History Series / OtherSpace

* Tina Shukskin, the ship's massively underqualified, spacy, and possibly psychotic navigator;

* ProductPlacement: The crew's 3-D printer is a MakerBot Replicator Mini, and the company's logo is fairly prominent when it's first introduced.

** Natasha is extended full crew privileges after the robot revolt. By UMP policy when the mission ends and the crew returns to Earth she will have her memory wiped to give her a fresh start with the new crew and to preserve the current crew's privacy. No one's especially happy about this, least of all Kent, who's fallen in love with her.

* {{Robosexual}}: Kent and Natasha end up falling for each other.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: While Art is justified due to BrainUploading, whoever designed Natasha apparently decided it was important for her to be capable of sarcasm, jealousy, getting distracted, and getting drunk. Also possibly justified because she was built to deal cards at a casino, and a higher priority could have been placed on making her social than equipped to run a spaceship.

* TheBroCode: An alarm goes "bro code violation in progress" as Mike gets intimate with Tina, who his best friend Stewart has a crush on. Nothing is made of this beyond that, though.

--> '''Kent''': And eerily quiet, while it's not quite as venomous as I want it to be.

** Karen agonizes over accidentally killing [[spoiler:A.R.T.]] until she finds that there are several versions of him available for easy replacement. She promptly kills another one to vent her frustration. Later she apparently has a change of heart.

* YearInsideHourOutside: Episode five, "Trouble's Brewing", sees Mike and Tina stranded on a planet for six months while six hours passes on the ''Cruiser''.

** ''Into the Great Beyond...Beyond'' uses this as the mind-controlling entity's plan for the entire crew.
** ''Getting to Know You'' has this first against the crew accused of alien infiltration, then against the infiltrator itself.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Several characters at different times.
** [[spoiler: Kent's]] physiology and upbringing are so different from standard that it is questionable whether he's human. After brief deliberation the crew decides he counts.
** Karen agonizes over accidentally killing [[spoiler:A.R.T.]] until she finds that there are several versions of him available for easy replacement. She promptly kills another one to vent her frustration.
** When the mission ends and the crew returns to Earth Natasha will have her memory wiped to give her a fresh start with the new crew and to preserve the current crew's privacy. No one's especially happy about this, least of all Kent, who's fallen in love with her.

* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Ship]]: The UMP ''Cruiser'''s foot tank hasn't been upgraded in thirty-five years, its engine leaks mind-numbing radiation, its AI was purchased from Hooter's, and ''bits of it fall off when it undocks''.

* SpaceClothes: society of 2105 mocks the ancient tradition of neckties in favor of the sartorially refined collar balls.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Zalien to Karen, on the occasion of [[spoiler:Art the robot]]'s death. Comedy undercuts drama when it's revealed that Zalien handles it pretty well.

** Karen agonizes over accidentally killing [[spoiler: Art the robot]] until she finds that there are several versions of him available for easy replacement. She promptly kills another one to vent her frustration.

* WidowsWeeds: donned by Natasha on the occasion of [[spoiler:Art the robot's]] death.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Turns out that, when the mission ends and the crew returns to Earth, Natasha will have her memory wiped to give her a fresh start with the new crew and to preserve the current crew's privacy. No one's especially happy about this, least of all Kent, who's fallen in love with her and begins scheming ways to give her her own body.