History Series / LastResort

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Averted, much to fans' relief, although some outstanding plot threads ([[Spoiler: such as why the government went rogue in the first place and why Kendall's wife was kidnapped and later located and easily freed]]) are left hanging.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The admittedly fictional island of Sainte Marina is a curious pastiche of stereotypical Caribbean and Hawaiian cultural and other cliches, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It may be an {{expy}} for the islands of Diego Garcia [[hottip:*:home to a fairly significant British Air Force Base]] or Mayotte [[hottip:*:A controversially French island in the independent Comoros]] but (much like the fictional version of Pianosa in {{Catch22}}) the fictional island is much larger and more populous than the possible real world equivalents.

The story follows the crew of the ''U.S.S. Colorado'', a nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine. The crew is celebrating crossing the Equator when they receive orders to fire four [[WeaponOfMassDestruction nuclear-tipped]] [=ICBM=]s at Pakistan. When the captain questions this order, he is relieved of command. The Executive Officer also requests confirmation, after which the submarine comes under attack - by another ''American'' submarine. Suspecting that they are being set up in a FalseFlagOperation, the Captain and Executive Officer decide to surface near the fictional island of Sainte Maria to figure out what is really going on.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The admittedly fictional island of Sainte Maria is a curious pastiche of stereotypical Caribbean and Hawaiian cultural and other cliches, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It may be an {{expy}} for the islands of Diego Garcia [[hottip:*:home to a fairly significant British Air Force Base]] or Mayotte [[hottip:*:A controversially French island in the independent Comoros]] but (much like the fictional version of Pianosa in {{Catch22}}) the fictional island is much larger and more populous than the possible real world equivalents.

* ChineseWithChopperSupport: [=PLA=] forces arrive in Sainte Marie to escort Chinese envoys who are going to provide humanitarian support.

* StartMyOwn: At the end of the pilot, after setting Sainte Maria up as their base, Chaplin suggests that they just make it their home and start over. In the finale, Kendal calls him out over this. WordOfGod says that this idea would have been more thoroughly investigated in the second season if the series was renewed.

The story follows the crew of the ''U.S.S. Colorado'', a nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine. The crew is celebrating crossing the Equator when they receive orders to fire four [[WeaponOfMassDestruction nuclear-tipped]] [=ICBM=]s at Pakistan. When the captain questions this order, he is relieved of command. The Executive Officer also requests confirmation, after which the submarine comes under attack - by another ''American'' submarine. Suspecting that they are being set up in a FalseFlagOperation, the Captain and Executive Officer decide to surface near the fictional island of Sainte Marina to figure out what is really going on.

* StartMyOwn: At the end of the pilot, after setting Sainte Marina up as their base, Chaplin suggests that they just make it their home and start over. In the finale, Kendal calls him out over this. WordOfGod says that this idea would have been more thoroughly investigated in the second season if the series was renewed.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The admittedly fictional island of Sainte Marie is a curious pastiche of stereotypical Caribbean and Hawaiian cultural and other cliches, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It may be an {{expy}} for the islands of Diego Garcia [[hottip:*:home to a fairly significant British Air Force Base]] or Mayotte [[hottip:*:A controversially French island in the independent Comoros]] but (much like the fictional version of Pianosa in {{Catch22}}) the fictional island is much larger and more populous than the possible real world equivalents.

* StartMyOwn: At the end of the pilot, after setting Santa Marina up as their base, Chaplin suggests that they just make it their home and start over. In the finale, Kendal calls him out over this. WordOfGod says that this idea would have been more thoroughly investigated in the second season if the series was renewed.

* StartMyOwn: At the end of the pilot, after setting Santa Marina up as their base, Chaplin suggests that they just make it their home and start over. In the finale, Kendal calls him out over this.

* StartMyOwn: At the end of the pilot, after setting Santa Marina up as their base, Chaplin suggests that they just make it their home and start over.

Sadly, on November 16, 2012, [[TooGoodToLast ABC canceled the series,]] but the remaining seven episodes are still set to air as planned. The showrunner has indicated on Twitter that the series will have a conclusion, allowing the series to avoid the CutShort scenario faced by so many other cancelled serials.

* GladToBeAliveSex: After surviving being left without air for five minutes while repairing a buoy, James returns to the island, finds Tani, and passionately kisses her. The next episode has him waking up in her bed.
** After a bit of flirting in "Skeleton Crew" and defusing a bomb in "Nuke it Out", [[spoiler: King and Shepard]] have sex on the beach. She makes it clear that it's just a one time thing.

* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:Speaker Buell, on the House floor (!) in "The Pointy End of the Spear" after confessing that he and a number of former Joint Chiefs conspired to overthrow the corrupt President. He is said to be the "second high-profile death" that day (it's pretty strongly implied that the first was that of the President.)]]

* ActionGirl: Lt. Shepard, but averted slightly with Sophie, who goes out of her way to be anything but.

** Technically, the conspirators who keep sabotaging Chaplin's efforts (which they themselves believe is ''suicidal,'' albeit part of [[MyCountryRightOrWrong their duty]]) are the mutineers. To quote TheHuntForRedOctober; Mutiny is when the crew rises against their officers. When the ''officers'' try to steal the ship [[NoExceptYes it's referred to]] as ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_%28admiralty_law%29 barratry]]''.

** The government is fabricating evidence that Chaplin and Kendall intended to sell the ''Colorado'' to the Chinese and defect in a scenario not unlike ''TheHuntForRedOctober''

To readers familiar with US Navy submarines, the RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement applies: 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.