Episode 3: Wormhole to Hell
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SYNOPSIS
During another long stretch of boredom, the Lightspeed is suddenly plunged into a seemingly endless wormhole. During the months they traverse it, a forbidden romance develops between Dicker and his First Officer.
COMMENTARY
I wasn't quite sure where I was going with this one at first. I toyed with the idea that the wormhole was the gastrointestinal tract of some god-sized space-dweller. Then it became the gut of an actual god. But I didn't care for the idea of going down such a road, so it was reduced to a more or less conventional wormhole that happened to look like a giant intestine, complete with anus.
Mostly I wanted to explore Dicker's temptation to become involved with a crewmember, which I'd established as a possibility in the prior episode. I decided to make him much more of a gentleman, and one with more refined taste, placing brains over body as a preference. That I had added the murder of his wife to the prior episode eliminated the stigma of him being a cheater, which was even better. So I was already making good use of that last-minute edit.
I'm not exactly thrilled with this one, although it does have a few good lines in the conference room scene, particularly Toobee's "But there are only two walls." And the 2001 references were fun.