Rhapsody in Blue was a little too myth-building and exposition heavy (though like you pointed out, it has some really cute character moments in the beginning), but I'm actually surprised other people don't seem as excited by The Flax, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Rigel being a space board game strategist! D'Argo…

Literal LOL from me!

I watched the vast majority of Voyager while assembling Ikea furniture sleeplessly when I moved into my apartment. It was absolutely perfect for this kind of mindless, relaxing Trek viewing (which is to say, it kind of is pretty bad but works like gangbusters as a Trek white noise machine).

I thought that was an actual kid with some UGLY ass Luxan prosthetics! Guess my attention to detail is not the best.

Random nitpick/confusion: When Chrichton confronted Rorf/Rorg, he takes off his eye goggles with no ill-effect, but Aeryn gets blinded when she's indoors-ish? I get that they're just for the solar flares, but everyone but Crichton and Zhaan seems to wear eye protection all the time, so I was confused. I actually…

Also it may be facile, but the "photogasm" made me laugh out loud.

(Hate having to reply to myself for this!) I'm really surprised and impressed by the quality. As an (obvious) Star Trek fan, I have a high tolerance for some cheese and badness mixed into my philosophical world building, but I am not finding that here. This is also the first show I'm making a conscious effort not to…

I thought exactly the same thing. Farscape as always is good at subverting my expectations!

This is my first time through Farscape too, and I am totally loving it, even its "clunkier" early episodes (which are still damn good, IMO). Rationing out my two episodes per week is a challenge and a treat!

I do too - and I also loved Aeryn's attempt to adopt earth lingo for herself in TGIF,A. I hope we see more of that!

@Jean-Luc Lemur - that alone distinguishes him from Worf!

Agreed. Sometimes it seems like constantly incapacitating Aeryn is Farscape's version of the Worf effect, but when it leads to such amazing scenes with her and Crichton (and her and pilot, and her and Dargo, actually), I'm okay with it!

That bothered me too - I try to avoid yelling "evolution happens to populations, not individuals!" at screens, but this seems a perennially difficult concept for tv writers to grasp. Then again, compared to some of the more egregious examples of this in trek (Barclay turns into a SPIDER?!), this was done a bit better…

It reminded me of "Cat's paw" (that Halloween-y TOS) as well as "the thaw" (I think?) which is (ugh) an episode of Voyager that has the same liminal space, stage play feel. It did seem a bit out-of-universe for what I've seen of Farscape so far, but I can roll with a little weirdness.

That exact thought definitely went through my head. Precedent setting!

And DAMN if Crichton and Aeryn don't have an insane amount of chemistry together (I am willfully ignorant of the actors playing them; I like my escapism pure!) - that couple seems like a charisma vortex that explains all the passionless relationships in the rest of scifi!

I'm with you - DNA mad scientist blew me away, from the early amputation to Aeryn's vulnerability. I'm amazed at how much character development has already occurred in the show and just how alien/anti-heroic all the characters we're expected to root for are!

Count me (and my trekker/west wing fan best friend) in!

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Grilka is great, but Key'lahr is on a level all her own.