Title: Shell Game Rating: PG Word Count: 5370 Disclaimer: Broken furniture is not a form of therapy approved by the American Psychological Association. Warnings: tears, books, and far too much housework
Still on the subject of Farscape as the anti-Trek...
Crichton comes from a world of Star Trek, Aliens, and E.T. He starts by approaching life in exactly that way.
There are a whole bunch of humanoid aliens: he will smile and say hello; the Peacekeepers are humans in uniforms: they are clearly Star Trekky and will help him; D'Argo is weird and has tentacles: maybe he'll want to eat him; Aeryn is a pretty human: clearly she'll be friendly and nice.
He spends the whole episode operating under those assumptions, and then stumbling around in bewilderment when nothing he does is working...