Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
No other genre falls victim to early cancellation more often than science fiction. That short runway for success has deprived us of proper endings to some of the greatest sci-fi stories ever told, so we’re left wondering what happened to the Wild Cards in their war with the Chigs, whether the crew of the Destiny ever found a gate back to Earth, and did Captain Gideon find a cure for the Drak plague before it was too late. It’s the not knowing that’s the worst, and in the case of one sci-fi franchise, we were left in the dark not once, but twice.
This is why the 1980s sci-fi series V failed, and then failed again.
No other genre falls victim to early cancellation more often than science fiction. That short runway for success has deprived us of proper endings to some of the greatest sci-fi stories ever told, so we’re left wondering what happened to the Wild Cards in their war with the Chigs, whether the crew of the Destiny ever found a gate back to Earth, and did Captain Gideon find a cure for the Drak plague before it was too late. It’s the not knowing that’s the worst, and in the case of one sci-fi franchise, we were left in the dark not once, but twice.
This is why the 1980s sci-fi series V failed, and then failed again.
