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{{work}}{{Cleanup|This page initially declares itself to be about a TV show, then spends most of its main text describing the books which inspired the show. Individual work pages for the show and each book should be created, and this page be turned into a disambiguation or franchise page, whichever works better.}}
'''''Deepwater Black''''' (aka ''Mission Genesis'') was a TV show based on a trilogy of books by Ken Catran.
The first book in the series, ''Deepwater Black'', was about Robbie Mikkelsen, an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who starts his story as he's having some bizarre encounter with Yoona, a girl only he can see. Yoona speaks some gibberish about his life being a "long prex", and tells him that there's some ship called ''Deepwater'' where their lives are being threatened by some "jel" in the tubes...and she promptly punches him. It turns out that "Robbie" is really Reb, an alien child who commands an all-child crew cloned from people of the Martian city of Py-Two. And the "prexing" is a dreamlike state owing to the fact that the [[Genetic Memory|children are all clones]] (although Reb's prexes are unusual in this regard--the only other time we see a character prex, it's to Yoona's life on Mars). Together, Reb and Yoona seek to unravel the mystery of the Deepwater, and exactly why the hell their lives are being threatened by the "jel". It turns out that they're out to re-seed the Earth after it was annihilated by a virus (they need to accomplish this by going in the opposite direction, then ''circumnavigating the entire universe''), but to do that, they need the gene banks from another, earlier Deepwater. And the jel is being sent by a rogue computer. Meanwhile, the B-plot centres around the friendship between "Robbie" and local girl Denie Miles.
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The books make for remarkably quick reads, although the pacing leaves a ''lot'' to be desired (although this perhaps mirrors the overload Reb gets when he awakens--he's confronted with jel, "Trites", the weirdness of the thing ''and'' a large black mass)
When it was adapted to a TV show, several plot points (including the entire characters of Cei and Conn) were jettisoned while others were expanded on. Prexes now never went any further than what was relevant to the episode, but each episode tended to be [[A Day in
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* [[Absent Aliens]]: There are aliens, but they're never seen
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Most notably Reb and Yuna.
* [[Composite Character]]: The character of GEN was created to replace both COL and NUN from the book.
* [[Fling a Light Into
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Nicole DeBoer]] played Yuna, and [[Andromeda|Gordon Michael Woolvett]] played Reb.
* [[Human Subspecies]]: Kyra's people, as well as the inhabitants of a number of colonies that experimented in genetic engineering around the time that the Pandora Virus was spreading.
* [[The Plague]]: The Pandora Virus.
* [[Retool]]: About the only concept that survived 100% intact was the earlier ''Deepwater''.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Switching POV]]: A new character gets the viewpoint in each novel.
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