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* LoveTriangle: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, though it seems unclear whether the latter is bisexual or IfItsYouItsOkay. Elsa is initially interested in both, but tilts strongly toward Nico before long.



* TriangRelations: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, though it seems unclear whether the latter is bisexual or IfItsYouItsOkay. Elsa is initially interested in both, but tilts strongly toward Nico before long.
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%%* IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.

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%%* * IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look Nico, the alien mech pilot who joins the crew in the second season, looks shockingly like a red pandas.panda.



%%* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, if they get a speaking role their odds of surviving the episode are not great.

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%%* * RedShirt: Aside from the four or five main characters (the "inner circle", circle") the ship has about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, other crew members, but if they get one of them has a speaking role their odds of surviving they tend to get killed off by the episode are not great.end of the episode.
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* IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.

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* %%* IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.



* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to actually finish a degree.

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* %%* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to actually finish a degree.



* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, if they get a speaking role their odds of surviving the episode are not great.

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%% * HumongousMecha: Nico has a combat mech that has some connection to The Ship.

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%% * HumongousMecha: Nico has a giant combat mech that has some connection to The Ship.



%% * IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.

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%% * IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.



%% * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to finish a degree.

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%% * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to actually finish a degree.



%% * PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating. Then they "solve" that problem by setting one of them up as a repressive dictator, which soon touches off a nuclear war.
%% * ProudScholarRace: The rankarts, which leads to some awkward moments between the academically unfocused [[spoiler: half-rankart]] Elsa and a rankart elder.
%% * RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, if they get a speaking role their odds of surviving the episode are not great.

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%% * PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, know nothing of conflict before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating. Then they "solve" that problem by setting one of them up as a repressive dictator, which soon touches off a nuclear war.
%% * ProudScholarRace: The rankarts, rankarts were a highly advanced species who dedicated their lives to the sciences, which leads to some awkward moments between the academically unfocused [[spoiler: half-rankart]] Elsa and a rankart elder.
%% * RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, if they get a speaking role their odds of surviving the episode are not great.



%% * TheUnfavorite: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.

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%% * TheUnfavorite: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than parents made it pretty clear she is.couldn't hold a candle to her brother.

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* HumongousMecha: Nico has a combat mech that has some connection to The Ship.

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%% * HumongousMecha: Nico has a combat mech that has some connection to The Ship.



* IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.

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%% * IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.



* Women: In "How to Lose a Captain in 10 Days" they arrive at a planet of all women, who claim they want Tucker as their king, [[spoiler: and hook him up to an extremely painful "milking" machine.]]



* MommasBoy: Tucker reverts ''hard'' to this after [[spoiler:his mom's personality-overlay hidden within Sorry]] comes to light.

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%% * MommasBoy: Tucker reverts ''hard'' to this after [[spoiler:his mom's personality-overlay hidden within Sorry]] comes to light.



* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to finish a degree.

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%% * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to finish a degree.



* PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating. Then they "solve" that problem by setting one of them up as a repressive dictator, which soon touches off a nuclear war.
* ProudScholarRace: The rankarts, which leads to some awkward moments between the academically unfocused [[spoiler: half-rankart]] Elsa and a rankart elder.
* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, if they get a speaking role their odds of surviving the episode are not great.

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%% * PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating. Then they "solve" that problem by setting one of them up as a repressive dictator, which soon touches off a nuclear war.
%% * ProudScholarRace: The rankarts, which leads to some awkward moments between the academically unfocused [[spoiler: half-rankart]] Elsa and a rankart elder.
%% * RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship. However, if they get a speaking role their odds of surviving the episode are not great.



* TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.

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%% * TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: TheUnfavorite: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.

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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with. Tucker ''was'' a virgin until [[spoiler:Elsa, [[PreClimaxClimax expecting them all to die soon]], grabbed him and went through ''every position in the Kama Sutra'']].
* [[MarsNeedsWomen Mars Needs Men]]: In "How to Lose a Captain in 10 Days" they arrive at a planet of all women, who claim they want Tucker as their king, [[spoiler: and hook him up to an extremely painful "milking" machine.]]

