When a spacecraft called Ark One suffers a disaster that kills much of its crew and wrecks half its systems, the people left on board have to hold a barely functioning ship together while still trying to reach the world they were sent to settle.
What is The Ark about?
The Ark follows the surviving crew members of Ark One in the aftermath of a catastrophic failure that strips away leadership, damages critical systems, and leaves far fewer hands than the mission ever planned for. With training and rank suddenly meaning less than who can actually keep the ship running, the remaining crew have to figure out roles on the fly while managing failing equipment, dwindling resources, and disagreements about how the mission should proceed from here. The series builds its tension around that mismatch between what the ship needs and what the people left aboard are actually equipped to give it, stretching across a voyage none of them signed up to run shorthanded.
About the cast
Christie Burke and Reece Ritchie lead the surviving crew of Ark One, with Richard Fleeshman, Stacey Read, and Ryan Adams among the other regulars navigating the ship's damaged systems. Dean Devlin, who created and directs the series, brings a background in large-scale science-fiction productions to a story that keeps its focus tight on one ship and its remaining crew rather than a wider fleet or galaxy.
Context & significance
The Ark sits in the tradition of confined-spaceship science fiction, where the drama comes less from external threats and more from the pressure of keeping a damaged vessel and a reduced crew functioning across a long voyage. Each episode runs under an hour, a pace that keeps the series moving through mechanical failures, interpersonal strain, and the slow reveal of what actually caused the disaster that opened the show. It sits comfortably alongside other survival-in-space series for viewers drawn to that mix of hardware problems and crew tension rather than large-scale space battles.
Watching The Ark on Ktime
The Ark is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the series in whichever format they prefer. Streaming begins once you are logged into a K-Time account, though the page itself can be browsed without one.