Offers Fox 21's Chris Carlisle, "It's absolutely perfect timing fo this type of show. They're [SciFi Channel] looking for more grounded sci-fi and close-ended episodes, and at the heart of Alien Nation it's a cop movie. It's grounded. And it has a tremendous amount of dramatic possibilities and humor." To which the network's Mark Stern adds, "It's very much in keeping with what we've been looking to do -- find themes that are more than just hard sci-fi, something that feels contemporary and relevant and invites a broad audience in."
Notes Minear, "It's genre mixed with procedural mixed with funny and mixed with big, giant scary. I love serialized stuff, but this is also a cop franchise. That Starsky and Hutch/Lethal Weapon buddy cop comedy is absent from TV right now."
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