Reluctant to leave his girlfriend behind in 2149, he initially resented his father but in later episodes they repair their relationship.

Landon Liboiron as Josh Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 17-year-old son.

In the series premiere, she was instrumental in Jim's escape from prison and arrival in Terra Nova. She is married to Jim and is the mother of their three children. Elisabeth Shannon, a trauma surgeon who works at Terra Nova's medical center. 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.

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