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Durka Returns
By Grant McAloon
Directed by Tony Tilse
DID YOU NOTICE?
Much of the episode was shot with handheld cameras and a slight distortion to make it nightmare-like, especially in the long shots running down Moya's tiers. Some of that felt similar to the Borg point-of-view shots in Star Trek: First Contact.
There's a tiny continuity error when Crichton finds Chiana as he steps into a lit area in the room twice.
There's no apparent logic to which of Moya's doors Crichton can open and which he can't when Durka has taken control. Notice, though, that all the main doors have catflaps in them for the DRDs.
We see Chiana breaking free of her collar, but how did she break out of the handcuffs? How can Pilot detect movement near Crichton – when Salis is being murdered - when he seemingly could not at any other time during the search for Chiana?
Crichton suspects that it really was Chiana who killed Salis, but then he does have a clue: her control collar was next to Salis's corpse. Neither Salis nor Durka wore a collar so it must be hers, but you could argue that Durka could have planted it. That makes more sense than her having carried it around during all the scenes since she broke free of it – especially since she plainly wasn't carrying it and it's hard to see where she could have hidden such a bulky thing in that outfit.
This episode's story about Chiana, a female prisoner with a control collar, is reminiscent of Farscape's own pilot episode where Moya wore a Peacekeeper equivalent, although rather larger. Moya hitting another ship when coming out of starburst was also like the pilot episode when Crichton's ship clipped a Peacekeeper Prowler when it came out of the wormhole from Earth.
Durka's ship being knocked off into space at the end was like Darth Vader's TIE fighter being flung away from the Death Star at the end of Star Wars. If he does get away to safety, as he surely will, he won't have any difficulty getting a job – not with his exceptional hairdressing skills.
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