History Recap / FarscapeS01E13TheFlax

** Relieved that Aeryn wasn't killed in the impact with the Flux, Crichton tells her not to scare him like that. Aeryn takes offense, thinking he's accusing her of trying to harm him (why else would he be scared?)

* DistressSignal: Aeryn manages to launch a signal buoy to let the others know they're in trouble. However as the Flux absorbs all signals, they can't be sure anyone's coming to their rescue.

* FamilyOfChoice: Staanz tells Zhaan and D'Argo that it's a good thing their two crewmates trapped in the Flux aren't family. Later D'Argo abandons a chance of reuniting with his son to save John and Aeryn.

* TheRadioDiesFirst: Followed by the power, both drained by the Flux. DivertingPower from the auxiliaries gives them enough power to launch a distress beacon, but they've no way of knowing if anyone received it, or if their friends are even capable of coming to their rescue.

* SomeKindOfForcefield: The Flux is only revealed when a spacecraft runs into it. This makes it very difficult to avoid.

* DispenseWithThePleasantries: Zhaan offers refreshments to the space pirates who curtly respond that if they wanted something, they'd have taken it already.

* KansasCityShuffle: Rygel, of all people, pulls off a brilliant one against Kcrackic. He knew the pirates won't be fobbed off easily, so Rygel deliberately loses the game and, to pay his debt, reveals that Pilot knows the coordinates where Staanz is. Pilot then sends them off in the wrong direction, having earlier entered the wrong coordinates in the ship's data on Rygel's instruction. Rygel then complains that the hardest part was losing the game, as Kcrackic was such an awful playing.

* DistressSignal: Aeryn manages to launch a buoy to let the others know they're in trouble.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: D'Argo has time to either board a derelict Luxan ship and search for the star charts he needs to get home, or to John and Aeryn's ship to rescue them.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: It turns out Staanz's species are differently sexually dimorphic as most other races, and ''she'' has been nursing a crush on D'Argo for most of the episode. With this in mind, Crichton makes sure to ask Aeryn if she is actually female.

* ColdEquation: Aeryn and Crichton have to purge the oxygen from their spacecraft so they can do welding repairs without starting a fire, but there's only one intact spacesuit. The solution is for one of them to use a killshot (a Peacekeeper injection used for a MercyKill on the battlefield) while the other does the weld, then the conscious person revives them with a nerve shot. Aeryn says she is the logical choice to die as the killshot and nerve shot are designed for Sebaceans, while Crichton knows how to do the weld. But Crichton points out it's his spacesuit helmet that's damaged and he can't fit into hers. In the end, Aeryn takes too long to do the repair and has a choice of finishing the job to save herself and let Crichton die, or abandon the repair and they both die when their oxygen runs out. Aeryn chooses to save Crichton, figuring she's dead either way and she'd rather not DieAlone.

* ColdEquation:

** Aeryn doesn't like "tech" work because if her Prowler was damaged, she was taught to find someone else's spacecraft and take it by force.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Aeryn revives John, in a [[KissOfLife bit of]] ShipTease.

* HumanoidAliens: Aeryn assumes that Sebacean medicine should work fine on John, since human physiology appears to be similar enough to theirs. John, however, insists that she learn CPR instead, not trusting that her revival shot will work on him.

* BatmanGambit: Rygel and Pilot know the pirates won't be fobbed off easily, so Rygel loses the game deliberately and blurts out that Pilot knows the coordinates where Staanz is, but Pilot sends them off in the wrong direction, the two of them having planned this in advance.

* KansasCityShuffle: Rygel, of all people, pulls off a brilliant one against Kcrackic.

* OutWithABang: The result of Aeryn and John's shared ObiWanMoment. [[MomentKiller And then D'Argo comes to the rescue.]]

* TheRadioDiesFirst: Followed by the power, both drained by the Flux.

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Rygel bemoans that he once had 70,000 servants, and 50,000 more during festivals--[[MaidCorps mostly female]], whose entire job was to keep him entertained. Now he's bored out of his mind. Zhaan has NoSympathy.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Staanz's spaceship smells so badly from all the junk he's collected he had his smell pods cauterized. D'Argo with his enhanced Luxan sense of smell is not happy.

* NoSeatBelts: John and Aeryn are both sent flying when they collide with The Flax.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: "This is gonna hurt, isn't it?!"

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage:
** Sort of, as after hearing some of John's "colorful Southern expressions", Aeryn says in disbelief that her translator microbes must be screwing up.
** Relieved that Aeryn wasn't killed in the impact with the Flux, Crichton tells her not to scare him like that. Aeryn takes offense, thinking he's accusing her of trying to harm him (why else would he be scared?)

* TattooedCrook: Staanz drops his pants (fortunately he's wearing jocks) to reveal the Zenetan gang murals marked with tattoos and scar tissue on his thigh.

* TattooedCrook: Staanz drops his pants (fortunately he's wearing jocks) to reveal the Zenetan gang murals tattooed on his thigh.

* WhatsTheFunInThat: Crichton wants to enjoy himself flying the transport pod, while Aeryn would rather he concentrate on her piloting lesson.

* ShoutOut: Staanz has a leg brace similar to that worn by Max in much of the ''Film/MadMax'' franchise.

* SpacePirates: Also crossed with SalvagePirates as they loot vessels caught in The Flux. Staanz is a former member, who [[TheStoolPigeon isn't exactly well-liked by his former comrades]]. Unusually for this trope, they're not actually a threat to our heroes, but are instead looking for Staanz.

* VariantChess: Rygel passes the time by playing some sort of chess game, and as it turns out, the leader of the SpacePirates and Staanz are both fans.

* BigShutUp: D'Argo when he tires of Zhaan and Rygel squabbling with each other, which doesn't take long.

** After their pod gets damaged, Crichton asks if

* HandsOnApproach: Aeryn teaching Crichton.

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Sort of, as after hearing some of John's "colorful Southern expressions", Aeryn says in disbelief that her translator microbes must be screwing up.

* SpacePirates: Staanz is a former member, who isn't exactly well-liked by his former comrades. Unusually for this trope, they're not actually a threat to our heroes, but are instead looking for Staanz.