Back in 1996, Foundation Imaging and Netter Entertainment, who had done such stellar work on Babylon 5, wanted to prove their techniques could be adapted to other shows, and so with an advance order from ABC for 13 episodes, they produced Hypernauts, which falls somewhere between Farscape, Star Trek: Voyager and probably Starfleet Academy.
Christy Marx developed the concept of three trainee members of a sort of Starfleet Academy sent on a short shuttle mission for disciplinary reasons, who all get accidentally stranded in a distant sector of space due to an accident in Hyperspace (hence the name) and, because of the actions of a local, and very hostile alien species known as the Triiad, can neither return to Earth, or even contact them, without giving Earth's location away to the Triiad, who are always up for a bit of conquering, pillaging and world smashing (not always in that order).
The three are lucky enough to meet up with an alien, Kulai, a priestess of the Pryan culture, a scattered society whose homeworld went boom thanks to the Triiad, who pretty much takes them in.
The foursome, and their adopted pet, the Gloose
are now all trying to survive and get home, or at least warn Earth about the Triiad's existence.
13 episodes were made, but only 8 broadcast in the US before it was pulled. It did come out on videotape in at least New Zealand, because that's how I first found out it even existed.
