 What is significant about the captain's initial reaction to Mr. Janssens attache case being stolen?
Upon the return to Earth a year later, the crew's report of suffering and chaos during the year's outgoing voyage was twisted, distorted and fragmentary. It ended with passengers engaging in open warfare with each other and the crew. "As I recall," Ellason said, "there was something about stunners." "Assuming no accident in space," Phipps said, "it was a wrong decision. We don't think anything is going to happen, but if it does, we want to get an impersonal, unprejudiced view. On loan from Transworld, he will have an observer status." The theft of Carver Janssen's attache case occurred on the thirty-first day out. In Ellason's mind the incident, though insignificant from the standpoint of the ship as a whole, could very well be the cause of dissension later on. Janssen's case contained vegetable and flower seeds—thousands of them, according to the Captain's Bulletin, the ship's daily newsletter which went to all hands and passengers. In the Bulletin the captain appealed to the thief to return the case to Mr. Janssen. He said it was significant that all en route had passed stability tests, and that it was to the ship's discredit that someone with criminal tendencies should have been permitted aboard. When Ellason saw Branson about it, the captain said, "Of course I realize it takes only a little thing like this to set things off.
 It shows that the captain wants to give people the impression that he thinks the passengers are all okay
 It reveals his negligence as a leader  It proves that the captain does not think anything could be wrong  It shows that the captain wants to give people the impression that he thinks the passengers are all okay  It shows the passengers that the captain cannot be trusted