The second episode of The Ark features tensions with the crew, the aftermath of last episode, and a murder mystery! The colony ship, Ark-1, is on its way when an unknown disaster strikes the cyro section losing the commanders. The ship continues in space with three crew members moving in EVA (extravehicular activity, astronauts operating outside of a ship or station), Lt. Sharon Garnet, the de facto leader monitors them, Lt. Spencer Lane is examining what happened to the ship. Garnet detects damage on the Wheel’s trusses, it is starting to break off pieces. Debris strikes Lance, he starts to drift into space, until caught by Lt. James Brice! The other crew member has died, pierced by a piece of The Wheel. Garnet calls for the doctor to the airlock. Lane is unconscious. Later, he is sitting on a medical bed while the Dr. Sanjivni Kabir tends to him. Alicia Nevins appears for a post-physical. One crew member complains about the heat she wonders why Nevins is not at her post. She brings up a rumor that she killed her Dr. Kabir turns at Nevin’s babbling and tells to shut up. Lane wonders why she hasn’t rested.
Lane walks out and meets with Brice who was at the dead crew member’s wedding. Nevins runs into Baylor Trent who was moved into waste management who is happy since he worked at cryogenics. Nevins admits that she says TMI. Nevins tells Trent that she was from Cincinnati and New Africa. Her background is fascinating, the only other sci fi character to come from Africa is Nyota Uhura from Star Trek. It looks like Nevins has fallen for him! At the funeral of the dead crew members, head of engineering, Eva Markovic, sees Harris Beckner’s body, and has memories of him. Cat Brandice sees Eva spit on Jasper Dade’s corpse. He was responsible for their deaths. At the conference room, Angus Medford says the bodies should be used in the NOD which Nevins identifies as the Natural Organic Drum. Strickland and Lane don’t want to eat people. Eva is with her crew working get the engine ready for lightspeed. Brice catches up with Lane who is suspicious about Garnet. A flashback, “Three Days before Launch”, we see the introduction of Commander Susan Ingram (Lisa Brenner) before the crew. She mentions that they will be conscious for a week before cyro.
She introduces the Ark program founder, William Trust (Paul Leonard Murray), who appears in hologram. He reminds me of the brilliant S.R. Hadden in Contact (1997). Trust says there are plans for twenty Arks. Ingram has them ready for departure. Cat is being interviewed as part of her program, Cat Calls! Lester introduces Garnet. Ingram talks with Lane who says she was assigned by “some higher up.” Brice sits in Lane’s bed who explains that Garnet took the captain’s quarters. Garnet is checking on Secured Storage, head of security, Strickland sees her, she says she was checking the codes. He keeps Garnet as a suspect and asks about the 1-C clearance. Garnet mentions it is Markovich, Lane, Brice, and herself. Angus checks the farm, a pipe shudders, and then sprays water. He tries to cover the leak with a box. Angus explains to Garnet that 100 gallons of water were lost. Garnet tries to reassure him. Angus hasn’t seen Eva and Garnet goes to look for her. At her quarters, she finds her alone, crying, then sees Cat who might help. Garnet thinks she had a relationship with Harris. Cat mentions the secret relationship. It seems everyone on the ship knew about their secret romance.
THE ARK -- “Like It Touched the Sun” -- CHRISTINA WOLFE, TIANA UPCHEVA, CHRISTIE BURKE -- Photo: Aleksander Letic/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./SYFY
Eva says that she met Harris in Belgrade. Cat wants her to reflect on her memories and tries to keep Garnet from bringing up business. Lane watches the replay of the event’s of the accident. Brice notes an EMP that interfered with the recording Strickland asks Lane about his whereabouts, but he refuses to answer. Nevins washes out the damp mud into a bucket. Angus finds a knife, a hunting knife recognized by Nevins, he realizes it came from a pipe. A clue to the murder mystery. Eva is back at duty giving assignments. One of her crew, Sasha (Milos Cvetkovic), brings up Harris and tells her that she has to grieve. Eva says she is the most qualified to get the ship up and running. The lieutenants bring in Garnet. Brice says he wants to go EVA. Garnet says it is too dangerous since he is navigator and has him give his word not to EVA. Brice walks with Lane and says he is going through the EVA. Angus meets with Strickland at the mess hall who says the knife was not found. A crew member takes hold Angus’ water ration angry with the lost water. Strickland gets into a fight with him and several others. Garnet joins the fight. She is knocked back, but helped up by Angus. Strickland brings out his security prod and the fight is ended.
The brawlers are cuffed at mess hall tables. Garnet says there is no brig, only the storage closet, so she mentions that the six troublemakers. She says to Lane that they have to fix the cause. Garnet meets with Cat, who has a sleep mask at her bunk. She notes that there is fighting with the crew and assigns her to be similar to Deanna Troi! Cat says she is a tv relationship specialist, but agrees to the position and has some demands. Brice is going EVA with Lane checking on him on a computer pad. He finds the steel has melted and some crystals embedded into the metal. Brice crushes it and some greenish liquid begins to dissolve his glove. An Alien-like acid! Lane has him pressurized in the airlock to get his hand out of the cold of space! Dr. Kabir checks Brice’s mangled hand, he has lost three layers of skin, and the substance is unknown. Garnet is angry that there is no collaboration with the officers. She has gone 52 hours without sleep. She makes a ship wide announcement about the hard work of the crew with five hour rest periods. The complications of this colony mission reminds me of the 2016 National Geographic Mars series that had a hypothetical mission with unforeseen problems which cuts to real science, recommended! The Ark features a tense crew held together by Garnet with ship accidents and mysteries!
Four Compression Suits out of Five!
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