"The crash wasn't an accident," Orrin says. "It wanted us here. It's hungry."
The Starfall hits the water with a deafening crunch. Then silence. Then darkness.
Kaelen, the young, hot-headed navigator, points at a hologlobe. "There's a planet below. 98% water. No registered colonies. No rescue beacons."
After crash-landing on a seemingly barren ocean planet, the crew discovers that the water is not only sentient but also hungers for the memories of the living. Cold Open – The Crash
The episode opens mid-catastrophe. Alarms blare inside the Starfall , a clunky, beloved junker of a ship. Captain Rael (gruff, pragmatic, one cybernetic eye) wrestles with the controls as the ship plummets through a crimson sky.
Orrin shakes his head slowly. "Or something else will hear it first."