Super spies. Drug runners. Angst-y noir archetypes. Island inhabitants from 1930s French Polynesia. Archer has mixed things up through the years more than James Bond’s martini shaker. What started as an outrageous look into the lives of secret agents has slowly morphed into an exquisite corpse of a series that’s ambition is like nothing else on television.

Whether the radical changes that Archer has adopted in its more recent seasons have been to your liking or not, there’s no denying that taking such risks is incredibly ambitious. This is a show where its main character is left in a critical coma as he floats through unbelievable dreamscapes of his life and it doesn’t seem like anyone—the audience, or the characters within the show—know if he’s actually still alive or not.

Last year Archer: Danger Island took its audience to a veritable tropical paradise off the coast of the South Pacific. Danger Island found plenty of creative ways to compliment and destroy the series’ status quo (Krieger was a parrot, NBD), but perhaps the most interesting aspect of the season is the cliffhanger that it went out on. Brief flashes of what looked like the show’s next facelift—a trip to the recesses of a space and hard sci-fi—were hinted at during last season’s final moments, but now Matt Thompson has extensively opened up about what Archer: 1999 will look like.

Archer’s tenth season will transport Archer and the rest of its cast to the space station, Seamus. Archer finds himself in the role of captain amidst all of these space rejects. These characters will find themselves occupying traditional science fiction roles that embrace the strangeness of the genre, like how Krieger is now an android who may or may not be evil (in an appreciated nod to Bishop from Alien, complete with his characteristic “milk blood”) and Pam is a hulking rock monster (Aisha Tyler eloquently describes the character as “if The Thing had a really bad case of eczema”).