#monkey heaven

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”

-- Yuval Noah Harari

Well, we know the Captain is super strong. 10/10 high fiver, but might break your hand if they’re not being careful strong. Like strong enough to not get sucked out into the vacuum of space when a poorly planned window breaks, and to hold on to their head engineer at the same time.

But, you might say, we clearly see the Captain grab on to the control panel before grabbing Mark’s hand there. In “Hold On,” the Captain is holding Mark with one hand and handling the crystal with the other, so what was stopping them from being lifted up into the wormhole the same as Mark?

To which I say: third hand.

Look, if we got a third hand in Heist, there’s nothing to say we didn’t have one in Space. Some might consider “you do not have a third hand” something that doesn’t need to be explicitly said and can’t just be assumed in a separate project, but…shush.

One hand for Mark, one hand for crystal, and one hand for holding onto those safety railings around the warp core because they’re clearly not there for any other reason. Easy.

We’re even handling a crystal in both scenes, so bonus theory time: the crystal from In Space originated from the same place as Illinois’s “just a rock”: