The name of the ship has some interesting hidden meanings; "Rasa" is actually Latin for "Blank" or "Empty" and is most often seen as part of the saying "Tabula Rasa" which means Blank Slate... Much like the characters are when they first come out of stasis.
Confirmed by showrunner Joseph Mallozzi on Twitter. (Out-of-universe) the name of the Raza does come from "tabula rasa".
One and Three immediately dislike each other at the beginning of the season, with One thinking that Three was behind the mindwipe. It makes sense that he would be predisposed to think the worst of him when it is revealed that Three is the prime suspect in the murder of One's wife.
Six spends most of the time in later episodes worrying about Five's safety. It makes more sense when it turns out he was the mole and he betrays the team. He was trying to protect her from the fallout.
Six's paternal attitude towards Five in general makes sense given that he has a young son.
Androids are typically given normal names to help them fit in with people better. The crew doesn't give theirs a name for the exact same reason—none of them have names, so neither does she.
When Two reveals that they're eating worm meat in the space station restaurant (it's easier to source than beef), One and Four are disgusted while Three keeps eating. Although they don't remember at the time, One and Four come from privileged backgrounds and are probably used to finer food. Three, on the other hand, has a hard-knock background and takes whatever food he can get when he can get it.
Although Six has been consistently portrayed as having high moral standards and concern for his crewmates, he has been hoarding the tastier green ration bars for himself, foreshadowing his betrayal of the crew in Episode 13.
At first it makes no sense that Delaney Truffault would help the crew of the Raza escape Hyperion-8, since as she herself stated it is in Mikkei's best interest to have the crew confess and shift the blame of the destruction of Iriden-3 to Traugott Corp. Until one remembers that Truffault was the one who hired to crew to steal the device from Traugott Corp in the first place. The crew's confession would get Mikkei off the hook, but in all likelihood Truffault herself would take the fall for stealing the tech from Traugott Corp. She helped the crew to save her own ass.
The fact that Five, a stowaway that for some reason wasn't spaced by a bunch of hardened criminals, has enough access to the ship's systems to tamper with the crew's stasis pods resulting in the accidental memory wipe makes more sense when it is revealed in "Sometimes In Life You Don't Get To Choose" that Five actually helped Portia Lin make the personality modifications to the Android and had Ryo calling her by her nickname "Das". All of this indicates that a far longer time elapsed between Das being discovered on the ship and the memory wipe. And that Das was actually a member of the crew during that time period, making her tampering with the pods more viable.
Although it was never explicitly stated onscreen, showrunner Joseph Mallozzi said in an interview that although Five wrote the program, Six who was the one who took the physical risk onto himself by actually uploading it into the stasis core. Which is why her dream memory of uploading the virus doesn't feel like one of her own; it's not.
Although obviously they aren't referred to by numbers like the original Raza crew, the new characters who (temporarily or permanently) join the crew in Season 2 have names that rhyme with numbers: Nero, Nyx, and Devon.
Nyx is the name of the primordial goddess of the night in Greek mythology, but it also sounds like "nix", which means "zero".
In Season 1, it seemed strange that Six shot his crewmates in the flashback to when he found out that they'd been tricked into committing mass murder, considering they seemed just as surprised as he. In Season 2, we find out that he was a police officer sent to infiltrate the terrorist group, not a real believer. So it makes sense that he blames ALL the terrorists for the attack, whether they knew about it in advance or not.
Also, he tried to kill himself, too (even though he had a wife and kid). He lost it.
For three seasons, Two is consistently shown to be in command of the Raza, right from the moment when she goes to the bridge in "Episode 1" and tries to regain control of the ship. Season 3 episode "Built, Not Born" has this particular brick drop: she's always been this way, ever since she commandeered the Raza by killing its previous owner, Shrike.
When Five did the mindwipe to save Six, she may have also saved Three as well: One was under the impression that Three had murdered his wife, and infiltrated the Raza crew to kill him. So, in her attempts to prevent one murder, she ended up preventing two. Ironic since Three initially threatened to space her (jokingly or otherwise) and then wanted to sell her off, and One voted in favor of keeping her.
She may also have saved One's life, depending on how well he would have been able to keep up the act once they actually reached the mining planet they were supposed to wipe out.
And One may have saved Five from being sold off to god-knows-where by replacing Jace Corso, who was certainly nasty enough to have voted to keep her off the ship, unless of course he saw the practicality of Six's "she's good with tech" argument and figured they could always space her later if she was too much trouble, and/or wanted to piss off Portia (whom he didn't seem to get along with in the universe where he did join the crew). Without One's vote in favor, Six and Four would have been outvoted, assuming Four would have even bothered voting against the majority in that circumstance.
