Steve Wassenfelder

Steven 'Wass' Wassenfelder is a character on Defying Gravity portrayed by Dylan Taylor.
== Biography ==
With a passion for unraveling the mysteries of the universe and a wit as sharp as his mind, Steve is the theoretical physicist aboard Antares. He is also a hardcore gamer and an unabashed geek. Despite his intellectual accomplishments (or maybe because of them) Steve has never had a girlfriend and, initially, has no idea why he’s on the mission. As such, he passes his free time playing “Halo,” watching the porn he brought to see him through the six-year mission, and generally keeping the crew in glib one-liners and attitude.
=== 2047 ===
=== 2052 ===
Dark Unidentifiable Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects, or DUNNOs, make up 90% of the universe. Wass is tasked with investigating them while onboard the Antares. 
== Family ==
He is from the United States of America.
== Final Chapter ==
Following the cancellation of the series, James Parriott confirmed how Wass's story arc would have ended.
Wass — I asked what the Wassenfelder character’s significance was going to turn out to be, since, for the most part, he only seemed to serve as the comic relief for the show. “Dylan [Taylor] sort of has that different gear that we had to exploit, which is sort of that funny gear. And he had a relationship with Paula Garcés the first time we put them together, and we just thought that was a relationship we have to mine. That wasn’t the initial plan, but Wass was going to have something like Pervasive Developmental Disorder [similar to Autism] and have a great fear of people touching him and having contact with other people. He was going to become a weirder guy. One reason I didn’t have hallucinations for him was because I didn’t have any for him worked out yet!”