Brief synopsis:
The crew discover a helpless ship, very near to destruction. They allow two surviving Ilanic scientists to come aboard. After Crichton touches something he shouldn't, he experiences visions of the future, allowing him to uncover a plot to kill the lead scientist Verell, by an evil race called the Scorvians.

The Main Story:
The crew of Moya discover a disintegrating ship, on the verge of exploding. Initially, D'Argo wants to stay clear to avoid damage, and with Zhaan disagreeing, no decision is made. However, when an escape pod launches, and the occupants call for help, D'Argo is suddenly more than willing to help. Together, the crew bring the pod aboard, and free the two occupants. Whilst there, John manages to touch something he shouldn't, but is seemingly okay at first.

The two survivors turn out to be Ilanic scientists, Verell and Matala, who tell the crew that their ship malfunctioned, and a problem with the phase couplers due to deep space gravitational fluctuations led to the destruction of the ship.

Shortly afterwards, John has a dreamlike vision, involving the rescued female, Matala. He is confused by the realism of the experience, and begins to investigate. Meanwhile, Pilot calculates that it will take 12 arns for Moya to transport their passengers to the rendezvous point they had originally been heading for.

As John's visions start to grow in number, and become even more powerful, he decides to tell D'Argo, but clearly the Luxan is thinking differently since meeting Matala, and it seems Crichton will need to look elsewhere. He does so, finding Zhaan, and telling her everything.

Whilst John and Zhaan talk, Aeryn takes Matala to do a little combat training. Here, it seems as if Aeryn has the edge, but the Scorvian spy reveals herself using a special neural stroke. As Crichton's visions are revealing the future, he knows about this, and of the terrible things Matala is planning to do. Having learned from Verell that these visions could be caused by a temporal dislocation, after coming in contact with the quantum singularity that the scientists were transporting, John is able to see Matala kill Verell, and on one occasion, destroy the whole ship.

Explaining everything to Zhaan, and with Aeryn arriving (several times) the three formulate a plan, and though it goes wrong several times, resulting in many potential deaths, they eventually discover that the key is to keep D'Argo seperate from the Ilanics. To do this, John uses his knowledge of D'Argo's crime to convince D'Argo he is telling the truth.

After overhearing D'Argo tell Matala that the crime he told people about was not the one he was imprisoned for, John uses this to get D'Argo on board, and they are then able to confront Matala. However, she still kills Verell, and escapes aboard her ship to rendezvous with a Scorvian vessel.

Having seen a vision of the ship exploding due to weapons fire, John orders Pilot to starburst, and allows the singularity inside Matala's ship to swallow all the Scorvian vessels.

References and continuity:

D'Argo originally told the crew that he killed his commanding officer, but the events of this episode reveal that he is hiding the truth, and won't tell anyone of his true crime.

The weapon used by the scientists was a quantum singularity, as John says, a black hole. Even a tiny particle has easily the destructive force shown in the episode, sucking everything around it into the singularity.

Funny or interesting quotes:

Crichton: "I'm gonna get some air"
Aeryn: "We have air in here. What's the matter with him?"

Episode Aliens:
Crichton meets the Ilanics, distant cousins of the Luxans, a peaceful species, sadly at war with the Scorvians. Which wouldn't be complete if he didn't meet the Scorvians too, in the form of Matala, a Scorvian spy disguised as an Ilanic female.

Farewell to:

• Verell, the Ilanic Scientist, as well as his dangerous research.
  
• Matala, sucked into a black hole, along with a whole ship full of Scorvians.

Guest Stars: John Clayton as Verell. Lisa Hensley as Matala.

Personal Opinion:

I did like the idea of the quantum singularity being contained like that, but to be used as a weapon... well, that was wrong from the start, so its best it ended up failing. As for John's flashes of the future, they were vaguely explained by Verell, so I was willing to sit there and enjoy it a little. The Ben Browder of season 3 and beyond would have played with the idea a lot more though I think.

It was a shame to see D'Argo betrayed this way though. He finally seemed to have found friends in the uncharted territories, only to find one killed whilst the other was actually a Scorvian spy. Perhaps he should start looking closer to home!

	Interesting ideas, but on a small scale.		4/10