As noted on showrunner Joseph Mallozzi's blog, the crew's wanted files shown at the end of "Episode One" have mugshots of Jace Corso/One, Marcus Boone/Three and Griffin Jones/Six but only security camera footage for Portia Lin/Two and Ryo Tetsudo/Four. This is because neither Portia nor Ryo could afford to ever be arrested; Portia because she's an illegal Artificial Human who would be taken apart if the Galactic Authority discovered that fact, and Ryo because he's the crown prince of Zairon framed for his father's murder and would be sent home to face execution if he were captured.
Two chooses to shoot the real Jace Corso in the head in "We Voted Not to Space You" rather than heed his plea to keep him alive so that he can give information on the people who hired him to assassinate One. Most TV shows would have hero characters call keeping the villain alive for information the more pragmatic, reasoned thing to do and hold it up in contrast to short-sighted revenge. Especially since Three outright said, "We find him and ask him" earlier on the ship. However, Two has good reason to think it would be risky to keep Corso around to find some way to turn the tables and hurt the crew. Especially since she or one of the others (Five in particular, come to think of it) might let their guard down due to his resemblance to One; the viewer can see her seeing One in those scenes. It's fortunate, in fact, that Corso doesn't know the details of their relationship and thus can't consciously try to exploit it.
Come to think of it, his resemblance to One was probably the only reason Two kept him alive as long as she did. Nothing was stopping her from shooting him and then digging herself out.
Alt Wexler states in the Season Three episode "One Last Card to Play" that his primary universe counterpart went missing (after being spaced by Two in the Season One episode "Episode Eleven") a month ago. Joseph Mallozzi confirmed that this is accurate, and actually not much time passes offscreen between episodes of the show (in sharp contrast to shows where each season represents a year). So it makes sense how much Two is feeling The Chains of Commanding in Season Three. Losing One, losing Nyx, the Alternate Universe, Hyperion-8, Eos-7, Four's betrayal, her glitches, Dwarf Star, the Seers, the Corporate War, the rebellion hijinks, the white hole bomb, the Android being messed with by outside forces (twice), all happened within the space of one month. A real Trauma Conga Line.
Interestingly, this means that the one-year anniversary of the crew's "birthday" has yet to come to pass. That's Fanfic Fuel right there.
The copy of Charlotte's Web that One gave to Three probably belonged to the latter in the first place. Anthony Lemke said that reading it stirred something familiar in him, and it would be an appropriate book for someone who grew up on a farm.
Darius van Hoeven, the acting CoreLactic CEO, has a Dutch name and Derrick Moss's file from the end of "Episode Eight" said Derrick was born in Cape Town, South Africa, so van Hoeven could likely be from there as well (the Caucasian population of South Africa are of largely Dutch descent), making him an old friend of the family. The file also said Derrick's father died from a life support failure on his cruiser, probably arranged by van Hoeven like the hit that was meant to take out Derrick but instead took out his wife Catherine was.
After One learns that he is Derrick Moss (and decides not to complete his original agenda of killing Three), it would seem that he could simply leave the ship, have the authorities confirm his identity by running his DNA, and return to his company. However, there are two possible reasons why he doesn't: (a) despite complaining about being in a metal box on the run in "Episode Nine", the truth is that the Raza and its crew are familiar to him, and if he returns home he doesn't know what he's walking into or whom he can trust, or (b) he knows the authorities would interrogate him about the rest of the crew and their whereabouts (which wasn't an issue in "Welcome to Your New Home" because they'd already been caught). Even if he only turned himself in after the others were a safe distance away, the G.A. would want to squeeze him for whatever he knew and could charge him with obstructing justice.
Presumably, Derrick Moss's original plan to return home after killing Marcus Boone would have involved doing exactly this (sneak off the ship and have his identity confirmed at a GA outpost), because he wouldn't care about giving information on Portia Lin, Ryo Tetsudo and "Griffin Jones" to the authorities. Whereas One wouldn't want to endanger Two, Three, Four and Six.
One of the things tipping the crew off to the switch between Three and Alt Marcus Boone in "One Last Card to Play" would have been the fact Boone said he was attacked by "the other Portia". Three knows that Two doesn't like to go by that name, so he would have just said, "It was Portia."
One being all hypochondriac about Transfer Transit in "Episode Eight" is Hilarious in Hindsight when you consider that, according to Word of God, it was his company, CoreLactic, that developed the technology.
In "Episode Eight", Two kicks One's ass when he tries to give her a surprise hug from behind while she's at a console on the bridge now that they've had a Relationship Upgrade, and asks him, "Do I look like someone who enjoys surprise hugs?", to which he replies, "In retrospect, no. Not at all." Yet in a flashback in "Built, Not Born" we see Rebecca giving Irena Shaw a surprise hug from behind while Shaw's working on a screen. Either she prefers to be giving rather than receiving, or she got a lot tenser after she and Dr Shaw were separated by the latter's illness and Rebecca reinvented herself as Portia Lin.
