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Season 1
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Season 1 (24 episodes)
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It's the beginning of a new year at Space University Trent, and, along with the intake of new students, there are new members of staff, including Mack Hardiman, the new special assistant to the vice-chancellor. His job is to lead the Evaluation Team - they are the first to make planetfall, the first to go into trouble, the first in the firing line. He is not long aboard before the team's special skills are needed.
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The semi-aquatic people of Aquia seem happy, and Banks soon finds himself on the end of a sweet-talking by a pretty young lady. But the waters hold a dark secret, one that claims the life of the university's leading marine biologist.
Guest star: Urpan Rashidar (The Chowkidar)
The Chowkidar stands at the gate. The Chowkidar waits. But waits for what? Where does the gate lead? While the university prepares to move onto the next world, Janey finds herself unable to abandon the mystery that haunts her dreams.
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The world codenamed XZ32-22 seems quiet. There are no ruins, no intelligent lifeforms, no colonists, but why? It's perfectly suited for human life, but life seems to have passed it by. And what is the strange green glow that some members of the team report seeing at night?
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Every door in the university opens, and cannot be closed - airlocks included. What could have caused this bizarre and dangerous phenomenon? And does it have anything to do with the university's recent visit to the ancient world of Akbardon?
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An earthquake shakes the university - while it's in space! What is happening, and will anyone survive.
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The world of Arkolunum was devastated by warfare a million years ago, but archaelogists discover an oddity in the fossil record. There are no fossils of animals, only of their trails, and those trails all lead to the same spot.
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The colonists on Hombria never speak to each other, they never meet, one never approaches within a mile of the next. Why, despite every human impulse, do they avoid each other so? And what will be the effect on the members of the Space University?
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The university attends a galactic symposium on the planet Rocordum. Janey is attending a seminar when a disgruntled academic takes every in the conference hall hostage with a neutron bomb. [Spoiler: he believes Earth is leaving the colonists of the galaxy to fend for themselves, and wants military ships sent out to protect them, rather than a university of intellectuals.]
Guest star: Megan Cross (Suki)
The second term is over, and everyone has a week off. Students are catching up on their reading, tutors are marking work, and the library is trying to get its books back in order. For one student, though, there will be no quiet time.
Guest stars: as yet unknown
Episode summary to come.
1x20 The First University of Space Guest stars: as yet unknown
Was Trent the first space university? Everyone seems to think so, until the previously unheard-of Space University Oxbridge turns up at a dig. Was it a secret endeavour, or is something else happening?
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The Preponians have lost the right to live on their own planet, and beg the university's history and law departments for help.
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One planet after another is falling prey to a swarm of terrible invaders. All that stands between Earth and this plague is the Space University Trent. Is the World Government justified in asking the students to put their lives on the line?
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For the first year students it's time for the First University Examination. For some, the pressure is too much.
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The third term of the year is over, and that means it is graduation time. Some students will be moving on, and so will some staff. But will anyone at all survive the day, as a deadly threat is made by an old enemy?
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