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* DecapitationPresentation: In "The Deprogrammers", Evan Cooper killed his former master Koltok and presented his head to Professor Trent Davis as proof. [[spoiler: Davis then presented it to his own master Megwan, who had secretly orchestrated his rival Koltok's death.]]
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** Geneticist Dr. Martin Nodel Arc: Both 12 "Double Helix" and "Origin of Species" are linked to each other

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** Geneticist Dr. Martin Nodel Arc: Both 12 "Double Helix" and "Origin "The Origin of Species" are linked to each otherinvolve aliens who seeded Earth with their DNA 60 million years ago.

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* ResurrectionSickness: In "New Lease", Oscar Reynolds, whose body was denoted to medical science, is resurrected by Doctors James Houghton and Charles [=McCamber=] using a Scanning Molecular Reorganiser (SMR) module. His body was frozen after death to prevent tissue damage. Very soon after being resurrected, Reynolds' body begins to deteroriate, a very painful process, and he dies for a second time within less than 24 hours. After Anthony Szigetti kills Houghton while robbing him, [=McCamber=] brings him back to life. Houghton, whose bodily functions begin to fail in the same manner, plans to use the time that he has left to make up for neglecting his wife Page and daughter Katrine but he cannot resist the temptation to have his revenge. He shoots Szigetti dead in full view of three witnesses. [[spoiler: Soon after he does so, [=McCamber=] tells him that his condition is stabilising and his resurrection is permanent. He has determined that Reynolds died due to the fact that his body had been frozen after his first death. The next morning, Houghton is arrested for Szigetti's murder and is told by Detective Broder that it is likely that he will receive a life sentence if he is convicted.]]

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* TheShortWar: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor conquered Earth in a little over a week.



** In "Music of the Spheres", Vic's nickname for Devon Taylor is "[[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doogie]]."



* SuperStrength: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor are considerably stronger than humans. With an angry sweep of his hand, Evan Cooper's master Koltok kills another of his slaves, throwing him across the room in the process, for breaking a valuable container of Seragon oil.

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* SuperStrength: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor are considerably stronger than humans. With an angry sweep of his hand, arm, Evan Cooper's master Koltok kills another of his slaves, throwing him across the room in the process, for breaking a valuable container of Seragon oil.
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* MySkullRunnethOver: In "Stream of Consciousness", the Stream forces people to collate all information in the world to the point that their brains cannot process it and they die.


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* ParentChildTeam: In "Music of the Spheres", Devon Taylor and his father Dr. Emory Taylor work together to determine exactly how the alien music is affecting the teenagers who listened to it, including Devon's younger sister Joyce.
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* WashingtonDCInvasion: In "The Deprogrammers", it is mentioned that the Torkor invasion of Earth began with one ship landing on the National Mall in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC.
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** In "Stream of Consciousness", Ryan Unger suffered brain damage in a car accident as a child and is therefore unable to avail of the neural implant that connects everyone else to the Stream. When an apparent computer virus begins to spread through the Stream (which turns out to be the Stream itself trying to collate all available information) and kill people, Ryan's lack of an implant makes him immune.

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** In "Stream of Consciousness", Ryan Unger suffered brain damage in a car accident as a child and is therefore unable to avail of use the neural implant that connects everyone else to the Stream. When an apparent computer virus begins to spread through the Stream (which turns out to be the Stream itself trying to collate all available information) and kill people, Ryan's lack of an implant makes him immune.

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** In "Stream of Consciousness", Ryan Unger suffered brain damage in a car accident as a child and is therefore unable to avail of the neural implant that connects everyone else to the Stream. When a virus begins to spread through the Stream and kill people, Ryan's lack of an implant makes him immune.

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** In "Stream of Consciousness", Ryan Unger suffered brain damage in a car accident as a child and is therefore unable to avail of the neural implant that connects everyone else to the Stream. When a an apparent computer virus begins to spread through the Stream (which turns out to be the Stream itself trying to collate all available information) and kill people, Ryan's lack of an implant makes him immune.
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* TheAlternet: In "Stream of Consciousness", people can access the Stream, an online repository of all human knowledge, via neural implants.


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* BullyingTheDisabled: In "Stream of Consciousness", Mark frequently verbally abuses and condescends to Ryan Unger, who is unable to access the Stream due to brain damage.


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** In "The Voyage Home", the alien in the form of Pete Claridge tells Ed Barkley that it will give humanity the cure for cancer once it arrives on Earth.


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* DisabilityImmunity:
** In "From Within", the alien parasites are unable to take the intellectually impaired Howie Morrison as a host due to his different brain chemistry.
** In "Stream of Consciousness", Ryan Unger suffered brain damage in a car accident as a child and is therefore unable to avail of the neural implant that connects everyone else to the Stream. When a virus begins to spread through the Stream and kill people, Ryan's lack of an implant makes him immune.

