History Series / AscensionMiniseries

* VirtualTrainingSimulation: ''Ascension's'' Terra-Lab, where the environment on Proxima's planets and the vehicles they'll use there are simulated.

* HighClassCallGirl: The Stewardesses basically

Ascension is a [[SciFiChannel SyFy]] miniseries about an OrionDrive-powered ColonyShip secretly launched by the United States at the height of [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the Cold War]] toward [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Proxima Centauri]] to establish a settlement. The population is generally divided into two classes, the one living at the top of the ship in relative comfort, and the rest who are the ones who make the ship actually function. After 50 years without incident one of the colonists is found murdered and tensions begin to rise among the colonists.

* Main/ArtificialGravity: Somehow, on a ship built using 60's technology, and with no visible handwaves such as centrifuges, a Earth-normal gravity environment exists. [[spoiler: The twist at the end of the first episode presents an obvious solution, but you would think that the ship's inhabitants might question this inconsistency.]]

* PsychicChildren: Looks like Christa is one

* VirtualTrainingSimulation: ''Ascension'''s Terra-Lab, where the environment on Proxima's planets and the vehicles they'll use there are simulated.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:At the end of the first episode, Stokes is BlownOutTheAirlock and drifts screaming though space...until he lands on an airbag at the base of the "spaceship" and is immediately sedated by hazmat-suited personnel. Turns out ''Ascension'' [[EarthAllAlong never went anywhere]]]].

* DoesThisMeanAnythingToYou: Only a thin wall separates the clear blue water, artificial sun, and soothing environment of the beach room from the nasty, green slime of what looks like an algae tank. Presumably this symbolizes both the class barriers between the upper and lower decks, and the negative emotions and drives that exist beneath the seemingly calm and efficient upper deck society itself.

* HeroicBSOD: Evidently ''everyone'' born on ''Ascension'' goes through "The Crisis" in their teen years, when it finally hits them that they'll never leave the ship. Since they're halfway to their destination when the show begins, some are now able to console themselves by rationalizing that they might actually live until their arrival at Proxima Centauri.

* SmallReferencePools: An in-story example. For starters, obviously the ship's library doesn't include any works created after 1963. And when Gault tries to check out a book on police procedures to help his investigation, his sister the librarian tells him they didn't think to bring one along. He ends up watching crime movies; the classic film''Film/{{M}}'' gives him an idea of [[SplashOfColor how to follow one of the suspects]].

Ascension is a [[SciFiChannel SyFy]] miniseries about an OrionDrive-powered ColonyShip launched at the height of [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar the Cold War]] toward [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Proxima Centauri]] to establish a settlement. The population is generally divided into two classes, the one living at the top of the ship in relative comfort, and the rest who are the ones who make the ship actually function. After 50 years without incident one of the colonists is found murdered and tensions begin to rise among the colonists.

Ascension is a [[SciFiChannel SyFy]] miniseries about an OrionDrive-powered ColonyShip launched at the height of UsefulNotes/TheColdWar toward [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Proxima Centauri]] to establish a settlement. The population is generally divided into two classes, the one living at the top of the ship in relative comfort, and the rest who are the ones who make the ship actually function. After 50 years without incident one of the colonists is found murdered and tensions begin to rise among the colonists.

Ascension is a [[SciFiChannel SyFy]] miniseries about an OrionDrive-powered ColonyShip launched toward [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Proxima Centauri]] to establish a settlement. The population is generally divided into two classes, the one living at the top of the ship in relative comfort, and the rest who are the ones who make the ship actually function. After 50 years without incident one of the colonists is found murdered and tensions begin to rise among the colonists.

Ascension is a [[SciFiChannel SyFy]] miniseries about a ColonyShip launched toward [[UsefulNotes/LocalStars Proxima Centauri]] to establish a settlement. The population is generally divided into two classes, the one living at the top of the ship in relative comfort, and the rest who are the ones who make the ship actually function. After 50 years without incident one of the colonists is found murdered and tensions begin to rise among the colonists.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:At the end of the first episode, Stokes is BlownOutTheAirlock and drifts screaming though space...until he lands on an airbag at the base of the "spaceship" and is immediately sedated by hazmat-suited personnel. [[EarthAllAlong Turns out Ascension never went anywhere.]]]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:At the end of the first episode, Stokes is BlownOutTheAirlock and drifts screaming though space...until he lands on an airbag at the base of the "spaceship" [[EarthAllAlong and is immediately sedated by hazmat-suited personnel]].]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:At the end of the first episode, Stokes is BlownOutTheAirlock and drifts screaming though space...until he lands on an airbag at the base of the "spaceship" and is immediately sedated by hazmat-suited personnel.]]

* WhamMoment: [[spoiler:At the end of the first episode, Stokes is BlownOutTheAirlock and drifts screaming though space...until he lands on an airbag at the base of the "spaceship" and is immediately sedated by hazmat-suited personnel.]]

Ascension is a [[SciFiChannel SyFy]] miniseries about a ColonyShip launched toward Proxima Centauri to establish a settlement. The population is generally divided into two classes, the one living at the top of the ship in relative comfort, and the rest who are the ones who make the ship actually function. After 50 years without incident one of the colonists is found murdered and tensions begin to rise among the colonists.

* ColonyShip: The USS ''Ascension'', apparently of the GenerationShip flavor.

* TheReveal: ''Ascension'' is actually [[spoiler:on Earth, its true purpose being an elaborate experiment designed to test how those within react to the idea of travelling to another world]].

* Main/ArtificialGravity: Somehow, on a ship built using 60's technology, and with no visible handwaves such as centrifuges, a normal gravity environment exists. [[spoiler: The twist at the end of the first episode presents an obvious solution, but you would think that the ship's inhabitants might question this inconsistency.]]

* ClosedCircle: The only place the murderer could be is somewhere aboard the ''Ascension''.

* ManipulativeBitch: The captain's wife, Viondra, who is not above using her social and official position as a power broker.

* ClosedCircle: The only place the murdere could be is somewhere aboard the ''Ascension''.

* SecretKeeper: Harris Enzmann, one of the few on Earth who even know about the ''Ascension's'' existence.