History Series / LastResort

* NextSundayAD: Seems to be this.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Pretty far down on the cynical end -- the administration is corrupt (thus the impending Presidential impeachment) and trying to cover up its actions in attacking the Colorado by blaming it on Pakistan and taking people close to the crew into law enforcement custody.

** Ohio Class SSBNs don't carry conventional cruise missiles. There is a very good reason for this: a conventional cruise missile could be mistaken for a nuclear missile by enemy radar, so launching one could accidentally start a nuclear war. The Ohio Class SSGN carries conventional cruise missiles, but does not carry nuclear missiles (they used to be Ohio Class SSBNs, but were converted into cruise missile subs as a result of disarmament treaties to reduce the US nuclear arsenal).

* FridgeHorror: The Colorado's "warning shot", in order to have been visible both from D.C. and New York City, must have detonated just off the coast of New Jersey. In the coming months tens of thousands of innocent American civilians would likely be dying from radiation effects, never mind the ecological impact and long term viability of the area.

** No enlisted man would dream of questioning the orders of the Captain of a ship, to say nothing of ''telling him what to do''.

** [=ICBMs=], once fired, cannot be remotely disabled or destroyed by the attacker. Missiles used in test flights do have remote-destruct systems as a safety measure, but for fairly obvious reasons, ones intended for use in actual war have no remote-destruct systems of any sort.

With the sensitive nature of the locations, namely a United States Navy nuclear submarine, you can be assured that the accuracy of scenes isn't perfect. ''Any'' Navy ship is closely guarded and secured. Submarines doubly so. Access to nuclear-armed submarines is limited to those servicemembers assigned to her after she is completed. As a result, it is likely that the producers relied on consultants and publicly available information. Anything they couldn't verify is more than likely speculation as far as the depictions of life on a nuclear submarine are concerned. Even the submarine itself is inaccurate. There is no Ohio Class submarine named USS Colorado, and the hull number 753 corresponds to the Los Angeles Class attack sub USS Albany. There have been ships named USS Colorado before, most recently the lead ship of the Colorado Class Battleships, and the name has been assigned to a Virginia Class SSN that has been ordered but not yet built.

* ANuclearError: The Colorado's missiles can be self-destructed midflight in case of an erroneous launch. [[spoiler:This does not happen when Chaplin fires at DC; however, he intentionally overshoots the target, with the explosion happening in international waters, but close enough to DC (and New York) to see the flash.]] Perhaps justified in the post-ColdWar era, but not explained. Also, the flight path from the Indian Ocean to Washington is quite a bit outside the officially acknowledged range of the Trident II missile, but of course the actual range is probably classified anyway.

* EmptyQuiver: An entire nuclear sub with 17 operational Trident II missiles and an apparent worldwide range (or at least far enough to reach from the Indian Ocean to [[spoiler:200 miles east of]] Washington DC).

** [=SSBNs=] can NOT retarget their Trident [=SLBMs=] independently. Flexibility of targeting is what the Strategic Air Command is for.

* StockEpisodeTitles: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. [[Pilot The first episode is called]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon ''Captain'']]

* StockEpisodeTitles: [[Pilot The first episode is called]] [[InvertedTrope ''Captain'']]

With the sensitive nature of the locations, namely a United States Navy nuclear submarine, you can be assured that the accuracy of scenes isn't perfect. ''Any'' Navy ship is closely guarded and secured. Submarines doubly so. Access to nuclear-armed submarines is limited to those servicemembers assigned to her after she is completed. As a result, it is likely that the producers relied on consultants and publicly available information. Anything they couldn't verify is more than likely speculation as far as the depictions of life on a nuclear submarine are concerned. Even the submarine itself is inaccurate. There is no Ohio Class submarine named USS Colorado, and the hull number 753 corresponds to the Los Angeles Class attack sub USS Albany. There have been ships named USS Colorado before, most recently the lead ship of the Colorado Class Battleships, and the name has been assigned to a Virginia Class SSN that has been ordered but not yet built.

With the sensitive nature of the locations, namely a United States Navy nuclear submarine, you can be assured that the accuracy of scenes isn't perfect. ''Any'' Navy ship is closely guarded and secured. Submarines doubly so. Access to nuclear-armed submarines is limited to those servicemembers assigned to her after she is completed. As a result, it is likely that the producers relied on consultants and publicly available information. Anything they couldn't verify is more than likely speculation as far as the depictions of life on a nuclear submarine are concerned.

** No ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) would be tasked with picking up a SEAL team. [=SSBNs=] are not suited to littoral operations, nor are they worth risking in [=SpecOps=] recovery operations.

** No ballistic missile submarine ([==SSBN==]) would be tasked with picking up a SEAL team. [==SSBNs==] are not suited to littoral operations, nor are they worth risking in [=SpecOps=] recovery operations.

** No nuclear submarine would be tasked with picking up a SEAL team. Nuclear subs in are not suited to littoral operations, nor are they worth risking in [=SpecOps=] recovery operations.

** No nuclear submarine would be tasked with picking up a [=SEAL=] team. Nuclear subs in are not suited to littoral operations, nor are they worth risking in SpecOps recovery operations.

** [=ICBM=]s, once fired, cannot be remotely disabled or destroyed by the attacker. Missiles used in test flights do have remote-destruct systems as a safety measure, but for fairly obvious reasons, ones intended for use in actual war have no remote-destruct systems of any sort.

** [=SSBN=]s can NOT retarget their Trident [=SLBM=]s independently. Flexibility of targeting is what the Strategic Air Command is for.

* BadassBoast: James King, a Navy [=SEAL=], does not respond well when Julian Serrat threatens him. James lists the exact order in which he will kill Julian and his mooks and the number of bullets he will use to do so.

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The SEALs in the pilot are picked up with their wounded teammate. Later, one of them is seen carrying the body, looking for a hospital with a morgue to ensure he gets home.

* ObfuscatingInsanity: Chaplin televised speech at the end of the pilot is intended to make the world think that he might just be crazy enough to engage in MutuallyAssuredDestruction.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The missiles on the sub are UGM-133 Trident-II SLBMs. They can be armed with four W88 warheads with a yield of 475 kilotons each. For comparison, the nuclear weapon that destroyed Hiroshima was only ''15 kilotons''. Also of note is the fact that these weapons have a range of 7,000 miles and can be targeted within 300 ''feet''. When asking for confirmation of the fire order Chaplin states that it will result in the deaths of 4.3 million people.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The missiles on the sub are UGM-133 Trident-II SLBMs. They can be armed with four W88 warheads with a yield of 475 kilotons each. For comparison, the nuclear weapon that destroyed Hiroshima was only ''15 kilotons''. Also of note is the fact that these weapons have a range of 7,000 miles and can be targeted within 300 ''feet''.

* BadassBoast: James King, a Navy [=SEAL=], does not respond well when Julian Serrat threatens him. James lists the exact order in which he will kill Julian and his mooks and the number of bullets he will use to do so. He even corrects himself because he decided that just to be sure he will have to use an extra bullet on the big mook.

** Not really an inaccuracy insomuch as ahead of its time, women do not serve on submarines in the U.S. Navy. Yet, anyway. To the show's credit, it is implied to be taking place in the not too distant future, and that women serving on a submarine is relatively new.