Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lewis Carroll Never Imagined This
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 09.09.1999
After far too much unintentionally hilarious footage of Crichton running through the ship, he's in the yellow dimension, and down to his last fifty microts. He makes it to Pilot's chamber, where Rygel and Chiana are still having a grand old time. Crichton snarks on Rygel, who says he has a new philosophy: "What used to be important isn't, and what should be important never will be." That's a disturbingly profound statement, especially coming from a whacked-out puppet. Chiana sexily tells Crichton to relax and join in the fun, and it's an unfortunate consequence of the way my mind works that that makes me wonder exactly what she and Rygel have been up to for all this time. Anyway, Crichton kicks in the engines, and the three of them bunch up into a little sandwich. Rygel asks if he should disrobe so it's memorable, and while that's pretty hilarious, it's simultaneously tragic that it wasn't Crichton asking. We see an outside shot of the disparate Moyas coming together, and soon everyone's appeared in their own Pilot's chamber, and without doing so on top of each other. It might have been funny, of course, if they'd been all Reese's Peanut Butter Cup: "You got your D'Argo in my Chiana!" But there will be plenty of time for that later. Everyone laughs and laughs, except for Pilot, who sighs wearily and is all, "I fail to see the source of your amusement." I don't know if the yellow light's worn off already or what, but I would have bumped the episode up half a grade if Rygel had taken this opportunity to call Pilot a buzzkill.
The laughing continues after the break, as the crew is having another potluck dinner. D'Argo wraps up some story about how he almost got arrested for outlandishly hitting on some girl, and Chiana's regaling Zhaan with some other tale, and then asks if she should be telling her this. Zhaan: "My dear, I've kicked more ass than you've sat on." Why do I feel like there's a joke in there? Oh, right -- because there are about fifty. Everyone's all jazzed about the food, except for Crichton's biscuits, which they all good-naturedly throw at him. Pilot cuts in to ask how they all can be so cheerful after the near miss. Aeryn, taking him seriously as always, tells him they were profoundly affected by it, and asks how he and Moya are doing. He says they're doing great, and tells the enraptured crew that there's been a change in the status of the pregnancy -- Moya feels that the baby could be coming along any time now. Everyone's thrilled, and Rygel suggests she name the baby after him. Chiana snarks that that will only work if the kid's a runt, and then Crichton toasts to a healthy, happy baby. Well, he'll be half right. Zhaan kisses Rygel, over his protests, and I think everyone's touched him this episode. I only hope that doesn't prompt him actually to make good on that threat to make things memorable. We'll find out next time!