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* NotAlwaysEvil: [[spoiler:The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape.]]
* OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: [[spoiler: The aliens are trying to tell humanity that they are friendly and just want help in escaping, but they're unable to do so because they don't speak any human language, they can't communicate directly with the humans.]]

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* NotAlwaysEvil: [[spoiler:The The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape.]]
escape.
* OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: [[spoiler: The aliens are trying to tell humanity that they are friendly and just want help in escaping, but they're unable to do so because they don't speak any human language, they can't communicate directly with the humans.]]
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* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.space.
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* NotAlwaysEvil: [[spoiler:The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape.]]



* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.
* WasActuallyFriendly: [[spoiler:The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape, only they can't speak their language so can't communicate directly.]]

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* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.
* WasActuallyFriendly: [[spoiler:The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape, only they can't speak their language so can't communicate directly.]]
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* OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: [[spoiler: The aliens are trying to tell humanity that they are friendly and just want help in escaping, but they're unable to do so because they don't speak any human language, they can't communicate directly with the humans.]]



* WasActuallyFriendly: The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape, only they can't speak their language so can't communicate directly.

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* WasActuallyFriendly: The [[spoiler:The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape, only they can't speak their language so can't communicate directly.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The ghostly Captain Owens openly tells the ''Nestor'' crew "Welcome to Hell."
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* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.space.
* WasActuallyFriendly: The aliens appear menacing, but they're actually trying to get the humans to help them escape, only they can't speak their language so can't communicate directly.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' For the crew of the transport vessel Nestor, their moment has come. The eternal night of space has vanished and the night to come will be longer, and darker, than they can possibly imagine.


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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Within the human soul reside mysteries dark and deep; about our frailties, our fears, our shame. Today, or a hundred years from now, the darkest matter will still lie in the human heart.
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A cargo spaceship gets trapped in a starless void along with the ghosts of the crew of two other ships.

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A cargo spaceship gets trapped in a starless void along with the ghosts of the crew of two other ships.ships.

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* ExtinctInTheFuture: In this episode, set at an indeterminate point in the future, dogs are seemingly an endangered species as one was included among the zoo animals being shipped by the commercial transport ship ''Nestor''.
* OurDarkMatterIsMysterious: The commercial transport ship ''Nestor'' is thrown out of hyperspace into a starless void. In this void, they find a huge quantity of dark matter and two ships, the UNS ''Slayton'' and an alien ship. Everyone aboard both of those ships is dead. An apparition of Captain John Owens of the ''Slayton'' appears to the crew of the ''Nestor'' and tells them that their "souls" are trapped in the pocket of space created by the dark matter. As such, they cannot move on to whatever comes next, whether that be Heaven, Hell or oblivion. The same fate has befallen the aliens.
* {{Tuckerization}}: The U.N.S. ''Slayton'' and the U.N.S. ''Gagarin'' are named after the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton and the Soviet cosmonaut UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin, the first person in space.
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A cargo spaceship gets trapped in a starless void along with the ghosts of the crew of two other ships.

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