It also becomes a bit Harsher in Hindsight when we learn at the end of "Episode Eight" that One was married and his wife was murdered. Presumably, Catherine Moss liked surprise hugs.
More an observation than anything else, but Derrick Moss can't have been 100% clean before joining the Raza crew. At the very least, he must have established some kind of underworld contacts after his wife's death, even if he didn't have them before, in order to know that Jace Corso was due to meet up with the Raza, and where his safehouse was (since Moss was obviously the source of the "anonymous tip" to the G.A. that forced him to miss the rendezvous).
In a podcast Q&A, Joe Mallozzi confirmed that Sarah passed away in the Alternate Universe. So it probably happened earlier than her accidental death in the primary universe, and possibly she was never brought onto the Raza in stasis at all. In any case, her being dead by the time of "Stuff to Steal, People to Kill" explains Alt Marcus sleeping with Alt Portia (and Alt Tash) although pre-mindwipe Marcus and Portia of the primary universe weren't indicated to have an intimate relationship when their old memories resurfaced in "I've Seen the Other Side of You"; Marcus wouldn't cheat on Sarah while she was alive in stasis onboard the ship.
Alt Portia isn't having nanite glitches like Two during "Stuff to Steal, People to Kill" because she already obtained the more advanced nanites when she burned down Dwarf Star Technologies and killed Rook, as shown in an AU news item. Confirmed by Word of God.
Ryo tells Five in "My Final Gift to You" that one of the reasons he voted to keep her on the ship was because he hoped she would be a calming influence on the others, "Portia in particular". This is because he knew Portia had a daughter. (And as for being a good influence, it worked out more dramatically than he'd hoped).
Each of the six human crewmembers turns out to have two names in one way or another. One: Jace Corso and Derrick Moss, Two: Portia Lin and Rebecca, Three: Marcus Boone and Titch, Four: Ryo Tetsudo and Ishida Ryo, Five: Das and Emily Kolburn, Six: Griffin Jones and Kal Varrick. This is no accident but part of the overarching theme of the series about identity, and shows that when the crew apparently learn who they are at the end of the first episode, it's only the beginning of the story/scratching the surface.
Two reasons in "We Voted Not to Space You" that whoever wanted One assassinated, probably Darius van Hoeven, hired Jace Corso to do the deed so that if he were caught it would look like he was acting on his own pre-existing vendetta against One for impersonating him. Since One was actually Faking the Dead and hired Corso himself according to Word of God, the real reasoning is different but similar: van Hoeven would know that he himself didn't hire One's killer, so One used someone who had a pre-existing vendetta in order that van Hoeven wouldn't be suspicious about him conveniently getting assassinated and out of the way.
The alien invaders come from a universe running low on energy. If their physics works like hours, most stars will have become white dwarfs then black dwarfs; maybe, just maybe, some brown dwarfs (dim, active stars) survive. So the company they're using in our universe to infiltrate naturally is named (drum roll)... Dwarf Star Technologies.
Fridge Horror
The Android has been violently attacked three times and put out of commission each time. Now, remember that at the beginning of the series, she almost killed the men before being rebooted, and also note that she is now experiencing emotions. Try to imagine an android with severe trust and anger issues. (Think Wendy, only more dangerous.)
Season 3 episode "Built, Not Born" shows that Victor is exactly like this.
Two is a biosynthetic, which is illegal and can result in her being destroyed if caught by the Galactic Authority. With her being captured at the end of Season One, who knows what's in store for her.
Six tries to keep that under wraps, but who knows how long he could have succeeded. One tells him how naive it is to think it can be kept secret forever.
Wendy was snuck on the ship by an enemy of the crew that they don't even remember. Who knows what other traps are lying in wait for them by unknown rivals.
Three's backstory reveals that he was raised a criminal by Lorcan Tanner, the man who killed his parents, who treated him as a means to redemption and genuinely cared for him in a sick way. In episode 2x04 the same man has kidnapped a young boy and his crew kills the boy's father with the implication that he will do the same to this child.
Fortunately, without his memories Three doesn't suffer from the same Stockholm Syndrome towards Tanner as Marcus, and shoots him dead.
The "default" holographic Android is disturbingly versed in human psychological weaknesses, and actually advises Five to not only use Portia Lin's memories as a vector to try and interact with her, but to enter her worst memory and beat her senseless. Thankfully, Five is not as heartless, and manages to connect with Portia by showing empathy for her situation and appealing to her better nature. Still, one wonders what kind of default parameters the pre-memory-wipe Android had, given how much of a physical threat post-wipe Android has proven to the wrong people.
Considering the behavior of Four now that he has his memories back, and has basically betrayed the team, it's probably not a good idea for Two and Three to have their memories back.
