the Earth, doctors use the latest in 23rd century medical technology to deal with everything from commonplace ailments to serious health risks - all the while, maintaining perhaps the clearest agenda in the galaxy: "Heal all."

In this intense and exacting environment, the staff members of Mercy Point are daily faced with cases as unpredictable as the void just beyond our galaxy's end. Nonetheless, it is a wholly exciting and challenging experience: the implications of medical innovation and advancement amidst an inter-species endeavor such as this provide for endless acclaim and conflict. For each of its doctors, and indeed for every patient who arrives, Mercy Point represents an exploration into more than just the future of medicine. Mercy Point is the future of how lives will collide, coexist, begin, end...and mend.

In-Depth

"Mercy Point", a futuristic medical drama set on an experimental spacestation in the 23rd Century, follows the lives of a groupof passionate doctors, the patients they treat, and the dilemmas they face on a daily basis.

Dr. Grote Maxwell (Morton), is the primary emergency physician at Mercy Point, the first medical facility designed to treat both humans and aliens.This facility, located on the edge of known territory, offers a safe haven of healing for the competing military, cultural and corporate interests that are battling for control of the unexplored space beyond.

This means that the Mercy Point crew is on the cutting edge of 23rd Century medicine, deal