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* SubmersibleSpaceship:
** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "I, E.T.", in which [[LivingShip Moya]] evades detection by the Peacekeepers by landing on a planet and sinking beneath the surface of a swamp. Leviathans aren't normally meant to land at the best of times -- much less swim -- and the fact that Rygel has to perform surgery on Moya while she's submerged only ends up exacerbating the situation. As a result, Moya very nearly dies.
** In "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2," Moya is forced to hide under the surface of an ocean world in order to escape an attack by the Scarrans, and stay there while the crew rescue the locals. Unfortunately, as Sikozu observes, there's a substantial difference between the vacuum of space and the bottom of the ocean, and Moya begins taking on water on several tiers. Plus, the transport pods that will take them to the surface aren't meant to serve as submersibles either, so the crew have to modify it to that end. Moya survives the escapade once again, but only barely.
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* TheSpock: Aeryn Sun, Sikozu.

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* StickyFingers: Chiana and Rygel.

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* SelfSoothingSong: * In "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E19LiarsGunsAndMoneyANotSoSimplePlan Liars Guns And Money Part 1]]," John Crichton finds himself on the brink of a total breakdown as [[EnemyWithin Harvey]] begins exerting more control over him. However, he is eventually able to reinforce his self-control by loudly singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" until he's able to get away from the clone's objective. For good measure, he's also using this to drown out the demands of the ''real'' Scorpius.

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* PopCulturedBadass: John Crichton may have defined this trope. See the page quote.

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* PopCulturedBadass: John Crichton may have defined this trope. See trope as he frequently drops references to media from home. He also speaks Klingon.
** PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: All of Crichton's pop-culture references are met with blank stares because nobody on this side of
the page quote.galaxy has the slightest idea what he's talking about. When the Moya crew visit Earth in season four most of them familiarise themselves with movies and tv shows, so they finally have at least some context for what Crichton is babbling about.



---> '''Grayza:''' Don't let the belly fool you, Lieutenant.

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* RedShirtArmy: The [=DRD=]s. And the Peacekeepers are a [[JustForPun Blackshirt Army]].

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* RedShirtArmy: The [=DRD=]s. And the Peacekeepers are a [[JustForPun Blackshirt Army]].Army.
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** Can't forget "Lava's a Many-Splendored Thing". Noranti feeds the hungry crew a "restorative" that makes them all...[[{{Understatement}} a bit nauseous.]] This turns out to be fortunate as Lo'La cannot be operated without D'Argo's DNA and D'Argo is away for plot-related reasons.

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** Can't forget "Lava's a Many-Splendored Thing". Noranti feeds the hungry crew a "restorative" that makes them all...[[{{Understatement}} a bit nauseous.]] nauseous. This turns out to be fortunate as Lo'La cannot be operated without D'Argo's DNA and D'Argo is away for plot-related reasons.



** On occasions when they actually had money, they'd eat a variety of interestingly colored alien foods, some of which Crichton described as...[[{{Understatement}} not particularly tasty]].

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** On occasions when they actually had money, they'd eat a variety of interestingly colored alien foods, some of which Crichton described as...[[{{Understatement}} not particularly tasty]].tasty.

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* WillTheyOrWontThey
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* WeirdWorldWeirdFood:
** The crew of Moya subsists mostly on "[[FutureFoodIsArtificial food cubes]]", which allegedly supply all of your basic needs. John adapts to the new food fairly quickly by necessity.
** On occasions when they actually had money, they'd eat a variety of interestingly colored alien foods, some of which Crichton described as...[[{{Understatement}} not particularly tasty]].
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* PoisonousFriend: Averted. When Crichton voices his worry to D.K. that he has a gut-feeling something major is going to happen when he tests ''Farscape One'', his response is to question whether the flight really is that important to John, implying he'd support him if he cancelled it.

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* SexualKarma: Aeryn's escapades with Velorek and Crichton are considerably more vanilla than Scorpius's romps with Netira and Sikozu.



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* StockEpisodeTitles: Mostly averted -- ''without'' resorting to IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming. In particular, the pilot episode is called "Premiere". While other episodes vary from "We're So Screwed" to "Back and Back and Back to the Future".
** The comics continue the tradition with pride.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: John Crichton tends to do this on occasions when he's roped into helping Scorpius. It [[MurphysLaw never works]].

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** Which is tame compared to the hallucination of his nightie-clad (and [[{{Squick}} dead]]) mother [[IncestIsRelative hitting on him]].

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** Which is tame compared to the hallucination of his nightie-clad (and [[{{Squick}} dead]]) mother [[IncestIsRelative [[ParentalIncest hitting on him]].
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* RedAndBlackTotalitarianism: The Peacekeepers, who are TheEmpire in the show, have red and black uniforms and interior decor. Their insignia is based on a rather famous Russian Civil War-era communist propaganda poster, ''Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge'', which depicts a red wedge penetrating a white circle (white being the color of the Russian anticommunist coalition).

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* YouDontWantToCatchThis: Hynerian dermaphollica.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Froy, one of Scorpius' nurses, has blue hair and piercing blue eyes to match, an unusual trait for a Sebacean.

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* WritingAroundTrademarks: John is initially employed by IASA, the '''Inter'''national Air and Space Administration, after NASA refused to allow the use of its name and logo without having oversight on the production. The writers opted to just change the name instead because NASA would not have been seen often enough in the show to justify that much of a behind the scenes presence. And after the first fifteen minutes of the pilot, the show swings all the way over to the soft end of the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness and keeps pushing, so NASA script oversight wouldn't have accomplished much anyway.

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* WritingAroundTrademarks: John is initially employed by IASA, the '''Inter'''national Air and Space Administration, after NASA refused to allow the use of its name and logo without having oversight on the production. The writers opted to just change the name instead because NASA would not have been seen often enough in the show to justify that much of a behind the scenes presence. And after the first fifteen minutes of the pilot, the show swings all the way over to the soft end of the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness science fiction and keeps pushing, so NASA script oversight wouldn't have accomplished much anyway.
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* OutfitRipSexCheck: Chiana uses the "rip open jacket to reveal breasts" version to a woman disguised as a man in one episode.
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* SuccessThroughInsanity: Pretty much everyone has moments of this, but John Crichton takes the cake, who has ejected himself into space and propelled himself to a nearby ship by shooting a gun into space and manages to force the Scarrans to negotiate with him by creating a ''handheld nuclear bomb'' which he promptly dances around with.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In "My Three Crichtons", John gives the evolved Future-Crichton this speech, wondering how Humans could ever end up so cold and without compassion, willing to sacrifice innocents in order to save his own ass. Future-Crichton points out that earlier John was [[NotSoDifferent perfectly willing to do just that]] to the Caveman-Crichton version.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In "My Three Crichtons", John gives the evolved Future-Crichton this speech, wondering how Humans could ever end up so cold and without compassion, willing to sacrifice innocents in order to save his own ass. Future-Crichton points out that earlier John was [[NotSoDifferent perfectly willing to do just that]] that to the Caveman-Crichton version.

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