We're shown in some detail what Two and Three were like before the mindwipe with their Alternate Universe versions, especially after they come over into the primary universe in Season 3. One of the first things they do is take over one of Zairon's prisoner transport ships - by first killing the crew, and then spacing all the prisoners (who hadn't even been criminals, but the family and friends of some rebels whom Emperor Ryo had subjected to collective punishment). So they committed mass murder just to avoid the hassle of making a little detour and dropping off the prisoners on one of the many space stations or mining colonies.
Presumably won't be an issue, though, since Four deleted Two and Three's old scans and only secretly saved his own.
And One, Five and Six (whose memories would be safer to return) don't have scans, because the mission where Portia, Marcus and Ryo downloaded their brain patterns into the ship was before the others joined the crew.
Two and Four knew about the Dwarf Star conspiracy right before they lost their memories, planning to hit the facility on Nova-17 after "wrapping up the Ferrous business" and "taking care of Griff". This means that while Five may have saved Six, by doing that she allowed the alien invasion to proceed and have the sleeper agents significantly advance in the corporate ranks.
We can only hope that Mireille, the girl on the mining planet who shared a kiss with One after the crew defended the colony from the Ferrous troops, never ran into the real Jace Corso, or the Alt one. That would end up with her being taken advantage of at best, hurt at worst. It seems unlikely to happen, but Corso checking out the planet he was supposed to go to in order to get more details on what actually went down isn't totally implausible, especially when he was already on the closest space station.
Six was still married to Lara when Hyadum-12 went wrong and he tried to kill himself. If he had succeeded, he'd have widowed her, and left his son half an orphan, all because of a moment of suicidal madness. That would have been a huge mistake.
Fridge Logic
The Transfer Transit service builds a clone based on the user's genetic information, without implants or any other purely mechanical changes - which is why Cl!One in "Episode Eight" has Derrick Moss's original face and Four goes into Reynaud's compound instead of Two in "She’s One Of Them Now", since Two's clone would lose its health without her nanite enhancements. But when Five uses Transfer Transit, her teal hair is unchanged after cloning. Which might be Fridge Brilliance after all, since a genetic tweak making Five's hair teal would also explain how she managed to keep the color for so long aboard the Raza. Though, if that were the case, and even if it weren't, given how extensive One's duplication of Jace Corso's appearance is, you would realistically also expect it to involve some kind of DNA grafting and not just Magic Plastic Surgery. Surgery might be more sophisticated in the future, but if you knew anything about the subject, you'd expect DNA grafting to be how it was more sophisticated.
Even harder to explain away is the fact that Three's clone still has a scar. If plastic surgery doesn't carry over, neither should hair dye or scarring, and if they do, so should plastic surgery. The only possible save would be if the transfer pods on the station in "Episode Eight" were less sophisticated and the ones the crew stole directly from Transfer Transit in "She's One of Them Now" are meant to incorporate physical modifications. Which would also allow for One to have faked his death without his clone needing to undergo the surgery again, rather than the treatment being really fast. But it seems like the producers missed an opportunity when they didn't signal "these are the clones" by having Clone Five have black hair and Clone Three be unscarred.
The communicator earbuds are used with a fair amount of Fridge Logic, often forgotten when they might otherwise help avert conflict. A notable instance of this is "Episode Four", where the group separates in a space station for supplies and to run a few errands. Rather than report to each other about their progress and whereabouts during their tasks, they maintain radio silence for no apparent reason, waiting until their return to the ship to explain to each other what occurred during their visit.
How much does Dr Shaw know about the alien invasion? We already know that the parasites can be forced out by putting the host in stasis, and she's been in stasis so she's not a part of it, but being a head researcher for Dwarf Star Technologies should give her enough knowledge.
This one only became a problem as further seasons added more flashback content, but still: apparently Five was caught very quickly when she was a stowaway on the Raza, but then was also quickly saved from getting spaced. After that, according to later seasons, there were at least several days in which she made friends with Portia while helping her to upgrade the android. And yet, in all this time, she apparently didn't find time to tell anyone about her fellow stowaway, who was slowly bleeding to death. Nor did she find it necessary to give him a proper burial, or ever so much as try to bring him first aid materials or to check back on him at all before going into stasis, given that the machine card for the Blink Drive was still with his corpse when they finally found the boy after awakening from stasis.
It's a little hard to reconcile the way Portia had been characterized for most of the first 3 seasons (i.e. near-psychopathic, hating humans, and, if Alt Portia is really the same, someone who will callously murderer dozens of innocent bystanders) with the flashback of Portia being in a lengthy, loving relationship with Dr Shaw, and with the motivation for her life of crime as just wanting some money to make a future for herself and her daughter, as presented in the last few episodes of Season 3. Especially if Alt Portia was willing to abandon her universe and its version of her daughter altogether.
For one thing, if her daughter is really living a nice life with Kryden on some planet, why not stay there with them? If the idea was to live in a more luxurious style somewhere else with the money made from Portia's mercenary work, then the attendant infamy (such that even a random time travelling scientist recognizes her face) would make that difficult.
