Season two of The Ark starts off with the crew in danger while Lt. Garnet and her command desperate to save them! It is a sci fi show created by Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner with the first season debuting on SyFy. It followed the colony ship, Ark-1, leaving the doomed Earth for the distant world, Proxima b. A disaster loses the command crew and the survivors are led by Lt. Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke), Lt. James Brice (Richard Fleeshman), navigator, and Lt. Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie), who questions Garnet’s command. The untested crew stands up including Alicia Nevins (Stacey Read), her computer skills have saved the day along with Angus Medford (Ryan Adams) who has saved the ship with his hydroponic farm.
There is also Eva Markovic (Tiana Upcheva), ship’s engineer who maintains the ship’s engines. Dr. Sanjivini Kabir (Shalini Peiris) struggles to care for the crew on her own. Cat Brandice (Christina Wolfe) is assigned to act as the ship’s counselor. Felix Strickland (Pavele Jerinić) is the head of security). Now Garnet is the ship's captain. They have to deal with a damaged ship, low supplies, and other dangers of space travel. A hidden part of the ship had in cyro sleep, William Trust (Paul Murray) , the founder of the Ark progam. He leads a mutiny, dividing the crew, but this is quelled. Faster than Light travel is discovered using a “space distortion” bubble. The ship encounters the Ark-3 and find a woman named Kelly (Samantha Glassner).
She is found to be part of the Ark-15 crew led by the ruthless Evelyn Maddox (Jelena Stupljanin) and Kelly’s mother! The rival ship reaches Proxima-B, but the planet has stopped its rotation, uninhabitable! William Trust has worked out how to use magnetic devices that starts Proxima-B’s rotation. This also draws in Ark-15, but Garnet risks the ship taken into the magnetic field to save them! Then, it is found that the planet’s dark side has liquid methane that has made it into a planetary bomb! Lt. Brice uses a double chemical burn to outrace the planet’s destruction, but the ship is crippled. Maddox offers to take in the Garnet and the commanders while Ark-1 is repaired. The other habitable planet is Ross 128B that is years away.
“Failed Experiment” is directed by Marc Roskin and written by Devlin, Glassner, and India Sage Wilson. The Ark-15, a shuttle leaves from it to head towards Ark-1. The ship is in danger, Brice sees the access off the bridge is blocked. They are warned about a hull beach. Astronauts head over to them. Garnet joins the group up telling about growing up in a lab and having a family, group hug! The hull beach begins and Garnet orders helmets on, air pressure escapes, and the crew starts to leave. Brice leaves and lastly, Garnet looks back, Kimi Joma (Diana Bermudez) greets them. Brice wants the crew saved and is held back. Garnet contacts Maddox about recovering the crew, but she wants a talk first. The shuttle leaves for Ark-15. Maddox meets the command crew, she wants to set out on FTL, Brice is shocked that the Ark-1 crew will be left to die. Oxygen supply is down to a number that Nevins says it is can only support 395 people.
Garnet asks for oxygen taken from Ark-1. Nevins notes the oxygen scrubbers won’t support a large crew. Maddox gives them 24 hours, time that will be spent fixing the FTL, and she sends Lane and Brice to Ark-1. Garnet has Nevins come up with a solution. Alicia Nevins is always reliable and the best geeky character! Maddox gives Garnet a tour. At the bridge, Maddox sits on a couch and says that Trappist-1D is their destination, an estimated time of eight months, discovered after Ark-1 left Earth. Arks 10 and 12 traveled there. Garnet tries to use the ship's transmitter to contact Ark-1. She asks for the WD Frequency. Silence. Maddox says they might be dead. In the damaged ship, Felix pulls himself from the wreckage. He checks on a crew member, Naomi Spencer (Jessica Yemi), whom he sends to find others. Felix hears a moan, it is Cat whose neck is bleeding with shrapnel. He carries her though the damaged corridors and sits her on a medical bed. Dr. Kabir is trapped under a bed and Felix goes to revive her.