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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with. Tucker ''was'' a virgin until [[spoiler:Elsa, [[PreClimaxClimax expecting them all to die soon]], grabbed him and went through ''every position in the Kama Sutra'']].
* [[MarsNeedsWomen Mars Needs Men]]:
Women: In "How to Lose a Captain in 10 Days" they arrive at a planet of all women, who claim they want Tucker as their king, [[spoiler: and hook him up to an extremely painful "milking" machine.]]



* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Tucker's parents were on the ''Destiny'' that went through the wormhole, never to be seen again.

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* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: MissingMom: Tucker's parents were on the ''Destiny'' that went through the wormhole, never to be seen again.

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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with. Tucker ''was'' a virgin until [[spoiler:Elsa, [[PreClimaxClimax expecting them all to die soon]], grabbed him and went through ''every position in the Kama Sutra'']].


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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with. Tucker ''was'' a virgin until [[spoiler:Elsa, [[PreClimaxClimax expecting them all to die soon]], grabbed him and went through ''every position in the Kama Sutra'']].
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* HybridAllAlong: [[spoiler: Elsa]] is confirmed as half-rankart in the season 1 finale.
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Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}} published a four issue ''ComicBook/VoyageToTheStars'' ComicBook series set after the second season.
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* ShoutOut: In "It All Returns to Nothing", Tucker compares the Nothing to [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]] after Zell explains to him what it is.
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* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship; if they get a speaking role, they're practically guaranteed not to last the episode.

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* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship; Ship. However, if they get a speaking role, they're practically guaranteed role their odds of surviving the episode are not to last the episode.great.
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* WhosOnFirst: The Ship's computer accidentally registered Stew's reflexive apology on rebooting her as her name.

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* WhosOnFirst: The Ship's computer accidentally registered Stew's reflexive apology on rebooting her as her name.name.
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* TriangRelations: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, though it seems unclear whether the latter is BiTheWay or IfItsYouItsOkay. Elsa is initially interested in both, but tilts strongly toward Nico before long.

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* TriangRelations: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, though it seems unclear whether the latter is BiTheWay bisexual or IfItsYouItsOkay. Elsa is initially interested in both, but tilts strongly toward Nico before long.
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* ArtifactTitle: About halfway through season 2 the crew [[spoiler: return to Earth]].


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* VivaLasVegas: First season has an episode where the crew land on a casino planet, and Stew accidentally gambles away the ship while Elsa runs up the room service bill. And in season 2 they go to Mutant Vegas, find a hotel owned by the Rankforts, [[spoiler: Stew and Sorry get drunk and then married.]]

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* MommasBoy: Tucker reverts ''hard'' to this after [[spoiler:his mom's personality-overlay hidden within Sorry]] comes to light.



* RoboSexual: Stew previously dated a robot, and currently has WillTheyOrWontThey going with Sorry. (Shortly after getting her robot body in season 2, he sang about "like-liking" her, while she riffed on their podcast title "Sorry, Not Sorry" as "Girlfriend, Not Boyfriend".)

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* RoboSexual: Stew previously dated a robot, and currently has WillTheyOrWontThey going with Sorry. (Shortly after getting her robot body in season 2, he sang about "like-liking" her, while she riffed on their podcast title "Sorry, Not Sorry" as "Girlfriend, Not Boyfriend".)) Gets more complicated when [[spoiler:Stew is revealed to be an artificially created "organic robot" with fake implanted memories]].



* TriangRelations: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, who's interested in both, though it seems unclear whether the latter is BiTheWay or IfItsYouItsOkay.

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* TriangRelations: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, who's interested in both, though it seems unclear whether the latter is BiTheWay or IfItsYouItsOkay.IfItsYouItsOkay. Elsa is initially interested in both, but tilts strongly toward Nico before long.
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* RoboSexual: Stew previously dated a robot, and currently has WillTheyOrWontThey going with Sorry.

