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1Camile Wray and Matthew Scott visit Earth while the crew on the ''Destiny'' struggle to maintain their lives. The interface chair is discovered.
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6* {{Bookends}}: the opening and ending sequences reflect each other.
7* ContinuityNod: The crew finds and Ancient control chair on the ship, a more primitive version of the chairs on [[Series/StargateAtlantis Atlantis]] and the "Face Suckers" on [[Series/StargateSG1 SG-1]]. Colonel Young is quick to point out that interfacing with them is usually a death sentence.
8* DirtyCoward: Rush is quite eager for someone to test the control chair, but is clearly unwilling to do it himself.
9* DrillSergeantNasty: Sgt. Spencer during the civilian exercise drills.
10* HappilyMarried: Camile; averted with Young.
11* MotivationalLie: Rush plants fake data in the ''Destiny'' database, indicating that an Icarus-type planet is a year down the road, in order to motivate the crew to help him unlock the ship's control system and boost their morale. He's also hoping that [[spoiler: someone else will be willing to sacrifice themself by sitting in the control chair.]]
12* SanitySlippage: Sgt. Spencer's mental state gets worse throughout the episode.
13* ShowerOfAngst: Camille has one when she learns that [[spoiler: the Icarus planet is a lie.]]
14* ThereAreNoTherapists: with T.J. as the only medical professional on a crew of 80, there literally are no therapists on ''Destiny''. When Young asks her to run psych evaluations on everyone, she points out she doesn't have the training to do that.

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