Episode Report Card Jacob: A | 366 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT A Human Reaction
By Jacob | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 1999.08.20
Down in command, we can hear the sounds of Moya's engines winding down. Rygel, the hungry Muppet with an inflated sense of personal worth, complains about that. Pilot explains to John that they've noticed something -- a thing they haven't seen since John first arrived onboard. It's a wormhole. Pilot warns him that it's unstable, already breaking apart, and Chiana wanders in as Rygel addresses them all, self-righteously: "That is a pathetic little waste funnel, of which I care little about. We're supposed to be on our way to [a] commerce planet where, I believe, they have Hynerian marjools." He giggles. A Hynerian is what Rygel is, in addition to being a deposed monarch. Marjools are best not talked about. Chiana's concerned about whether John is or is not the captain of Moya, because she doesn't think he should be allowed to stop the ship for any old reason. She's only just come aboard, so she and John don't have a relationship: she's just bitching about any semblance of authority. Which she hasn't had a whole lot of opportunity to do, considering that there's not a single person on the ship who knows what the hell is going on, because they are all crazy. Rygel and Chiana are not getting why the wormhole is important to John, because all they understand is stuff having to do with Rygel and Chiana. Pilot screams for John to look closer at the wormhole: at the other side, you can see a planet that pretty much looks like Earth. John is wounded by hope, as Rygel and a badly-looped Chiana continue to scoff. The show's theme song, gone ethereal and weird, plays as John stares through the wormhole: "That's Earth. That's my home."