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Silversun is a children's science fiction television series made in Australia by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It features the adventures of the adolescent crew of the Star Runner, an intersteller spaceship carrying a cargo of 550 cryonically suspended colonists to their new home, Silversun.
The ABC began showing Silversun on October 11, 2004 at 5:00pm daily as part of its "ABC Kids" lineup. The final episode of the first season was broadcast on December 3.
Although some episodes in the first season were self-contained, a majority dealt with problems occurring on board the Star Runner based in plots that spanned a number of episodes. These included the illegal re-animation of the character Zandie by the rogue crewmember Degenhardt in the earlier episodes, the crew's encounter with a wormhole, the infection of Commander Cyriax by an alien parasite, his subsequent cure through the use of a harvest clone of him discovered in suspension among the settler pods, and the clone's accidental awakening to full consciousness. The final episode was the culmination of a number of episodes comprising one of the most intricate and suspenseful plots so far encountered in the series, ending in a cliffhanger presumably to be resolved in the next season.
Much of the programme revolves around the relationships and issues experienced by the young crew as part of the normal process of growing up. There are, however, some occasional interesting ideas of an ethical and/or science fictional nature presented in the show - such as the question of whether the commander's clone should be treated as human or not, the unique human problems encountered by a crew on a lifelong voyage to the stars, and an encounter with a pulsar whose pulse cycle is in phase with the brainwaves of the crewmember Pancha, to her detriment.
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