As we learned in our exclusive interview for the SDCC edition of the Den of Geek magazine, Dark Matter will move from themes of regret and reunion in the first season to survival and fulfillment in season two.

“I think season one in some ways is a very idealistic story,” Crouch says. “This man who’s in love with his life but has some dissatisfaction is thrust through this wild sci-fi journey where he learns that the things that bugged him about his life are actually what make it special. But now what? How do you keep your family when all of the idealistic trappings fall away, and you have nothing, and you’re stuck trying to find a world that’s safe enough to settle in?”

Edgerton agrees that season two has a deeper morality to explore. “Season two has this feeling of what happens next when you release technology,” he says. “It’s like a gun: a gun could sit on a table and not hurt anyone for a hundred years, but what hand holds the gun? Season two is watching different hands hold the gun and what they do with it. How does it influence ego? How does it become a tool to help the world? How does it become destructive? How does it become a selfish, personal tool?”

If you’re attending the convention this summer, be sure to stop by Convention Center Room 6DE at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, July 24 for this exclusive screening of the Dark Matter season two premiere. And read our full interview with the panelists in the SDCC edition of the Den of Geek magazine, available for free to all convention attendees.

Dark Matter season two premieres on Friday, August 28 on Apple TV.