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1. Series: Farscape
2. Season: 2
3. Episode number: 4
4. First aired (United States): 7 April 2000
5. Running time: 44 minutes 17 seconds
6. Uploaded to YouTube: 21 November 2024
7. What happens in "Crackers Don't Matter"?
8. At the start of the episode, the crew of the living ship Moya has just taken on a blind alien named Tarkt to make adjustments to Moya's electromagnetics, and they argue about a bulk purchase of one thousand units of crackers as shipboard food. With Zhaan supervising, Tarkt runs a small-scale test of a sentry device on John Crichton's module, and it succeeds: the module vanishes briefly, Crichton finds that he has vanished along with it, and then both reappear. After the standard wormhole voiceover, the crew discusses taking Moya to Tarkt's home planet so he can build a much larger version of the device, a plan Crichton says he does not trust.
9. To reach Tarkt's world, Moya travels through a pulsar field, and Tarkt warns that the pulsar light can cause impaired judgment and wooziness in lesser, non-sentient species. As Moya moves deeper into the field, two of the crew begin to feel the effects, and Tarkt explains that his blindness has given him an internal radar sense. The central disturbance arrives when Moya receives a Peacekeeper beacon offering a reward for Crichton's capture, which draws his attention while Aeryn Sun is already bothered by the pulsar light.
10. Ka D'Argo confronts Chiana over the missing food and accuses Crichton of being behind the theft, while Pilot reports that Zhaan, a plant species, is smiling because the pulsar light is affecting her too. Crichton asks Pilot to run a spectrum analysis of the light to find the cause of the strange behavior, and an argument breaks out between him and Aeryn over the Peacekeeper beacon: Aeryn accuses Crichton of hiding something, and Chiana insists the transmission is blank.
11. Crichton finds Tarkt bound and gagged in a maintenance bay, the victim of an attack by another crew member, while D'Argo and Chiana privately raise the possibility that Zhaan is working with Scorpius through the Peacekeeper beacon. As the pulsar exposure continues, trust erodes and each crew member begins to suspect the others, while Tarkt's larger sentry device remains the stated reason for the journey.
12. Crackers Don't Matter The episode as published by the rights holder, from the start.
13. Memorable quotes
14. you know how I know that because you always lie you have no Integrity you have no honor you cheat you steal you lie you stuff your face that's you
15. trtic since he came on board we've been fighting about everything including these now I've been acting Twisted as well still am been seeing scorpus like he's guest starring on a y5o how crazy is that but I realized something freaking nuts than I am it's not the pulsars affecting me
16. In the episode
17. Test of the invisibility device Zhaan and Crichton activate the device on Crichton's module, which then vanishes from view.
18. Debating the visit to the yard The crew discusses whether to trust the strange new guest and travel to his home planet for a larger device.
19. Warning about the pulsar light The blind guest explains that the pulsar light may impair the judgment of lesser species, but not sentient ones.
20. Accusations over the food Crichton confronts Chiana about stealing crackers, marking the start of growing tension among the crew.
21. Pilot reports strange behavior Crichton contacts Pilot and asks for a spectrum analysis of the pulsar light because everyone is acting irrationally.
22. Crew realizes they are fighting The crew stops their bickering over crackers and the beacon's hidden message, sensing something is wrong.
23. Rygel plots an escape Rygel secretly recruits Chiana, suspecting Zhaan is working with Crichton to turn them over to Scorpius.
24. Pilot alters the ship's light Pilot increases Moya's bioluminescence at the guest's request, causing the entire ship to glow.
25. Aeryn takes the command chamber Aeryn locks herself in command and fights Rygel for control, while D'Argo and Crichton argue over the disabled module.
26. Crichton fights a hallucination Crichton is tormented by visions of Scorpius urging him to kill the others, struggling to maintain control.
27. Confrontation in the chamber The crew finally corners the guest in his glowing chamber, realizing he has been manipulating their optic neurons.
28. Plan to enter the chamber Crichton volunteers to enter the glowing chamber to kill the guest, equipped with a reflective visor and acidic puke.
29. Battle inside the chamber Crichton activates the module's drive inside the chamber, draining the guest's power and defeating him in combat.
30. The crew reconciles The crew apologizes to one another for their hostile actions, recognizing the guest had brought out their worst traits.
31. Air date, credits and where to watch
32. "Crackers Don't Matter" first aired in the United States on 7 April 2000. It is the fourth episode of Farscape's second season, which originally ran from 17 March 2000 to 19 December 2000 and aired on Australia's Nine Network and on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States.
33. The Farscape rights holder uploaded the complete episode to its official YouTube channel on 21 November 2024 as "Farscape S2E4 FULL Episode | Crackers Don't Matter", with a runtime of 2,657 seconds (about 44 minutes 17 seconds), which is why the full episode can be watched on this page. The upload's short description says the episode involves a timid alien acquired from a commerce planet who provokes an unexplained sense of paranoia throughout the crew and gradually begins seizing control of Moya, while the automatic transcript shows the on-screen conflict revolving around the blind alien Tarkt, the sentry device project and the suspicion sparked by the pulsar light.

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