Welcome to Waystation 7 HQ!

Waystation was a serialized sci-fi TV show created by Carey Westfall that began production in the late 1980s and carried on into the 1990s, ending its run with six seasons and a movie between seasons 4 and 5. The premise was that as humanity gained the technology to act on their desire to travel beyond Earth, the installation of "waystations" was necessary to give ships a place to fuel up, make repairs, and for crew to stretch their legs somewhere that wasn't the cramped interior of their spacecraft. The plot of this show in particular takes a look-in on the crew of Waystation 7, a station constructed on the surface of Mars led by Holden Murphy and staffed by Layla Solva, Calloway Vega, Gabriel Laurent, and many others. Its location puts them in proximity to the local Bardon people, a humanoid alien species who call Mars home. Generally, treaties between Human and Bardon populations have kept relations smooth, but one Bardon, a jilted prince named Alaric, is determined to change this by any means necessary. The highly episodic style lends the show to a very problem-of-the-week format, where the disaster that plagues Murphy and company can be just about any wacky sci-fi gag...as long as it can resolve within an episode or two. Generally, this show is just the highly entertaining classic camp-tacular that this era of TV had to offer, and I love how much can be done with such a simple premise!

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I personally love the show, but it's honestly even below cult-classic in terms of popularity. I don't think it streams anywhere and even finding bootleg clips or references to the show is rough. I know some of the actors and I think a writer recently had a major public appearance together, but it didn't end on the friendliest of terms between them all, to be honest, so I don't know how much I can rely on the original people involved to help me on my Waystation quest. This is just my little way of documenting what I can about the show! I'm posting up transcripts of episodes and really anything I can that strikes my fancy or is even proof that this classic of my childhood exists. I know it can sometimes be a pain being a part of a niche fandom, especially one as specific and rare as this, but it's honestly a labor of love putting this together and I just hope you like what I can collect here!

What I Have Found So Far

I will try to update this list as frequently as possible with all my new finds from across the internet! Also, sorry if the formatting on the scripts is wonky. These often aren't actual original scripts, but more type-ups that I'm transcribing myself, so they aren't exactly formal script format, sorry!

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11.18.24 - S4E18 Transcription (Looks better in "print layout")

I know it's weird to start near the absolute peak of a lot of characters' arcs, but it's genuinely the first thing I could get my hands on! It's a really solid episode all around and they really put a lot of heart into Alaric and Gabriel, especially since those two could sometimes be the the extreme ends to one dimensional: melodramatic villain and lovable comic relief respectively. I honestly think these more archetypal character roles usually suit them quite well, but it's also pretty neat to get to see them in a more emotionally sensitive light.

11.19.24 - Waystation Song Parody Lyrics

Apparently the Waystation fandom is more alive and well than I thought! And I, of course, found out in the weirdest way possible. It's kind of strange to write a parody of a Barry Manilow song about a messy celebrity love affair and the subsequent brutal and public divorce, but hey, when has this fandom ever been normal? I know this is about as far from collecting official scripts as I could possibly get, but it's an interesting curio of the fandom, so I wanted to catalog this here too.

11.28.24 - Waystation Reunion Panel Taping

It's not show footage, but this is the reunion panel I was talking about! It's really cool to see everyone back together after so long, and even get some behind the scenes tidbits, but also there is so much drama. I honestly can't believe half the stuff that came out about Macintyre and Pamela and Magnolia becoming suddenly very public about their whole situation certainly wouldn't have been on my bingo card for a small time event in an out of the way convention like this.