Through the Looking Glass
by David Kemper
Directed by Ian Watson

DID YOU NOTICE?

Crichton's talking to the trans-dimensional beast is similar to Captain Sisko talking to the beings within the wormhole in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's pilot.

Prime numbers were also used to establish intelligence in Contact.

D'Argo and Aeryn disappeared from exactly the same spot and within moments of one another, yet they ended up in different versions of Moya.

Crichton was able to use the same routes between the different Moyas each time, but when he stood where D'Argo and Aeryn disappeared, he stayed just where he was. Arguably it was a bit silly of him to dash to that point, too.

At the end, each member of the crew had to operate Moya's flight systems in their different versions of the ship. So they used the same controls in the same way to do the same thing yet when the four Moyas returned to just one, everyone was conveniently standing in a different place.

Everyone talking about leaving the ship, while Pilot and Moya listen, is like the famous pod scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey when HAL lip-reads the Discovery crew's conversation.

Aeryn mentions that she still has some of Pilot's DNA in her. That's a reference to episode 9, 'DNA Mad Scientist'.

Crichton's having to remember instructions and get each version of Moya to do the same thing is similar to Captain Picard's situation in the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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