The naked now wins my prize for "best TNG to watch tipsy," and I confess to a soft spot for it too, mostly because it is SO BANANAS it is impossible not to be entertained (everyone is sweaty! Data is fully functional! Yar gets handsy!). But like Eddie said, it is stone stupid that they picked that to air as the second…

I think everyone thinks that - which is why it's funny that a pragmatic alien will point out how dumb the construct is. When I was a camp counselor, we'd play a large-scale version called "cowboy, ninja, bear" that made it much clearer who beat whom!

The show is so good at being subtle when depicting Aeryn and Crichton's relationship - like at the end of this episode when they're snuggling under pilot's controls (I'm a newbie, so that's a far as I've watched) - there isn't any dialogue about it, except obliquely, and yet the staging says it all.

To blatantly crowd-source a decision for me, should I buy the box set even if I have amazon prime and can watch them that way? And even though I don't have a bluray player, is the quality so significantly better that I should spring for those instead of the DVDs? Lastly: does peacekeeper wars come in the box set, or…

Everyone's grimness about Jeremiah Crichton had me putting off that episode all week and then it was … Just not that bad? Maybe I've just sat through a lot of really terrible trek, but it seems like Farscape bad is a different, less excruciating kind of bad.

I missed it too. But now all is clear, thanks to the crackerjack commenters here!

There's a moment where he mutters "tie" under his breath after playing two scissors that is just hilarious.

Thanks for clarifying that the Sheyang part was D'Argo's dream. I caught the name drop but thought it was an attack actually happening on the Crichton, Aeryn, and D'Argo-less Moya. Oops!

That got a literal LOL from me.

This is the best description of Voyager ever! Completely agree.

There definitely aren't any on the Enterprise!

This is how I feel about the opening scene from "Nerve." It may be the single best choreographed/directed thing I have ever SEEN.

I don't think I've ever seen a season finale as wall-to-wall bleak as "Family Ties" (I'm sure others can think of some, and there's definitely a doom-y atmospher to BOBW Part I, but no where like this). Our heroes casually deciding to be suicide bombers? That's some seriously heavy stuff, yet it still flows naturally…

While Amazon prime did me the favor of spoiling M'Lee's true nature in their episode description (thanks guys!), I still totally dug her on-screen transformation. Spikes popping out and growing? Awesome.

I do hope your other reviewing obligations don't take you away from Farscape for too long, but if they do, the upside is that it will slow the pace by which I inevitably finish watching it for the first time - your reviews are the only thing that keep me from marathoning the whole thing!

Love, love Alasdair's reviews, but I also have to give some major affection to all the super delightful and thoughtful veteran commenters. Your enthusiasm is infectious and makes it super fun to discover this amazing show for the first time!

Agreed! I'm actually relieved next Sunday won't be the next review, as I was getting worried about missing the Sunday commentary while on vacation (ha ha, my priorities are in order, right?)!

Voyager is being reviewed as the next "100 episodes" (is that what that feature is called? Hope so.) next week. I think that's a good venue in which to talk about its cultural milieu without getting too deep into its mediocrity. Though if you reviewed Voyager, Zack, I'd certainly read along!

That pretty much sums it up for me too. I was grateful for other people starting interesting threads since mostly my thoughts were just I LIKE THIS LOTS AND LOTS

I've known since the beginning that Crais and Pilot are voiced by the same actor because of these reviews, but even so it's hard to believe! He does an amazing job being very, very different for each.