There is one small issue – her mental powers put everyone in danger because her brain blows up just about everything on the ship. The man in charge of the experiment on Earth, Harris Enzmann (Gil Bellows), keeps saying Crista is the purpose of the whole social experiment. Teenager Crista (Ellie O’Brien) has some sort of powers that can transport people to other places with mental effort only. There were many so cliffhangers at the end of the 6 hours, that SyFy must be thinking of keeping on with the show as a series. Might as well talk about the possibility of going to series. However, if this show makes it to series, which seems to have been the aim of this 3 part opening, these two may not even be there. The characters and parts that Gil Bellows and Lauren Lee Smith played were my favorites. There was attention grabbing excitement at moments. The action scenes were exciting, the special effects looked great, the ship itself was fabulous. Okay, enough complaining about the state of women’s lib in the 1960s. The men weren’t the only ones in sexist parts. Speaking of women’s liberation, the women spent most of their time nearly naked or completely naked, as you see in this photo of a massage from a semi-dressed woman. Tricia Helfer and Jessica Sipos as Jackie Lord, did he need a dose of women’s liberation enlightenment. The Captain’s opposition came from Councilman Rose (Al Sapienza) who was the smarmiest lech from the 1960s you’ve ever seen. Everyone was striving to improve their lot in the world on board the ship, from the workers on the lower decks to the elites at the top. This Petri dish with 600 lives on board was headed by Captain Denninger (Brian Van Holt) who ran the ship, and his wife Viondra (Tricia Helfer) who ran the social life of the ship with the help of a crew of prostitutes. Their every fight, sexual act, library check out and weight gain were monitored from mere feet outside their metal cocoon. They thought they were in space to save the human race but they were not. The people on the space ship were actually lab rats in a lengthy and elaborate high tech experiment right here on earth. ![]() The previews showed a space ship launched from Earth in the 1960s, with some tracking still going on back on earth. Major spoilers ahead! Tricia Helfer as Viondra Denniger, the captain’s wife It was disgustingly sexist but a paean to women by the end. It was predictable while being unpredictable. It was utterly boring at times, and edge-of-the-seat exciting at others. Ascension, a three night event on SyFy was emphatically uneven.
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