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Farscape s02e18: A Clockwork Nebari

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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 2 (per Wikipedia contributors)
3. Episode: 18 (per Wikipedia contributors)
4. Running time: 44 minutes 16 seconds
5. Official upload published: 22 February 2025
6. Summary
7. Once aboard, the visitors drug the crew and begin a program of mind-cleansing, forcing Rygel, Pilot and Crichton to coordinate a resistance. The episode is available to watch because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel.
8. Plot
9. According to YouTube automatic captions, Early in the episode, Chiana is brought back to Moya in custody after a mission that left Aeryn and Rygel behind.
10. A Nebari leader called Vorah identifies herself as a guide sent in response to a signal about Chiana, and the visitors take control of the ship.
11. Pilot is fitted with a lethal collar that will inject poison into him if Moya attempts a starburst, and he warns Crichton that a collar on him would kill him instantly if he tried the same maneuver while a Peacekeeper patrol is nearby.
12. Chiana tells D'Argo that she and her brother Ner fled Nebari Prime long ago on exit permits, explaining her own past.
13. Rygel, Pilot and Crichton resist the Nebari mind-cleansing and work together to drive the intruders off Moya.
14. Memorable quotes
15. you're not using me again
16. give me your gun no you have to choose between these women you have to choose no you are senior here Vara but I resist the temptation to terminate the prize that we were sent to retrieve
17. this entire Peacekeeper experience it's a rose no Peacekeeper command carrier pilot terminate the simulation
18. since when do people like us get what we want
19. In the episode
20. Pilot delivers Chiana to Moya Pilot returns to the ship with Chiana, explaining how he tricked information from the slavers while Aeryn and Rygel covered their retreat.
21. Moya under the stranger's control A hooded woman appears, takes the pulse pistol from Chiana, and prepares to hand her over to her people.
22. Chiana rejects the cleansing Chiana lashes out when the stranger orders the crew cleansed, refusing to return home and starting a standoff.
23. Officer Sool arrives on Moya Sool, the stranger's superior, boards Moya and demands the pilot deliver them to a Nebari outpost, then seizes Aeryn with a neural collar.
24. Crichton learns Chiana's value Crichton and Rygel piece together that Chiana was brought back because she is highly valuable to the Nebari, not just a prisoner.
25. Sool explains the contagion plan Sool tells Crichton that Chiana endangers the Nebari's mission to remove violence from the galaxy by spreading a calming contagion.
26. Crichton confronts Chiana Crichton presses Chiana about the resistance and about the man she called 'the sister,' suspecting she is hiding something crucial.
27. Chiana reveals her past Chiana recounts how she and her brother Jner were unknowingly used as carriers for the Nebari contagion when they were young.
28. Chiana confesses the full plan Chiana admits the Nebari infected her people on purpose and that she was spreading the contagion herself before trying to defect.
29. Crichton snaps out of the collar Crichton experiences a flash that burns off the mind-cleansing drug, leaving him free of Nebari control as he reports to the others.
30. Rygel also breaks free Rygel returns to the group, having metabolized the cleansing drug, and joins Crichton and Pilot in plotting their next move.
31. Pilot stalls for time Pilot pretends to still be cleansed, feigning a calm persona while secretly working with Crichton to set up a ruse.
32. Aeryn and D'Argo caught lying Aeryn and D'Argo fail their cover story with the Nebari, forcing Pilot and Crichton to accelerate their escape plan.
33. Faking the Peacekeeper attack Pilot displays a fabricated Peacekeeper squadron on Moya's portal, creating chaos as the Nebari scramble and the crew moves into position.
34. Background
35. According to Wikipedia contributors, Farscape was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and was co-produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment, premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel in North America on 19 March 1999.
36. A full upload of the episode was published to the official "Farscape" YouTube channel on 22 February 2025, running 2,656 seconds (about 44 minutes 16 seconds), and is auto-captioned in English with manual subtitles in other languages.
37. A Clockwork Nebari The full episode as published by the rights holder, from the opening titles to the end of the upload.
38. In the series
39. According to Wikipedia contributors, A Clockwork Nebari is the eighteenth episode of the second season of Farscape.

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