Why Was Brent's Captain So Stupid?
Brent unceremoniously buries the guy in a raised pile before heading off with Nova but we've already seen enough to know he was a bit of a clown.
Brent tells him the year and he has something of a meltdown realising his wife and daughters are dead.
But how can this be possible? They are on a "rescue" mission for Taylor, who was aware from Dr. Hasslein's theory that they were on a mission that was going to take them thousands of years into the future and long past the life times of the people who sent them.
Didn't Brent's Captain not get the same memo? How can he have been so stupid as to have left his wife and kids behind in the past?