Based on the literary franchise of James S.A. Corey (the collaborative nome de plume of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), The Expanse, a production of Alcon Entertainment, first took shape back in December 2015 as a broadcast offering for Syfy, set in a vision of a far-future (roughly in the early 2300s,) in which humanity has widely colonized the solar system, leaving the fate-joined antihero crew of liberated gunship the Rocinante forced to navigate familiar social, political and military dynamics, just on a galactic scale between Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt. Said main cast crew consists of names such as Steven Strait’s James Holden, Dominique Tipper’s Naomi Nagata, Wes Chatham’s Amos Burton and the ousted Cas Anvar’s Alex Kamal. Lament over the imminent ending aside, fans of The Expanse can still look forward to two full seasons, starting with the three-episode premiere of Season 5 on Wednesday, December 16. After that, Season 6 is tentatively scheduled to commence production on January 20, 2021, presumably setting things on course to similarly arrive later in the year.
