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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Samantha realizes [[spoiler: Eve knows more than she should when she made a remark about Stokes complaining as "has to be better than working at the stockyards" when Samantha never said where he'd worked]].
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''Ascension'' was originally broadcast as three consecutive double-episodes, December 15-17, 2014, on Syfy. Canada's CBC played the series as six episodes, airing once weekly, and online streaming services display the series in the six episode format, each named after parts one and two of three distinct "chapters" in the show. Despite decent ratings and some critical attention, the show was not renewed as a full series, like ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'' was.

Not to be confused with the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/{{Ascension}}''.

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''Ascension'' was originally broadcast as three consecutive double-episodes, December 15-17, 2014, on Syfy. Canada's CBC played the series as six episodes, airing once weekly, and online streaming services display the series in the six episode format, each named after parts one and two of three distinct "chapters" in the show. Despite decent ratings and some critical attention, the show was not renewed as a full series, like ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'' ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' was.

Not to be confused with anything else sharing the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/{{Ascension}}''.
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* UnderwearSwimsuit: In the first scene of the first episode, Lorelei, who's left a party, takes off her dress and goes for a swim in her bra and panties.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Not technically a court but the upper deck qualify. Everyone's main occupations seem to be jockeying for position, partying and sleeping with each others wives.

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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: DecadentCourt: Not technically a court but the upper deck qualify. Everyone's main occupations seem to be jockeying for position, partying and sleeping with each others wives.
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* YourCheatingHeart: There are plenty of affairs going on throughout the ship. Carillo even calls ''Ascension'' "The greatest reality show never aired."
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* GoodColorsEvilColors: The star system Christa points at and says they'll die if they go to is red. The one she says they need to go to instead is blue. [[spoiler:It's unclear what the significance of this is, given that both star systems turn out to be just pixels on a screen.]]
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* PersonAsVerb: The expression "going full [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden Snowden]]" is used at one point synonymous to "we'll tell everyone and their mother about this shit".
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* CreepyBlueEyes: Warren's enforcer Medici has an impressive pair.
* CreepyChild: Crista certainly isn't a girl you'd want your kids to play with. No wonder almost everyone on the ship considers her a weirdo, and that's before [[spoiler:she starts developing PsychicPowers]].


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* MoeGreeneSpecial: How [[spoiler:Eva]] offs [[spoiler:Samantha]]. With the target's own gun no less.

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* LimitlessWardrobe: The women aboard the ''Ascension'' parade an endless selection of gorgeous dresses. You'll practically never see someone wear the same outfit twice, which is especially impressive in light of the ship's severely limited production capabilities.


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* UnlimitedWardrobe: The women aboard the ''Ascension'' parade an endless selection of gorgeous dresses. You'll practically never see someone wear the same outfit twice, which is especially impressive in light of the ship's severely limited production capabilities.
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* LimitlessWardrobe: The women aboard the ''Ascension'' parade an endless selection of gorgeous dresses. You'll practically never see someone wear the same outfit twice, which is especially impressive in light of the ship's severely limited production capabilities.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The idea that ''Ascension'' could actually exist is mocked by someone who hears the conspiracy theory as ridiculous, on the grounds that the American government is far too incompetent to have successfully commissioned and hid such a project. Sure enough, a large part of the plot outside of the ship proper is the struggle by Harris to keep his place in the project because he's gone to lengths that all other staff has started to deem ridiculous in order to maintain the charade for the people in the ship.

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* AwesomeButImpractical: The idea that ''Ascension'' could actually exist is mocked by someone who hears the conspiracy theory as ridiculous, on the grounds that the American government is far too incompetent to have successfully commissioned and hid such a project.project (of course, the one who says this is Harris and in retrospective he's essentially doing a SarcasticConfession). Sure enough, a large part of the plot outside of the ship proper is the struggle by Harris to keep his place in the project because he's gone to lengths that all other staff has started to deem ridiculous in order to maintain the charade for the people in the ship.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The idea that ''Ascension'' could actually exist is mocked by someone who hears the conspiracy theory as ridiculous, on the grounds that the American government is far too incompetent to have successfully commissioned and hid such a project. Sure enough, a large part of the plot outside of the ship proper is the struggle by Harris to keep his place in the project because he's gone to lengths that all other staff has started to deem ridiculous in order to maintain the charade for the people in the ship.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Stokes gets hit pretty bad with one. [[spoiler: Apparently lost his job to Gault somehow, likely framed for a murder, sucked out an airlock into the test area for Ascension and suffering a psychotic break at the impossibility of it all, being kept sedated in a hospital room thinking he's in hell, and eventually seeing his son's grave.]]
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** Name-dropped by Samantha when [[spoiler:her supposedly ally Eve turns out to be just another agent for the project. Samantha gets a bullet to the head for her mistake]].

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''Ascension'' was originally broadcast as three consecutive double-episodes, December 15-17, 2014, on Syfy. Canada's CBC played the series as six episodes, airing once weekly; and online streaming services display the series in the six episode format, each named after parts one and two of three distinct "chapters" in the show. Despite decent ratings and some critical attention, the show was not renewed as a full series, like ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'' was.

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''Ascension'' was originally broadcast as three consecutive double-episodes, December 15-17, 2014, on Syfy. Canada's CBC played the series as six episodes, airing once weekly; weekly, and online streaming services display the series in the six episode format, each named after parts one and two of three distinct "chapters" in the show. Despite decent ratings and some critical attention, the show was not renewed as a full series, like ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'' was.



* CabinFever: An actual medical condition all of the USS ''Ascension'''s children suffer from. Called "The Crisis" it afflicts teenagers when they realize they have literally no hope of doing anything other than what's planned for them or ever visiting any place other than the one they grew up on.

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* CabinFever: An actual medical condition all of the USS ''Ascension'''s children suffer from. Called "The Crisis" Crisis", it afflicts teenagers when they realize they have literally no hope of doing anything other than what's planned for them or ever visiting any place other than the one they grew up on.

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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: [[spoiler: The ''Ascension'' is contained within a massive, underground complex. The 'ship' is deliberately isolated from the rest of the base, and surrounded by projection screens that simulate a moving starfield.]]

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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: [[spoiler: The ''Ascension'' is contained within a massive, massive underground complex. The 'ship' is deliberately isolated from the rest of the base, and surrounded by projection screens that simulate a moving starfield.]]



* FantasticCasteSystem: Society on ''Ascension'' is divided between the elite "Upper Deckers" (the command crew, political leadership, scientists, and the beautiful Stewardesses) and the trod-upon, working-class "Lower Deckers" (the ones who farm the food and maintain the ship's systems). There's also the 'unclaimed', children born without permission who are seen as a waste of resources and are treated as pariahs by everyone else.



** The Stewardesses are an entire organization of same used by Viondra to gather information for her and Denniger's benefit, and to deal with the sexual fallout of a society where marriage is determined by machine.

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** The Stewardesses are an entire organization of same used by Viondra to gather information for her and Denniger's benefit, and to deal with the sexual fallout of a society where marriage is determined by machine.


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* YourCheatingHeart: There are plenty of affairs going on throughout the ship. Carillo even calls ''Ascension'' "The greatest reality show never aired."

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