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“Crackers Don't Matter”
Farscape episode
Crichton acting paranoid
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 4
Written by	Justin Monjo
Directed by	Ian Watson
Production no.	10205
Original airdate	April 7, 2000
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"Crackers Don't Matter" is an episode from the second season of the American television series Farscape, written by Justin Monjo and directed by Ian Watson.

The crew of Moya take on board a blind engineer named T'raltixx, whom they have hired to create cloaking technology for Moya. Though John is suspicious of T'raltixx's motives, the viability of the engineer's technology is proved when he is able to make John's module partially disappear in a demonstration. He claims, however, that in order to do the same for a ship as large as Moya, she must be moved to the ship yards on his home planet, which the crew reluctantly agree to do. Together they travel through an area rich in pulsars to his planet to obtain the device. He warns them that in some "lesser species," the intense light exhibited by the pulsars can cause some irrational behavior. Quickly, that proves to be true as Aeryn, Chiana, Rygel, John, and D'Argo begin accusing each other and hunting each other throughout the ship. As they become increasingly paranoid and irrational, even Pilot is affected, becoming angry and hostile towards Moya's passengers. Zhaan, meanwhile, has retired to a room to experience the "photogasms" caused by the pulsars. As the situation degenerates, the disagreements turn violent. John appears to be the least affected, though he does hallucinate Scorpius in a Hawaiian shirt, who encourages him to kill Aeryn and then eat pizza and drink margaritas. Ultimately John captures the rest of the crew and explains to them that it's not the pulsars causing them to act so strangely, but rather T'raltixx, who is sucking all the power out of Moya to create intensely bright light. He intends for the rest of the crew to kill each other off so that he and the rest of his species can use the ship and its light to rise from their dormant state, and spread through the galaxy. The crew finally band together to create a protective outfit for John against the intense radiation. He then battles T'raltixx and defeats him. The episode ends with the crew awkwardly apologizing to one another for their behavior.

• Wayne Pygram as Scorpius
• Danny Adcock as T'raltixx