The Way We Weren't
Written by Naren Shankar, directed by Tony Tilse
Season 2, Episode 5
1st US Transmission Date: 14 April 2000
1st UK Transmission Date: 24 July 2000
1st Australian Transmission: 11 December 2001
Guest Cast: Alex Dimitriades (Velorek), Lani Tupu (Capt. Bialar Crais), Melissa Jaffer (Voice of female Pilot)
Synopsis — Then: Three cycles ago a Peacekeeper called Velorek, who specialised in bonding Pilots to Leviathans, was contacted by Crais and instructed to secure a Pilot. He visited the Pilot race's world and convinced one youngster, who had been judged unfit to be bonded, to agree to be bonded to Moya. Moya's original Pilot, who had resisted PK servitude, was no longer needed and was executed by PK troops at Crais's command. One of the troopers was Aeryn, who had been taken off Prowler duty and assigned to assist Velorek. Pilot was then forcibly grafted into Moya. Velorek realised that Crais's secret project – to breed a Leviathan gunship – would probably kill Moya, so he secretly installed the shield that prevented conception (which D'Argo shattered in 'They've Got A Secret'). He and Aeryn were lovers but she betrayed him in order to secure a posting back to Prowler duty. Velorek was tortured to death, but never revealed the measures he had taken to thwart Crais's project. Moya never conceived, was re-assigned as a prison transport… the rest is history.
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