Captain Steven Archibald III

Steve Archibald III has a rather mysterious past that the show has so far little gone into.

By the time of episode ten, Steve has had a mental breakdown. He believes he can sense unseen beings that control their every movement. Giving into the idea, he decides to become an actor and allow others to direct his every move for reals. It's during rehearsals for his sevent role as a Santorian he forms an unlikely friendship with his lizardman costar Karl. Seemingly unprovoked, Karl attacks him during rehearsals for the play Against Me, Will believing Steve hateful of Liazardmen. Steve maintains he is not.

The next few months are a blur as Steve comes in and out of a medically induced coma. Finally healed, he decides to start yet another new life aboard a federated Star Ship. The only one close enough that would accept an actor with little ship real experience is The Guantopolis. Steve joins and is soon promoted to captain when the original captain comes down with a mysterious illness known colloquially as Space Syphilis.

With half the crew dead he sets off to pick up the doctor he had gotten to know while in hospital and an unlikely cohort: Karl the lizard man who put him in there.

By the end of season one, Steve has a mental breakdown while facing court-martial for making bad decisions, endangering the Guantopolis and losing members of his crew. We last see him resting in an asylum but all may not be as it seems.