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Zion

Sci-Fi Workplace Comedy

📍 Planet Zion, Colony Operations Headquarters · Year 2159

A century after Jewish refugees transformed a barren planet into humanity’s first thriving off-world civilization, a collapsing Earth demands entry. Now Zion’s leaders must decide whether to welcome humanity’s survivors—and risk repeating the history they escaped.

Everybody wants in.

Battlestar Galactica meets Space Balls — The Office

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"It's a little "Battlestar Galactica", a little "Space Balls" — "The Office" in Space."

About This Series

It is the year 2159. A century after the destruction of Israel forced Jewish refugees to flee Earth, they have transformed Z613—a barren, uninhabitable planet—into Zion, humanity’s first thriving off-world civilization.

Beneath enormous life-sustaining domes, Zion’s citizens have built cities, universities, hospitals, farms, cafés, synagogues, parks and neighborhoods. It is a paradise created through science, sacrifice, ingenuity, determination—and just enough Jewish guilt to keep everyone productive.

Now Earth is collapsing under the combined weight of climate catastrophe, political extremism, antisemitism, failing governments and dwindling resources. Billions of people need somewhere to go.

Nobody wanted Zion when it was a barren rock. Now that it is a garden, everybody wants in.

At the center of the series is Colony Operations Headquarters—COHQ—the command center responsible for keeping an entire civilization alive. Every crisis on Zion eventually lands on its conference table: diplomatic confrontations with Earth, failing oxygen systems, asteroid threats, refugee policy and the occasional debate over whether lab-grown bacon can actually be kosher.

Ordinary people dealing with the same everyday problems we all face. The stakes are just bigger when you're running a planet.

Our Way Into Zion

Our guide into this world is Murray - an eighty-nine year old wisecracking Jewish man who's been cryogenically frozen since 2026. In the pilot, he wakes up, convinced humanity must have finally learned from history. Instead, everything is exactly the same. When he's given a tour of Zion he deadpans, in pure Mel Brooks fashion: "So let me get this straight... you had the whole universe and you rebuilt another farshlugginer desert? Oy gevalt!" As Murray discovers the ins and outs and the characters of Zion, so do we.

The World of Zion

Zion is a thriving society built beneath enormous life-sustaining domes on what was once a barren, uninhabitable planet. Inside the domes are neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, farms, cafés, businesses, synagogues, parks, research labs—everything required to sustain life. It isn't a military outpost or a frontier settlement. It looks just like...well...Israel. Well, maybe minus a little sand. But that's something the scientists are working on.

We experience this world through Colony Operations Headquarters (COHQ)—the command center responsible for keeping an entire civilization alive. Like any bureaucracy, COHQ runs on meetings, memos, reports...and a seemingly endless number of subcommittees, including the Strategic Coalition for Humanitarian Logistics, Evacuation and Protection—better known simply as SCHLEP.

"It's The Office in outer space."

The Leadership Team

Governor Yael Ben-David

Governor · Age 45

An idealistic governor trying to save civilization while somehow making it home in time for her daughter’s soccer game.

Dr. Noa Levin

Chief Scientist · Age 40

The brilliant scientist who made Zion habitable. Recently dumped again, she’s convinced men simply can’t handle dating a woman who’s literally smarter than everyone else.

Amos Harari

Chief of Infrastructure · Age 60

The exhausted infrastructure chief who keeps the oxygen flowing, the lights on, and civilization from falling apart while his wife reminds him—for the hundredth time—that the kitchen sink is still leaking.

Colonel Eitan Shalev

Chief of Security · Age 50

The security chief who’s prepared for every imaginable threat...except his mother-in-law dropping by unannounced.

Danny Rosenzweig

Chief Diplomat · Age 40

A charming diplomat skilled at negotiating with Earth’s governments who secretly has a crush on Dr. Noa but can’t work up the courage to ask her out.

The Series Engine

Whether they're debating whether to open Zion's gates, developing technology to divert a deadly asteroid, arguing over whether kosher lab-grown bacon is actually kosher, or figuring out why the oxygen budget got blown on a community theater production of Fiddler on the Roof, every episode forces the people of Zion to decide how far they're willing to go to protect the community they've built—and what they're willing to risk by opening it to the rest of humanity.

The Central Question

"Can mankind sustain a better civilization if humanity never learns or changes?"

In The End

ZION is a comedy about resilience, reinvention, and hope. No matter where Jews end up—even on another planet—we will survive. We’re always going to do the right thing. We’re always going to protect each other. And argue fiercely about everything. But it’s a world where we can passionately disagree, live safely, love deeply, and still thrive together.

Watch: Gilda Introduces Zion

Gilda Hauser Porcari describes the world, characters and premise of Zion.

Series Details

Format: Television — ½ Hour Comedy

Genre: Sci-Fi Workplace Comedy

Setting: Planet Zion · Year 2159

Primary Location: Colony Operations Headquarters

Tone: Epic survival stakes, warm ensemble comedy and sharp political satire

Comps: Battlestar Galactica meets Space Balls — The Office

Pilot Status: Available upon request

Series Materials: Two-page overview and development materials available

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