Mindful
of spoilers as always, I won’t get too much into the major development introduced
in yesterday’s episode. I will say that
the event itself seems benign; it’s the implications
of it that are truly worrisome. That
seems fitting for this series. After
all, the captain has never shied away from the awesome or mundane aspects of space exploration.
Regardless,
today’s adventure deals with this new development, and it’s troubling enough
for the captain to revisit the idea of declaring himself king. Naturally, this doesn’t bode terribly well
for his sanity. Pity – depending on how
things shake out in the final episode (coming tomorrow!), he may not be in a
position to spare any of his mental faculties.
But no,
he’s definitely at least considering re-boarding the crazy train. Already, he’s getting paranoid again, though
it’s not about his crew this time. More
disconcertingly, it’s about a chimpanzee from the training facility back on
Earth, the son of a chimp he inadvertently ran over. While mission control investigates the
problem at hand, the captain’s thoughts are off and racing about his history with
the orphaned chimp and fretting over the possibility of reprisals.
Needless
to say, this whole sequence is delightfully silly, and PC – bless him – commits
entirely to it. The captain’s hushed, slowly-mounting
panic is terrific, and I love that he presents his blatantly-insane fears as a
carefully-reasoned argument.
So,
yeah – pretty much par for the course where our fearless leader is
concerned. Gotta feel sorry for the crew
that has to take orders from him.
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