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- "The Empty Man Cometh" is an exercise in Nothing Is Scarier. The crew gets a cryptic message from command telling them that "The Empty Man has awoken". The crew spends the rest of the episode desperately trying to figure out what it means and how to prepare as the tension gradually heightens, and they all become increasingly paranoid… The ending reveals that it was all a psychological experiment, which is Nightmare Fuel in a different way, since it proves that Goddard has absolutely no qualms about tormenting their own employees for the flimsiest of reasons, something that becomes all the more apparent over the course of the series.
- "Extreme Danger Bug". The crew stumbles upon an abandoned, sealed-off room that Hera is unable to access through the schematics. It turns out that the room is filled with genetically engineered, large, and highly venomous spiders, and then one of them crawls on Eiffel…
- Hilbert's segment in "Am I Alone Now?" reveals that his helpful and cheerful persona is all just an act, and it's absolutely spine-chilling to see how cold and aloof the doctor truly is. It leads into the first season finale, where he betrays the crew and nearly kills Minkowski by trapping her in the airlock and suffocating her. Eiffel is only barely able to stop him, and even then Hilbert essentially lobotomizes Hera before he can.
- The Dear Listeners are an advanced, highly powerful alien race who are downright incomprehensible to humans, and they have no concept of death. Their attempt at making First Contact with the crew nearly pulls the Hephaestus into the titular star, and they don't even understand how this would be at all harmful.
- The description of the effects of Eiffel's overuse of the cryopod in "Mayday". He loses a significant amount of weight and his hair and nails fall out. Eiffel being Eiffel, he doesn't dwell on this and even jokes about it, but it's still rather disturbing.
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