SCIFI.COM - Farscape

Though they're made up of the same bio-mechanoid stuff as Moya, Pilot assures me that the Transport Pods are not sentient like the Leviathan. While they may be technically "alive," the Pods have no intelligence of their own and require manual control in order to perform any of their normal flight functions.

Moya grows multiple Transport Pods, all of which have direct access to her Transport Hangars. Pilot's control over each Pod is limited to monitoring onboard systems and communicating with passengers. Everything else depends on the flight crew.

Aeryn took it upon herself to teach me the subtleties of space flight in one of these babies. Just me and Officer Sun out for a nice, leisurely [ TRANSPORT POD ]

jaunt through the Uncharted Territories. Easy as pie, right? Let's just say it wasn't exactly Driving Miss Daisy.

The Pods actually require regular contact with Moya in order to maintain their own integrity. Otherwise they enter a state I like to think of as the Bio-mechanoid Blues.

We can't allow the Transport Pods to degenerate though. They're essential to us. Without them we'd be limited to Farscape One and Aeryn's Prowler as our only means of leaving Moya. Considering that Captain Crais has undoubtedly sent out Galactic APBs on both those ships, the Transport Pods are our only way to reach most planets' surfaces inconspicuously.

A year ago "blending in" meant wearing a baseball cap and some faded jeans, now it means flying a bio-mechanoid shuttlecraft outta a Leviathan's innards. The times, they are a'changing.