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Ascension

Here’s some info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(miniseries)

Interesting quotes from the episodes listed at the link. I picked up on some words we’re hearing recently: insurrection, conspiracy theorist, immunizations, hanging, etc. I have not seen the series and have no analysis to go with this. Presented without additional comment.

Ascension was a 2014 science fiction mystery drama television miniseries which aired on CBC in Canada and Syfy in the United States.

Episode 1 - a murder occurs among those aboard the U.S. Orion Class spaceship Ascension.

Episode 2 - As Gault searches the lower decks, he finds a notebook with writings discussing an insurrection.

Enzmann has continued his father’s work, the populace of Ascension have unknowingly been a closely watched experiment for 51 years.

Episode 3 - Stokes, ejected from Ascension and believed to be dead by those aboard, is now being held by those running the experiment

Episode 4 - On the ship, Christa is in line to be immunized. Ophelia accompanies her to prove that nothing is wrong with the shots. Ophelia takes the shot herself, has a seizure, and collapses.

Samantha meets with conspiracy theorist Eve Marceau, who tells her that 70 scientists were abducted in the 1960s, along with gifted children, one of whom is later shown to be Ophelia.

When Enzmann tries to get Christa to take her inoculations through a glass of milk, she looks up at the camera and dumps it on the floor.

Gault talks with Christa about her inoculations and gets her to take them, but when Dr. Robert Bryce arrives to give her the shot, she refuses, and he holds her down and injects her. When the DNA evidence on Christa’s dress gets matched to Ike, the medical intern, he is found hanging dead in his room.

Episode 5 - Back on the ship, the Captain is brought up on charges for having an unclaimed [child], but he reveals that the child is that of another of the council members.

Christa shocks Duke with a surge of energy that radiates out from the ship and affects everyone.

Episode 6 - Director Warren accuses Enzmann of creating the energy surge but he excitedly tells her that it is likely from Christa, confirming that the Ascension experiment is working and they have created a valuable advance in human evolution. She gives Enzmann his job back but tells Carrillo that Enzmann will be killed once the technical problems on Ascension are repaired. On the ship, people are panicking, system computers are down, strange messages (modern television signals) are appearing on computer screens and a breakdown of the air scrubber controls has on board carbon dioxide rising towards fatal levels. Fearing that the carbon dioxide will soon kill everyone on the ship, Warren sends an operative named Medici in to bring out Christa and her valuable powers.