It's a religion. A mystical cult. In that moment I was transfixed. You may relive it in memory, or on film or sound, but that is a recording, not the primary experience. They restrict us in ways normal life does not.
Few prisons are as small as ships.
Ships do not. They cannot get off, or get away from each other. Like a prison they are limited to the cellmates they have chosen to be with. Whatever happens happens only to those aboard, no-one else is immediately affected, tho' inevitably the ship must come to land.