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
Sometime later, Crichton hears the noise, so he enters a Jeffries tube equivalent or whatever and, after paraphrasing the episode title, gigglingly slides down the tube and vanishes.
Back in the original dimension, Zhaan and Chiana enter Command, and Zhaan snits that they can't find the others. "False information yet again." Someone's in a mood -- better fire up the sunlamp, please. Pilot reports that the DRDs are still reporting on the rest of the crew's whereabouts, which doesn't make any sense to me, but I'll agree with Pilot when he says, "Your inability to locate them does not negate the fact that they are there." Said agreement is based less on science and more on general principles concerning this group's competence. Crichton thankfully appears to put an end to the bitchery and asks Pilot what he knows about "parallel realities. Temporal shifts. Two objects occupying the same space at the same time." It's a good thing for me that we haven't recapped every Star Trek series, because if we had, every single word in that last sentence would have been hyperlinked to something. Crichton clarifies that there are at least three other Moyas existing in the same place, so Pilot asks him if he's familiar with the mathematical hypothesis "dimensional schism. Light and sound disjointed into base elements." That explains the properties of the first two dimensions but not so much the third, unless THC is a component of either light or sound. He goes on that starburst "is technically the seam between space-time dimensions." Well, sure, if you want to get all technical about it. He goes on that Moya's power cells allow them access, and they ride the energy stream until they're pushed out at random. Chiana wonders what the hell kind of way that is to get around, which seems like the fairest question anyone's asked in a while, but Pilot icily invites her to leave at the next available opportunity. But seriously, no wonder it took them three months to find Crichton. Anyway, the point is that Moya went into starburst without adequate thrust, which resulted in them getting stuck. Crichton disbelievingly asks if they're still in starburst, and when Pilot starts to babble about "insertion thetas," snaps "Screw the science lesson!" It's heartening that Crichton keeps giving me new reasons to love him. I mean, he could easily rest on his more obvious assets. Crichton asks what they're stuck in. Pilot stammers, "Whatever's on the other side."