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* TheyCallMeMISTERTibbs: Palmer consistently calls Ed "Admiral Baldwin" as a sign of respect.
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* CallBack: Palmer mentions his admiration for Ed when [[Recap/ForAllMankindS01E02HeBuiltTheSaturnV he took the blame for Apollo 10 before Congress]].
* FlashbackBPlot: Throughout the episode Danielle flashes back to when the original Happy Valley base was struggling to survive in the 1990s, to show how Danny died.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The various M-7 partners all begin scrambling to try to lay claim to Goldilocks, even though no one nation could capture the asteroid on their own. Gore's gaffe almost leads to the Soviets pulling out entirely.
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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The various M-7 partners all begin scrambling to try to lay claim to Goldilocks, even though no one nation could capture the asteroid on their own. Gore's gaffe almost leads to the Soviets pulling out entirely.entirely.
* WhamShot: Danny's suit outside the Korean capsule.
* WhamShot: Danny's suit outside the Korean capsule.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Danni gives one to Ed at the end of the episode alongside a PrecisionFStrike
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* DrivenToSuicide: Danny's fate is revealed. He killed himself after several weeks of manning the North Korean spacecraft on his own.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Danny's fate is revealed. He killed himself after several weeks of manning the North Korean spacecraft capsule on his own.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: President Gore makes a speech in which ''he'' claims credit for discovering the asteroid, not the M-7 alliance, or America, or even NASA.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: With no World Wide Web to popularize the Internet, President Gore's gaffe is not [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_technology#Urban_legend_that_Gore_claims_to_have_invented_the_Internet his memetic claim to inventing the Internet]], but that he found the Goldilocks asteroid.
* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: The asteroid is said to be worth in the neighborhood of $20 trillion, though thousands of tons of iridium flooding the markets would cause prices to crash, making it worth far less.
* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: The asteroid is said to be worth in the neighborhood of $20 trillion, though thousands of tons of iridium flooding the markets would cause prices to crash, making it worth far less.
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* InternalReveal: Palmer tells Danielle that he saw a tremor in Ed's hand, making her aware of his health problems.
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* InternalReveal: Palmer tells Danielle that he saw a tremor in Ed's hand, making her aware of his health problems.problems.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The various M-7 partners all begin scrambling to try to lay claim to Goldilocks, even though no one nation could capture the asteroid on their own. Gore's gaffe almost leads to the Soviets pulling out entirely.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The various M-7 partners all begin scrambling to try to lay claim to Goldilocks, even though no one nation could capture the asteroid on their own. Gore's gaffe almost leads to the Soviets pulling out entirely.
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* ButIMustGo: Dev decides to head for Mars to supervise the asteroid capture, and he makes it clear to people that he doesn't intend to return to Earth.
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* ButIMustGo: ButNowIMustGo: Dev decides to head for Mars to supervise the asteroid capture, and he makes it clear to people that he doesn't intend to return to Earth.
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A new mineral-rich asteroid is sighted heading for Mars, leading to the M-7 nations to scramble for a new capture mission.
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!!Tropes:
* ButIMustGo: Dev decides to head for Mars to supervise the asteroid capture, and he makes it clear to people that he doesn't intend to return to Earth.
* DrivenToSuicide: Danny's fate is revealed. He killed himself after several weeks of manning the North Korean spacecraft on his own.
* InternalReveal: Palmer tells Danielle that he saw a tremor in Ed's hand, making her aware of his health problems.
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!!Tropes:
* ButIMustGo: Dev decides to head for Mars to supervise the asteroid capture, and he makes it clear to people that he doesn't intend to return to Earth.
* DrivenToSuicide: Danny's fate is revealed. He killed himself after several weeks of manning the North Korean spacecraft on his own.
* InternalReveal: Palmer tells Danielle that he saw a tremor in Ed's hand, making her aware of his health problems.
