Dark Matter Recap: The Blair Caplan Project

Dark Matter is a show with its fingers in so many sci-fi pies — alternate timelines, unfamiliar beings in familiar bodies, reality-altering psychoactive drugs — that it’s tough to discern, a third of the way through its run, whether the show represents a creative evolution of any of these concepts or just a stew of familiarity.

The last episode’s introduction and shocking killing of Daniela B, the one who ended her pregnancy and her relationship with Jason B after he chose the “cold...