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You never think you’re going to be the type of space captain to throw someone out the airlock

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At McSweeney’s, Captain Ariel Karlin writes of her great dilemma. We all grow up with images of space captains sending their enemies out airlocks in quick but bloody deaths. But we never expect to end up doing exactly what they did:

Listen, I know how this looks. I always said I wasn’t going to be “that guy.” Just because I have an airlock doesn’t mean I have to throw anyone out the airlock. And yes, at this point, it’s pretty overdone. But seriously, please step through the first airtight door.

via Neatorama

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(Image: Battlestar Galactica/Sci-Fi Channel)

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