“So, what do we use against the Tlak’kahn? Harsh language?”
- Release Date: 7th December 2002
- Season 1
- Episode 13
- Director: Will Meugniot
- Writers: Christy Marx, Randy Littlejohn
The team arrives on a planet and spots an industrial structure. They head over and find it to be a wreck, as though a battle had happened there. They get attacked by a Mad Max style vehicle. Stopping it, Ec’co manages to catch up to the leader, and he thinks she’s beautiful. She explains that the workers have orders to protect the Place of Power and that she is Kreeda, the inventor. They ask who they’re protecting themselves from, suggesting the Tlak’kahn, and she very unconvincingly claims that it is them. Bonner notices, but doesn’t say anything, but everyone else believes her.
Ec’co does some maintenance on the vehicles and explains to Kreeda that they have a unit that uses water in the air to separate hydrogen and oxygen to combust for their vehicles. She flirts with Ec’co and he seems to like her very much. Seattle storms off (it’s never explained why) and Draga follows her. Seattle mentions that the two like each other, but Draga senses deception. The Tlak’kahn actually turns up, with their method of scouting random worlds (and somehow always finding the right one) as they start searching.
That morning, Ec’co notices the water converter missing from the buggy. Stacey asks what’s wrong and he acts extremely defensive and says nothing. Bonner asks Harrison to do a quick scout in the air, but his jetpack runs out of fuel and he falls into water and flails wildly until Draga flies in and rescues him (his swimming ability is getting worse each episode). They find out that the converter is missing, and head back.
Ec’co corners Kreeda and asks her what she has done, and she claims that her workers must have done it as they’ve gone missing. The rest turn up and accuse her, with Ec’co defending her. He’s confused when they mention that multiple converters have gone missing, revealing that he knew about one of them. Bonner points out that if he had told the truth, Harrison wouldn’t have nearly died. Ec’co still defends Kreeda, and Seattle says that he’s only falling for Kreeda because he’s lonely (a bit mean for the current situation).
She takes them to the village and they have a meeting. They say that the workers are not there, and Kreeda tries to shut down any more discussions – it seems she’s the one in charge. When Bonner asks to speak to the people without her there, she tries to deny it then storms out. Ec’co follows her, now realising that she lied to him. He accuses her of withholding knowledge from others on her planet, and lays into her, telling her she isn’t an inventor, she just uses technology she finds. She points out that he also lies, and he says that people lie when they think they need to to help themselves, and that it’s wrong.
She rushes off, collecting the units to return, when she spots the Tlak’kahn waiting in ambush. As the rest catch up, they realise that if she’s storing the hydrogen in the old, leaky tanks, it could lead to an explosion. She tries to warn them about the Tlak’kahn, but they don’t believe her until Draga says she doesn’t sense deception any more. They flee and a fight breaks out, but ends swiftly when the Tlak’kahn blow up the tanks as Kreeda takes the rest to a bunker.
At the stargate, Kreeda promises to not lie any more, saying she felt like she had to in order to protect her people. She apologises to Ec’co and asks for him to stay with her. Rather than just saying he needs to stick with his team, he turns quite nasty, saying he doesn’t believe her and that nobody will want to be close with her if they can’t trust her (even know he did the same thing to his own team). They leave, and she’s left crying.
It’s strange, Kreeda is supposed to be shown as in the wrong and, while she steals something, it’s to generate power for her people. Everyone else is just rather mean, and Ec’co is just all round rude and arrogant.
