The plane flight was sabotaged - the captain (Harold Macintosh) had been killed and replaced in "an operation designed to bring the plane down and make it look like an accident.We are all doing penance.Sentenced to an outcast ship manned by outcasts, and named after the greatest outcast of them all.Ensign Keith vs.Captain DeVriess:Captain DeVriess brought up the awkward topic of his receipt of a special request from Admiral Ward to have Ensign Keith ransferred to his ship - a clear example of his mother "pulling strings" to get him onto a more modern warship.Both ragic outlaw figures exemplify ""innocents on the run"" who cling o each other and try to function as a family.Inside were pieces of broken-down furniture and rotting wood.As he opened a door to an inner room (not shown) and exclaimed: "Oh, my God!", an unseen figure bludgeoned him in the back of the head with a hammer claw(# 3 death).