Mercy Point is an American science fiction medical drama that aired on UPN from October 6, 1998, to July 15, 1999. Set in the year 2249, the series focuses on doctors and nurses working in a hospital space station in deep space. The show’s storylines gradually shifted toward relating the characters’ personal relationships, to better fit UPN’s primarily teen demographic. Critics have praised the show’s characterization and use of science-fiction elements, while others found it to be uninteresting and unoriginal.
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Mercy Point is an American science fiction medical drama that aired on UPN from October 6, 1998, to July 15, 1999. Set in the year 2249, the series focuses on doctors and nurses working in a hospital space station in deep space. The show’s storylines gradually shifted toward relating the characters’ personal relationships, to better fit UPN’s primarily teen demographic. Mercy Point was placed on hiatus after only three episodes were aired, and was replaced by the reality television series America’s Greatest Pets and the sitcom Reunited. The final four episodes of the series were broadcast in two 2-hour blocks on Thursday nights in July 1999. It has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray, or made available on online-streaming services. Critics have praised the show’s characterization and use of science-fiction elements, while others found it to be uninteresting and unoriginal. The series was paired with Moesha and Clueless as its lead-in on Tuesday nights. The medical staff is referred to as’med-nauts’ Despite the futuristic setting, the characters’ clothing and hairstyles adhere to 1990s fashion trends. In Frank Garcia and Mark Phillips’ book Science Fiction Television Series, 1990–2004, they compared the concept behind the show to James White’s Sector General series, Murray Leinster’s stories about a doctor who travels to different planets, and G. Harry Stine’s book Space Doctor. The set and filming style also received comparisons to the television medical drama ER; the series itself was promoted as “ER in space”.
According to a press release from UPN,. the series features the characters’s attempts to “balanc complicated personal lives with the demands ofWorking in a cutting-edge hospital”. Each episode includes story arcs involving personal and professional problems, the staff’s relationships gaining more prominence as the series progressed. The lead doctor, Senior Physiologist Maxwell Grote, directs his boss and best friend, Dr. Haylen Breslaur. The head nurse, Rema Cooke, grows more concerned about her patients’ rights about her relationship with her older sister Haylen, and her past romance with Dr. C. Jurado is characterized through his high libido, with his story arc involving a love triangle with Lieutenant Kim Salisaw. The head surgeon and nurse, ANI BatI, has a love affair with an alien android. The facility includes advanced medical equipment, such as artificial wombs, holographic three-dimensional X-ray projections, zero-gravity operating tables, and a talking computer known as Hippocrates, voiced by Trey Callaway, is shown as the primary method to monitor a patient’s status. It is noted for existing on the “fringes of the galaxy”, on a colony called Jericho. The hospital is described as “the last stop for anything going out, the first stop foranything coming back” by one of the show’s characters. Despite Callaway envisioning Mercy Point as a companion to Star Trek: Voyager, it was paired as itslead-in on Tuesday nights, with an average of two million viewers.
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