79 Facts About Durka

1.

Durka was the middle child born to Jack and Leslie Crichton.

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Durka's becomes a valuable and important member of Moya's crew, and a companion and romantic interest of Crichton during the series.

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Durka's has discovered that her mother, Xhalax Sun was a peacekeeper pilot who - against peacekeeper regulations - fell in love with an older officer, Talyn Lyczac.

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4.

Durka has a powerful, fast tongue that he can use to attack in a manner similar to that of a frog or chameleon.

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5.

Durka's has been an anarchist, and like other trained Delvians, Zhaan has several empathic and telepathic abilities which she cultivated to Pa'u level during her time in prison on Moya, although she was forced to channel these abilities to cause harm during the crew's first confrontation with the powerful Maldis in order to stop him and save the currently-imprisoned Crichton.

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6.

Durka is known for being selfish and collects anything valuable and was one of two regular puppet characters on the show.

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7.

Durka's has a number of distinctive mannerisms such as cocking her head at times and crouching on objects rather than sitting or standing.

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8.

Durka's has one named relative, her brother Nerri, three years her senior.

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9.

Durka's proves to be resourceful in "Nerve", distracting the Peacekeepers from John, disguising herself as a tech, manipulating Gilina and delivering Talyn.

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10.

Durka is introduced in the "Premiere" and plays a significant role in the resolution of The Peacekeeper Wars.

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11.

Durka is operated by Sean Masterson, Tim Mieville, Matt McCoy, Mario Halouvas and Fiona Gentle.

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12.

Durka was most happy when helping other crew members, although as his independence grew, he could sometimes become irritated with them and would order them out of his chamber and even off the ship altogether.

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Durka is willing to aid his enemies or humiliate himself if it will further his goals.

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14.

Durka has returned from supposedly fatal situations more than once, which he credits to his "foresight and preparation".

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15.

Durka manipulates others to do his work but does much on his own; his obsession with Crichton and his wormhole secrets is proof of that.

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16.

Durka is highly educated and extremely intelligent, and exercises remarkable ingenuity.

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17.

Durka's rank is never mentioned, and it is assumed that he does not officially hold one.

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18.

Durka's authority is not absolute as Commandant Mele-On Grayza informed him when she superseded it.

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19.

Durka becomes a more or less trustworthy crewmember though he looks for any chance to get Crichton's knowledge and forms a relationship with Sikozu.

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20.

Durka is last seen on Moya smiling as the Scarrens and Peacekeepers sign a peace treaty.

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21.

Durka's name, given to him by Crichton, is taken from either the Mary Chase play Harvey, in which Harvey is an invisible six-foot, one-and-a-half-inch tall rabbit that only Elwood P Dowd can see, or the popular film versions, both starring Jimmy Stewart .

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22.

Durka is basically a menacing hallucination of Scorpius that influences Crichton to become more erratic, unpredictable and similar to Scorpius.

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23.

Durka is capable of killing Crichton and does his best to make sure that Crichton would not go against Scorpius's ideas.

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24.

Durka was loyal to Scorpius and had a connection with him so Scorpius would know he was alive.

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25.

Durka helps the crew of Moya escape and is granted asylum.

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26.

Durka is introduced to the series late in the first season and became a main character during the third season, before disappearing at the end of it and only returning at the end of the fourth season; he played a major part in The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series.

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27.

Durka survives this because he is mostly made of energy, but his appearances thereafter show him as being more uneven in his personality.

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28.

Durka joins up with the crew of Talyn but frequently is at odds with his desire to "save" others, which eventually alienates Aeryn and Crais.

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29.

Durka is later found a prisoner on Katratzi which had been part of the reason Scorpius held him prisoner: he was searching for it and Stark knew where it was from "crossing over" Scarrens.

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30.

Durka is rescued by Chiana and Noranti and rejoins Moya's crew.

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31.

Durka's had her first appearance in "Self-Inflicted Wounds Part I: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a", and her last in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 1".

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32.

Durka later took her and her other cousin's stasis capsules with him onto Moya.

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33.

Durka's awoke to find herself aboard the Leviathan Moya and discovered that she had been frozen for 22 cycles.

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34.

Durka's had her first appearance in the "Premiere", and was last seen in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

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35.

Durka's was featured throughout Season 4 of Farscape, as well as being in The Peacekeeper Wars, where she realizes the existence of more Eidelons and convinces Crichton to seek to reawaken their powers to help end the war.

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36.

Durka's first appeared in "Crichton Kicks" and made her last appearance in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

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37.

Durka's becomes an expert on Leviathans, and eventually goes to work for a pirate group who harvest toubray fibers from Leviathans.

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38.

Durka's meets up with Crichton while he is aboard the Leviathan Elack in the Leviathan's sacred burial space; she led the pirates there and they subsequently try to kill her to prevent her telling anyone where the burial area is.

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39.

Durka's is extremely intelligent and picks up information very quickly.

