Another Life

Starbuck is back in space!  Or at least Katee Sackhoff is... and again as a hard as nails, but inherently flawed character.

In this Netflix Original series, the typecasting is a bit a precursor to a series full of "I`ve seen that before" moments.

An alien artefact lands on earth, and a special ship, the Salvare, is dispatched to the coordinates they believe it hails from.  While researchers try to decipher the artefacts secrets on Earth, an accident occurs onboard, causing it to have to make a detour.

Along the way, Niko must face the problems of a crew not really trusting her (yet), and they loose friends during the journey... but however, in this series you just open another soma (cryostasis) pod and replace him or her with another equal specialist... detracts a bit of the feel of loss to be honest.
And of course, the aliens turn out to be an evil race, that only wants destruction as the crew learns... by landing on a wrong planet.

Okay, so far so good, and a pretty basic storyline for most science-fiction series, but then we get a couple of events that gave me the above feeling.  A virus that makes you cough up your nervous system, erupting in the way of a chestburster (okay, by the back in this case), alien insect like beings that attach to the brains to communicate (hello Independance Day) and make one of the crew the "bad guy", an AI developping emotions and feelings... you see, nothing revolutionary there to be honest.
Perhaps the most "stunning" thing about the series, is that it is gender- and sex- transistent as it advertises, but then again... Star Trek Discovery anyone?

It has been renewed for a second season, but to be honest I won`t be counting down the days until it airs.  I will be watching it, eventually, but so far it is all to "clichee" for me...