A Scarran Retrospective
A quick lookat how Scarrans have changed over the years.
All screen captures courtesy of Dallascaper's FarscapeFantasy, as usual.

Look at the Princess
part 3 aired 4 August 2000
Scarrans were first introduced in the Season 2 three-part story, "Look at the Princess" (2.11-2.13). Here we learned that these reptilian-looking creatures were extremely tough and had significant psi powers; the hapless Prince Clayvor was killed by a mere thought/gesture from Cargn, shown here. Cargn used his powers to immobilize, intimidate, and interrogate his victims, to great effect.

Cargn, portrayed by Thomas Holesgrove

Won't Get Fooled Again
18 August 2000
The next Scarran we meet is Grath in the mind-bending "Won't Get Fooled Again" (3.15), although he doesn't have much screen time and we really don't get to see much of him. Scorpius's neural implant saves Crichton's life by revealing that the entire scenario is an elaborate attempt by the Scarran to break Crichton's mental control. The implant also imparts the knowledge that Scarrans have higher body temperatures, and that they are impossible to kill with regular blaster fire. Crichton must set his blaster on overload to destroy the Scarran. The neural chip temporarily stops Crichton's brainwave activity, which lures the Scarran over for the kill.
Grath, portrayed by Thomas Holesgrove

Season of Death
16 March 2001
In the Season 3 opener, "Season of Death" (3.01), the Scarran Plonek is released from a cryo-chamber by the Diagnosian's assistant, Grunchlk, when he feels threatened by the sudden arrival of Scorpius. Unfortunately for Grunchlk, Plonek is no help to him at all. Eventually, Crichton and D'Argo manage to kill him using an icicle, after Aeryn has blasted him several times with D'Argo's qualta blade in its rifle mode. We don't really learn anything new about Scarrans in this episode, except that they are trying to keep a close eye on the Peacekeepers, particularly Scorpius.

Plonek, portrayed by Thomas Holesgrove.

Incubator
13 July 2001
In "Incubator" (3.11), we learn the story of Scorpius's origins. He is the result of a brutal breeding experiment performed on a captured Sebacean woman, repeatedly raped until she conceived. His Sebacean/Scarran heritage means his body is constantly at war with itself. The Scarrans love heat, to Sebaceans, heat is anathema. His "mentor", Tauza, subjects him to both mental and physical abuse as he grows. Eventually he becomes strong enough to escape, whereupon he makes his way to the Peacekeepers, vowing to do whatever he can to exact revenge upon the Scarrans.

Tauza, portrayed by Amy Salas, and Wolesh [Scorpius's father], portrayed by Thomas Holesgrove

Infinite Possibilities
27 July and 3 August 2001

In the "Infinite Possibilities" two-parter (3.14, 3.15), the Scarran advance scout Akar tries to take over the temporarily blinded Talyn. Through the judicious and timely use of neural transponders, Crais, Stark, and Talyn are able to overcome him. This was probably the worst showing yet for a Scarran; he was easily duped into asking for the neural transponder which eventually led to his downfall.

Akar, portrayed by Thomas Holesgrove.

Fractures
24 August 2001
"Fractures" (3.18) gave us the most sympathetic Scarran to date. Naj Gil had been a prisoner of the Peacekeepers and was being used as a live test subject, along with the other passengers on the transport pod that was retrieved by Moya. The Peacekeepers had surgically removed his heat gland, thereby rendering him much more vulnerable to attack, and disabling his psi powers completely. Naj Gil's skin seemed much more humanoid (only greenish), and without the reptilian/leather texture we had seen all along to this point. Naj Gil seemed like a pretty nice guy, for a Scarran. Unfortunately he was blown to smithereens, along with the rest of the hospital ship, by Talyn at the beginning of "I - Yensch, You - Yensch" (3.19).

Naj Gil, portrayed by Thomas Holesgrove

I Shrink, Therefore I Am
02 August 2002
Our latest specimen is the Scarran-cum-Coreeshi, Axikor in "I Shrink, Therefore I Am" (4.08). Even Crichton comments on the physical differences between Axikor and the other Scarrans he has met; we can make a reasonable assumption that Axikor underwent some surgical modifications to be able to fit into the Coreeshi body armor. A word about that armor: it is bio-engineered and is grafted onto its wearer; hence all the goo when it was removed. Axikor, like every other Scarran (with the possible exception of Naj Gil), is arrogant to a fault. We must also assume that the body armor impaired Axikor's normal Scarran psi weapons, or else he would've used them. It does seem like a lot to give up just to infiltrate a group of bounty hunters after one pesky human, doesn't it? And after all that pain and sacrifice (it can't have been easy, morphing a Scarran into something enough like a Coreeshi to be able to wear that armor), Axikor still didn't bag Crichton. Typical.
Axikor, portrayed by Duncan Young