Episode Report Card Strega: B+ | 173 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Escape From Wedded Bliss
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2000.07.22
Moya. Zhaan confirms that the Peacekeepers didn't follow them when they Starburst...Starbursted? When they did that thing. Zhaan feels guilty about abandoning everyone, Pilot tells her not to, and...scene.
D'Argo and Rygel have vanished, and now Crichton is reassuring Clavor that they're not going to be in-laws: "On my planet, we don't marry people we don't love. Unless they're critically ill billionaires." Katralla enters, with Tyro pouting at her heels. Crichton strolls over and prepares to awkwardly disengage. As it were. But before he can get to the point, the Empress enters, wearing her own Faberge egg. She gives Crichton a once-over and says, "I anticipate sturdy grandchildren from you. Let us get to know one another." Well, that breaks the ice, I guess. She takes Crichton by the arm and leads him a few steps away before asking if he's proposed. Crichton stammers that he doesn't love Katralla, which doesn't surprise the Empress. She explains that she doesn't want Clavor to be king: "He would betray our neutrality for the genuflect of peasants." If they ally with the Scarrans, they'll be attacked by the Peacekeepers, and if they ally with the Peacekeepers, they'll be attacked by the Scarrans. Crichton apologetically says that nothing will convince him to marry Katralla. Faster than you can breathe, "Famous last words," in walks Scorpius.