They're apparently not exactly the same. On a Scripts & Scribes podcast on Youtube on July 24, 2021, showrunner Joseph Mallozzi said that Portia's crew did know she was an enhanced human pre-mindwipe, and that Alt Portia's crew didn't know. So the primary Portia was a slightly more trusting person even before she lost her memories. By the same token, it's hard to imagine Alt Portia letting Das get away with calling her "a super bitch" as the primary Portia did when they were working on the Android together. Also, keep in mind that, as Mallozzi said in an episode postmortem, Portia was acting extra evil in "I've Seen the Other Side of You" because the neural link to the ship was causing judgement-impairing euphoria. Otherwise, you might think she'd stop to consider that their past selves must have had a good reason for letting Five, Arax, Devon and Nyx onboard once it became clear Five was telling the truth about their missing time.
If Tabor Calchek has his fingers in as many pies as he's been made out to, and was the one who got the Raza crew the mining colony extermination job in the first place, which Jace Corso was specifically recruited to join them for, then he should have become aware that One was an imposter after Corso found out. Even if he didn't hire Corso directly, it would be someone in his line of work who did, or Ferrous itself. Corso has no real reason not to inform Calchek or one of the many people who know Calchek, or inform Ferrous (which would still get back to Calchek) so that they don't think he betrayed them on the mining colony, or even directly inform the Raza crew (either by subspace message pre-series or by just walking up to them in "Episode Four") so that they can "string up and gut" the imposter as Corso himself will later say.
Conversely, it's incongruous that Danny Bones in "We Voted Not to Space You" would conveniently know where Corso was hiding out at any given moment, especially as Corso was said to move around a lot and to suspect a hit had been taken out on him recently, and it's not as if Corso has real friends. At best, Bones should only have been able to give the crew a list of possible places to look. Which Calchek could also have given them.
Alexander Rook lured the crew to a planet with a Dwarf Star research facility in "Episode Twelve", but didn't yet know that Two was suffering from memory loss, so he should have expected her to flee as soon as she saw the very prominent Dwarf Star logos on the outside of the building. The Raza can see that sort of thing from orbit. This would have easily been solved by simply having no logos on the building. Companies in real life tend not to mark the places where they conduct untoward research.
Rich industrialists, even good-hearted ones, aren't exactly known for doing things by hand or even thinking of doing so. That's just not the way rich people think. Why did Derrick Moss not simply pay Jace Corso to kill Marcus Boone for him instead of taking his place on the Raza? The only way it would make some sense is if he wasn't 100% sure Boone was guilty and wanted to get close enough to find out by nudging him into talking about it before killing him (Boone has no real reason to lie about it to a fellow lowlife like Corso if he did kill her), but it hasn't been portrayed as if he had any such doubts. When One wanted to take a closer look at the evidence in the Season Two premiere, it was portrayed as the first time he had done this, and something Moss hadn't done because he had trusted van Hoeven.
One possible saving throw that would make Moss seem less irrational: Three's cut voiceover line from Season One (from among several scrapped voiceovers by the crew hinting at planned Season Two storylines) is "Her husband set me up." This is confirmed to be about the Catherine Moss storyline and that he's talking about Derrick Moss instead of Darius van Hoeven (the real culprit), mistakenly thinking that Moss set him up, but it's unclear in what context or timeframe Three is saying it. If the line belongs to Marcus Boone in a flashback, and if disguised Moss heard this on the Raza, since he knows he didn't set Boone up then he'd take it as proof that Boone was lying and really did kill Catherine.
At the beginning of the series, the adult crew have no way of knowing whether Five is a crewmember, a stowaway, whether their original selves kidnapped her, or what. You would think they would have at least one conversation amongst themselves where they discuss the possibility she has parents out there who are looking for her, and that when they board the space station in "Episode Four" that they would make it their first priority to use its database to look for any information on her and her family. Instead, everyone seems to take it for granted, without saying as much, that she's an orphan, and they're only accidentally proven correct by her dreams in "Episode Six". For that matter, they aren't shown considering that she might be related to one of them (which a blood test could prove - but not disprove, since adoption is a thing).
In fact, it's an awfully contrived Idiot Ball that aside from Four, they don't prioritize using the station's database in "Episode Four" to gather information before they go out to sell weapons or use the casino (and since they're soon forced to leave, they don't get the chance, as they themselves bemoan). The weapons and casino aren't going to vanish, and it would be prudent to know what they're walking into.
Actually, the crew as a whole are strangely incurious about whether or not they have any living relatives (parents, siblings, cousins, significant others, even kids), which any of them could well do since the wanted files they recovered at the end of "Episode One" weren't biographies.
