In the first episode of "The Expanse" (which debuted 10 years ago this weekend), a spaceship makes the biggest meal of changing direction since Austin Powers attempted an [insert very big number]-point turn in the bowels of Dr Evil's secret volcano lair.
The Canterbury, the vast ice hauler that's home to several of the show's leads, needs to investigate a distress beacon, so it initiates a "flip and burn" maneuver. This requires the entire crew to strap themselves into bespoke chairs, bite down on special mouth guards, and inject themselves with a cocktail of drugs that will help them withstand the intense g-forces generated by the ship's abrupt 180 and subsequent deceleration. The message is clear: travelling through space in "The Expanse"'s version of the future is hard. Really hard.
