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* FridgeLogic: The streets are monitored at all times, but not the jail cells? For that matter, nobody even questions how Zhaan is supposed to have ''melted the bars'' without help. There's not even a HandWave for either.



* NamingYourColonyWorld: A planet of lawyers named Litigara. In a part of the galaxy where the English pun doesn't even make any sense. Yeah, guys, you really could have [[{{Narm}} put a bit more effort into that one]].

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* NamingYourColonyWorld: A planet of lawyers named Litigara. In Litigara, which is a bit odd as they're in a part of the galaxy where the English pun doesn't even make any sense. Yeah, guys, you really could have [[{{Narm}} put a bit more effort into that one]].sense.



* OutOfOrder: This episode was first filmed for the season premiere, however it was held to allow "Mind the Baby" to air instead after the producers decided that it wasn't good enough to justify the viewer outrage that would result from the end-of-season cliffhangers being left unresolved. Several additional scenes were shot and the episode was aired later on as a flashback story.
** The original cut of this episode, "Re: Union", aired as a special presentation on Sci-Fi in 2001, during reruns of the third season.

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* DeletedScene: An opening sequence in which Zhaan and Pilot comfort each other in their stress over the loss of Aeryn is cut, as is the original epilogue which established Zhaan's reentry into being a Pa'u.
** Even more significantly: Dialog in which it's revealed that the murder victim is a blue-eyed Litigaran, was removed from the broadcast version (the scene can be viewed in its entirety in the Deleted Scenes on the DVD and is restored on Netflix). This makes the scene in which Chiana cross-examines a blue-eyed police officer with moon burns who claimed to have "stumbled" across the murder scene a bit confusing when she mentions the victim was ''not'' burned, implying he must have been killed elsewhere.



* ThrowItIn / TitleDrop: According to Ben Browder, the scenes where he sings "Dream a Little Dream of Me" were not in the script, but rather ad libbed.

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* ThrowItIn / TitleDrop: According to Ben Browder, the scenes where he Crichton sings a bit of "Dream a A Little Dream of Me" were not in the script, but rather ad libbed.after Zhaan mentions dreaming about him dying.

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* SurvivorGuilt: Because Zhaan has forsaken up the spiritual path the Pa’u, she has no healthy way of reconciling her feelings of grief at the loss of her comrades, and her guilt at having survived at their expense. By the end of the episode, Zhaan has her head on straight.

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* StimulantSpeedtalk: Chiana spends all night seducing one of the witnesses in the hopes of getting information out of him and is left hungover the following morning. [[GuileHero Rygel]] gives her some stimulant pills to get her through the next stage of Zhaan's trial, warning her to take only one for every third of the day. Chiana, [[TheHedonist being Chiana]], ''takes all three at once.'' She spends the next session completely hopped out of her brain, gibbering high-speed nonsense at the witnesses and frequently going on wildly unnecessary digressions.
* SurvivorGuilt: Because Zhaan has forsaken up the spiritual path the Pa’u, she has no healthy way of reconciling her feelings of grief at the loss of her comrades, and her guilt at having survived at their expense. By the end of the episode, Zhaan has her head on straight.
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** When Zhaan hallucinates seeing Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo coming to break her out of jail, they PowerWalk down the corridor in silhouette. This is allusion to the 1983 movie ''Film/TheRightStuff'' where the astronauts walk in slow motion upon entering the hangar.

