Two-hour science-fiction noir pilot
Dante's Station
At the center of the galaxy, truth is the most dangerous resource.
Created by Marc Scott Zicree, Elaine Zicree and Michael Reaves
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At the center of the galaxy, truth is the most dangerous resource.
Oberon is a mining world near the galactic center, known to everyone who survives it as Dante's Station. Human cop Sullivan 'Sully' Reese arrives under the shadow of scandal with his fourteen-year-old daughter Tina, expecting a hard frontier assignment. Instead he finds an alliance of species built on a resource whose real nature could shatter every institution on the planet.
Humans run the police. Targs control the mines. Enyards administer finance and government. The indigenous Y'maa are treated as marginal and primitive, even though they are the oldest and perhaps most important civilization on Oberon. Each group needs Amberjack, but for radically different reasons, and no one agrees on what the ore truly is.
Reese's boss, Consuela O'Shaughnessy, is a formidable marshal hiding a dangerous secret: she is a xenopath who can read some alien minds at the risk of Mindblur and death. Tina explores the station beyond adult permission, bonds with hidden street children and begins to understand the genetic legacy left by her mother Alisa. Around them, Targ leader Daneek K'n-Jad, Enyard administrator Anyilar Sylia and Y'maa guide Phanx pull the case into religion, labor, family and buried history.
A city beneath the galactic core
At the center of the galaxy, every truth has a price.
Three species depend on one unstable alliance, and one discovery could break it.
Orbital repair above Dante's Station · PrevisualizationThemes
The questions driving the story
Theme
Noir at galactic scale
Every clue exposes a system of favors, buried histories and compromised institutions.
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The truth of Amberjack
A single resource has different meanings to every species and can reorder the alliance that governs the world.
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Parents and altered children
Reese wants to protect Tina, but her inherited modifications make her central to mysteries he cannot control.
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Who gets called civilized?
The treatment of the Y'maa turns colonial assumptions into the series' most consequential blind spot.
Characters
The people at the heart of the story
Sullivan 'Sully' Reese
A capable human detective trying to rebuild a career while protecting a daughter who refuses to stay protected.
Tina Reese
A curious fourteen-year-old whose genetic modifications and empathy pull her into Oberon's hidden communities.
Consuela O'Shaughnessy
The hard-edged police chief and secret xenopath whose gift can destroy the mind that uses it.
Daneek K'n-Jad
A Targ mining leader, potential ally and believer facing a spiritual crisis tied to Amberjack.
Anyilar Sylia
An Enyard genmale administrator whose political precision hides complex loyalties.
Phanx
A Y'maa guide carrying knowledge the governing alliance has trained itself not to see.
The street children
Young people living beneath the official station whose networks reveal a second map of Dante's Station.
Previsualization
Scenes from the story
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Creative team
Writers, producers and artists
Marc Scott Zicree
Founder, writer, director and producer
Attached to: Dante's Station
A five-decade genre storyteller, author and filmmaker who has written and produced for landmark science-fiction series while building independent worlds with audiences.
Elaine Zicree
Founder, writer, director and producer
Attached to: Dante's Station
A filmmaker, writer, producer and actor coach who co-leads Space Command Studios and The Table, and is directing the feature When the Voiceless Roar.
Michael Reaves
Co-creator and Emmy-winning writer-producer
Attached to: Dante's Station
The late Emmy-winning writer and producer brought a rare command of noir, animation and speculative storytelling to Dante's Station.
Chris Wyatt
Producer
Attached to: Dante's Station
A producer and writer with credits across independent film, features and animated storytelling.
Attached performers
The actors bringing the story to life
Michelle Hurd
Actor
Attached to: Dante's Station
A commanding television and film actor known for layered performances in science fiction, crime and action drama.
Production readiness
Built to move forward
A detailed illustrated series bible defines the species, politics, mysteries, character arcs and long-form engine of this prestige science-fiction noir.
