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
When we're back from the break, Crichton ignores Zhaan's practical and Pilot's fear-based objections, and enters the light the creature is giving off. He soon finds himself in conversation with something resembling a giant squid, and I hope for the sake of interspecies unity that it hasn't delved so deeply into Crichton's mind to see how much he likes calamari. The creature, in a female voice, informs him that his "container" has breached her kind's existence, and there can be no overlap. Accordingly, it's her job to destroy anything that's caught in between, and furthermore, backing out of the expanse will tear the rupture beyond restoration. However, were they to starburst forward on their own power, she would be able to guide them back to their own dimension. Having made her point, she unceremoniously dumps Crichton out. People around here could learn a thing or two about brevity from old Squiddy here.
In Command, Crichton tells Pilot that they have to go forward. Pilot likes that idea about as much as he likes D'Argo's Qualta blade these days, but he agrees, and tells Crichton to reverse the final four controls of the sequence he gave him earlier. Crichton instructs Pilot to give him five hundred microts and then rev up the engines, and after sharing a nice moment with Zhaan, he leaves, counting down to himself.
In the red dimension, Crichton continues to count down. He eventually gets to D'Argo and promptly vomits again, and it's good that D'Argo's pretty thick-skinned, or else he might start to take that personally. He gives D'Argo the new instructions, and says to wait three hundred microts. D'Argo protests that he has no timekeeping device, so Crichton schools him in the art of counting by Mississippis. Once Crichton's gone, D'Argo starts, "One Mippippippi, two Mippippippi..." Like many things on this show, that's close enough.
Up, up, and away to the blue dimension. Crichton finds that his path is cut off, so he puts on the headphones. Aeryn says she was trying to get out of there, as she didn't know if he was coming back. Crichton tells her he'd never leave her, and it's a good thing there's so much filler in this episode, as we didn't just miss much by swooning there. Since he can't see her, Aeryn smiles, and then Crichton tells her they have to go forward. Unlike D'Argo and Pilot, Aeryn doesn't question this decision but simply asks for instructions, and Crichton tells her to kick the engines into forward in a hundred and fifty microts. He then asks if there's an alternate route to get to quarters. She supplies him with a suggestion, and he reminds her about the hundred and fifty microts. Aeryn: "Hundred and thirty, now. Good luck." Please don't get any more attractive to me, Aeryn. I'm confused enough as it is.