Spielberg executive produced one of the best sci-fi shows to grace the small screen - and its cancellation still stings.

Terra Nova ended its freshman season by permanently cutting off the colony to the future and unloading a whole slew of new mysteries for what the producers likely hope means a second season.

They soon meet the Terra Nova colony's no-nonsense founder, Cmdr. Nathaniel Taylor (Stephen Lang). And they learn that there is a renegade colony led by the equally mysterious Mira (Christine Adams).

The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the Tenth Pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first colony established in this beautiful yet forbidding land. JIM SHANNON (Jason O ...

trying to take down the colony. They are the Sixers — so called because they arrived in the 6th Pilgrimage. This is another welcome element to Terra Nova. Who sent the Sixers from the future?

Terra Nova will likely appeal to the entire family ... domestic-drama scenes set inside the hilariously clean and orderly colony, stopping whenever you see something that looks like action ...

By cutting the colony off from 2149, Terra Nova will be on its own and the effects of isolation open up some interesting storytelling opportunities should this show be blessed with a second season.

(If you can only put one luxury item in your backpack leaving 2149 to join the Terra Nova colony, I’d recommend a Vitamix.) Mark is shown trying to “court” Maddy as formally and awkwardly as ...

she cries. Oh Terra Nova, we’re gonna miss you. Later: Skye shows the deft maneuvering required to sneak out of the colony — squirming under the fence — then goes to the Sixers camp to visit ...

The mad scientist warns Skye not to return to Terra Nova - his employers, who hired the Sixers, are coming to lay siege to the colony... Shocked, a tearful Skye confesses her crimes to her mother ...