This was the first Episode of Farscape that was ever Broadcast, after the pilot. It seemed to me out of place. In the Pilot Ep, Crichton evades Commander Bialar Crais using the very gimmick that got him stranded in PK (PeaceKeeper) space in the first place, in front of an escaping Leviathan. Slingshot around a planet, use gravity for an assist.
Then suddenly in this episode, they are far away from that place, in the middle of a... Bugfield? And hiding from a PK Maurader. In a universe that goes "from A to B to C", "B" was missing.
There are a few things here. A Squad of PK's hunting Moya, success measured in Body Count. A Bug infestation. Aeryn wants the heat turned down. Then, duplicates of Moya's crew appear. Wait. What? But all of these disparate things are related.
What to remember here is that Sebacians can't tolerate heat. I must have Sebacian genes, me either. Aeryn at first tries to hide this. This is the first mention of Sebacian Heat Delirium.
There are some good things here. Mainly, Rygel, again, shows that he is more than just the Slug who would be King. He's a Sovereign, with or without his subjects. Sometimes, it's the things we have deemed "foolish" that are the only things that can save us.
The relationship between the cast and characters was just being figured out at this point. So what best way to develop them than to dump 3 major crises on them at once?