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17. What do you think is the most heartwarming moment of the series?

Definitely Eiffel and Minkowski's hug when the Si-5 brought him back to the Hephaestus after he was stranded on the USS Unending Nightmare. I've relistened to it so many times and it still hits me right in the feels! I love hearing Minkowski’s loss of her usual composure in her gladness to see Eiffel again and Eiffel’s “I missed you too, Commander. I missed you too... Okay. Air. Air flow is still a thing that's important.”

Honorary mentions to Eiffel’s speeches to Lovelace and Minkowski before the mind-wipe and to sleep-deprived Eiffel wanting to stay up just to chat to Hera when they finally got her back online after Hilbert’s attack.

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7. If you could turn one episode into a TV show, which would you pick?

Minkowski Commanding would be brilliant on screen and I would love to get to actually see what the plant monster looks like!

Because I’m a sadist and so I would like to see Eiffel and Minkowski’s faces when he told her his backstory, I’m also tempted to say Episode 40 (plus then we would see flashbacks to little Anne?!)

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18. What is your favorite friendship in the series?

Minkowski and Eiffel 100%. 

I am such a sucker for very different people who are thrown together by circumstances and infuriate each other but end up caring about each other deeply, and the way in which Wolf 359 showed the development of Eiffel and Minkowski's friendship captured my heart. Eiffel admired and trusted Minkowski completely. Minkowski would do anything to keep Eiffel safe. As much as they drove each other up the wall, I do believe that they kept each other sane in everything that they went through.

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6. What’s the best DSSPPM tip?

“In a tight spot, remember: Statistically, most things are afraid of the dark.” (including the plant monster!)

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15. What character would you like to have lunch with?

I’d love to meet Renee Minkowski, even though I think she might find me a bit pathetic. I’d love to fangirl over her and ask her about her life before the Hephaestus. If conversation ran dry, we could always talk about musicals. Plus I think she definitely deserves a hug, so I'd give her one if she let me.

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5. What’s your favorite fan theory or headcanon?

I love any post-finale headcanon that involves the crew living together back on earth and helping each other heal and recover. My current personal headcanon is that Minkowski tracks down her husband and he's sold their house and moved into a small apartment. He obviously expects her to move back in with him but she's asks if there's room for three traumatized humans plus an AI and when he says no she's like “Sorry, my crew are my priority.” and she buys a house and together they wire Hera into it. Jacobi claims he wants to be on his own but he doesn’t say no when Minkowski allocates him a room in the house.

On a less serious note, I absolutely love Stabby the Roomba and it makes me smile how the fandom embraced him as if he was a canon character!

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22. What is your favorite line?

Either Minkowski’s 'I am in charge of this disaster’ or Hera’s ‘Such a big universe and you only gave yourselves the tools to think about a tiny part of it’

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10. What is one thing you wish had happened in the show?

I really wish we had got to hear Eiffel reuniting with Anne! Or at least that his recording to her could have reached her...