History Fridge / Farscape

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* In "DNA Mad Scientist," Namtar offers D'Argo, Zhann and Rygel the way back home in exchange for Pilot's DNA, so they cut off his arm. Crichton is naturally appalled, but surprisingly so is Aeryn - who reasons that Pilot was not merely defenseless but an ally of the crew. Flashbacks from "The Way We Weren't," [[spoiler:where she helped murder Moya's original pilot and later sold out our Pilot's benefactor - things she later deeply regretted]], really explain why she is so appalled.

* Sikozu's initial refusal to accept evident facts at face value seems a bit strange if you only attribute it to her extensive education; after all, Jool was just as educated and much more capable of accepting and adapting to to things that run contrary to her knowledge. [[spoiler: Then we find out that Sikozu is a bioloid; she wasn't educated at all, but ''programmed'' with the knowledge, which might explain why she insists on adhering to it even when it's contradicted by reality.]]
* At the end of the Peacekeeper Wars, John's comment that [[spoiler:"This is your playground"]] to [[spoiler:Dargo Sun-Crichton, his son]] could be considered somewhat prophetic as [[spoiler: Dargo Sun-Crichton is explicitly mentioned as having the Wormhole Knowledge within his DNA from his father (unlike John, we don't know this was removed), as well as having a small amount of Pilot DNA from his mother, which allows some command over Leviathans. These inherited traits give the potential for him to potentially revolutionize interstellar travel.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Crichton, in one of his many flip-out moments in "Crackers Don't Matter," writes the name of the villain-of-the-week T'raltixx on a door. How does he know how to spell it, much less get it right? Then you realize: He doesn't! Nobody in the show technically speaks English except for Crichton, so he probably just made it up. Likewise when Crichton occasionally speaks in Spanish and the others have no problem understanding him (thanks to the Translator Microbes); an exception being "Crichton Kicks" where the microbes can't handle Klingon! This is explained by Sikozu not using translator microbes - her brain can't handle them, possibly [[spoiler: because she's a bioloid]]. She learns languages extremely quickly but must be presented with their structure, rules, and alphabet. Because Crichton taught her English but dropped in the Klingon on a whim (actually a true-blue ThrowItIn by Ben Browder, which is why Raelee Hill had that look on her face after he said it), Sikozu wasn't able to process what he said.

* When they try to bury [[spoiler: Talyn]]'s remains in the sacred space, a crazed Leviathan objects on the grounds that he's part Peacekeeper. When he was destroyed [[spoiler: Crais]] was in the same place. Any of [[spoiler: Crais]] that remained would have been mixed in with [[spoiler: Talyn]]. Either Moya's crew manually sifted through them and tried to separate them out, or his remains really would be part Peacekeeper.

* If the Interions have screams that can melt solid ''metal'', how the frell did they ever manage to become a spacefaring species? Seriously, can you imagine what their space-program was like? Their version of Neil Armstrong would be paraonoid the entire time.

* The example cited for {{Translator Microbes}} poses the question of why the {{Trope Namer}} is able to translate English (a language that no one else speaks), when an ancient form of the ''native language'' of one of the main characters needs a new batch of microbes to be programmed and injected. A possible (unintentional) explanation for this is that untranslated Sebacean language [[spoiler:sounds like English looped backwards (or from the microbes' perspective, English sounds like Sebacean looped backwards)]]. The microbes should theoretically be able to recognize that "coincidence" and compensate from there.

[[AC: FridgeLogic]]:

* In Season 4's "We're So Screwed" trilogy, John carries a nuke with the words "Hi There!" on it. In the final episode of the series, "Bad Timing", John places a nuke with "Dear John" written on it. These are both in reference to the film ''[[Film/DoctorStrangelove Doctor Stranglove]]''. And not only that, but there's also a similarity between the nukes. "Hi There!" get's set off in the third episode of the trilogy (just as "Hi There!" is dropped with Major Kong riding it). "Dear John" in both the show and the film are never seen going off.

* In Season 4's "We're So Screwed" trilogy, John carries a nuke with the words "Hi There!" on it. In the final episode, John places a nuke with "Dear John" written on it. These are both in reference to the film ''[[Film/DoctorStrangelove Doctor Stranglove]]''. And not only that, but there's also a similarity between the nukes. "Hi There!" get's set off in the third episode of the trilogy (just as "Hi There!" is dropped with Major Kong riding it). "Dear John" in both the show and the film are never seen going off.

