History Series / Silversun

* 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. 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]].

* GenuisBruiser[=/=]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. 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]].

* DeflectorShields: ''Star Runner'' is equipped with these, which saves it from [[spoiler: at least one meteor impact in the Sargasso Disc.]]

* AbsentAliens: Initially, subverted in Episode 12 when [[spoiler:they discover an alien after leaving the wormhole]] and briefly prior to that with Leonella's statement that they've found some primitive strands of DNA. In fact, Leonella's unexcitement at this discovery, combined with their general expectation that there might be aliens on the Silversun, such as [[spoiler:before finding Tycho's cat]] suggests that aliens may have been discovered elsewhere previously. Also slightly justified by the fact that they're flying through the middle of space and not visiting planets.

* InvisibleMainCharacter: The [[JustOneSecondOutOfSync "out of phase"]] version of this is caused by [[spoiler: an interaction between dark matter gravity waves andthe shift's grav-lifts]], temporarily rendering [[spoiler: Cinnamon and Mara (plus a plate of biscuits and two waterbottles)]] thus.

-->''Star Runner leaves on its ninety year journey to the new world. On board, an elite young crew, and 550 settlers frozen in suspended animation.''

* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler: Hard Targets]] were deliberately selected to be this. [[spoiler: Zandie]] certainly follows through, kicking [[spoiler: Leonella's]] ass in a sparring match and often being seen practicing. 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 emergency contingency training.

* AcePilot: Tane, by the standards of the cadets - he excels in many high-stress situations and is often commended by higher-ranking members of the crew, although he still fluffs up a (thankfully simulated) docking manoeuvre due to having his mind on Leonella, and overdoes at least one other routine manoeuvre, requiring a deliberate corrective move to fix it.

** Cinnamon and Tycho accidentally launch one while fighting over the aforementioned simulator. They are thankfully promptly recovered as soon as their absence is noted.

* EscapePod: Also the location of the flight simulator, though it's unclear whether it simulates flying the pod and/or the Star Runner.

* InvisibleMainCharacter: The [[JustOneSecondOutOfSync "out of phase"]] version of this is caused by [[spoiler: an interaction between dark matter gravity waves andthe shift's grav-lifts]], temporarily rendering [[spoiler: Cinnamon and Mara (plus a plate of biscuits and two waterbottles)]] thus]].

* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Mostly played straight - nobody seems to get sick unless they're suffering the effects of suspended animation or brain implants. On the other hand, it's implied that the characters can get sick, or at least that disease wasn't eradicated during their lifetime, as Tycho and Leonella use the excuse of feeling unwell to escape awkward situations. Possibly also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that they're on a spacecraft and effectively quarantined from new illnesses.

* {{Hologram}}: A feature of earlier episodes is the hologram room, with all the signs of this trope: opacity, emitter, and frequent clipping (presumably to remind the young audience of who is real and who is hologram). Oddly, this is used less in later episodes, perhaps to tie in with the characters' growing acceptance of their separation from Earth.

* OvenLogic: Well it didn't involve an oven but Tycho though giving plants three times the fertiliser would get them to grow faster, it killed them.

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 first 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." Although it was cancelled after the cliffhanger final episode of its second season and never released on DVD, Silversun remains a cult classic and various uploads to Youtube have attracted calls for another series.

* NoAntagonist: Most of the time. Conflicts are generated either from space phenomena they encounter, or interpersonal conflict within the crew, but there's no set antagonist and everyone generally gets SympatheticPOV. The only are exceptions are Cyriax in the arc where [[spoiler:he's possessed by an alien virus]] and Julian Streger in the last few episodes.

* ParentWithNewParamour: Played with. Leonella thinks this is is going on with Lillian and Cyriax in one episode. But it isn't.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Fluctuates - on one hand, the journey to the Silversun is 90 years long. However, they're "halfway across" the Milky Way after two years and must therefore be exceeding the speed of light, but they frequently count down distance to incoming objects, for example, in tens or hundreds of kilometres, which would pass in an instant at this speed.

* EscapePod: Also the location of the flight simulator, though it's unclear whether it simulates flying the pod and/or the Starrunner.

* 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 [[WhereNoManHasGoneBefore where no man has gone before]].

* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Mostly played straight - nobody seems to get sick unless they're suffering the effects of suspended animation or brain implants. On the other hand, it's implied that the characters can get sick, or at least that disease was eradicated during their lifetime, as Tycho and Leonella use the excuse of feeling unwell to escape awkward situations. Possibly also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that they're on a spacecraft and effectively quarantined from new illnesses.

--->''Star Runner leaves on its ninety year journey to the new world. On board, an elite young crew, and 550 settlers frozen in suspended animation.''

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." Although it was cancelled after the cliffhanger final episode of its only season and never released on DVD, Silversun remains a cult classic and various uploads to Youtube have attracted calls for a second series.