![]() One of them, a man raises animals for purposes of slaughtering them, suddenly becomes implicated in Lorelei’s murder By the end of the episode he accidentally gets spaced, but as he’s falling through space he suddenly lands on an air mattress, is sedated, and then taken away. Those people are referred to as deckers, and despite whatever propaganda the crew give, these “deckers” are basically regarded as nothing more than troglodytes. There are also two castes that have evolved, one with people who are on the upper decks, and then another with people who are on the lower 40 decks. The Captain and his wife are opportunists and will do anything they can to stay in their positions of power, and there is apparent infidelity going on with some of the high-ranking crew. ![]() With the second episode the investigation into Lorelei’s death continues, and in the process we start to see how the entire social structure of the people on Ascension functions. Juliet Bryce - (Photo by: Jan Thijs/Syfy) ASCENSION - Episode 101-102 - Pictured: Andrea Roth as Dr. As the episode closes, we are back on Ascension, and a young girl named Christa appears to have a sense of awareness about her and feels that this ship is going the wrong way… And that they are being watched by something called the Globus. The problem is that his profession is not what he shares with people as he does have a connection to Project Ascension. Enzmann, only he’s on Earth and his father is in the hospital having suffered a stroke. That’s when we discover that they are on the spaceship Ascension! Meanwhile there is a middle-aged engineer who turns out to be the son of the same Dr. Enzmann as he proposes the idea of creating a generation colony ship to fly into space. Rewind the clock 18 hours and we see an interesting collection of people whose connections with each other are not yet revealed, and they are getting ready to celebrate something called “Launch Day.” As the party progresses we see them settle down to watch some historical film with a very 60’s looking film projector, and they see footage of a scientist named Dr. The series opens with something that clearly feels like the 60’s where a young woman named Lorelei goes swimming, and then she’s found murdered. ![]() What would have happened if the US had been able to launch a colony spaceship, not in the years to come as we hopefully will do regarding the planet Mars, but in the not so distant past, and even then it was to Proxima Centauri? That was my approach to this series Ascension, first broadcast on SyFy and now on Netflix.
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