Six strangers wake up from suspended animation on an otherwise abandoned spaceship. None of them can remember who they are or how they came to be on the ship. Soon they are attacked by an android, and then by another spaceship. By following the ship's original course they find themselves on an isolated mining colony - but do not know why they were headed there in the first place.
Dark Matter is a Canadian science fiction series based on the comic book of the same name. It boasts an intriguing premise, but from this first episode it is difficult to decide whether that premise works well for an ongoing television series. Amnesiac heroes are a dime a dozen, but six of them at once? That's an awful lot of semi-anonymous angst to squeeze into 42 minutes.
