Through The Looking Glass
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Farscape:
Season One:
Through The Looking Glass
Rygel, believing they’re all about to die: “Should I disrobe so it’s memorable?”
After the crew have discussed leaving Moya, Pilot reveals that he and Moya have been listening and, upset at the thought of being abandoned and feeling guilty about not meeting the needs of the crew, Moya initiates starburst even though it’s not healthy for her to do so at this stage of her pregnancy. After a bumpy ride, Rygel, D’Argo and Aeryn seem to be sucked out of existence. Searching for them, John is sucked into a Moya flooded with an excruciatingly painful and nausea-inducing red light. He finds a way into another Moya – this one blue and with a permanent deafening sound. Meeting up with Aeryn there, he sees slashes of light appear in the ship, as if something is clawing through reality. John ‘flips’ again, into a yellow Moya where he and Rygel, who’s already there, can’t help but find everything hilarious. Flipping again to a ‘normal’ Moya, he tells Pilot, Zhaan and Chiana what he’s experienced. Pilot says that Moya is stuck in starburst and has split into different realities. All four Moyas need to act at the same time, so John sets off to traverse the different Moyas and teach the crewmembers how to reverse the engines, while the interdimensional creature continues to slash its way into the ship.
With all engines firing, it’s still not enough to break them free, although Moya offers to lose her baby to give her more strength. Rejecting this option, John suddenly realises that the creature’s slashes on the walls are prime numbers and goes to talk to it. It explains that the only way out is to starburst forward. John races to the other Moyas to tell the crew to reverse what they’ve been doing and, of course, succeeds in the nick of time.
Synopsis by Callie Sullivan.
By Callie Sullivan on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 5:23 pm: The first time John left D’Argo in Pilot’s den, he told him to wait half an arn before firing the engines. When he went back to tell him to reverse the direction of the engines, he told him to wait three hundred microts but D’Argo said that he had no time keeping device, resulting in the fun “One mippippippi, two mippippippi” routine. But how did D’Argo count half an arn the first time?
By NSetzer (Nsetzer) on Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 7:12 am: I wouldn't want to eliminate that delightful scene where we see D'Argo counting "One mippippippi,...", but didn't they have the supplies to create a simple pendulum? I don't know exactly how long a microt is, but if it is the same length as a second, then the pendulum could be constructed to be one-quarter of a meter and it would have a period about one second -- meaning all D'Argo would have to do is count the number of oscillations. Surely this would be more accurate than "One mippippippi, two mippippippi..."