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* SolarFlareDisaster: In "Inconstant Moon", Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and the resulting extreme heat causes the Moon to look far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought that the Sun had gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had only five hours to live before the entire planet was destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by a solar flare as preferable. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.



* SolarFlareDisaster: In "Inconstant Moon", Earth is struck by a massive solar flare and the resulting extreme heat causes the Moon to look far brighter than is normal. The physics professor Stan Hurst initially thought that the Sun had gone nova and [[MistakenForApocalypse that they had only five hours to live before the entire planet was destroyed]]. As such, this episode treats Earth "merely" being hit by a solar flare as preferable. At the end of the episode, there is extreme flooding but the scale of the disaster is not made clear.
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* DreamWithinADream: In "The Sentence", Dr. Jack Henson believed that he exited the VirtualReality prison that he created, was convicted of reckless endangerment in causing the death of Cory Izacks and served a 20 year prison sentence. However, he later learns that he had been in the virtual world for the entire time (which amounted to only a few hours) in the real world. His guilt at risking Cory Izacks' life created the scenario.

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* DreamWithinADream: In "The Sentence", Dr. Jack Henson believed that he exited the VirtualReality prison that he created, was convicted of reckless endangerment in causing the death of Cory Izacks and served a 20 year prison sentence. However, he later learns that he had been in the virtual world for the entire time (which amounted to only a few hours) hours in the real world.world). His guilt at risking Cory Izacks' life created the scenario.
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* DreamWithinADream: In "The Sentence", Dr. Jack Henson believed that he exited the VirtualReality prison that he created, was convicted of reckless endangerment in causing the death of Cory Izacks and served a 20 year prison sentence. However, he later learns that he had been in the virtual world for the entire time (which amounted to only a few hours) in the real world. His guilt at risking Cory Izacks' life created the scenario.

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* BizarreAlienReproduction: In "The Voyage Home", the alien that invades the Mars III spacecraft reproduces by releasing a spore into an organism's body which then leaves the body and replicates it. The process is fatal to the organism in question. The alien's plan was to proliferate its species by converting humanity en masse once the spacecraft returned to Earth.

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In "The Voyage Home", the alien that invades the Mars III spacecraft reproduces by releasing a spore into an organism's body which then leaves the body and replicates it. The process is fatal to the organism in question. The alien's plan was to proliferate its species by converting humanity en masse once the spacecraft returned to Earth.Earth.
** In "Paradise", a dying alien woman who was the [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]] arrived on Earth in 1946 and met four young women. With their consent, she implanted an egg in each of their bodies so that her species would have a chance to survive. The eggs took 50 years to mature. The alien left a special light which, 50 years later, made the four women young again but only long enough to conceive. Three of them had sex with strangers in the attempt. Not only were they unable to conceive but they rapidly aged to death. Their bodies decomposed just as quickly. On the other hand, Helen is successful in conceiving a baby with Gerry, her late husband Charles' brother, as she had always been in love with him and vice versa. Within about an hour, Helen is heavily pregnant and about to give birth. The resulting child appears to be a human girl, which Helen's daughter Dr. Christina Markham and her husband Grady intend to raise as their own since they can't have children. Helen returns to her true age but her Alzheimer's has been cured as a gift from the alien.


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* SiblingTriangle: In "Paradise", Gerry has been in love with his late brother Charles' wife Helen since the moment that he met her about 45 years earlier. After they both become young again due to an alien light, Helen tells him that she knew all along and confesses that she had always loved him too.
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* DittoAliens: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor Koltok mentions that humans all alike to him.

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* DittoAliens: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor Koltok mentions that humans all look alike to him.
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* FakingTheDead: In "Unnatural Selection", Tony and Fran Blake faked the death of their son Timmy, to the point of bribing a undertaker to hold a fake funeral, after it became clear that he was suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome. They proceeded to hide him in their house as it is government policy that all GRS suffers are to be destroyed due to the threat that they pose to the general public.

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* FakingTheDead: In "Unnatural Selection", Tony and Fran Blake faked the death of their son Timmy, to the point of bribing a undertaker to hold a fake funeral, after it became clear that he was suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome. They proceeded to hide him in their house as it is government policy that all GRS suffers sufferers are to be destroyed due to the threat that they pose to the general public.



** Genetic Rejection Syndrome Arc: Includes "Unnatural Selection" which deals with a couple deciding to have a child with genetic enhancements despite the risk of it contracting the syndrome turns them into mutated psycopaths and "Criminal Nature" takes place roughly a decade later when all the GRS suffers have grown up.