** Or they're just different designs for different departments - command, operations, commandos, pilots, etc - like StarTrek's different-coloured shirts

** It's been suggested elsewhere that translator microbes are telepathic in nature. This would allow them to interpret a language from any species they encounter. They could then translate recordings once they learnt the language. If it was a language they hadn't encountered before and it was only a recording, they'd have no way to translate.

** Well, maybe their building materials were non-metallic; maybe their screams only effect materials or metals alien to their home planet. It's worth noting that Jool and her relatives didn't have a spaceship of their own- they were hitchhiking.

** Translator microbes probably aren't bred to need to work with dead languages, hence when a dead language needs to be translated, they need an upgrade patch.

* When they try to bury [[spoiler: Talyn]]'s remains in the sacred space, a crazed Leviathan objects on the grounds that he's part Peacekeeper. When he was destroyed [[spoiler: Crais]] was in the same place. Any of [[spoiler: Crais]] that remained would have been mixed in with [[spoiler: Talyn]]. Either Moya's manually shifted through them and tried to separate them out, or his remains really would be part Peacekeeper.

** ... how can one "choose" how to scream in pain? Jool doesn't have much of a guage on it, considering it switches on the moment Aeryn twists her thumb. And in the case of the MercyKill-ed Interon: how - having just been awoken from cryosleep only to find yourself being stabbed with a syringe by a masked lunatic - are you supposed to ''choose'' to scream "normally"?

* In "DNA Mad Scientist," Namtar offers D'Argo, Zhann and Rygel the way back home in exchange for Pilot's DNA, so they cut off his arm. Crichton is naturally appalled, but surprisingly so is Aeryn - who reasons that Pilot was not merely defenceless but an ally of the crew. Flashbacks from "The Way We Weren't," [[spoiler:where she helped murder Moya's original pilot and later sold out our Pilot's benefactor - things she later deeply regretted]], really explain why she is so appalled.

* The example cited for {{Translator Microbes}} poses the question of why the {{Trope Namer}} is able to translate English (a language that no one else speaks), when an ancient form of the ''native language'' of one of the main characters needs a new batch of microbes to be programmed and injected. A possible (unintentional) explanation for this is that untranslated Sebacean language [[spoiler:sounds like English looped backwards (or from the microbes' perspective, English sounds like Sebacean looped backwards)]]. The microbes should theoretically be able to recognize that "coincidence" and compensate from there.

* At the end of the Peacekeeper Wars, John's comment that [[spoiler:"This is your playground"]] to [[spoiler:Dargo Sun-Crichton, his son]] could be considered somewhat prophetic as [[spoiler: Dargo Sun-Crichton is explicitly mentioned as having the Wormhole Knowledge within his DNA from his father (unlike John, we don't know this was removed), as well as having a small amount of Pilot DNA from his mother, which allows some command over Leviathans. These inherited traits give the potential for him to potentially revolutionise interstellar travel.]]

* Zhaan's wardrobe choices. Her blue outfits look gorgeous to a human. But to a blue-skinned Delvian, wouldn't wearing a color so close to your own fleshtone seem kind of dull and bland? It would be like a human always wearing tans and browns. But maybe that's the point. Zhaan is a priestesses. Maybe Delvian priests wear blue *because* it is a "dull" color to them, as a form of modesty (much like how human monks used to wear dull brown robes).

* The example cited for {{Translator Microbes}} poses the question of why the {{Trope Namer}} is able to translate English (a language that no one else speaks), when an ancient form of the ''native language'' of one of the main characters needs a new batch of microbes to be programmed and injected. A possible (unintentional) explanation for this is that untranslated Sebacean language [[spoiler:sounds like English looped backwards (or in-universe, English sounds like Sebacean looped backwards)]]. The microbes should theoretically be able to recognize that "coincidence" and compensate from there.

* The example cited for {{Translator Microbes}} poses the question of why the {{Trope Namer}} is able to translate English (a language that no one else speaks), when an ancient form of the ''native language'' of one of the main characters needs a new batch of microbes to be programmed and injected. A possible (unintentional) explanation for this is that untranslated Sebacean language [[spoiler:sounds like English looped backwards (or more accurately, English sounds like Sebacean looped backwards)]]. The microbes should theoretically be able to recognize that "coincidence" and compensate from there.

* The example cited for {{Translator Microbes}} poses the question of why the {{Trope Namer}} is able to translate English (a language that no one else speaks), when an ancient form of the ''native language'' of one of the main characters needs a new batch of microbes to be programmed and injected. A possible (unintentional) explanation for this is that untranslated Sebacean language [[spoiler:sounds like English looped backwards]]. The microbes should theoretically be able to recognize that "coincidence" and compensate from there.