History Recap / FarscapeS05E01ThePeacekeeperWarsPart1

* DarthVaderClone: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Scorpius. He's first introduced as one [[note]] Don't forget, these movies were written in a way so new viewers aren't completely lost in what's happening, especially since these movies were made years after Season 4 wrapped up [[/note]] but he ends up being chummy with the crew.

** BackForTheDead: Jool.

* NotSoDifferent: When Sikozu attempts to persuade Aeryn not to support Crichton's plan for the sake of their baby, she suggests that as a human, Crichton is as inferior to a Peacekeeper as she herself is to Scorpius. Aeryn turns it back around on her, however, by saying it isn't about superiority or inferiority, but equality, and that for both of the couples "maybe we're just meant to be together".

* OnceUponATime: Crichton uses the StockPhrase when he tells the Eidolons about his predicament.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: John says "Boom-bada-bing" as he tells the Eidolons about his crystallization.

* KilledOffForReal: Jool

* LullDestruction: Immediately after Jool tells him about the importance of decorum, John pierces the silence with a loudly echoing whistle.

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* {{Irony}}: Crichton is fighting so desperately to end the war because of not only his love for Aeryn but their unborn child, since "a baby's gotta have a father"...not knowing that Grayza is also pregnant by him.

* VillainousRescue: Staleek coming in to stop the doctor from killing Rygel and the baby via MakeItLookLikeAnAccident--because Akhan countermanded his orders and thereby broke his word/the truce, but also because only ''he'' gets to order their deaths.

* DoomMagnet: Chiana lampshades this quality of ''Moya'''s crew, after their decision to go to Arnessk to help the Eidolons' descendants and bring about peace instead result in the deaths of Jool and all but one of the Eidolons:

* CuttingTheKnot: Crichton is in a SadisticChoice: either agree to give the Scarrans the wormhole technology, which they will use to destroy the Peacekeepers, rule the galaxy, and eventually threaten Earth, or Rygel (carrying his and Aeryn's baby) will die. [[TakeAThirdOption He elects]] to take Staleek into the wormhole to meet Einstein, since he knows a) the Ancients are powerful enough to resist Scarran mind-probes and b) the Ancients didn't put enough information in his head to turn the wormholes into weapons, they can testify to this, and they certainly won't give it to the Scarrans either. But instead of giving up after learning all this, Staleek decides to still keep them prisoner to gain leverage and information against the Peacekeepers, and then to kill them for dissection after the peace talks (in his mind) leave him weak and humiliated.

* CuttingTheKnot: Crichton is in a SadisticChoice: either agree to give the Scarrans the wormhole technology, which they will use to destroy the Peacekeepers, rule the galaxy, and eventually threaten Earth, or Rygel (carrying his and Aeryn's bady) will die. [[TakeAThirdOption He elects]] to take Staleek into the wormhole to meet Einstein, since he knows a) the Ancients are powerful enough to resist Scarran mind-probes and b) the Ancients didn't put enough information in his head to turn the wormholes into weapons, they can testify to this, and they certainly won't give it to the Scarrans either. But instead of giving up after learning all this, Staleek decides to still keep them prisoner to gain leverage and information against the Peacekeepers, and then to kill them for dissection after the peace talks (in his mind) leave him weak and humiliated.

* TransplantedHumans: The Sebacean species is revealed to be a genetically altered offshoot of Humanity, who were taken from Earth thousands of years in the past to serve as the Eidolons peacekeepers.

* BackForTheFinale: Grunchlk, [[spoiler: Jool and Jothee]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Jool]]
* LullDestruction: Immediately after [[spoiler: Jool]] tells him about the importance of decorum, John pierces the silence with a loudly echoing whistle.

* BackForTheFinale: Grunchlk and [[spoiler: Jool]].

* LullDestruction: Immediately after Jool tells him about the importance of decorum, John pierces the silence with a loudly echoing whistle.

* WeddingSmashers: To the point where it becomes a RunningGag. Every time John and Aeryn try to tie the knot, someone attacks them.


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While D'Argo scans the Decimator for its weaknesses, Crichton tries to convince Staleek that he can't give the Scarrans wormhole weapons. In a last-ditch effort, he offers to fly Staleek down a wormhole and they visit [[Recap/FarscapeS04E11UnrealizedReality "Einstein"]], who confirms that Crichton doesn't have the knowledge of wormhole weapons and that nobody should have such knowledge. However, once Staleek is returned to the Decimator, he still keeps the crew prisoner, knowing that they could possess knowledge of Peacekeeper plans. War Minister Ahkna demonstrates the Decimator's advanced technology by detecting Lo'La, targeting her and destroying her. D'Argo and Chiana manage to get out of the ship in time and fall unconscious in the vacuum of space. At the last minute, they're rescued by another Luxan warship, even more advanced than Lo'La, crewed by a team of Luxan commandos and captained by Jothee. Meanwhile on the Decimator, the Scarrans study Rygel's pregnancy before returning him to the crew's cell. When Staleek enters, Yondalao demonstrated his power by creating a field of calming energy that allows him and Staleek to speak rationally. On his own and with little knowledge of Scarrans, Yondalao almost manages to broker a peace accord -- until Ahkna shoots Yondalao, believing that victory over the Peacekeepers is assured anyway. In order to safeguard Yondalao's knowledge, the crew force Stark to cross him over and assimilate his peacemaking knowledge, just as Rygel starts displaying symptoms that indicate it's time to transfer the baby back to Aeryn. It's at this point that the Scarrans, having decided to execute everyone, start pumping poison gas into the room...