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* RoboSexual: Stew previously dated a robot, and currently has WillTheyOrWontThey going with Sorry. (Shortly after getting her robot body in season 2, he sang about "like-liking" her, while she riffed on their podcast title "Sorry, Not Sorry" as "Girlfriend, Not Boyfriend".)
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The [[spoiler:Grand Judge and the Supremes]] know all about the crew's multiple genocides-- and want to recruit them as villains, [[spoiler:rather than convict them like the crew assumes]]. [[IfICantHaveYou They don't take rejection well]], but after Nico blows up their ship, the [[spoiler:Grand Judge]] leaves Tucker a voicemail hoping they can still work something out.


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* TriangRelations: Tucker and Nico are both openly trying to date Elsa, who's interested in both, though it seems unclear whether the latter is BiTheWay or IfItsYouItsOkay.

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* FictionalPoliticalParty: Dorians support mandatory labeling for androids and building a wall around the radioactive wasteland that used to be the Midwest, Ionians believe in equal rights for robots, mutants, and dolphins.

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* FictionalPoliticalParty: Dorians support mandatory labeling for androids and building a wall around the radioactive wasteland that used to be the Midwest, Ionians believe in equal rights for robots, mutants, and dolphins. (Corinthians are just weird.)



* LastOfTheirKind: Sorry mentions that the macabra was the last of its' species [[spoiler: right after Elsa airlocks it, but it ate at least one of the redshirts so nobody was particularly torn up about that genocide.]] While Nico off-handedly claims to be the last of her kind, [[spoiler: and her secret revenge diary implies the Nothing was involved.]]

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* LastOfTheirKind: LastOfTheirKind:
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Sorry mentions that the macabra was the last of its' its species [[spoiler: right after Elsa airlocks it, but it ate at least one of the redshirts so nobody was particularly torn up about that genocide.]] While ]]
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Nico off-handedly claims to be the last of her kind, [[spoiler: and her secret revenge diary implies the Nothing was involved.]]



* MultiPartEpisode: Aside from the pilot every episode is split into two parts.

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* MultiPartEpisode: Aside from the pilot pilot, every episode is split into two parts.



* PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating.

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* PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating. Then they "solve" that problem by setting one of them up as a repressive dictator, which soon touches off a nuclear war.



* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle" about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship, if they get a speaking role they're practically guaranteed not to last the episode.

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* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle" circle", about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship, Ship; if they get a speaking role role, they're practically guaranteed not to last the episode.
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* FictionalPoliticalParty: Dorians support mandatory labeling for androids and building a wall around the radioactive wasteland that used to be the Midwest, Ionians believe in equal rights for robots, mutants, and dolphins.


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* LastOfTheirKind: Sorry mentions that the macabra was the last of its' species [[spoiler: right after Elsa airlocks it, but it ate at least one of the redshirts so nobody was particularly torn up about that genocide.]] While Nico off-handedly claims to be the last of her kind, [[spoiler: and her secret revenge diary implies the Nothing was involved.]]


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* MultiPartEpisode: Aside from the pilot every episode is split into two parts.


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* PerfectPacifistPeople: The disciples of the Word, before Elsa and Tucker get them involved in their political debating.


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* ScrapbookStory: Formatted as a collection of Tucker's "captain's logs," Elsa's "science logs," and Stew's podcasts that nobody else listens to. [[spoiler: Plus Nico's "secret revenge diary" acting as TheStinger to season 2's first story.]]


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* SpacetimeEater: The Nothing introduced in the first season finale, [[spoiler: which ate the rankart homeworld and is now headed for Earth.]]

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Sorry's databanks were badly corrupted passing through the wormhole, with the section on early 2000s pop culture the closest to intact. In "So Far Beyond Good and Evil" she discovers a directive allowing her to kill the crew as a threat to the universe, [[spoiler: changing her mind at the last minute.]]



* TheEmpath: In "Once More With Feeling" the crew pick up an empathic alien who offers his services as a therapist, [[spoiler: unfortunately he's also an EmotionEater.]]
* GroundhogDayLoop: Chronos in "Worst Contact" is subject to a planet-wide time loop that allows the population to live lives of utter hedonism with no consequences, [[spoiler: until the crew take the source of the time loop for fuel after Tucker drunkenly blows up half the planet, oops.]]