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40.

Durka's is extremely arrogant, a self-styled polymath who constantly belittles those around her.

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41.

Durka's is extremely naive and unknowledgeable about how things function outside a controlled environment .

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42.

Durka's is working with the Kalish resistance to free the Kalish from Scarran servitude, and as such was specially bioengineered to be able to hover in the air and release intense radiation heat rays from her body that destroy Scarran heat producing glands, rendering them weak and vulnerable.

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43.

Durka's is able to direct this energy in smaller bursts via her hands when necessary.

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44.

Durka first appeared in "The Hidden Memory" and made his last appearance in "Into the Lion's Den Part II: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing".

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45.

Durka was young for much of Farscape, and was dwarfed by his mother Moya, although he did grow gradually over the series.

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46.

Durka can operate purely on voice command; still, a humanoid can be implanted with a device that allows direct interface with Talyn, although not to the same extent as a Pilot .

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47.

Durka made his last appearance in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

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Durka is, like Scorpius, a "true believer" in the Peacekeeper cause and willing to go to any lengths to ensure their victory over the Scarrans.

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49.

Durka's is last seen aboard Moya, signing the peace treaty alongside Emperor Staleek, overseen by the Eidelon.

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50.

Durka's explained that she was the lone surviving member of a team sent there by Captain Crais to salvage whatever they could from the vessel; the rest of her companions had been slaughtered by a previous visit of Durka'syangs set on stripping the former ship.

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51.

Durka's had heard of Aeryn Sun's defection from the Peacekeepers, and while not overly hostile, Gilina's opinion of her was not favourable .

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52.

Durka's professed her love for Crichton and he admitted that he could have loved her as well.

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53.

Selto Durka was a legendary Peacekeeper captain in command of the command carrier Zelbinion.

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54.

Durka was an inveterate sadist, and frequently tortured prisoners that came under his supervision.

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55.

Durka was first seen in PK Tech Girl, then in Durka Returns, and finally in Liars, Guns and Money.

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56.

Durka was later captured by the Nebari and spent the next 100 cycles in stasis being mind cleansed into an obedient, pacifistic servant of the Nebari Establishment.

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57.

About a cycle later, Rygel discovered that Durka survived their last encounter and was then the leader of the Zenetan Pirates with which he was trying to negotiate.

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58.

Durka tried to kill Rygel, but Rygel came prepared for his treachery and killed Durka instead, a surprisingly abrupt end for so prominent a villain in the series.

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59.

Durka's is his first officer and is fiercely loyal and supportive.

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60.

Durka's accused Aeryn of being sentimental and weak for having named the spaceship Talyn after the father she'd never met.

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61.

Durka's is a Minister of War throughout the last few episodes of Season 4 of the series.

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62.

Durka is played by Jonathan Pasvolsky and later by John Adam.

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63.

Durka usually appears in the service of Ahkna or Emperor Staleek and can often be seen at their side or carrying out their orders.

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64.

Durka accompanies Ahkna to her meeting with Commandant Grayza on a dead Leviathan and commerce center.

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65.

Durka is present at the meeting and devastation at Katratzi.

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Durka first appears in the "We're So Screwed" three-part story in season 4, holding a conference at the secret moon of Katratzi.

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Durka is under the impression that Scorpius is his spy and double agent, but in truth, Scorpius turns out to be a triple agent whose true allegiance is to the Peacekeepers.

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68.

Durka personally captures Crichton at Arnessk and is later present at the battle over Qujaga where Crichton unleashes a wormhole weapon and forces the two sides to make peace.

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69.

Durka wears a gauntlet weapon that injects him with a narcotic stimulant, giving him increased speed, strength, and aggression, but resulting in addiction.

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Durka is featured in the episode "Throne for a Loss" and the trilogy "Liars, Guns, and Money".

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Durka is first encountered by the crew of Moya shortly after John Crichton's arrival in the Uncharted Territories.

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72.

Durka discovers that Bekhesh had given up his life of violence and has joined a pacifist holy order.

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Durka is unwilling to give up the gauntlet and agrees to go with Crichton.

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Durka's appearance is a plot device which provides John Crichton with an opportunity to finally harness wormhole travel and return to Earth, a main focus of the series.

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Durka is shown as enigmatic and ultimately fake, appearing as an eyeless, gray-skinned human being wearing a suit and tie, obviously in imitation of Crichton's memories, as he is not truly existent in Crichton's world, simply a manifestation of another, vastly more powerful being.

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76.

Durka is one of the many 'godlike aliens' which episodes of Farscape often center around, presenting alternate realities and confusing illusions, similar to Maldis and the Ancients.

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Durka is sometimes likened to as the "Q" of Farscape, far more sinister.

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78.

Durka appeared in the episodes "That Old Black Magic" and "Picture if You Will".

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Durka's begins experiencing progressively more dangerous "accidents" seemingly predicted by images in the picture.

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