History Series / Silversun

* AnotherDimension: Accessed through the wormhole/s.
** Also the {{Technobabble}} explanation for the [[spoiler: JustOneSecondOutOfSync effect which affects Cinnamon and Mara.]]

* EscapePod: The ''Star Runner'' is equipped with a few, which are mentioned several times and put to several different uses in the series:
** They house the flight simulators, which can be used to train for piloting the ''Star Runner'', or the escape modules themselves... or to play combat sims for entertainment.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Leonella mentioning [[spoiler: the aforementioned "few strands of primitive DNA"]] indicates that [[spoiler: it's possible for alien life to exist on the other side of the wormhole]], and thus foreshadows [[spoiler: the alien being which mentally influences the Commander]].

* GeniusBruiser[=/=]BadassBookworm: [[spoiler: Hard Targets]] were deliberately selected and trained to be this. [[spoiler: Zandie]] certainly follows through, kicking [[spoiler: Leonella's]] ass in a sparring match and often being seen practicing (and generally winning). She's also, unfortunately for Cyriax, one of the most mutinous and challenging members of the crew, [[spoiler: leading an actual mutiny]] at one point. Fortunately, she's also decisive in a crisis and saves the mission at least twice, often with [[HiddenDepths knowledge and trivia you wouldn't expect her to have (or have retained)]] from her pre-mission emergency contingency training, as well as having the skills to take over for [[spoiler: Pancha]] as [[spoiler: computer officer]].

* PlotHole: Late in the series, a [[spoiler: computer virus]] is found to have affected the [[spoiler: ship's navigation]], and it is determined that it [[spoiler: must have been written using someone's PID[[note]]small personal microcomputers each member of the crew carries[[/note]], then uploaded]]. Which is all well and good... except that the reason they come to this conclusion is Pancha's statement that when she's on the bridge, she has no time to do anything else. Never mind that she's been seen using bridge time to discuss personal relationships, use the bridge computer to calculate personal relationships, use the bridge computer to create what was essentially a VirtualPaperDoll... there are plenty of moments when the only crew member(s) on the bridge aren't doing anything related to their jobs (besides keeping lookout) and the ship still runs fine. Going by these observations, it would have been easily possible for [[spoiler: either Tane or Zandie]] to have [[spoiler: coded the virus]] while working on the bridge.

Silversun is a 2004 children/teenage sci-fi program produced for the Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation. It depicts an "elite young crew" who are travelling on a [[InterplanetaryVoyage 90-year journey to a habitable planet]] referred to as Silversun or "the new world." It was cancelled after the cliffhanger final episode of its second season.

Silversun is a 2004 children/teenage sci-fi program produced for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It depicts an "elite young crew" who are travelling on a [[InterplanetaryVoyage 90-year journey to a habitable planet]] referred to as Silversun or "the new world." It was cancelled after the cliffhanger final episode of its second season.

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Zandie. Knowing basic engineering is certainly reasonable and sensible, and the sort of thing to-be settlers would be taught. But while it's the sort of thing ''Zandie'' would learn, would ''new settlers really'' be ''taught'' [[spoiler: last-resort ''starship'' manoeuvres]]?[[note]]Unless they WERE in fact intended to plausibly be reanimated in the event of an onboard emergency, and/or were trained as cadets/given basic Space Force training BEFORE being chosen as settlers...[[/note]] Zandie learning [[spoiler: ballroom dancing]] from her gran is also something of an eyebrow-raiser, although it's certainly plausible her personality was different back then, and/or she loved and respected her gran enough to do it anyway. Last but certainly not least, knowing enough to [[spoiler: take over for the computer officer ''designated by Earth command'' (and presumably specially trained before the mission)]]? [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools It's a cool plotline,]] but [[AssPull uhh...]]

* CloningBlues: Explored in depth and rather realistically with [[spoiler: C2, later named "Will Power" by his choice, a medical clone of the Commander who starts out as a blank state with no brain activity whatsoever, but is then awoken and developed by various members of the crew. Unfortunately, his nature as a [[WalkingTransplant harvest clone]] eventually leads to an incurable degenerative disease.]]

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Zandie. Knowing basic engineering is certainly reasonable and sensible, and the sort of thing to-be settlers would be taught. But while it's the sort of thing ''Zandie'' would learn, would ''new settlers really'' be ''taught'' [[spoiler: last-resort ''starship'' manoeuvres]]?[[note]]Unless they WERE in fact intended to plausibly be reanimated in the event of an onboard emergency, and/or were trained as cadets/given basic Space Force training BEFORE being chosen as settlers...[[/note]] Zandie learning [[spoiler: ballroom dancing]] from her gran is also something of an eyebrow-raiser, although it's certainly plausible her personality was different back then, and/or she loved and respected her gran enough to do it anyway. Last but certainly not least, knowing enough to [[spoiler: take over for the computer officer ''designated by Earth command'' (and presumably specially trained before the mission)]]? [[TropesAreNotBad It's a cool plotline,]] but [[AssPull uhh...]]

* SpaceIsMagic: Not only do aliens and wormholes exist, the crew are remarkably willing to fly through unknown phenomena such as a "solar fog", even when Cyriax openly admits that they're going [[Series/StarTrek where no man has gone before]].

* CloningBlues: Explored in depth and rather realistically with [[spoiler: C2, later named "Will Power" by his choice, a medical clone of the Commander who starts out as a blank state with no brain activity ''whatsoever'', but is then awoken and developed by various members of the crew. Unfortunately, his nature as a [[WalkingTransplant harvest clone]] eventually leads to an incurable degenerative disease.]]

* ClonesArePeopleToo: The position advocated by [[spoiler: Zandie, and eventually agreed upon to varying extents by the other members of the crew. Unfortunately, his neurodegenerative disorder coupled with other crises leads to him taking one of several [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet at best]] options, although he is left with a remote chance of seeing the Earth.]]

** One is used as a tug in an attempt to push the ''Star Runner'' away from a [[spoiler: jammed-on fuel barge]]. [[spoiler: Will Power successfully completes this manoeuvre later, after circumstances become more urgent, then hijacks this life pod to attempt to return to Earth.]]

* EscapePod: The ''Star Runner'' is equipped with several, which are mentioned several times and put to several uses in the series:

* InItForLife: Part of the drama and premise of the show, since the mission/journey to the New World is 90 years long, and [[RuleOfDrama if everything goes as planned]], there's no reasonable way off or back[[note]]especially after crossing the Andromeda Line, the point past which an EscapePod would not be able to make it back to Earth[[/note]].

* TheCaptain: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Commander Cyriax. While he is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and has his moments of making judgement calls, leading/guiding everyone in[[note]]what the show believes to be[[/note]] the right direction, and subtly teaching lessons to and aiding in the growth of the crew, he's not the focus of the show as TheLeader and is given roughly the same amount of focus as the other characters, [[spoiler: besides the story arcs which revolve around his exposure to the alien and ensuing [[MindVirus condition]]]]. Most major problems are also solved by the characters working together, and multiple-part solutions contributed by multiple characters, with Cyriax coordinating and making final calls at best. Similarly, he's also portrayed as a flawed human, admitting to fear at one point, having a few casual moments, and occasionally responding to insubordination, other out-of-order behaviour, or other mission difficulties with a brief flare of temper[[note]]even when he's in his right mind outside of the alien virus arc[[/note]] before cooling down and reverting to a more reasoned response and mindset.

* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The D-Room food. Also implied to be... ahem... recycled.

* BoisterousBruiser: Though her confrontationalism shines through more often, Zandie qualifies, being an avid martial artist and rarely keeping quiet or letting anything keep her down.