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Rhapsody in Blue
by David Kemper
Directed by Andrew Prowse
DID YOU NOTICE?
The underwear gag - Aeryn saying the pants can't be Crichton's because they have the name Calvin in them - was used in 'Back to the Future'. Why is she wearing his underpants anyway?
Crichton makes a big deal of chopping down the tree at the end - but despite hacking away at it with an axe he doesn't fell it. If it's true that touching the bark can kill humans, he's taking a bit of a chance that shards won't fly off at him, too.
The Delvian method of Unity, sharing each other's thoughts and souls, is a lot like Star Trek's mind-melding - and in both shows you do it by putting your hands to the other person's head.
Two people seeing the same thing completely differently, as in Aeryn being convinced her gun has fallen apart and D'Argo thinking she's very daft, is similar to scenes in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'. In that show's pilot episode, Dax and Sisko stand on a world that to him is desolate, to her is paradise.
Seeing aliens as old friends and lovers was used in Space: 1999's two-part story Bringers of Wonder.
Zhaan and Aeryn are surprisingly coy when Crichton asks if they, like the others, had sex dreams the night before. Neither is straight with him, which is fair enough except that last week Aeryn went around grabbing Crichton where it hurts, this week she's wearing his underpants and previously Zhaan has stripped at the feeblest excuse.
The crew of Moya don't know where they are. Tahleen and the rest say they don't know where they are. So it's not clear how Tahleen knew where Moya was - she specifically states that the ship was too far away for any other form of communication than the one she used. If she can find them, surely regular enemy Crais can. And besides, Crichton should be looking to set up a business in A-Z star maps.
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