History Series / AlienNation

** "jabluka" (after the Russian word "jabloko", meaning "apple"), for the horrible drug from the pilot movie

** "serdso" (after the Russian word "serdcе", meaning "heart"), a religious object of the Tenctonese.
** "bardok" (from the Russian word "bardak", meaning "chaos"), rosto (from the Russian word "rost", meaning "growth [in height]") and "yunost" (from the Russian word "yunost'", meaning "youth", probably a nod at the fact, that a certain Tenctonese organ has an rejuvinating effect, when implanted in humans), enzymes from the Tenctonese metabolism.
** "Ahpossno" (from the Russian word "opasno", meaning "dangerous"), a fitting name for the overseer scout, who came to earth to investigate the disappearance of a quarter-million of "cargo", although he saves the Tenctonese from a annihilation-attempt by bio-weapon from a Purist group ([[PragmaticVillainy out of self-interest, the overseers don't profit from dead cargo]]).

** "Karabla" (from the Russian word "karabl' ", meaning "ship") an religious object used in Tenctonese marriage ceremonies, shaped like a ship

** The name wife of Albert Einstein, the polie precinct janitor, is "Okiana" (from the Russian word "okean", meaning "ocean").

** jabluka (after the Russian word "jabloko", meaning "apple"), for the horrible drug from the pilot movie

** Ahpossno (from the Russian word "opasno", meaning "dangerous"), a fitting name for the overseer scout, who came to earth to investigate the disappearance of a quarter-million of "cargo", although he saves the Tenctonese from a annihilation-attempt by bio-weapon from a Purist group ([[PragmaticVillainy out of self-interest, the overseers don't profit from dead cargo]]).
** Chekkah (from the Russian abbreviation "chekkah", a colloquial name for one of the forrrunner-organisations of the infamous KGB), an elite Overseer reconnaissance unit. Ahpossno is a memeber of this unit.

** jabluka (after the Russian word "jabloko", meaning "apple") for the horrible drug from the pilot movie
** "Gruza", the name of the slave ship (after the Russian word "gruz", meaning "cargo". "Cargo" is a overseer slur referring to Tenctonese under their control)

** "bardok" (from the Russian word "bardak", meaning "chaos"), rosto (from the Russian word "rost", meaning "growth [in height]") and "yunost" (from the Russian word "yunost'", meaning "youth", probably a nod at the fatc, that a certain Tenctonese organ has an rejuvinating effect, when implanted in humans), Enzymes from the Tenctonese physiology

** Chekkah (from the Russian abbreviation "Chekkah", a colloquial name for one of the forrunners of the infamous KGB), an elite Overseer reconnaissance unit. Ahpossno is a memeber of this unit.

* WickedCultured: Ahpossno likes music, nice house decoration and is is highly knowledgebale in his culture.

* EvilDetectingBaby: Vessna starts to cry, when she's near [[spoiler:Ahpossno and she's right about that, since he's an overseer scout send out to find the ca quarter-million wayward Tenctonese and wouldn't say no to a coupla milliards of Humans as slaves, either]].

** Ahpossno (from the Russian word "opasno", meaning "dangerous"), a fitting name for the overseer scout, who came to earth to investigate the disappearance of a quarter-million of "cargo".

* GratuitousRussian: A few "Tenctonese" words are obviously derived from Russian, such as jabluka (after the Russian word "jabloko", meaning "apple") for the horrible drug from the pilot movie, the name of the slave ship "Gruza" (after the Russian word "gruz", meaning "cargo". "Cargo" is a overseer slur referring to Tenctonese under their control) and "serdso" (after the Russian word "serdcе", meaning "heart"), a religious object of the Tenctonese.

* GratuitousRussian: A few "Tenctonese" words are obviously derived from Russian, such as jabluka (after the Russian word "jabloko", meaning "apple") for the horrible drug from the pilot movie and the name of the slave ship "Gruza" (after the Russian word "gruz", meaning "cargo". "Cargo" is a overseer slur referring to Tenctonese under their control).

* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Russian]]: A few "Tenctonese" words are obviously derived from Russian, such as jabluka (after the Russian word "jabloko", meaning "apple") for the horrible drug from the pilot movie and the name of the slave ship "Gruza" (after the Russian word "gruz", meaning "cargo". "Cargo" is a overseer slur referring to Tenctonese under their control).

* MakeAWish: Subverted in the first TV Movie, Sikes, in the way to the hospital, were Emily and Susan are after a bio-weapon attack with poisned flowers, he sees a shooting star and this it bring luck... It does not, it is a scout from the overseers, who want to bring the quarter-million Tenctonese back with superior military technology and won't be too sad about some milliards (human) slaves as a bonus.

* CompleteMonster: The Overseers, their cruelty is so infamous, that the Tenctonese word for overseer means also "demon".

* RussianRoulette: Tenconese style (George explicitly referred to RussianRoulette, when he described the "game"). In 10, they reveal a gruesome "game" from the time of slavery: Two Tenctonese sit at opposite and of a rotating machine, that either sprays normal water... Or salt water (like hydrochloric acid to Tenctonese).

** The "Kleezantsun<klick>" (Tenctonese for "Overseers", those who maintained order among the slaves on the ships) regard the other Tenctonese as Unter-Tenctonese (hint to "Untermensch") and even use Human anti-Tenctonese slurs to referr to them ("slag") and to seperate themselfes from the "cargo" (An overseer slur to refer to Tenctonece under their control).

** The "Kleezantsun<klick>" (Tenctonese for "Overseers", those who maintained order among the slaves on the ships) regard the other Tenctonese as Unter-Tenctonese (hint to "Untermensch") and even use Earth anti-Tenctonese slurs to referr to them, to seperate themselfes from the "inferior".

* FantasticSlur: Human bigots refer to Newcomers as "slags" or "spongeheads". Humans, in return, are called "Terts."

** After Emily has to give up her TV set, she gives her parents some mouthfuls of explicit stuff (It was not translated from Tenctonese and the subtitles contained [[SymbolSwearing random punctuation characters]] instead).

* RussianRoulette; Sort of. In 10, they reveal a gruesome "game" from the time of slavery: Two Tenctonese sit at opposite and of a rotating machine, that either sprays normal water... Or salt water (like hydrochloric acid to Tenctonese).

* RussianRoulette; Sort of. In 10, they reveal an old and gruesome tradiotion from the time of slavery: Two Tenctonese sit at opposite and of a rotating machine, that either sprays normal water... Or salt water (like hydrochloric acid to Tenctonese).