Farscape s02e07: Home on the Remains

Series

Farscape^[1]

Season

2^[1]

Episode number

7^[1]

Rights-holder upload

Published on the official Farscape YouTube channel on 13 December 2024; runs 2,656 seconds (about 44 minutes 16 seconds).^[1]

Summary

"Home on the Remains" is the seventh episode of the second season of Farscape, the science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by The Jim Henson Company.^[1][3] In the rights holder's description, the crew searches for food to nurse an ailing friend back to health, and saving one friend may require sacrificing another.^[1]

What happens in "Home on the Remains"?

Moya's crew is short of food at a time when Zhaan is desperately ill and needs to eat.^[4] Pilot tells Officer Aeryn Sun that the situation is urgent, and Zhaan prepares a serum to slow the bud growth that has taken hold in her.^[4] At the same time, Zhaan's spores begin to affect Moya herself, numbing the living ship.^[4]

Chiana leads the rest of the crew to the carcass of a budong, a large creature whose flesh is too poisonous to eat raw.^[4] Her brother Ner once stayed at a mining camp inside the budong, she explains, and the crew learns that miners there still extract Nigeli crystals from the carcass.^[4] Inside the camp, the crew falls under the control of Temmon, who enforces a harsh order on the miners.^[4]

Teman reveals that a keva, a creature that preys on budongs, killed Chiana's brother Ner.^[4] Grief-stricken and enraged, Teman orders the mines inside the budong closed, cutting off the food the crew needs to save Xan.^[4] Faced with that choice, Chiana trades a night with Teman for the meat that will keep Xan alive.^[4]

0:00 Home on the Remains The rights holder's full upload of the episode, from the opening title to the end of the broadcast.

Memorable quotes

“I'll feed your friends, but not you, Chiana. You used up my charity.”8:34

“You chose Teman over me.”15:58

“I give you meat, you're mine. Till I'm done with you.”18:11

In the episode

0:30 Inspecting the rotting corpse The crew flies close to a massive dead budong and learns its flesh is poisonous, while Chiana describes a mining camp inside.

2:30 Xan demands food Xan, overcome with hunger, tells D'Argo he must be fed or he will die.

5:35 Meeting Temmin Chiana reunites with her former associate Temmin, who agrees to help the crew.

6:34 Temmin struck down A predator called a Keeva attacks Temmin, and Chiana is forced to euthanize him before he dies in agony.

7:35 Demanding weapons Temmin's partner Lukahn offers food in exchange for the crew's weapons.

12:31 Trading medical supplies Rygel negotiates with Lukahn, offering medicine in return for food and access to the mines.

14:32 Crichton cheats at dominoes Crichton wins a domino game against Rygel using underhanded tactics while extreme hunger sets in.

17:01 Chiana's desperate offer Lukahn suggests Chiana stay with him in exchange for meat, and she presents herself as the trade.

20:00 Moya's senses cloud Pilot reports that Xan's pollen is affecting Moya, and Zhaan's attempts to help only worsen the situation.

22:01 Plan to flush the ship D'Argo suggests Zhaan leave in a transport pod so Moya can open to space and purge the spores.

25:35 Crash landing Crichton and D'Argo survive a rough descent, hit each other, and plan their next move.

31:03 Alana falls to the predator Chiana reports that the Keeva killed Alana in the mines, and she and D'Argo barely escaped with crystals.

36:00 Taming the Keeva Lukahn reveals his trained Keeva, Triton, and feeds it to demonstrate their bond before the creature turns on him.

Air date, credits and where to watch

The episode stars Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Lani Tupu, Jonathan Hardy, Gigi Edgley, Wayne Pygram, Virginia Hey and Paul Goddard.^[1][2]

The rights holder published the episode on the official Farscape YouTube channel on 13 December 2024; the upload runs 2,656 seconds, about 44 minutes and 16 seconds.^[1] The upload is titled "Home On The Remains", capitalized differently from the episode's title.^[1]