History Headscratchers / LostInSpace2018

** That assumes the colonists can survive on the Amber Planet indefinitely, which may not be true since people travel to/from the ''Resolute'' very frequently and all of the infrastructure on the planet seemed dedicated to supplying the ''Resolute'' and not creating a self-sustaining colong. There's also the very real possibility that the planet will become uninhabitable or impossible to leave after a certain point.

** The captain, like many authority figures, is clearly overly committed to need-to-know security. In real life, excessively narrow definitions of “needed information” have been known to cost lives and doom missions.

** If the world's governments announce tomorrow that FTL was discovered, honestly 99.9% of the population would just shrug their shoulders and accept it not really wondering how. Some among the science community might be suspicious however scientists also tend to be skeptics and applying Ockham's Razor most science people would think that it was easiest to attain of what was originally thought than ALIENS. So, at the among the people with enough education and knowledge to know something is iffy and enough open mindness to believe it had to be something as outstanding like that a meteore was really an alien spacecraft you get a very narrow gap of basically a few dozen people worldwide.

** If the world's governments announce tomorrow that FTL was discovered, honestly 99.9% of the population would just shrug their shoulders and accept it not really wondering how. Some among the science community might be suspicious however scientists also tend to be skeptics and applying Ockham's Razor most science would think that it was easiest to attain of what was originally thought than ALIENS. So, at the among the people with enough education and knowledge to know something is iffy and enough open mindness to believe it had to be something as outstanding like that a meteore was really an alien spacecraft you get a very narrow gap of basically a few dozen people worldwide.

** It is revealed in Season 3, when the Robinsons make it to Alpha Centauri, that the shuttles are massed produced and are not reused by multiple families during the past trips. One of the Chariots seen when the Jupiter 2 lands is one marked M23, indicating that it may have been on a vessel named Mars 23 (as the 24th Colonies' vessels are named after Jupiter, it'd make sense the M is Mars).

* The entire situation involving the colonists on the Amber Planet makes no sense. The planet is in what's presumably the Robot's home system, meaning he would easily be able to navigate back. Instead of being secretive and duplicitous about it, all the captain had to do was explain that they could and ''would'' retrieve the "stranded" colonists after the ''Resolute'' was repaired, then hop to Alpha Centauri, get the OGS back up and running at full capacity, return to the Amber Planet, and retrieve the remaining colonists (and help Scarecrow, assuming he wasn't returned to the planet beforehand.)

* The people in charge of the ''Resolute'' seem to have the IdiotBall glued to their hands. Okay, so, your ship is reliant on a stolen alien engine ''and'' a heavily-damaged alien robot in order to make its lightning-fast trips to Alpha Centauri - without one or the other, it's not going anywhere. ''Billions of human lives'' hang on this setup. So who do you entrust this ''literally priceless and irreplaceable'' "equipment" to? Someone interested in ensuring that the robot is maintained to the best of our ability and has a reason to trust and help us, or... someone who ''gleefully tortures the robot to the brink of death'', putting the lives of everyone on board ''and'' on Earth at risk?

* Why didnt Will Robinson order the robot: “You need to listen to the rest of the family. If they tell you not to attack something, you stop!” ...?

** Or, since it didn't have a pilot, it got sucked into that black hole that was causing the planet to drift close to the star during the orbit.

* Why are the ''Jupiters'' designed with such redundancy and durability? The craft were supposed to be used for hoising the families on the way to the colony, then for use on a fairly safe planet as a home. Why are they designed with all the fail safes, emergency supplies, and backups of a fallout shelter? It makes sense for the first few trips to be prepared for every contingency, but the Robinsons are on the 24th expedition. All of the trips had been safe and uneventful up until the robot attack, so there was no reason for maximum redundancy at this point.

** To address both above questions: The Jupiters were more than likely meant to be temporary habitats and meant to be reusable spacecraft, as the colonists were going to be buildings homes and also using buildings on Alpha Centuri that previous colonists built. There's nothing saying that the Jupiters weren't designed to be multi-used as the Resolute was designed to be multiuse as well. Spacecraft in our actual history were designed to be multi-used or had sections that were designed to be multi-used, such as booster rockets. The Space Shuttles were a clear example of multi-use spacecraft. Discovery had 39 missions before it was retired. Atlantis had 33 missions that it was used before it was retired. Endeavour had 25 missions before it was retired. And seeing the Resolute itself was being used multiple times for the trips back and forth between Earth and Alpha Centuri, it's likely that the Jupiters were also being reused as well. Makes more sense than constantly remanufacturing Jupiters to replace previous ones left behind with the Colony and have the same numbers (meaning that if they already manufactured a Jupiter 2, it would have been with the first mission, not the 24th). So, the Robinson's Jupiter 2 may have been used by 23 different families before them. That also means by having those redundancies and durability, it makes their use still possible for the lifespan of the mission.

** I'm pretty sure the metal parasite was from the new well they were digging. It only became a problem when they tapped into that watercourse, which is coincidentally when the Robinsons showed up.

** To address both above questions: The Jupiters were more than likely meant to be temporary habitats, as the colonists were going to be buildings homes and also using buildings on Alpha Centuri that previous colonists built. There's nothing saying that the Jupiters weren't designed to be multi-used as the Resolute was designed to be multiuse as well. Spacecraft in our actual history were designed to be multi-used or had sections that were designed to be multi-used, such as booster rockets. The Space Shuttles were a clear example of multi-use spacecraft. Discovery had 39 missions before it was retired. Atlantis had 33 missions that it was used before it was retired. Endeavour had 25 missions before it was retired. And seeing the Resolute itself was being used multiple times for the trips back and forth between Earth and Alpha Centuri, it's likely that the Jupiters were also being reused as well. Makes more sense than constantly remanufacturing Jupiters to replace previous ones left behind with the Colony and have the same numbers (meaning that if they already manufactured a Jupiter 2, it would have been with the first mission, not the 24th). So, the Robinson's Jupiter 2 may have been used by 23 different families before them.