I love this ep. But I'm going, now, to gently rip it to shreds.

There is an incredibly scary moment in this ep. The series had been on for 3 weeks, when suddenly we cut to a totally unexpected shot of Zoonie, as if to say 'Oh by the way, they have a space monkey that we've being meaning to tell you about. Its a behind-the-sofa moment.

Ross ' Emergency! Fireball XL7 out of control! Repeat, Fireball XL7 out of control!'
Steve 'Whats wrong?'
Ah yes, the intellectual capability of a small, elderly, blind, diseased goldfish that is the mind of Steve Zodiac.

Venus ' Don't you think about anything besides flying?'
Mat 'What else is there?'
Matthew Matic, professional sad man.

I love the way Zero staggers over to Lt 90 and seems to collapse on his desk for support.

At one point, Steve says 'Alert Space Commander Zero!' This sounds silly (but then so does 'Space Velocity' and all that stuff) so it could be he started to say Space City, but changed his mind to Commander Zero half way thru. It doesn't sound like it, so perhaps not.

Steve 'Cut main power'
Is that a good idea on a spaceship? Especially with a robot who takes everything extremely literally, and will punch you if you confuse him (Hypnotic Sphere) ?

I love the way Steve deals with the Solars.
In Planet of Platonia, the terrorist Volvo tries to poision his leader and blow up Fireball. Steve arrests him.
Boris and Grizelda reign trouble across the Universe. Steve blows them up, but in a harmless non-violent way.
The Solars simply want light on their barren world. Steve massacres them. Great guy.

I love the way the Fireball planets are named. Aridan is arid. Arcton is artic. Now, bearing all this in mind, the Fireball team are looking for something magnetic. Something planet sized. Magneton! Of course!

Ross is uglier than Zoonie.

Steve 'I guess you do kind of take things for granted when they're around you all the time.'
Venus 'Even doctors of space medicine.'
Steve ' Huh?'
OK, maybe he doesn't have the intellectual capability of a small, elderly, blind, diseased goldfish. Maybe he has the intellectual capability of a small, elderly, blind, diseased maggot.

Steve ' Well Professor, your coffee is like your tea, its hard to tell the difference'
Venus 'Don't worry professor, I think its real boss.'
Well, enough of the gripping TEA BREAK SCENE!!!

Steve 'This is ridiculous! We're making absolutely no progress at all! '
See all my previous comments.

Would it really be a good idea for Ross and Chuck to eject into space? There are no oxygen pills in the cabin of XL5, so there are probably none in the XL7 one. There's no medical officer to bring them up, and there's no time to dash back and grab them if its an emergency.
Space Magnet: AKA How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Matthew Matic.

Going on What you said about Zoonie well he is actuall introduce in the next episode.

Gee, do you suppose that there was any damage on Earth when the Moon ripped out of orbit?

And perhaps Steve could simply have told the Solars that the Moon doesn't give light--it only reflects it.