Fun Facts: Season 1, Episode 3

Belter Class is in session. "Stay calm, unte kowlting gonya gut, to pochuye ke." - Stay calm and everything will be okay.

Captain Haddid's into cinnamon aroma therapy.

Whoa! That's Jeremy from Bitten, isn't it? What's he doing in outer space?

Martin Roach (Admiral Souther) provides the voice of Dr. Claw on the new Inspector Gadget (2015) animated series.

Television fans may recognize Kenneth Welsh from his role as the villainous Windom Earle on Twin Peaks (1990-91).

Octavia Muss (played by Athena Karkanis) is named after famed science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, author of the Patternist series, the Xenogenesis series and the Earthseed series.

In the novel, Miller had an ex-wife named Candace. Her character was combined with Octavia Muss for the television series.

The small capsules Lt. Lopez (Greg Bryk!) takes are 'focus' drugs, allowing him to be hyper-aware of the captives emotional state and body language … effectively turning him into a human lie detector.

You may recognize Markus Parilo from his role as the Undertaker in the second season of FX's Fargo.

Brian George (Arjun Avasarala) is probably best known for his recurring role as Dr. V.M. Koothrappali on The Big Bang Theory.

Anderson Dawes (played by Jared Harris) is named after Howard 'Howdy' Dawes, a western music singer of the early 1950s who lived next to one of the writers in the 1970s.

You may not recognize John Chou from his role as Sagyan, one of Rahm Tak's goons in the third season of Defiance.

The Donnager docking bay is the largest virtual set on the show. Only the catwalk is real.

You may recognize Jean Yoon (Captain Yao) from her appearances on Orphan Black, Beauty and the Beast and Peg+Cat, as well as Syfy's own Lost Girl and Warehouse 13.

More than 200 background actors were enlisted to film the riot sequences on Ceres.