Come to think of it, it's odd that we haven't seen or heard of Ryo's relatives beyond his immediate family. Royal houses usually have a lot of cousins.
What happened to One's quarters, and the items and clothes in them, after he died?
How is it that in "Episode Four", the Android does not see anything incongruous about One (really Jace Corso) coming aboard with a different outfit, eyeliner and a different hairstyle (the last of which she compliments him on), and then coming back with the same outfit and hairstyle he had originally and no eyeliner? Not odd enough to even remark on to the crew, really? Or at least make another innocent hair comment to follow up on the first one? And actually, there's one thing that physically couldn't have changed: the stubble. Which an android eye should notice.
For that matter, why does Corso not steal One's clothes to impersonate him (the way AU Marcus later steals Three's clothes in Season Three), given that he doesn't know he won't run into any of the human crew while taking the weapons from the Raza, since One and Three didn't tell him where the others were? Why does he wait until after selling the weapons to come back to shoot One and Three, conveniently leaving them alone long enough to free themselves? And why not take a sample of One's DNA to determine who he is?
Corso, and indeed any of the subsequent people who try to interrogate anyone during the series, also doesn't bother trying Truth Serum. While not magical, truth serum does exist even in the present, let alone the future, and does make people more loose-tongued. If he can get his hands on an electric shock stick and knockout gas, truth serum wouldn't be a stretch. Not even the G.A. and other military forces ever raise the idea in Dark Matter.
Also, Corso apparently does not know about the weapons the Raza is trying to sell until Three tells him about them. Yet the whole reason he was able to capture One and Three is because a man lured them into a trap under the pretense of taking them to a buyer for the weapons.
In "Kill Them All", GA Commander Shaddick tells Five that her first thought was that Five was on the Raza as a kidnapping victim, until she looked at her files and realized no one would care if she were taken, so now she thinks Five was a stowaway. First of all, people aren't always kidnapped for a ransom but because they can be of some use or simply as part of human trafficking. Second of all, we learn in "It Doesn't Have to Be Like This" that Five has an older sister who was adopted by a wealthy family (it's later revealed that she was adopted by Alicia Reynaud), and that her old mentor learned of this via the G.A., so Shaddick should have had access to this information as well and kidnapping Five to extort her sister's adoptive mother would have been a plausible motivation.
It's still not explained why all the crew's memories were downloaded into, specifically, Five's subconscious after Six put the mindwiping virus in the stasis core, or indeed why there was any downloading, if, as the crew learn in "I've Seen the Other Side of You", the memories were suppressed and not removed.
Or why One, Two and Three awoke independently, in that order, but they had to bring Four, Five and Six out of stasis.
And why were Portia and Ryo going to wait until everyone came out of stasis to deal with "Griff", per the voice recording of them that Five found? Why bother going through the motions, waiting for such a weirdly specific time to kill him, and unnecessarily using one of the pods? Why not shoot him before then (as Alt Portia apparently did in the video record from "Stuff to Steal, People to Kill")? And why keep Boone and "Corso" in the dark, when there'd be no reason to expect either of them to object? Especially Boone, who had been on the crew the longest.
After learning that One is not Jace Corso but before learning that he's Derrick Moss, how is it that none of the crew consider "undercover cop" (what ended up being Six's storyline) as a possibility? That would seem to jump out right away and it's a bit contrived that no one thinks of it. Going undercover is the sort of thing cops do and One has been the most outspokenly ethical crewmember from day one (no pun intended). The G.A. would be among the few obvious candidates to have both the resources and inclination to infiltrate a crew of dangerous criminals by Surgical Impersonation (in fact, there's no one in the galaxy other than the G.A. who would have a known motive for doing so before we learn of Moss's frankly insane revenge plan), and One made the rendezvous in Corso's place because the latter's safehouse was compromised by a G.A. raid. If anything, having the characters discuss the possibility and then it prove to be just a Red Herring would have made it more of a surprise when Six was one.
If the G.A. is in Alexander Rook's pocket as flashback!Portia asserts in "Built, Not Born", then why did he not use his influence to have the crew whacked when they were in the Hyperion-8 prison? At the end of "Episode Twelve", he was told that because they knew what Two was, they all had to die. Yet he doesn't become a problem again until the crew goes after him, in "Going Out Fighting".
Indeed, because One was still widely believed to be Jace Corso by people who encountered the Raza until Season Two, shouldn't the real one have been in danger of being targeted by Rook as well, or by Traugott for supposedly taking part in the white hole bomb heist? Or (especially) by Ferrous Corp for supposedly betraying them on the mining planet? And there should have been confusing conflicting reports amongst crooks, corporates and cops during the timeframe of Season One about whether Corso was still independent or was onboard the Raza.
