The series' title--taken from a late-70's ABC series on which the new one was loosely based--as well as its apocalyptic plot line and deep space locale probably scared off as many viewers as it attracted.

FORBES: The Upfronts

We must stop thinking of space travel as a childish fantasy or a movie or television plot and recognize it as a serious project that may at some point become an absolute necessity.

FORBES: Space: Our Ticket to Survival

This will be an update of a first-person shooter game with a plot that revolves around battling mutant humans attacking from outer space - very similar to the aliens in the Halo series.

BBC: Halo 3 character

In another plot this season, Abed and his best friend, Troy, constructed a Holodeck-like space in their apartment, which they called the Dreamatorium.

NEWYORKER: Fantastic Voyage

"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space.

WSJ: Bill Clinton to speak at Ed Koch's funeral in NYC