Humans (Buck Rogers)

In a dystopian 1987, Buck Rogers was propelled 504 years into the future in a deep space accident. In a sort of utopian future Earth, the human civilization had spread once again across the planet, and also to the stars. There are no more mutants and barren radioactive wastelands and the world is lush and green. Earth no longer has an invisible defense shield surrounding it and is shown to be the center of an interstellar human-dominated government, sometimes called "the Federation" or "the Alliance", with its capital at New Chicago.

Travel between the stars was accomplished with the use of "stargates": artificially created portals in space (similar in appearance to wormholes), but referred to as "warp" travel. Stargates appear as a diamond-shaped quartet of brilliant lights in space that shimmer when a vessel is making transit.

Humans have a conflict with the Draconian Empire who try to invade Earth.