He starts CPR, William walks in, and Cat says she isn’t any better. He promises to help both of them. She says she loved him and says he’s handsome, but not a good man. She closes her eyes one last time! Felix pauses his CPR, but Kabir is still unconscious. Finally, Kabir gasps! He doesn’t want her to move, she looks over, and sees that Cat has died. A farewell for Christina Wolfe on the show! Kelly is unconscious, her eyes are checked by Dr. Marsh (Jadran Malkovich), Maddox enters and says to ready for Ark-1's injured. She is unconcerned about her daughter. The doctor says he can "activate" her. Maddox only wants persons who have more than a 50% chance, he says they took that chance with her, and calls Kelly a “failed experiment.” Marsh holds a device to Kelly and her eyes open, she is activated?, Kelly knows what her mother had said. Brice sees a fire at engineering. Lane goes to hydroponics and calls for Angus. He is unconsicious with a chest wound. In his suit, Brice opens the door to engineering, leaps over the fire, and finds Eva.
Felix is checking on Kabir and lifts up her shirt to see the wound. Brice has put a helmet on Eva and she shuts down the engines stopping the fire! She starts up the power again and they hug. Eva gets busy helping get the ship back up. Lane brings in Angus and sees Cat has died. Trust is sitting. He tells Felix to take Kabir to Ark-15. Felix says it will be painful, but picks her up. Trust just sits there stunned. Angus and Kabir are taken away. Garnet asks Lane and Felix for an update. Lane says Cat died. Maddox sees them and Lane says that Angus had saved her life. Marsh has Nevins stay outside of the med room. Nevins hugs Garnet, then she is asked about the oxygen system. Garnet watches the wounds, glass spikes of shrapnel, in Angus’ chest! Eva coughs and then gets an Engineeing B update. She says that Sasha Novak (Milos Vojnovic), fellow engineer, may be alive.
Angus’ wounds are stitched up, Kelly looks at the man she betrayed, she walks over, and then apologizes to him. Marsh walks over to see Maddox asking her about the blood vaults. She says blood for Angus would be a waste. She asks about the Ark-1 doctor and says she has value since she saved her. Nevins is called for a crew meeting along with Garnet. They walk together and they hold hands, best friends! At a mess hall, the doctor says a group wants to go to Ark-1 because they want to be accomplices to Maddox’s actions. Joma is with them as well as five engineers who could repair teh ship! She has most of the crew in the lower deck could be alive. Garnet wonders how they can escape to Ark-1. I just love that the damage to the ship is not off sceen repaired like Star Trek, there is a cost to lives. Angus’ readings start to go critical. Kelly tries to revive Kabir and she tells her to get adrenalin. She scambles to find an adrenalin gun in the medical cabinet and Kabir uses it to inject herself.
She struggles to get up and says it is the loss of blood. Kelly says she is O negative and Kabir scrambles for the transfusion. Felix finds another body and sees a sparking cable above a watery floor! It swings by the bunk of Jelena (Tamara Radovanovic). She is Felix's partner. Felix climbs over to the bunk. He cuts the cable with his katana. He frees Jelena and they leave. Garnet has Nevin seal the doors of Ark-15! Angus wearily revives and he rages at seeing Kelly. Kabir thinks that her blood might be “weird.” Kelly's blood or body has regenerative cells like Wolverine? Garnet had Tradigrade DNA that helps protect her from solar radiation, a perfection of DNA enhancement? He falls unconscious. Kabir falls back almost going unconscious. Doctor!, you are needed by your patients! Nevins walks in and pushes Kelly. They are getting ready to move Angus and Kabir. She injects herself with the gun. Maddox sends a security team to med bay. They rush over with rifles, but it is empty! Maddox sees the shuttle about to launch. Nevins doesn’t want Kelly to join them since she is a murderer, she killed Trust's wife. Garnet convinces her that Dr. Marsh will only go if Kelly is taken. A mystery with Kelly like what we had with Garnet. The season two premiere of The Ark had my heart racing as Garnet and the others go though the cost of the scuttling of the ship!
Five Compression Suits out of Five!
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