The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction due to dwindling worldwide air quality and overpopulation. At Hope Plaza, a massive ring shaped structure in Chicago, scientists discover a rift in space-time that allows people to travel 85 million years back in time to the late Cretaceous period on the prehistoric Earth of an alternate reality, offering a chance to save humanity. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy, and Zoe) join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway.
The Shannon Family starts a new life in Terra Nova while having to deal with carnivorous dinosaurs and the Sixers (a group that is opposed to Terra Nova ever since arriving in prehistoric times during the sixth pilgrimage).

The cast:
Jason O'Mara as Jim Shannon
Shelley Conn as Elisabeth Shannon
Landon Liboiron as Josh Shannon
Naomi Scott as Maddy Shannon
Alana Mansour as Zoe Shannon
Stephen Lang as Commander Nathaniel Taylor
Allison Miller as Skye
Mido Hamada as Guzman
Christine Adams as Mira
Rod Hallett as Dr. Malcolm Wallace

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