By the time the show begins, some time in the 2020s, the alien population has multiplied from a few thousand to 3.5 million. And much of the "newcomers" live their own segregated existence, in what Minear compares to the North African ghettos in France.The lesson here apparently is newcomers breed like tribbles. Minear tells AICN the new project “might” feature an alien cop named Sam Francisco, as the movie and prior series did. Find Variety’s story on the matter here.