Do you know what I found most interesting about this episode? It was the various fears that came bubbling up to the surface when Lorana and Hasket started messing with D'Argo, Rygel and Aeyrn's minds. D'Argo saw Jothee being taken away, Aeryn saw her weapons falling to pieces, and Rygel imagined himself shrinking until he was very, very tiny. It was quite a revealing glimpse into what makes these characters tick.

... Also interesting was the fact that Zhaan went to Crichton, of all her shipmates, for advice. And it was a good call, because though he was way out of his depth for most of the episode, in the end he was the one able to help her.

(Not, I noticed, until Lorana and Hasket relented and stopped messing with Crichton's mind, but he was well able to take over from there!)

And incidentally... TPTB love frelling with Crichton's mind, don't they? We're just halfway through the first season, and how many times has it been already...?

This is probably the most we see of the Delvians throughout the show, at least as far as I recall, and it's through the perspective of an exiled faction/sect, so who knows how typical/atypical they are.

I wondered that too. Do all Delvians have that core of rage, or is it only something that manifests when they start on the Delvian seek? It also sort of leaves the question hanging of what has been happening on Peacekeeper occupied Delvia (and come to think of it, whether the Peacekeepers often take over planets, and how long they've been doing it. Is it a recent innovation? Another series might take this plot point and turn it into a whole story arc!)

I suspect they, like the Bajoran religion on DS9, took their cue originally from Buddhism, or at least pop culture Buddhism.

The set decorations seemed to have been influence by traditional Chinese designs (though there would probably be more red and less blue in traditional Chinese design!) It was at once beautiful and eerie and disquieting, in the best kind of way. Once again my hat's off to the art/design side of the production.