History Series / AnotherLife2019

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: This is taken UpToEleven: when [[spoiler:Erik enters the Artifact, the Achaia communicate with him using one of his memories to provide a familiar setting. This appears to be the Achaia's standard form of communication, as they do the same to Nico and Cas in season 2.]]

** William can initiate safety protocols without the crew or the captain's approval, would would be sensible enough in a situation where the captain or the crew is unconscious or otherwise unable to give him orders, but neither the crew nor the captain have the authority to override his safety protocols once he has first started them, which endangers both the ship and the crew when he malfunctions and decides to respond to a threat that actually isn't there.
** William can respond emotionally to situations, which is, all things considered, a very good idea, since he is supposed to interact with a human crew, and it would certain help in such situation to come across to them as simply another human. The problem is that William doesn't simulate emotions, as one would reasonably expect; he actually ''feels'' them and cannot turn them off. This proves a terrible idea, when he falls in love with Niko, has "sex" with her (well, as close as an insubstantial hologram can get to having sex with a human) when she is high on drugs, and is rejected by her when she comes down from her trip and realizes that she was acting irrationally when she had a "tryst" with him. William responds by having an emotional breakdown over her rejection, and shuts himself down, becoming unavailable in a situation where his absence endangers the crew.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Zayn has an androgynous gender expression, and in season 1 is never called by any pronouns. While they're likely meant to be nonbinary, this hasn't been said onscreen yet. Zayn is portrayed by Australian nonbinary actor [=JayR=] Tinaco. Zayn is referred to by ze/zer pronouns in season 2, implying thus as they're sometimes used by nonbinary people.

* AdultFear: Having to leave your kid behind, not knowing if you'll ever meet again in person, certainly qualifies. And then [[spoiler:Niko's and Erik's daughter Jana gets hit by one of the alien artifact's defense mechanisms that not only busts her eardrums and inflicts other internal injuries, it also gives her advanced leukemia out of nowhere.]] Erik is understandably horrified and pissed off by this turn of events.

** Niko allowed [[spoiler:Ian to walk around freely after his mutiny]] instead of putting him back in cryo-sleep.

It premiered on ''Creator/{{Netflix}}'' on July 25, 2019. A second season was released October 14, 2021.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Oh, you managed to disable the weird alien artifact that landed on your planet? [[spoiler:Hope you didn't need that planet anymore because the Achaia just blew it up.]]

* DownerEnding: Season One ends on a bleak note. [[spoiler:A significant portion of the ''Salvare'' crew is dead, Niko's daughter Jana is dying, the mysterious aliens are revealed to be bent on destroying us for reasons unknown, they don't hesitate to blow up whole planets that resist them, and a turned Harper Glass has just begun making their attack on Earth easier by spreading a false message of peace to all of humanity.]]

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Zayn has an androgynous gender expression, and is never called by any pronouns. While they're likely meant to be nonbinary, this hasn't been said onscreen yet. Zayn is portrayed by Australian nonbinary actor [=JayR=] Tinaco.
** Zayn is referred to by ze/zer pronouns in season 2, implying male-to-female transgender.

* AnyoneCanDie: Don't get too attached to any of the characters, even longtimers can die. In the first episode of Season 2 alone, [[spoiler:Beauchamp gets crushed by a piece of Zakir, and Oliver and Summer are incinerated by the ''Salvare's'' plasma leak.]]

* TheNeidermeyer: Ian Yerxa, the Executive Officer of the ''Salvare'', was originally appointed to be the mission commander and clearly constantly resents Niko Breckenridge for accepting the job and taking over his position, posting an idea to slingshot the ''Salvare'' around an unstable sun that he believes is CrazyEnoughToWork and Niko is weak for not accepting it. [[spoiler:He leads a mutiny, the plan fails so badly that a significant chunk of the first season is spent struggling with the TraumaCongaLine that it causes (massive damage to the ship, AlmostOutOfOxygen, infection with an alien virus when exploring a planet to replenish said oxygen, and the list goes on), and even if it remains fuzzy enough that Niko has a well-justified MyGodWhatHaveIDone reaction and the people who decry her action have a JerkassHasAPoint stance, Ian still picked up a screwdriver and walked right up to Niko with all signs that he was going to [[TheStarscream stab her in the back]] and [[KlingonPromotion take over]]. He doesn't makes it past the first episode as a result.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Yerxa's plan to use the ship's FTL shield to protect the ship as it performs a slingshot around a blue giant suffers from one critical flaw. When the shield is overtaxed, it drains power from the FTL drive to compensate, and the ship is left in a decaying orbit with an inoperable FTL drive.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: This is taken UpToEleven: when [[spoiler:Erik enters the Artifact, the Achaia communicate with him using one of his memories to provide a familiar setting]].

It premiered on ''Creator/{{Netflix}}'' on July 25, 2019. A second season is in the works.

* AnyoneCanDie: Don't get too attached to any of the characters, even longtimers can die. In the first episode of Season 2 alone, [[spoiler:Beauchamp gets crushed by a piece of Zakir, and Oliver and Summer are incinerated by the ''Salvare'''s leak.]]

* AsteroidThicket: Not asteroid per se, but the proto-comets in an Oort cloud are portrayed as being so densly packed together that they form an actual barrier.

* AnyoneCanDie: Don't get too attached to any of the characters, even longtimers can die.
** In the first episode of Season 2 alone, [[spoiler:Beauchamp gets crushed by a piece of Zakir, and Oliver and Summer are incinerated by the ''Salvare'''s leak.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Don't get too attached to any of the characters.

* AbortedArc: [[spoiler:Season 2 does this with August's pregnancy, as she's incinerated by a plasma leak in the first episode.]]

''Another Life'' is an American science fiction drama web television series created by Aaron Martin that stars Creator/KateeSackhoff, Creator/SelmaBlair, Creator/TylerHoechlin and Justin Chatwin.

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: In the first episode, the crew of the Salvare finds their view blocked by a cloud of dark matter, which they elect not to fly through because of the risk of hitting a planet. There are a couple of problems with this: first, dark matter is not literally dark. A more accurate term for it would be "invisible" or "undetected" matter. If a cloud of anything were able to block your view, then by definition, it would not be dark matter. Second, the odds of actually hitting a planet while flying through any given area of space are so long as to be essentially neglible. Outer space is huge and there tends to a whole lot of emptiness between any two planets.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Albeit not intentionally, William ends up being this at several points. While he is designed to be helpful and protective of the crew, several very weird and counter-intuitive choices in his programming ends up rendering him a threat to them. The most egregious examples of this includes:

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: In the first episode, the crew of the Salvare finds their view blocked by a cloud of dark matter, which they elect not to fly through because of the risk of hitting a planet. There are a couple of problems with this: First, dark matter is not literally dark. A more accurate term for it would be "invisible" or "undetected" matter. If a cloud of anything were able to block your view, then by definition, it would not be dark matter. Second, the odds of actually hitting a planet while flying through any given area of space are so long as to be essentially neglible. Outer space is huge and there tends to a whole lot of emptiness between any two planets.

* AsteroidThicket: Not asteroid perse, but the proto-comets in an Oort cloud are portrayed as being so densly packed together that they form an actual barrier.

* AsYouKnow: Niko and Erik's introduction scene have the former reminding the latter of what his job is.