* HumongousMecha: Nico has a combat mech that has some connection to The Ship.
* IntelligentGerbil: Nico's species look like red pandas.
* [[MarsNeedsWomen Mars Needs Men]]: In "How to Lose a Captain in 10 Days" they arrive at a planet of all women, who claim they want Tucker as their king, [[spoiler: and hook him up to an extremely painful "milking" machine.]]



* MilesGloriosus: Tucker flunked out of flight academy and was an insurance salesman until he lied to the ASHA's captain about being a qualified space captain and got roped into leading the boarding team to The Ship.
* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Tucker's parents were on the ''Destiny'' that went through the wormhole, never to be seen again.



* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Elsa's a subversion, she's pursued a lot of disciplines but never far enough to finish a degree.
* OurWormholesAreDifferent: A wormhole opened between the Earth and Moon 25 years previous, research station ASHA was built orbiting it and the ''Destiny'' went through but never returned. In the pilot the station has been reduced to a tourist trap and is about to be shut down when an empty alien ship comes out and a bunch of station staff and tourists bumble their way on board before it goes back through and the wormhole closes.
* ProudScholarRace: The rankarts, which leads to some awkward moments between the academically unfocused [[spoiler: half-rankart]] Elsa and a rankart elder.
* RedShirt: Aside from the "inner circle" about fifty random people from the ASHA got shanghaied into boarding The Ship, if they get a speaking role they're practically guaranteed not to last the episode.



* TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.

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* ShinyNewAustralia: Elsa's dad bought Australia and made her grand duchess of Tasmania.
* TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.is.
* WhosOnFirst: The Ship's computer accidentally registered Stew's reflexive apology on rebooting her as her name.
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* RoboSexual: Stew previously dated a robot, and currently has WillTheyOrWontThey going with Sorry.
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* TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSoneGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.

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* TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSoneGuy [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.

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* NonIdleRich: Elsa, sort of; she has a dozen or three half-degrees[[note]]would've been one more, but Sephardic poetry didn't really click with her[[/note]], repeatedly insisting that once she ''knows'' stuff, she doesn't need to bother with official validation.

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* NonIdleRich: Elsa, sort of; of. Her family owns pretty much all of Earth, yet she has went out and got a dozen or three half-degrees[[note]]would've been one more, but Sephardic poetry didn't really click with her[[/note]], her[[/note]] - repeatedly insisting that once she ''knows'' stuff, she doesn't need to bother with official validation.validation - and generally wants to make something of her life.
* TheUnfavorite / [[WellDoneSoneGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Elsa's brother is apparently way more respected than she is.
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''[[https://www.voyagetothestars.net/ Voyage to the Stars]]'' is a partly improvised comedy series. "[[TheFuture The year is 2263]]. A group of bumblers mistakenly board an alien spacecraft and find themselves transported through a wormhole to the far side of the universe. These are their stories as they try and find their way home."

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* Colton Dunn as [[MilesGloriosus Captain Tucker]]
* Creator/FeliciaDay as Science Officer Elsa Rankfort
* Steve Berg as [[NonActionGuy Stew]]
* Creator/JanetVarney as [[WhosOnFirst Sorry]], the ship's AI
* Kirsten Vangsness as Nico, an alien who joined the crew in season 2

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* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played with. Tucker ''was'' a virgin until [[spoiler:Elsa, [[PreClimaxClimax expecting them all to die soon]], grabbed him and went through ''every position in the Kama Sutra'']].
* HumanAlienDiscovery: In "Stewtopia", Elsa learns of the existence of a highly-advanced HumanAlien species called "rankarts" and latches on to the idea that she is one of them, though it's left uncertain at the end of the episode. [[spoiler:In the season 1 finale they get hold of a sample of rankart DNA which suggests she's a rankart/human hybrid.]]
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Pretty much the whole cast by the end of the first season, with accidental or not-so-accidental planetary destruction happening almost OncePerEpisode.
* NonIdleRich: Elsa, sort of; she has a dozen or three half-degrees[[note]]would've been one more, but Sephardic poetry didn't really click with her[[/note]], repeatedly insisting that once she ''knows'' stuff, she doesn't need to bother with official validation.

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