The Expanse Recap — “Delta-V”

Se 3 / Ep 7, Delta-V / Syfy Well Episode 6 certainly was eventful. Errinwright, Mao, Strickland, all off the board, along with Cotyar as a casualty of war. That’s quite the mid-season climax. So now in Episode 7: Delta-V has to reset the board, move the pieces around, shake up old alliances and start new ones. This is where the writers show us the new status quo, from which the next plot cycle will be built. As an “establishing” episode, there isn’t a whole lot for the old characters to do, this is when the new characters need to introduce themselves. Let’s meet them. UNN Headquarters

Well, if that isn’t Avasarala back in her office, talking calmly to the camera about “rebuilding”. She prides herself on being the adult in the room and here she’s certainly talking like one. But can she convince the whole system to choose peace? Glad to see her back in her bling though, that faux ice is pretty snazzy. The ship that burst out of the clouds over Venus traveled to the edge of the system. It has transformed itself from a giant jellyfish to a giant ring, hanging in space just past Uranus. What’s it doing? Well with all that peace breaking out, the Earth and Mars are both sending fleets to go study it. The Belt is going too, under the joint auspices of Johnson and Dawes, so I guess they made up, or at least decided that they’re the kind of gangsters that can do business together. The Y Que

Interspersed through the episode is the story of Maneo Jung-Espinoza, a slingshot pilot who i…