Linfer

Linfer was a supporting character in the third season of Farscape. She was a Peacekeeper scientist who worked for Scorpius on his wormhole research project. She was portrayed by Jo Kerrigan.

History

Linfer was a Relgarian Peacekeeper scientist assigned to Scorpius' wormhole project. Though their efforts had initially been met with success in creating a stable wormhole, travelling through it safely proved much more difficult: every single test pilot sent through the wormhole was liquefied within a matter of minutes, leaving the cockpits of their retrieved Prowlers filled with molten sludge - and drenching the technicians for good measure. However, by the events of the episode "Incubator," Linfer believed that her new prototype shielding method now allowed the perfect means of guaranteeing safe travel, to the point that she volunteered to fly the next test-flight into the wormhole. Despite the objections of the project leader Co-Kura Strappa, Scorpius wearily gave his blessing for the test, having grown desperate and impatient after the many failures of the project.

In reality, Linfer had volunteered for the mission as a means of deserting the Peacekeepers, believing that the increasingly obsessed and irrational Scorpius would eventually have her executed. After apparently surviving her journey through the wormhole unharmed, she located Moya and offered John Crichton her knowledge of wormhole shielding in order to aid his own experiments. However, her asking price for this information was to allow her to take possession of Moya. Given the history of her species' positive relationship with Leviathans, Pilot is enthusiastic about this idea, and though Crichton is clearly tempted by the offer, the rest of the crew are sharply divided.

Death

As Moya's crew continued to argue Linfer discovered to her dismay that the tissue liquefication process was not overcome by her modifications, only delayed. When Jool enters her quarters with food, she is horrified to find that the right side of Linfer's face has begun to melt, the distinctive Relgarian eye-ridges beginning to run down her face like tears.

Knowing that the process was irreversible once it had begun, Linfer had no intention of enduring a long, slow death as her body painfully dissolved into liquid, and requested a means of ending her life before things got any worse - a request that both Jool and Pilot granted. Moments later, Linfer left Moya in her stolen Prowler, ignoring Crichton's demands to return; by this time, both sides of her face had begun to melt, and she had no intention of stopping for anyone or anything. Bidding Pilot farewell, she then activated the fighter's self-destruct sequence, ending her life in a colossal fireball.