History Recap / FarscapeS04E11UnrealizedReality

* YouKnowTooMuch: Einstein tells Crichton that he should kill him just for the knowledge he possesses alone. Given the stakes, it says a lot for his species that he's trying to find an alternative.

* YouKnowTooMuch: Einstein tells Crichton that he should kill him just for the knowledge he possesses alone. It says a lot for his species that he's trying to find an alternative.

%%* DidntSeeThatComing: "Whoops."

* FantasyKeepsake: Crichton is denying the reality of the alternate reality he just saw, when he realises he's clutching hair from when he shoved Chianna-Aeryn away.

** One sequence features a bunch of characters from his past denouncing Crichton for several things, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking concluding with his ex Caroline saying he was lousy in the sack]], while also making a pinching gesture to indicate he has a TeenyWeenie.

* ThisIsThePartWhere:
** Crichton has fun replaying the events of Day One on Moya. "Hey, why don't you try ripping out that control panel?" (D'Argo proceeds to do so.)
** "Oh no, this is the dream where I wake up in a cell, naked." (Opens his eyes and finds out he still has his clothes on.)

* TookALevelInBadass: Lampshaded when Crichton, finding himself replaying his first meeting with Officer Aeryn Sun, is able to match her in sparring. [[SubvertedTrope Then she sucker-punches him, throws him on the floor and breaks his neck.]]

* ThisIsThePartWhere: Crichton has fun replaying the events of Day One on Moya. "Hey, why don't you try ripping out that control panel?" (D'Argo proceeds to do so.)

* YouKnowTooMuch: Einstein flatly tells Crichton that he should kill him just for the knowledge he possesses. It says a lot for his species that he's trying to find an alternative.

** Explaining how he abducted Moya last season, Einstein says he originally expected to encounter a Pathfinder vessel--meaning he got to Moya because of [[Recap/FarscapeS03E04SelfInflictedWoundsWaitForTheWheel the beacon Neeyala implanted]].

* OutWithABang: Crichton finds himself in a reality where EveryonesDeadDave except for a bizarro Aeryn who looks like Chiana. With Moya in flames and no means of escape she tries to get Crichton to have sex--more freaked out than turned on, he shoves her away with a BigNo and finds himself back with Einstein.

* FantasyKeepsake: Crichton is denying the reality of the alternate reality he just saw, when he realises he's clutching hair from when he shoved Chianna away.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: One sequence features a bunch of characters denouncing Crichton. After such accusations as failure or blasphemous, it concludes with Caroline calling him [[LousyLoversAreLosers bad in bed]].

* ShoutOut: A whole string of them from Crichton during his final conversation with Einstein.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: One sequence features a bunch of characters denouncing Crichton. After such accusations as failure or blasphemous, it concludes with Caroline calling him bad in bed.

* DidntSeeThatComing: "Whoops."

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A montage about the danger Crichton could cause features brief snippets from [[Recap/FarscapeS04E12Kansas "Kansas"]] and [[Recap/FarscapeS04E13TerraFirma "Terra Firma"]].

* TheReveal: This episode finally explains what happened to Moya at the end of [[Recap/FarscapeS03E22DogWithTwoBones "Dog With Two Bones"]].

* [[AlternateRealityEpisode Unrealized Reality Episode]]: Crichton travels to several different such realities. The regular characters only appear in the teaser, so their actors spend the rest of the time playing different versions.
* WhamShot: At the end of the episode Crichton emerges from a wormhole and finds himself in orbit above Earth.

* [[AlternateRealityEpisode Unrealized Reality Episode]]: Crichton travels to several different such realities. The regular characters only appear in the teaser, so their actors spend the rest of the time playing different versions.

While studying a wormhole in EVA, Crichton gets sucked down it and deposited in the private dimension of a powerful being he nicknames "Einstein". It's revealed that Einstein's people are of the same race as the Ancients, who were "substantially modified" to exist in Crichton's realm in order to monitor and "influence" the state of wormhole technology. After contact was lost with the Ancients, Einstein was tasked with investigating the current state of the realm's wormhole knowledge: finding a [[Recap/FarscapeS03E03SelfInflictedWoundsCouldaWouldaShoulda a Pathfinder beacon]] he dragged the beacon-bearing ship down a wormhole, only to discover that the ship he'd retrieved was actually [[Recap/FarscapeS03E22DogWithTwoBones Moya]]. After questioning the crew at length, he learned about Crichton and his fascination with wormholes, and has spent the last year tracking him down.

* {{Callback}}: The first reality Crichton visits is a recreation of [[Recap/FarscapeS01E01Premiere his arrival on Moya]].

* [[AlternateRealityEpisode Unrealized Reality Episode]]: Crichton travels to several different such realities. The regular characters only appear in the teaser, so their actors spend the rest of the time playing different versions.

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During this encounter, Crichton gets a crash-course in wormhole physics, and discovers that wormholes connect not only different points of space, but different points in ''time'', allowing for someone traversing wormholes to travel backwards and forwards in time and potentially cause paradoxes. Crichton also witnesses the phenomenon of [[AlternateUniverse "unrealized realities"]] -- universe where events occur radically different as a result of meddling with time and space via wormholes. Einstein sends him to several of these unrealized realities, including one where the identities of Moya's crew are hopelessly jumbled from one character to the next [[hottip:*:accomplished by the actors playing different characters -- Claudia Black playing Chiana, Anthony Simcoe playing Jool, Raelee Hill playing Stark and ''the Rygel puppet playing D'Argo'']]; another where Crichton is a Peacekeeper officer interrogating Sikozu, a Scarran spy; and one where the Scarrans conquered Earth many generations ago and interbred with the human population, resulting in versions of Crichton and his father [[hottip:*:who is now played by Wayne Pygram]] that are quite clearly Scarran hybrids.

As he talks withCrichton, Einstein becomes convinced that Crichton can be trusted with his wormhole knowledge, and gives him the Ancients' old mission of preventing hostile forces from gaining wormhole technology- for the moment anyway. Finally, he imparts some knowledge that allows Crichton to traverse a wormhole in only his EVA suit. However, when he arrives on the other side, he's not back at Moya -- ''he's in orbit around the Earth...''