History Film / Zenon

A Creator/DisneyChannel movie first aired in 1999, ''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'' is set in 2049 AD, where Zenon Kar ([[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kirsten]] [[Series/GeneralHospital Storms]]) is a 13-year old who literally gets grounded as she is forced to leave her SpaceStation home and live on Earth.

* AdultsAreUseless: Zenon and her friends are the only ones who can save the Space Station from crashing. Only Zenon and her 13-year old friend manage to piece together an anti-virus. Back at the space station, the adults, many of which are scientists, are freaking out and have no idea how to fix the virus.
* AlmostKiss: Zenon and Greg are sitting side-by-side, facing the same direction, with awkward silence. Zenon tells Greg if he wants to kiss her he should get over it and just kiss her. After a pause, they both turn towards each other at the same time - and accidentally smash their faces into each other.

* TheBadGuyWins: Selena, the moon goddess of Greek mythology pretty much manages to scare off everyone off the moon in third sequel because she wanted to be left alone. It was just a little space dome at best and there was room for compromise. But nope, either it goes or she'll destroy Earth, she gets her way and the story presents this as a good thing. Yeah, no.

* DemotedToExtra: Nebula in the third movie who only gets a (very badly green screened) cameo since she on vacation on Earth. On the upside, she's played by Raven-Symoné once again.

* PluckyComicRelief: Nebula, Protozoa and the Microbes. The villians of the first and third movies aren't much better off really.

* ShoutOut: The aliens in the second movie initially communicating through musical tones is much like in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind.''

* AdultsAreUseless: Zenon and her friends are the only ones who can save the Space Station from crashing. Only Zenon had the virus and her 13-year old friend managed to piece together an anti-virus so she can bring it to the Space Station, where all the adults are freaking out and have no idea how to fix the virus. In the movie, this trope is closely followed by NotNowKiddo

* ArtificialGravity
** Not really that farfetched, as the spinning rings of the Space station are used for maintaining gravity does have some basis in actual science. It's also much weaker than Earth's gravity, which makes it difficult for Zenon to function on Earth.

* DeFictionalization: Do the [[http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Zap pads]] remind you of something? Given that this movie takes place in the future it could also qualify as TruthInTelevision foresight.

* HaveAGayOldTime: The word "viral" is used as (and explicitly described as being) essentially a synonym for either bad or disgusting. Cut to several years later in real life the age when the internet rules with an iron fist, and "viral" all of a sudden takes on the meaning of "shared frequently online."

* {{Zeerust}}: Just look at the outfits.

* SpaceIsAnOcean: Deconstructed a bit. Zenon assumes that because she can 'swim' in space, that she knows how to swim in a pool for gym class. RealityEnsues and Greg ends saving her.

A DisneyChannel movie first aired in 1999, ''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'' is set in 2049 AD, where Zenon Kar ([[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kirsten]] [[Series/GeneralHospital Storms]]) is a 13-year old who literally gets grounded as she is forced to leave her SpaceStation home and live on Earth.

* FutureMusic: The movie focused heavily on the music of a band called Microbe. This being a 1999 DisneyChannel movie, their biggest song sounds exactly like modern light tween pop, except with lyrics such as -- sing along, contemporaries, you know the words -- "ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM, make my heart go BOOM BOOM, would you be my [[SciFiNameBuzzwords Super Nova Girl]]?"

** Sage later adds that "some people just never learn."

** Similarly, she accidentally destroys a beaker in a science class because Earth schools still use Farenheit.

* RealityEnsues: Zenon ends up falling the first time she does anything energetic because she forgets that Earth gravity is not quite the same as her space station's artificial gravity.

* ShoutOut: The aliens in the second movie initially communicating through musical tones is much like in ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.

** Sage later adds that some people never change.

* TheBadGuyWins: Selena, the moon goddess of Greek mythology pretty much manages to scare off everyone off the moon in third sequel because "they were polluting her planet." It was just a little space dome at best and there was room for compromise. But nope, either it goes or she'll destroy Earth, she gets her way and the story presents this as a good thing. Yeah, no.

