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* DramaticSpaceDrifting: [[spoiler: The fate of Danika and Yerzy, where the former struggling in the vacuums of space after being ejected from an airlock before succumbing to asphyxiation while the latter was launched out into the void without any motions due to being struck in the head with a blunt instrument]].
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* DramaticSpaceDrifting: [[spoiler: The fate movie had a scene of Danika and Yerzy, where the former struggling in the vacuums of space after being ejected from an airlock before succumbing to asphyxiation while the latter was launched out into the void without any motions due to after being ejected from an airlock. Another scene showed the corpse of Yerzy--Danika's lover--careening into space after he was struck in the head with a blunt instrument]].by Troy and disposed via an airlock]].
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Whether or not the film [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot squanders]] its promising beginning to become a slasher film [[RecycledInSpace in space]] is debatable. (And [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools whether or not that's a bad thing.]]) Director Creator/WalterHill had his name removed from the finished film (using the post-AlanSmithee name "Thomas Lee" instead.)
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''Supernova'' is a 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio Creator/HammerheadProduction. Starring Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AngelaBassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Creator/LouDiamondPhillips, Wilson Cruz, Creator/RobinTunney, and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress Vanessa Marshall provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
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* MsFanservice: Robin Tunney appears in sex scenes and topless multiple times.
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* CoitusEnsues: The film has ''three'' gratuitous sex scenes (two of them in [[ZeroGSpot zero gravity]]). The module where the zero-g sex occurs appears to even be ''built'' for this purpose.
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''Supernova'' is a 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio Creator/HammerheadProduction. Starring Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AngelaBassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, Robin Tunney, Creator/RobinTunney, and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress Vanessa Marshall provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
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* RecycledInSpace: The movie's premise starts out similar to ''Film/PitchBlack'', but ends up ''Dead Calm'' in space.
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Happens twice, [[spoiler: in the deaths of Danika and Yerzy.]]
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* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Happens twice, [[spoiler: in the deaths of Danika and Yerzy. Yerzy at least was already dead when his body was ejected, Danika was not so lucky.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: At the end, [[spoiler: the 9th dimensional bomb goes off, creating a supernova whose wavefront will reach Earth in 51 years...but whether it destroys the planet or creates a Monolith effect is left up in the air.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: At the end, [[spoiler: the 9th dimensional bomb goes off, creating a supernova whose wavefront will reach Earth in 51 years... but whether it destroys the planet or creates a Monolith effect is left up in the air.]]
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* BodyHorror: What a malfunction in one of the d-jump units does to [[spoiler: Captain Marley]].
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There's also apparently a British Sitcom with the same name.
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* BlindJump: Averted; however, even with precise calculations the Nightingale ends up too close to a blue giant star,
* BoardingParty: Of one-in the deleted scenes, [[spoiler: Nick uses the real Troy's corpse as a decoy when entering the ship.]]
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* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted-Captain Marley states that "if they want to reach the mine within our lifetimes", they need to jump within a certain amount of time.
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* ExplosiveDecompression: Averted. [[spoiler: Danika dies]] when thrown into space from suffocation and exposure, but does not explode.
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* ZeroGSpot: There's a module on the ship which seems to have been built solely for this purpose. It also has windows, so you can watch the action from outside. [[spoiler:Kaela and Nick lure Karl up there and set off a grenade, launching him and the artifact into space.]]
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* ZeroGSpot: There's a module on the ship which seems to have been built solely for this purpose. It also has windows, so you can watch the action from outside. Kael and Nick have sex in there early on. Later Danika and Troy do as well. [[spoiler:Kaela and Nick lure Karl up there and set off a grenade, launching him and the artifact into space.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The joke Benj tells about the "creature" formed from the two astronauts sharing the same dimensional stabilization units. Not two minutes later, the captain dies from being in a malfunctioning d-jump unit.
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* ExactWords: When Nick boasts of being in tougher situations than the one they're in now, Kaela asks if he was being honest. He cites their near-crash into the planet as an example of a tougher situation, that being less than an hour before.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: What happens when when your d-jump unit malfunctions. Poor Captain Marley, we hardly knew ye.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: MGM recut AND reshot the film without director Walter Hill's input, and he removed his name from the finished film in response.
