Crusade

Cheese.

I like cheese. It’s great in a sandwich with ham and tomato. It’s great in a salad, cheese on toast is a great snack, and of course it’s the essential ingredient for any TV Sci-Fi series.

So fans of TV Sci-Fi should be ecstatic with Crusade, as it has more cheese that a Mainland factory!

Crusade begins in the aftermath of a Drakh invasion, and though earth was able to repeal the invasion, as a parting gesture, the Drakh released a deadly virus that will whiteout earth’s 10 billion inhabitants in 5 years unless a cure can be found.

Enter stage left Captain Matthew Gideon, given charge of the brand spanking new Excalibur and charged with the job of scouring the universe to find a cure.

With a crew as diverse as any Sci-Fi series (it always gives the writers more scope to have a bunch of people that would never normally associate with each other, confined to a space ship for 5 years…..) Crusade lays the cheese down thick.

The costumes, the acting, the special effects and the story lines all make for some check-your-brains-at-door cheesy fun. In the midst to and over run of CSI styled realistic dramas, it’s nice to get some unintentional comic relief!

More like the traditional Star Trek, Crusade is wrapped as a series, but is more a series of stand-alone stories involving first contact with various species.

Sadly before it was given the chance to grow into something, Crusade was killed.

A great box set for cheesy Sci-Fi fans. Or should that be fans of cheesy Sci-Fi? I wouldn’t want to accuse Sci-Fi fans of being cheesy now would I!!!