Buzz learns upon his return from the first attempt that while he was in space for four minutes, four years passed on T’Kani Prime. Buzz certainly has the latter, and he sets about piloting a series of test flights in a smaller craft in an attempt to generate the speed they’ll need to get home. With the ship’s hyperspeed crystal destroyed in the process, they aren’t going anywhere without some real ingenuity - and bravery. Our heroes attempt to flee in the Turnip, but Buzz can’t quite execute a tricky maneuver, crashing the ship - and its myriad inhabitants - on the planet. The time for small talk quickly is over, as the swampy planet’s swarming bugs and problematic vines take a violent interest in them.
“You made that very clear in the design review,” she counters.
“The ship looks like a root vegetable,” he says. There, his commander, Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba, “In Treatment”), catches him narrating his own adventure and then must endure more of his reasons for nicknaming their ship the Turnip.