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* PopulationControl: Couples must apply for permission to have children, which Yerzy does for Danika and himself, as she wants them. It's not said how this is enforced though.
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''Supernova'' is a 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio Creator/HammerheadProduction. Starring Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AngelaBassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, Robin Tunney, and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress Vanessa Marshall provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
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A 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio Creator/HammerheadProduction. Starring [[Film/{{Stargate}} James Spader]], [[Film/StrangeDays Angela Bassett]] , [[Film/JackieBrown Robert]] [[Film/TheBlackHole Forster]], [[Series/StargateUniverse Lou Diamond Phillips]],[[Series/MySoCalledLife Wilson Cruz]], [[Series/PrisonBreak Robin Tunney]], and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Vanessa]] [[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Marshall]] provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
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A 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio Creator/HammerheadProduction. Starring [[Film/{{Stargate}} James Spader]], [[Film/StrangeDays Angela Bassett]] , [[Film/JackieBrown Robert]] [[Film/TheBlackHole Forster]], [[Series/StargateUniverse Creator/JamesSpader, Creator/AngelaBassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips]],[[Series/MySoCalledLife Phillips, Wilson Cruz]], [[Series/PrisonBreak Cruz, Robin Tunney]], Tunney, and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Vanessa]] [[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Marshall]] Vanessa Marshall provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
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Whether or not the film [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot squanders]] its promising beginning to become a slasher film [[RecycledInSpace in space]] is debatable. (And [[TropesAreNotBad whether or not that's a bad thing.]]) Director [[Film/TheWarriors Walter Hill]] Hill had his name removed from the finished film (using the post-AlanSmithee name "Thomas Lee" instead.)
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A 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio HammerheadProduction. Starring [[Film/{{Stargate}} James Spader]], [[Film/StrangeDays Angela Bassett]] , [[Film/JackieBrown Robert]] [[TheBlackHole [[Film/TheBlackHole Forster]], [[Series/StargateUniverse Lou Diamond Phillips]],[[MySoCalledLife Phillips]],[[Series/MySoCalledLife Wilson Cruz]], [[PrisonBreak [[Series/PrisonBreak Robin Tunney]], and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Vanessa]] [[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Marshall]] provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
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The story begins with the [[CoolShip Medical ship, Nightingale]], and its crew -- Captain Marley (Forster), ship's doctor Kaela Evers (Bassett), Medics Yerzy Penalosa (Phillips) and Danika Lund (Tunney), and computer expert Benj Stomejar (Cruz). Into this mix comes new co-pilot Nick Vanzant (Spader), a recovering "Hazen" addict. There is tension between Nick and Kaela, as she has a dislike of Nick, as her abusive ex-lover, Karl Larson, was also a Hazen addict.
The ship receives a distress call from an abandoned mining station, and the message is from Kaela's ex, Larson. The crew makes an emergency jump that leaves their captain dead, and the ship too close to the gravitational pull of a blue giant star. When the crew retrieves a pod from the mine, it contains not Karl, but his son, Troy Larson (Facinelli). Scanning the ship, they find an alien artifact that Troy claims to have found buried in the mine.
The ship receives a distress call from an abandoned mining station, and the message is from Kaela's ex, Larson. The crew makes an emergency jump that leaves their captain dead, and the ship too close to the gravitational pull of a blue giant star. When the crew retrieves a pod from the mine, it contains not Karl, but his son, Troy Larson (Facinelli). Scanning the ship, they find an alien artifact that Troy claims to have found buried in the mine.
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The story begins with the [[CoolShip Medical ship, Nightingale]], ship Nightingale]] and its crew -- Captain crew-Captain Marley (Forster), ship's doctor Kaela Evers (Bassett), Medics Yerzy Penalosa (Phillips) and Danika Lund (Tunney), and computer expert Benj Stomejar (Cruz). Into this mix comes new co-pilot Nick Vanzant (Spader), a recovering "Hazen" addict. There is tension between Nick and Kaela, Kaela as she has a dislike of Nick, Nick as her abusive ex-lover, Karl Larson, was also a Hazen addict.
