What an absolute mess this episode is. Even by 1974 standards, this was pitifully sexist, especially in Act 1. Also, the "science" is all wonky. Nothing is a quintillion light years away. The entire universe is only 13.7 billion years old which means its entire theoretical diameter is only 26 billion years across. Furthermore, the astronaut confused light-years with time which it is not. Light-years are distance, something no real astronaut would mistake. And where did the astronauts think they were going to go if they successfully "escaped"? This script is a classic example of RMT's stable of veteran radio writers writing for 1944 instead of 1974. The whole thing comes off as a hormonal thirteen-year-old boiy's idea of gender and science fiction. A lot of the stuff on RMT is really, really good, but not this one. A case of trying to crank out too much too fast.