User Reviews

First, the water had a fungus, then it had a sedative, but the water may also have stupid. It affects almost all the crew. For the actor portraying Trust, it may affect his acting. His acting is just so without skill or nuance. He reminds me of me if I were trying to act, acting with volume without organic feeling. It feels sterile. It's unfortunate because almost everyone else is pleasant to watch. Brice, usually acted well, in this episode, had an awkwardly overacted scene with Garnet in the utility room/ holding cell. Unpleasant to watch.

Oddly, thinking about how many times a lock was hacked or short-circuited, this one time, nobody was able to get the door open to save Garnet, Brice, and Strickland from suffocation. Instead, they used the TV cliché of pounding on the door and feeling around the edges. When does that ever work? What does someone expect to find on the door frame, a spare key?

Also, unpleasant to watch was the horribly choreographed fight scene between Garnet and Brice and the two crew members. And then on the bridge. Yeah, hitting someone with a plastic Etch A Sketch is going to knock out a brawny man. Too bad the fight choreographers from Wild Wild West and Star Trek aren't on hand.

The funniest scene was Angus frantically pulling up heads of lettuce or broccoli or whatever. Yeah, that'll work. Creating a food shortage will surely restore rationality. Angus is one of the "resident geniuses"?

Then there is the shield against the Aliciaminium, which "can't be tested". Okaaay. How about just turning it on to see if it will stay on? Yeah, how about that? That's a test, isn't it? Since, they're not in a hurry to get to Proxima B, why not take some time to see if the shield will stay on? It's not a battle test, but it's better than nothing.

Another inconsistency is the speed. The NEPS are supposed to reach near light speed. And the Maddox retrofit is supposed to be FTL, and yet it was mentioned two or three times that they're traveling at light. So if the NEPS are working, Prox B is what, only 4 years away? At FTL, weeks or months away? Yet, it's stated they're traveling at light. Ross 128b is 11 light years from Earth, so at light speed, how long is that, from current location, 5 years or more? I think it was said the reroute adds two years. How was that figure arrived at? They were already years away from Prox B, so going to a red dwarf 11 light years away at light speed, as it was said, should be many years. No wonder the crew was upset and Eva knew the ship wouldn't survive.

Kelley is drinking the water too because an engineering apprentice can't fix a loose component in her Ark 3 wrist pad. Doesn't affect her strength, though. Skinny girl can snap a man's neck in a sec. Yup. Women can always out think and out fight men.

Maybe lay off the water and drink moonshine.