The ship receives a distress call from an abandoned mining station, and the message is from Kaela's ex, Larson. The crew makes an emergency jump that leaves their captain dead, and the ship too close to the gravitational pull of a blue giant star. When the crew retrieves a pod from the mine, it contains notKarl, Karl but his son, Troy Larson (Facinelli). Scanning the ship, they find an alien artifact that Troy claims to have found buried in the mine.
The ship receives a distress call from an abandoned mining station, and the message is from Kaela's ex, Larson. The crew makes an emergency jump that leaves their captain dead, and the ship too close to the gravitational pull of a blue giant star. When the crew retrieves a pod from the mine, it contains not
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted. Sweetie is as nice as her name, and exhibits remorse when being unable to learn fast enough to prevent [[spoiler:Benj's death.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted.{{Averted}}. Sweetie is as nice as her name, and exhibits remorse when being unable to learn fast enough to prevent [[spoiler:Benj's death.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: At the end, [[spoiler: The 9th dimensional bomb goes off, creating a supernova whose wavefront will reach Earth in 51 years...but whether it destroys the planet or creates a Monolith effect is left up in the air.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: for [[spoiler: Kaela and Nick]]. Averted for [[spoiler: Yerzy and Danika]], who actually wanted to have children together.
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* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted -- Captain Marley states that "if they want to reach the mine within our lifetimes", they need to jump within a certain amount of time.
* ChekhovsGun: the joke Benj tells about the "creature" formed from the two astronauts sharing the same dimensional stabilization units. Not two minutes later, the captain dies from being in a malfunctioning d-jump unit.
** Also, [[spoiler: how Nick and Kaela escape Karl at the end of the movie]]
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* RecycledInSpace: The movie's premise starts out similar to ''PitchBlack'', but ends up ''Dead Calm'' in space.
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A 2000 science fiction film produced by MGM and effects studio HammerheadProduction[[note]]Which is strange the moment when you discover that DigitalDomain's the lead effects studio with both [[DreamworksAnimation PDI]] and PacificTitle; not these guys[[/note]]. Starring [[Film/{{Stargate}} James Spader]], [[StrangeDays Angela Bassett]] , [[JackieBrown Robert]] [[TheBlackHole Forster]], [[Series/StargateUniverse Lou Diamond Phillips]],[[MySoCalledLife Wilson Cruz]], [[PrisonBreak Robin Tunney]], and a pre-Literature/{{Twilight}} Peter Facinelli. Voice actress [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Vanessa]] [[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes Marshall]] provides the voice of ship's computer, "Sweetie".
The story begins with the [[CoolShip Medical ship, Nightingale]], and its crew -- Captain Marley (Forster), ship's doctor Kaela Evers (Bassett), Medics Yerzy Penalosa (Phillips) and Danika Lund (Tunney), and computer expert Benj Stomejar (Cruz). Into this mix comes new co-pilot Nick Vanzant (Spader), a recovering "Hazen" addict. There is tension between Nick and Kaela, as she has a dislike of Nick, as her abusive ex-lover, Karl Larson, was also a Hazen addict.
The ship receives a distress call from an abandoned mining station, and the message is from Kaela's ex, Larson. The crew makes an emergency jump that leaves their captain dead, and the ship too close to the gravitational pull of a blue giant star. When the crew retrieves a pod from the mine, it contains not Karl, but his son, Troy Larson (Facinelli). Scanning the ship, they find an alien artifact that Troy claims to have found buried in the mine.
Whether or not the film [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot squanders]] its promising beginning to become a slasher film [[RecycledInSpace in space]] is debatable. (And [[TropesAreNotBad whether or not that's a bad thing.]]) Director [[Film/TheWarriors Walter Hill]] had his name removed from the finished film (using the post-AlanSmithee name "Thomas Lee" instead.)
There's also apparently a British Sitcom with the same name.
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AFateWorseThanDeath: The death of the Nightingale's captain.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted. Sweetie is as nice as her name, and exhibits remorse when being unable to learn fast enough to prevent [[spoiler:Benj's death.]]
* AlanSmithee: the name was retired by the time this film was made, so director Walter Hill used "Thomas Lee" instead.
* AliensAreBastards: The alien artifact is a Genesis Effect bomb designed to create a supernova, wiping out any civilization advanced enough to have discovered its hiding place and creating virgin higher-order matter in their place.
