After saving Commander Taylor from an assassination attempt, he joined Terra Nova's security forces, eventually becoming third-in-command of the colony.

After a lengthy imprisonment for breaking population-control laws in 2149, he escaped and rejoined his family in the Terra Nova colony, where he worked on the gardening division. He is married to Elisabeth and is the father of their three children.

Jason O'Mara as James 'Jim' Shannon, a former Chicago Police narcotics detective.At the end of the series, Jim Shannon returns to 2149 to destroy the gateway permitting travel to the Cretaceous, whereupon the Phoenix Group retreats to the nearby 'Badlands,' leaving behind a wooden ship's figurehead apparently located there by another temporal rift. Toward the end of the series, Lucas perfects travel to and from the future, thus enabling the industrialists, with a private army called 'The Phoenix Group,' to invade Terra Nova. It is later revealed that Commander Taylor's estranged grown son, Lucas, is working with the Sixers as well. Opposing the colony (and its leader Taylor) is a group of separatists known as the 'Sixers', so-called because they arrived in the 'Sixth Pilgrimage,' working in concert with corporate industrialists to strip the Cretaceous Earth of its resources and transmit them to 2149, allowing for massive profits at the cost of environmental destruction. Her husband, imprisoned for violating population control by harboring a third child and assaulting an official agent to protect his young daughter, stows away to join them and eventually convinces the colony's leader, Commander Nathaniel Taylor, that his own police expertise is of use to the administration. The series focuses primarily on police officer James 'Jim' Shannon, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy, and Zoe, as they join the colony there, named 'Terra Nova', Latin for 'New Earth' or 'New World'.Įlisabeth Shannon is chosen to join Terra Nova for her medical expertise, and her two older children with her. When scientists discover a temporal rift permitting (one-way) human transmission, they initiate a series of 'pilgrimages' to a parallel 'time stream' resembling Earth's Cretaceous Period. The series is initially set in 2149, when overpopulation and declining air quality threaten all life on Earth. On March 5, 2012, Fox announced that the show had been cancelled. The series is based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel with Steven Spielberg as executive producer. The series documents the Shannon family's experiences as they establish themselves as members of a colony, set up 85 million years in the Earth's past, fleeing the dystopian overpopulated and hyperpolluted present of the mid-22nd century. It aired on the Fox Network for one season from September 26 to December 19, 2011.

Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series.

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