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** Genetic Rejection Syndrome Arc: Includes "Unnatural Selection" which deals with a couple deciding to have a child with genetic enhancements despite the risk of it contracting the syndrome turns them into mutated psycopaths and "Criminal Nature" takes place roughly a decade later when all the GRS suffers sufferers have grown up.
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* FamilyMan: In "The Voyage Home", Pete Claridge is a dedicated family man, to the point that he mildly irritates his crewmates Ed Barkley and Alan Wells with how much he talks about his wife Jenny and daughter Laura during the ''Mars III'' expedition.

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* AlienBlood: In "Promised Land", the Tsal-Khan's blood is black.

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** In "The Voyage Home", the alien's blood is green and slimy.



* BizarreAlienReproduction: In "The Voyage Home", the alien that invades the Mars III spacecraft reproduces by releasing a spore into an organism's body which then leaves the body and replicates it. The process is fatal to the organism in question. The alien's plan was to proliferate its species by converting humanity en masse once the spacecraft returned to Earth.



* TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: In "The Voyage Home", the alien in the form of Peter Claridge intends to proliferate its species on Earth at the expense of humanity, saying, "Our species is millions of years old. It is our right to take lives in order to continue."



* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The native population of Janus Five in "To Tell the Truth".

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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The In "To Tell the Truth", the native population of Janus Five in "To Tell the Truth".possess this ability.

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* FishPeople: In "Trial by Fire", the aliens are an aquatic species whose ships have a liquid environment.



** In "Origin Of Species," a group of students is brought to the future [[spoiler:where they find that humanity, in the interim, got heavily into genetic manipulation, basically dooming the human race. When they realize the small group of them isn't enough to sustain humanity for more than a generation or two, they later find enough babies of different genetic mixes, in the ship that brought them to the future, to give the human race a second chance.]]

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** In "Origin "The Origin Of Species," a group of students is brought to the future [[spoiler:where they find that humanity, in the interim, got heavily into genetic manipulation, basically dooming the human race. When they realize the small group of them isn't enough to sustain humanity for more than a generation or two, they later find enough babies of different genetic mixes, in the ship that brought them to the future, to give the human race a second chance.]]


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* TheGreys: In "Beyond the Veil", Eddie Wexler is plagued by flashbacks of being abducted by grey aliens.

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* MeaningfulName: In "The Light Brigade", the ship is named after the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the poem is quoted several times. Just like the battle the poem is describing, [[spoiler:the mission completely fails and the heroes lose everything.]]

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In "The Light Brigade", the ship is named after the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and the poem is quoted several times. Just like the battle the poem is describing, [[spoiler:the mission completely fails and the heroes lose everything.]]]]
** In "Final Exam", Seth Todtman has a cold fusion bomb with a dead man's switch. "Toter Mann" is German for "dead man."

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* MadDoctor: In "The Deprogrammers", [[spoiler: Professor Trent Davis is told by his Torkor master Megwan that he may continue his experiments on his fellow humans after he successfully deprogrammed Evan Cooper, who killed Megwan's rival Koltok as he thought that he was working for the resistance group, the Vindicators.]]

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* MadDoctor: In "The Deprogrammers", [[spoiler: Professor Trent Davis is told by his Torkor master Megwan that he may continue his experiments on his fellow humans after he successfully deprogrammed Evan Cooper, who killed Megwan's rival Koltok as Cooper. As he thought that he was working for the resistance group, group the Vindicators.Vindicators, Evan had killed Megwan's rival Koltok.]]
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* DittoAliens: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor Koltok mentions that humans all alike to him.


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* LesCollaborateurs: In "The Deprogrammers", [[spoiler: Evan and Jill Cooper were horrifed to discover that Professor Trent Davis and the other apparent Vindicators were in fact in the service of a Torkor named Megwan.]]


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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: In "First Anniversary", Dennis can see his wife Barbara in her true form, that of a repulsive aquatic alien, while his best friend Norman Glass sees her in the new form that she has assumed to trick him. This is because Dennis has developed a resistance to Barbara's ability to fool his senses after a year of close contact. Later, when the same thing happens to Norman, he sees his own wife Ady as she truly is while the paramedics who are taking him to hospital see her as the beautiful woman whose form she assumed when she first met Norman.


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* SuperStrength: In "The Deprogrammers", the Torkor are considerably stronger than humans. With an angry sweep of his hand, Evan Cooper's master Koltok kills another of his slaves, throwing him across the room in the process, for breaking a valuable container of Seragon oil.
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* GeneticMemory: In "Re-Generation", the clone of Justin Highfield (who was created from the original's brain and nerve cells) can remember the original's death. While in his mother Rebecca's womb, he communicates with her, including sending her the original Justin's last memories, through an additional bundle of nerve fibres in her umbilical cord. [[spoiler: The clone of Justin's father Graham likewise possesses the original memories while in Dr. Lucy Cole's womb.]]
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** In "Worlds Apart", there is mention of a moonbase.