* ApocalypseHow: At the end, [[spoiler: The 9th dimensional bomb goes off, creating a supernova whose wavefront will reach Earth in 51 years...but whether it destroys the planet or creates a Monolith effect is left up in the air.]]
* ArtificialGravity: the Nightingale uses rotation to create its own gravity.
* ArtificialIntelligence
* BabiesEverAfter: for [[spoiler: Kaela and Nick]]. Averted for [[spoiler: Yerzy and Danika]], who actually wanted to have children together.
* BlindJump: Averted; however, even with precise calculations the Nightingale ends up too close to a blue giant star,
* BoardingParty: Of one -- in the deleted scenes, [[spoiler: Nick uses the real Troy's corpse as a decoy when entering the ship.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Karl]] gains super-human strength and healing powers from constant exposure to the alien artifact.
* CaptainsLog: Captain Marley keeps a log that's actually his doctoral thesis.
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted oh so hard -- Captain Marley states that "if they want to reach the mine within our lifetimes", they need to jump within a certain amount of time.
* ChekhovsGun: the joke Benj tells about the "creature" formed from the two astronauts sharing the same dimensional stabilization units. Not two minutes later, the captain dies from being in a malfunctioning d-jump unit.
** Also, [[spoiler: how Nick and Kaela escape Karl at the end of the movie]]
* CulturePolice: The captain, while narrating his dissertation, mentions that violent animation like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has been outlawed.
* ExecutiveMeddling: MGM recut AND reshot the film without director Walter Hill's input, and he removed his name from the finished film in response.
* ExplosiveDecompression: Averted. [[spoiler: Danika dies]] when thrown into space from suffocation and exposure, but does not explode.
* EyeScream: Kaela manages to nail Karl in the ''eye'' with a laser scalpel. It barely even slows him down, and the eye heals in under a minute.
* FasterThanLightTravel: called "dimensional jump" or "d-jump" in this story.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: what happens when when your d-jump unit malfunctions. Poor Captain Marley, we hardly knew ye.
** Also, what happens to [[spoiler: the REAL Troy Larson as a result of the alien artifact]], in the deleted scenes.
* HeyItsThatGuy[=/=]HeyItsThatVoice: As noted in the first paragraph.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Anyone who tries to go through a jump unshielded gets warped into a [[BodyHorror horrible abomination]], probably still alive and begging for death. Even two people riding in a shielded pod is dangerous. Hell, normal, single-person travel in a shielded pod is said to be disorienting (one guy complains of irregular bowel movements), and they have to travel naked. The ship's captain dies thanks to a damaged pod, and Nick and Kaela end up swapping eye colors (and some bodily fluids) when forced to ride in the same pod.
* RecycledInSpace: The movie's premise starts out similar to ''PitchBlack'', but ends up ''Dead Calm'' in space.
* RoboSexual: Benj is just a little too close to Sweetie, the ship's computer:
--> [[DoubleEntendre "Your strategy was both subtle and forceful, Benjamin, You can play with me anytime."]]
* SubspaceAnsible: Played straight. It takes five days for the Nightgale to receive the distress call from the mining colony, which is over 320 light years away and requires a d-jump to get to.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Happens twice, [[spoiler: in the deaths of Danika and Yerzy.]]
* TrailersAlwaysLie: the trailer for the film makes it seem like it's a horror comedy.
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The story begins with the [[CoolShip Medical ship, Nightingale]], and its crew -- Captain Marley (Forster), ship's doctor Kaela Evers (Bassett), Medics Yerzy Penalosa (Phillips) and Danika Lund (Tunney), and computer expert Benj Stomejar (Cruz). Into this mix comes new co-pilot Nick Vanzant (Spader), a recovering "Hazen" addict. There is tension between Nick and Kaela, as she has a dislike of Nick, as her abusive ex-lover, Karl Larson, was also a Hazen addict.
The ship receives a distress call from an abandoned mining station, and the message is from Kaela's ex, Larson. The crew makes an emergency jump that leaves their captain dead, and the ship too close to the gravitational pull of a blue giant star. When the crew retrieves a pod from the mine, it contains not Karl, but his son, Troy Larson (Facinelli). Scanning the ship, they find an alien artifact that Troy claims to have found buried in the mine.
