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* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: And this, too.
* [[Expy]]: KARC 9000, a combination of [[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|HAL 9000]] and [[Star Trek|Captain Kirk]]. Also expies of real life people, such as Frank C. Borman, who is based on Frank Borman of Apollo 8 fame.
* [[Faster -Than -Light Travel]]
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: 'Lucifer Rising' is ''FULL'' of it. Scenes are often punctuated with quotations from [[Paradise Lost]].
* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: The title ''TO'' was intended to be an abbreviation for "Two thousand One", and also to evoke a sense of humanity's progression to the future. It is, however, extremely difficult to Google for.
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* [[May-December Romance]]: What at first appears to be this in "Elliptical Orbit" turns out to be a [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!|twin]] [[Time Dilation|paradox]].
* [[Sapient Ship]]: '''[[Tear Jerker|MY NAME IS-- ROCKET. I AM ROCKET...]]'''
* [[Shout -Out]]: In addition to the characters named after real and fictional people (see [[Expy]]), the concepts of a planet made of antimatter, a quantum black hole swallowing a planet, trees that serve as organic rockets, and the word "starseed" are all borrowed from stories by [[Larry Niven]].
* [[Standard Sci Fi History]]
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: The American biologist and Russian interpreter in "Symbiotic Planet".
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