- Title Card: Climate change, pandemics, war. When earth became uninhabitable, the ruling elite escaped to settle on Kepler 209.
- Title Card: Two generations later, the Ulysses Project was started to find out whether a return is possible.
- Title Card: The first mission back to earth was lost shortly after landing.
- Title Card: [parachute deploys] This is Ulysses 2.
- Blake's Father: Don't be scared. Every time the second moon passes Cygnus, you light a match. And wherever I am - in a ship or on a planet far, far away - I'll do the same. And before the last one's gone, we'll be together again. I promise.