Whether or not the film [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot squanders]] its promising beginning to become a slasher film [[RecycledInSpace in space]] is debatable. (And [[TropesAreNotBad whether or not that's a bad thing.]]) Director [[Film/TheWarriors Walter Hill]] had his name removed from the finished film (using the post-AlanSmithee name "Thomas Lee" instead.)
There's also apparently a British Sitcom with the same name.
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AFateWorseThanDeath: The death of the Nightingale's captain.
* AIIsACrapshoot: Averted. Sweetie is as nice as her name, and exhibits remorse when being unable to learn fast enough to prevent [[spoiler:Benj's death.]]
* AlanSmithee: the name was retired by the time this film was made, so director Walter Hill used "Thomas Lee" instead.
* AliensAreBastards: The alien artifact is a Genesis Effect bomb designed to create a supernova, wiping out any civilization advanced enough to have discovered its hiding place and creating virgin higher-order matter in their place.
* ApocalypseHow: At the end, [[spoiler: The 9th dimensional bomb goes off, creating a supernova whose wavefront will reach Earth in 51 years...but whether it destroys the planet or creates a Monolith effect is left up in the air.]]
* ArtificialGravity: the Nightingale uses rotation to create its own gravity.
* ArtificialIntelligence
* BabiesEverAfter: for [[spoiler: Kaela and Nick]]. Averted for [[spoiler: Yerzy and Danika]], who actually wanted to have children together.
* BlindJump: Averted; however, even with precise calculations the Nightingale ends up too close to a blue giant star,
* BoardingParty: Of one -- in the deleted scenes, [[spoiler: Nick uses the real Troy's corpse as a decoy when entering the ship.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Karl]] gains super-human strength and healing powers from constant exposure to the alien artifact.
* CaptainsLog: Captain Marley keeps a log that's actually his doctoral thesis.
* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted oh so hard -- Captain Marley states that "if they want to reach the mine within our lifetimes", they need to jump within a certain amount of time.
* ChekhovsGun: the joke Benj tells about the "creature" formed from the two astronauts sharing the same dimensional stabilization units. Not two minutes later, the captain dies from being in a malfunctioning d-jump unit.
** Also, [[spoiler: how Nick and Kaela escape Karl at the end of the movie]]
* CulturePolice: The captain, while narrating his dissertation, mentions that violent animation like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has been outlawed.
* ExecutiveMeddling: MGM recut AND reshot the film without director Walter Hill's input, and he removed his name from the finished film in response.
* ExplosiveDecompression: Averted. [[spoiler: Danika dies]] when thrown into space from suffocation and exposure, but does not explode.
* EyeScream: Kaela manages to nail Karl in the ''eye'' with a laser scalpel. It barely even slows him down, and the eye heals in under a minute.
* FasterThanLightTravel: called "dimensional jump" or "d-jump" in this story.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: what happens when when your d-jump unit malfunctions. Poor Captain Marley, we hardly knew ye.
** Also, what happens to [[spoiler: the REAL Troy Larson as a result of the alien artifact]], in the deleted scenes.
* HeyItsThatGuy[=/=]HeyItsThatVoice: As noted in the first paragraph.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: Anyone who tries to go through a jump unshielded gets warped into a [[BodyHorror horrible abomination]], probably still alive and begging for death. Even two people riding in a shielded pod is dangerous. Hell, normal, single-person travel in a shielded pod is said to be disorienting (one guy complains of irregular bowel movements), and they have to travel naked. The ship's captain dies thanks to a damaged pod, and Nick and Kaela end up swapping eye colors (and some bodily fluids) when forced to ride in the same pod.
* RecycledInSpace: The movie's premise starts out similar to ''PitchBlack'', but ends up ''Dead Calm'' in space.
* RoboSexual: Benj is just a little too close to Sweetie, the ship's computer:
--> [[DoubleEntendre "Your strategy was both subtle and forceful, Benjamin, You can play with me anytime."]]
* SubspaceAnsible: Played straight. It takes five days for the Nightgale to receive the distress call from the mining colony, which is over 320 light years away and requires a d-jump to get to.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Happens twice, [[spoiler: in the deaths of Danika and Yerzy.]]
* TrailersAlwaysLie: the trailer for the film makes it seem like it's a horror comedy.
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