Zany Sci-Fi discussion coupled with very detailed reviews. In Flash Forward, an experiment in the CERN facility goes awry.
Humanity is taken several decades into the future for a few minutes, and is then brought back.
But, while they were gone, the world continued. Cars crashed, people died, and disaster struck everyone indiscriminately. People are given a whole new way of looking at things, and many can't handle it. The Insectoids have destroyed most of the fleet in a cowardly sneak attack. With humanity enslaved, the last survivors of a small fleet led by War Admiral Norman North try to escape the advancing Insectoid fleets while searching for a new weapon that they can use to fight back.