9-1-1 ’s far-fetched plots are reaching new heights — literally. In Season 9, Athena ( Angela Bassett ) and Hen ( Aisha Hinds ) will go from first responders to some of the first civilians in space. And as you’ll see below, their safe return to Earth is all but guaranteed. (How can the writers top this calamity next season? An interdimensional wormhole opens in Los Angeles?)

Ahead of Thursday’s out-of-this-world season premiere, we’re detailing that plot point and others so ridiculous we wondered if Ryan Murphy & Co. were trolling us.

9. A Harmful Handful

In Season 7’s “You Don’t Know Me,” a self-help speaker suffers a case of alien hand syndrome , which the Cleveland Clinic defines as a condition that causes hands to move or perform actions involuntarily. But the clinic says n

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