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** When Zhaan hallucinates seeing Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo coming to break her out of jail, they PowerWalk TeamPowerWalk down the corridor in silhouette. This is allusion to the 1983 movie ''Film/TheRightStuff'' where the astronauts walk in slow motion upon entering the hangar.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Like everything else, ''Farscape'' takes PlanetOfHats and bitch-slaps it.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Like everything else, ''Farscape'' takes PlanetOfHats and [[Website/SFDebris bitch-slaps it.it]].]]
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* CourtroomAntic: The "Light of Truth," a burning chair leg manipulated from orbit, even if it's nominally sanctioned by the ''Axiom.''
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* NiceHat: Litigarans take that "PlanetOfHats" thing literally. They pale in comparison, however, to the giant strawberry Oreo cookie on the judge's head.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: On days when both moons are at their fullest, blue-eyed Litigarans are prone to "moon burns" on their skin. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot-point later in the episode, when a blue-eyed police officer who happened to "stumble" across Zhaan at the murder scene is being cross-examined by Chiana, who points out that it was odd he was out that night when blue-eyed Litigarans tend to stay indoors. A ''very'' important deleted scene revealed that the murder victim was ''also'' blue-eyed but was ''not'' burned, suggesting he had been killed elsewhere and dumped where Zhaan could find him.]]

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* BizarreAlienBiology: On days when both moons are at their fullest, blue-eyed Litigarans are prone to "moon burns" on their skin. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot-point later in the episode, when a blue-eyed police officer who happened to "stumble" across Zhaan at the murder scene is being cross-examined by Chiana, who points out that it was odd he was out that night when blue-eyed Litigarans tend to stay indoors. A ''very'' important deleted scene revealed that the murder victim was ''also'' blue-eyed but was ''not'' burned, suggesting he had been killed elsewhere and dumped where Zhaan could find him.]]



** Even more significantly: Dialog in which it's revealed that [[spoiler: the murder victim is a blue-eyed Litigaran]], was removed from the broadcast version (the scene can be viewed in its entirety in the Deleted Scenes on the DVD and is restored on Netflix). [[spoiler: This makes the scene in which Chiana cross-examines a blue-eyed police officer with moon burns who claimed to have "stumbled" across the murder scene a bit confusing when she mentions the victim was ''not'' burned, implying he must have been killed elsewhere]].

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** Even more significantly: Dialog in which it's revealed that [[spoiler: the murder victim is a blue-eyed Litigaran]], Litigaran, was removed from the broadcast version (the scene can be viewed in its entirety in the Deleted Scenes on the DVD and is restored on Netflix). [[spoiler: This makes the scene in which Chiana cross-examines a blue-eyed police officer with moon burns who claimed to have "stumbled" across the murder scene a bit confusing when she mentions the victim was ''not'' burned, implying he must have been killed elsewhere]].elsewhere.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Like everything else, ''Farscape'' takes PlanetOfHats and [[Website/SFDebris bitch-slaps it]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Like everything else, ''Farscape'' takes PlanetOfHats and [[Website/SFDebris bitch-slaps it]].it.]]

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* AllCrimesAreEqual
* AmoralAttorney

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* AllCrimesAreEqual
AllCrimesAreEqual: On Litigara, a simple jaywalking is treated as seriously as murder.
* AmoralAttorneyAmoralAttorney: Most of the lawyer-class Litigarans that we see aren't particularly nice people.



* ChangedMyMindKid

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* ChangedMyMindKidChangedMyMindKid: Moya appears to have left, leaving Zhaan, Chiana and Rygel stranded on Litigara. Luckily she decides to return for them in time to help with the "Light of Truth" deception.



* CourtroomEpisode
* ADayInTheLimelight

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* CourtroomEpisode
CourtroomEpisode: A lot of the episode covers Zhaan's trial.
* ADayInTheLimelightADayInTheLimelight: With Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo still missing the remaining castmembers get more focus.



* MamaBear: Moya is depserate to get back to the asteroid thicket and find her offspring.



* RaceAgainstTheClock

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* RaceAgainstTheClockRaceAgainstTheClock: Chiana and Rygel need to get Zhaan out of trouble before a panicked Moya decides to leave the system without them.
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* ThirdPersonFlashback: The episode shows many events that Zhaan wasn't present at, and which it's unlikely that other people would have told her about. This is probably because it wasn't planned as a Whole Episode Flashback.

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