History Recap / TheTwilightZone2019S1E6SixDegreesOfFreedom

** [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E153TheBrainCenterAtWhipples Whipple]] is the company responsible the space program.

** A group of astronauts leaving for another planet because their home world is being attacked by nuclear weapons is reminiscent of [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E14ThirdFromTheSun "Third from the Sun"]].
** The computerized artificial intelligence system TINA is named after Talky Tina from [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll "Living Doll"]].
** The crew's names are based on those in [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir "I Shot an Arrow in the Air"]].

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: The crew is able to stay grounded on their ship and even sleep comfortably and eat dinner on a table in spite of there being no gravity. In real life, they should be floating all over the place.
** Handwaved when one of them mentions the ship has [[ArtificialGravity pseudo-gravity]].

* ZeroGSpot: Pilot Casey Donlan and Engineer Ray Tanaka get busy in the space craft, with the captain then calling them out on it and explaining why it's a bad idea, since if Casey got pregnant they wouldn't have enough supplies to provide for an infant too.

* AmbiguousEnding: It is left to the viewer to decide whether the Earth is actually destroyed in a nuclear war, if the ''Bradbury'' actually flew to Mars, if the whole thing was an elaborate simulation by the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, or some combination of everything.

** The crew's names are based from those in [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir "I Shot an Arrow in the Air"]].
* SecretTest: Pierson becomes convinced that their entire mission is a simulation to test how the crew would hold up under the stress of a flight to mars.

* ZeroGSpot: Pilot Casey Donlan and Engineer Ray Tanaka get busy in the space craft, with the captain then calling them out on it and explaining why it's a bad idea.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Jerry does this to himself to prove that this mission is actually a test for the crew. He's not wrong, but just wrong about who is running the test.

* CallBack:
** Flight Surgeon Katherine Langford has a toy Northern Goldstar airplane, the same airline from ''Nightmare at 30,000 Feet''.
** Whipple is the company responsible the space program.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The episode begins with static interference starting with the CBS all access logo.

** Jerry suggesting that they're in a simulation echoes the ending of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E1WhereIsEverybody Where is Everybody?]]"
** A group of astronauts leaving for another planet because their home world is being attacked by nuclear weapons is reminiscent of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E14ThirdFromTheSun Third from the Sun]]".
** The computerized artificial intelligence system TINA is named after Talky Tina from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]".
** The crew's names are based from those in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir I Shot an Arrow in the Air]]".

[[caption-width-right:350:"TIMA, mute communications and play 'Family'."]]

* SuicideMission: The ''Bradbury'' mission was supposed to travel to Mars, establish a colony, then return four years later. The crew revises their trip to a suicide mission after the Earth is destroyed.

* TeamMom: The crew sees Commander Brant as such.

* AbsentAliens: Langford talks about "The Great Filter," a theory that the true test of an advanced civilization is whether it can travel to another planet before destroying itself. That eventually turns out to be the SecretTest for the crew.

* AmbiguousEnding: It is left to the viewer to decide whether the ''Bradbury'' actually flew to Mars, if the whole thing was an elaborate simulation by the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, or some combination of the two.

* AmbiguousEnding: It is left to the viewer to decide whether or not the Bradbury's mission was genuine or an elaborate simulation by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens.

* ColonizedSolarSystem: The ''Brandbury'' mission was supposed to be the start of this.

* AbsentAliens: Langford talks about "The Great Filter," a theory that the true test of an advanced civilization is whether it can travel to another planet before destroying itself. That eventually turns out to be the SecretTestOfCharacter for the crew.

A crew of five people traveling to Mars to start a space colony find themselves alone in the universe, and their personal and interpersonal bonds are tested as they travel.

-->''This is my family.\\
My one crazy family.''

* SecretTestOfCharacter: Pierson becomes convinced that their entire mission is a simulation to test how the crew would hold up under the stress of a flight to mars.

* SuicideMission: The ''Brandbury'' mission was supposed to travel to Mars, establish a colony, then return four years later. The crew revises their trip to a suicide mission after the Earth is destroyed.