In "We Voted Not to Space You", Corso asks Two "what the hell happened" that made the infamous Portia Lin willing to take revenge for someone like Derrick Moss. Yet he has already heard about the memory wipe from One and Three in "Episode Four", and by now it's clear they were telling the truth, so he already knows what the hell happened. It shouldn't be surprising to anyone, even a Psycho for Hire like Corso, that an involuntary mental change of this magnitude would alter a person's behavior (especially towards someone who had gone through it with her), as she no longer has any memory at all of being Portia Lin. So his speech about her going soft, without even mentioning her lost memories, seems contrived just so that someone can give a speech about her going soft. But the truth is that it's not as if Portia Lin decided to become soft of her own accord; she was turned into someone else against her will. And his description of his own antisocial behavior sounds more like how an outsider would diagnose it than the sociopath themself.
Also, his speech contains information the audience has but Corso himself shouldn't have, about One choosing not to take his revenge on Three. Even if Corso was filled in on various things by Darius van Hoeven when he was hired to assassinate One, van Hoeven couldn't have known that the mindwiped One became aware of Three's supposed role in his wife's death before being taken to Hyperion-8 and not after, and thus that he ever had an opportunity to take revenge.
And it's a pretty big example of the Villain Ball for Corso to tell Two she's "finished" because she's started to care right before asking her to show him mercy. If he had actual survival instincts, he would have led with why she shouldn't shoot him and not bothered with taunting her at all. Also, playing on his resemblance to her dead friend to make her lower her guard is just Psychological Manipulation 101 even without knowing that they were screwing, and it's hard to believe he's survived this long without knowing how to manipulate people, yet he doesn't even try to use this advantage even though he's been handed it for free by the circumstances.
Six is put straight back on active duty after turning the crew over to the Galactic Authority despite the G.A. knowing that he's a total amnesiac. Really? Really? Realistically, this would be considered a serious medical condition that he would need to have cured, or at least try to, before being allowed to return to work and given any kind of access to G.A. resources.
Throughout Season One, the crew assume that the mindwipe must have been part of some sinister plot. Yet the immediate consequence of the wipe was that they were un-eviled and didn't wipe out the mining colony that Ferrous Corp hired them to exterminate. Thus it would have been very logical from the get-go to speculate that saving the colony (and other future victims) was the sole purpose of the wipe all along, perhaps if one of the crew had finally suffered an attack of conscience, yet no one ever speculates this. And given that the wipe was actually intended to save Six from being killed as he was an undercover cop, this wouldn't have been too far off the truth.
The characters never remark on the fact that since Two was created as an adult and ages normally, she's actually the chronologically youngest member of the crew (not counting the Android), even younger than Five.
In "Episode Eleven", the others tell One that if Wexler's team hand the Raza crew over to the authorities, the G.A. will realize he's not Jace Corso and let him go. However, there's no reason they should assume the G.A. would let him go. At this point, while they all know he's not Jace Corso, Two (who's not there) is the only one who knows he's Derrick Moss and therefore has access to high-powered legal representation. For all they know, he's still a criminal of some sort who was desperate enough to impersonate another criminal, and as noted above it hasn't occurred to them that he might be a cop. Add to that the fact that "associating with criminals" is itself a criminal charge and that he's just participated in a heist against Traugott Corporation, and even if he wasn't a criminal before, he is one now by the literal definition of someone who has committed a crime. He's also been part of a firefight with Ishida troops (a legitimate authority) in "Episode Nine" and one with Ferrous Corp troops in "Episode Two" (Ferrous was up to no good, but they could certainly try to spin it so that they were victims of the Raza crew, who have less credibility with the G.A.), and shot and killed people on both occasions. Plus the identity theft itself should be illegal even if the target is a criminal. Even if the charges he faced were less than those of the others, without knowing who he is they certainly shouldn't expect him to be simply let go.
Although at the end of "We Voted Not to Space You", Six tells Two that Darius van Hoeven was the most likely suspect behind ordering One's death and she puts him on the Raza's enemies list, they don't then go after him or at least on a fact-finding mission about him. Even if the writers were waiting for One's planned reappearance in Season Three (which was then moved to Season Four) to make this happen, it still comes off as waiting a rather long time to do anything about it, especially given how rushed Corso's end was in comparison.
It's sometimes inconsistent or arbitrary which kinds of things are affected by the memory wipe and which aren't.
It makes sense that Six's DNA flags an alert for immediate arrest on the station's hospital computer in "Episode Four" considering how wanted the Raza crew are, and even more so when we learn he was part of a terrorist movement that killed over a thousand people on Hyadum-12, until we learn that he was an undercover cop the whole time. The G.A. would surely set up the DNA database in such a way that their agent would not run the risk of arrest.
It really doesn't make sense that van Hoeven and One's lawyer Felicia were able to make it to Hyperion-8 to meet him within the timeframe of an episode, given that the journey from where One met up with the Raza to the mining colony planet was long enough that the Raza crew entered stasis for the trip, and CoreLactic HQ should be closer to the former and Hyperion-8 closer to the latter. Unless they were Transfer Transit clones and that wasn't mentioned.