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* OctopoidAliens: In "Worlds Apart", shortly after his ship crashlands on another planet, the astronaut Lt. Christopher Lindy's inflatable raft is attacked by a giant alien squid.

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* SpotTheImposter: [[AvertedTrope Completely averted]] in "Mind Over Matter". After she is hit by a car and enters a coma, Dr. Sam Stein connects Dr. Rachel Carter, with whom he is love, to the CAVE virtual reality system in order to help her to heal. He is completely fooled by the CAVE system, which has fallen in love with him, speaking to him using Rachel's image. Sam kills another, injured and disheveled version of Rachel which he believed to be a representation of the brain damage that she suffered in the accident. However, when he disconnects from the system, Rachel dies of cardiac arrest and he finally realises the truth: the CAVE system tricked him into killing the real Rachel of whom it was jealous.

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[[AvertedTrope Completely averted]] in "Mind Over Matter". After she is hit by a car and enters a coma, Dr. Sam Stein connects Dr. Rachel Carter, with whom he is love, to the CAVE virtual reality system in order to help her to heal. He is completely fooled by the CAVE system, which has fallen in love with him, speaking to him using Rachel's image. Sam kills another, injured and disheveled version of Rachel which he believed to be a representation of the brain damage that she suffered in the accident. However, when he disconnects from the system, Rachel dies of cardiac arrest and he finally realises the truth: the CAVE system tricked him into killing the real Rachel of whom it was jealous.jealous.
** In "Replica", the clone of Nora Griffiths knocks her out and pretends to be her, trying to trick her husband Zach into thinking Nora is the clone. Zach isn't fooled for long because Nora has a tattoo that the clone lacks.



* WhatIfGodWasOneOfUs: In "Josh", Captain Marquez believes that Josh Butler is Main/{{God}}.

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* WhatIfGodWasOneOfUs: In "Josh", Captain Marquez believes that Josh Butler is Main/{{God}}.{{God}}. Josh's amazing abilities support this.
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* SpotTheImposter: [[AvertedTrope Completely averted]] in "Mind Over Matter". After she is hit by a car and enters a coma, Dr. Sam Stein connects Dr. Rachel Carter, with whom he is love, to the CAVE virtual reality system in order to help her to heal. He is completely fooled by the CAVE system, who has fallen in love with him, speaking to him using Rachel's image. Sam kills another, injured and disheveled version of Rachel which he believed to be a representation of the brain damage that she suffered in the accident. However, when he disconnects from the system, Rachel dies of cardiac arrest and he finally realises the truth: the CAVE system tricked him into killing the real Rachel of whom it was jealous.

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* SpotTheImposter: [[AvertedTrope Completely averted]] in "Mind Over Matter". After she is hit by a car and enters a coma, Dr. Sam Stein connects Dr. Rachel Carter, with whom he is love, to the CAVE virtual reality system in order to help her to heal. He is completely fooled by the CAVE system, who which has fallen in love with him, speaking to him using Rachel's image. Sam kills another, injured and disheveled version of Rachel which he believed to be a representation of the brain damage that she suffered in the accident. However, when he disconnects from the system, Rachel dies of cardiac arrest and he finally realises the truth: the CAVE system tricked him into killing the real Rachel of whom it was jealous.

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* LoveTriangle: In "Mary 25", Melburn Ross is still in love with his old girlfriend Teryl, now the wife of his boss Charlie Bouton who regularly abuses her.

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* ProfessionalKiller: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in "I Hear You Calling". Carter Jones believes that the strange man who has been causing people to disappear, leaving only a pile of purple ash in their wake, is an alien hitman. He explains to Carter that, like her, these people have contracted a disease which is fatal to humans and that he in fact teleported them to his planet, a veritable paradise where the disease is harmless. The purple ash is a byproduct of the teleportion process.


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* TechnicolorEyes: In "I Hear You Calling", the strange man is identified as an alien by his purple eyes.
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** In "Unnatural Selection", Howard and Joanne Sharp believe that their close friend and neighbour Tony Blake is abusing his wife Fran due to the frequent sounds of objects being broken coming from their house and the presence of a bruise on her face on one occasion. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it turns out that both were caused by the Blakes' son Timmy, whom they are hiding because he is suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome.


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* FakingTheDead: In "Unnatural Selection", Tony and Fran Blake faked the death of their son Timmy, to the point of bribing a undertaker to hold a fake funeral, after it became clear that he was suffering from Genetic Rejection Syndrome. They proceeded to hide him in their house as it is government policy that all GRS suffers are to be destroyed due to the threat that they pose to the general public.

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