* Aesop Amnesia: Pat Numbar at the end of Zenon: Z3, who asks Zenon to join him in a new contest on Mars along with her friends. Zenon's reply?:

* TheBadGuyWins: Selena, the moon spirit pretty much manages to scare off everyone off the moon in third sequel because "they were polluting her planet." It was just a little space dome at best and there was room for compromise. But nope, either it goes or she'll destroy Earth, she gets her way and the story presents this as a good thing. Yeah, no.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Windham in the first movie; the people in charge of building the moon base in the third movie.

* GravitySucks: In the second movie, as soon as their power goes out, their shuttle starts falling towards the Moon.

* SayMyName: Plank's "ZEEEENOOOOOOOOOOOOONNN", which happens multiple times.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Strangely enough since the Disney Channel was entirely in charge of the trailer, the trailers for the third movie spoiled both the existence and true appearance of Selena the moon spirit, when quite a bit of the movie is Zenon trying to figure out her "viral moon dreams" and other weird supernatural things that keep happening to her. Oh, gee, it couldn't be that moon spirit the trailers showed, could it?

** [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief It could happen.]] The United States is one of the few nations in the world to still use non-Metric measurements at all, so it's possible that they'd use Fahrenheit in a classroom. [[FridgeLogic Not everybody's as international as the people on the space station.]]
*** Celsius is used for Science in the United States.
**** In the present day it is- but apparently not in 2049, according to the movie.
*** When the movie was made, science classes would use both American and Metric measurements[[note]]mostly Metric though, because it's simpler to teach and do conversions in[[/note]], but being able to do conversions between the systesms is a necessary skill in math and science classes... one which a student from a strictly-metric education program would of course lack.

* TheOtherDarrin. Shadia Simmons replaces Raven as Nebula in the second movie. Zenon's parents in the second movie and Protazoa in the third movie.

* PropRecycling: The station staff wore [=EarthForce=] uniforms from ''Series/BabylonFive''.

A DisneyChannel movie first aired in 1999, ''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'' is set in 2049 AD, where Zenon Kar ([[KimPossible Kirsten Storms]]) is a 13-year old who literally gets grounded as she is forced to leave her SpaceStation home and live on Earth.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Strangely enough since the Disney Channel was entirely in charge of the trailer, the trailers spoiled both the existence and true appearance of Selena the moon spirit, when quite a bit of the movie is Zenon trying to figure out her "viral moon dreams" and other weird supernatural things that keep happening to her. Oh, gee, it couldn't be that moon spirit the trailers showed, could it?

* GreenAesop: The third movie appears to attempt to invoke this, except using the moon (and an angry moon spirit who literally tells Zenon that the humans are screwing everything up, as if Sage the moon environmentalist wasn't {{Anvilicious}} enough) as a stand-in for Earth. A bit strange considering the moon does not have any life forms...except for, apparently, a grumpy moon spirit.

{{Zeerust}}: Just look at the outfits.

SpaceIsAnOcean: Deconstructed a bit. Zenon assumes that because she can 'swim' in space, that she knows how to swim in a pool for gym class. RealityEnsues and Greg ends saving her.
SpacePlane: All shuttles take off without any boosters and can apparently do so multiple times a day without needing maintenance.
SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear
StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot: SpaceStation shot. There are a couple in all three movies.
TickleTorture: The force field around Protozoa's estate creates a similar sensation.

* SpacePlane: All shuttles take off without any boosters and can apparently do so multiple times a day without needing maintenance.
* SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear
* StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot: SpaceStation shot. There are a couple in all three movies.
* TickleTorture: The force field around Protozoa's estate creates a similar sensation.
* {{Zeerust}}: Just look at the outfit.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: In the sequel that introduces aliens, Zenon deduces that the aliens are good, with no irony, because their spaceship is too beautiful for them to be evil (it looked like a rainbow butterfly thing). She was right of course.