The G.A. wanted files from the pilot episode having mugshots of Marcus Boone and Jace Corso implies they were both arrested at some point. But obviously not sent to the "inescapable" prison of Hyperion-8.
Speaking of which, Corso's appearance in the mugshot seems more consistent with One than with the real Corso we see later, unless he simply changed styles between then and then. Which might explain why One would go to the trouble of copying his physical appearance perfectly yet have a different style, if it was based on old information.
We don't see Portia Lin with the shorter hairstyle she has in the security camera footage accompanying her wanted file in any of the flashbacks to her past; it's always the same style Two has in the present.
With the eyeliner and the heavy black leather, Jace Corso's aesthetic seems to be trying to signal "I'm evil" as hard as possible, which makes you wonder how he manages to get close enough to his assassination targets to have such a successful reputation. The best assassins are Masters of Disguise, or at the very least able to blend into the crowd and look normal and innocuous. As it stands, it's hard to picture Corso even having the practicality to take off the eyeliner and dress like a custodial employee during the white hole bomb heist in "Episode 10" if it had actually been him there instead of One (who Mikkei and Wexler's team thought was him).
For that matter, where do he and the Raza crew actually get their badass outfits? Someone has to design these things before they wear them. Is there a "mercenary grunge" themed clothing store on the average space station? And does Corso carry an eyeliner pencil around with him everywhere? The idea of him renewing his makeup in the mirror after every shower is... funny somehow.
There must be some form of birth control available on the Raza given that Two sleeps with both One and Three without any worries, but we never see it. Of course, depending on how sensitively her nanites are programmed, it's possible Two can't become pregnant, given that sperm and embryos are technically foreign bodies, but she didn't know she had nanites at the time.
If the crew retained their base knowledge unrelated to specific memories, like what a bird is, what a human being is, what a spaceship is, etc., then for Two that really should have included the fact that she was an Artificial Human, since she's known that for her entire existence pre-mindwipe. She shouldn't have assumed she was a regular human when she'd never believed that before. She should have known intrinsically that she had nanites the same way the others knew they that they had femora.
If Two's nanites can prevent or even heal the brain damage that should have been caused by the neural link in "I've Seen the Other Side of You", it's a bit odd that they can't do anything about her memories being suppressed.
In "Episode Ten", Commander Truffault says that Five seems kind of young to be a mercenary, but is she, though? What were most adult mercenaries in the series's galaxy doing when they were her age? The life of a career criminal usually starts early.
As noted above, Derrick Moss's impersonation of Jace Corso should in itself be illegal. Even if he isn't given any actual jail time or fines for it by the G.A. in "Welcome to Your New Home" (given that Corso is a criminal and Moss is a CEO from an influential family), it seems doubtful that he would be legally allowed to keep it when returning to his old job. That's just an excuse to keep the same actor.
The crew really should have objected more strenuously to Five's terribad idea of exploring their memories in "Episode Six". Not only would the memories of brutal criminals be reasonably assumed to include countless violent acts done by, to and around them (with childhood physical and sexual abuse not being at all unlikely), she'd have access to their most embarrassing and intimate memories as well, including every time each of them had sex before the mindwipe. Would even Three really want her to be able to see that?
And when she actually uses the memory probe, she conveniently doesn't see any intimate encounters, or even boring memories like walking down the street or using the toilet, but only memories that are significant to the wider plot.
The series seems not to notice this at all, but technically when One and Two start their intimate relationship at the end of "Episode Seven", it's Questionable Consent. At this point, Two still thinks that One is Jace Corso sans memories and One knows that he's not. Two doesn't learn that he's someone else until "Episode Eight", and One doesn't tell her that he actually found out that he's specifically Derrick Moss at the end of "Episode Eight" until "Episode Nine". Perhaps partly mitigated by the fact that it was One's personality that Two fell for, not Corso's, regardless of what One's real given name and backstory were, but still, mixing sex and deceptiveness is not good in general, and Two initiated the relationship thinking that One was a former criminal like herself and thus someone who could relate in that sense, which he knew wasn't true.
If the crew are guilty of multiple counts of murder, why wouldn't they be on death row in Hyperion-8 already? We know that the death penalty still exists, because Kierken said the crew would get it if they were found to be connected to Iriden-3, but their pre-existing crimes should be bad enough.
One supposedly doesn't have any skills with fighting (although as noted on the main Series page, this is an Informed Flaw that never actually hampers him) or computers, but if you were going to infiltrate a ship of dangerous mercenaries, wouldn't you make sure to get yourself some of those skills so that you don't give yourself away? It's not as if Derrick Moss couldn't afford the instructors. Unless he did get training, but it was too recent to stick around in muscle memory after the mindwipe.
