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The Lexx is less than a week away from crashing into either Fire or Water unless it receives food, and plenty of it. And it looks like they may be able to get it from a city called Garden on Water, where three women tend to a bountiful supply of food. Stanley is so enthralled with Garden - and especially its gardeners - that he begins to entertain thoughts of staying there rather than trying to salvage the Lexx. When the ladies offer to plant a dream for Stanley that will sprout into reality, Stan has them grow a new Lyekka. But just like the original, this Lyekka awakens with a ravenous appetite - and worse yet, balloons from Fire are en route to recapture the crew for Prince.

written by Paul Donovan and Lex Gigeroff
directed by Bruce McDonald
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Nigel Bennett (Prince), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka), Julia Haacke (Flower Gardener), Hephzibah Tintner (Flower Gardener), Sabina Rattey (Flower Gardener), Paule Klink (Flower Gardener)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

While buying food on a commerce planet, the crew meets Traltixx, an alien who claims he can make Moya undetectable. A demonstration on Crichton’s module convinces the crew to bring the ship through a set of pulsar lights to his transformation yard, even when Traltixx warns them that the intense light can have a strange effect on many species. Zhaan certainly has no complaints, as the light brings her such intense pleasure that she soon shuts out everything else around her. Everyone else, however, gets more paranoid than ever, and unusually attached to the dry, flat wafers they’ve added to their food supply. Traltixx is no help, either. Indeed, he encourages Pilot to turn against the rest. Crichton must overcome his paranoia and the delusions that go with it - including visions of Scorpius - to rally the crew together and save the ship.

written by Justin Monjo
directed by Ian Watson
music by Subvision

Guest Cast: Wayne Pygram (Scorpius), Danny Adcock (Traltixx)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

The attack on Garden is swift and deadly, and Lyekka is killed within moments. Stan and Kai see their moth lifting off, and Kai uses his brace to board the ship and throw its pilot out, but instead of Xev they find a bomb aboard the moth. Kai and Stan bail out, but Kai is able to attach himself to one of Prince’s balloons, and gets Stan to safety (after throwing that balloon’s crew overboard). Prince and one of his most loyal underlings, Priest, are holding Xev hostage on another balloon as a bargaining chip. But with Kai gaining altitude - a position from which he can attack any of Prince’s balloons - Prince must count on Priest to make a supreme sacrifice for the sake of victory. As the stakes rise, both Prince’s army and the crew of the Lexx discover the limits of their loyalty, their sacrifice, and their endurance.

written by Paul Donovan
directed by Christoph Schrewe
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Nigel Bennett (Prince), Rolf Kaines (Priest), Jennifer Overton (Matron), Louise Wischermann (Lyekka)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Chiana and Rygel return to Moya from a trading expedition with an added gift, a picture that appears to depict Chiana. The picture unnerves Zhaan, especially when it changes to depict Chiana with a broken leg and Chiana breaks hers soon after. When the next change shows Chiana burst into flames, everyone shares Zhaan’s concerns - but they’re too late to stop Chiana’s combustion. As the portrait begins to depict the rest of the crew’s demise, Zhaan manages to deduce the picture’s true purpose. Instead of killing them, it’s drawing them into another dimension, where the sorcerer Maldis waits for his chance to avenge his previous defeat and, just as importantly, regain corporeal form.

written by Peter Neale
directed by Andrew Prowse
music by Subvision

Guest Cast: Chris Haywood (Maldis/Kyvan)

Notes: Zhaan defeated Maldis in order to save Crichton in season 1’s That Old Black Magic.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Xev has escaped the balloon battle by riding a stray gondola through the atmospheric interface and onto the surface of Fire, and Stanley and Kai follow with little idea of her precise landing point. They do find what’s left of her balloon, and decide to scout for her at the nearest town on Fire - a place known as Girltown. Within the town’s walls, a strange drama of gender reversal appears to be playing itself out, as Kai discovers an oppressed population of men who seem to be fulfilling traditionally female roles. Stanley is captured and brought before Girltown’s ruler, the vicious Queen, only to realize that she may be Giggerota in disguise. Queen seems intrigued by the fact that Stanley hasn’t died yet - indeed, en route to Girltown, Kai admits that he has noticed that many of his enemies from the other universe seem to have resurfaced on Fire or Water in some form. Even when Kai and Xev arrive to rescue Stanley from what Queen says will be but the first of his many deaths, the rescue attempt goes horribly wrong, leaving Xev alone - with the key to the Lexx.

written by Lex Gigeroff
directed by Chris Bould
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Ellen Dubin (Queen)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Cleopatra is relaxing in a milk bath when a messenger brings her a scroll. When she unrolls the parchment, a snake bites her. Before she dies, Cleopatra asks her trusted servant Shiana to take a message to Xena. In it, the Queen tells the Warrior Princess that Romans have been wanting to ask her about using her naval fleet. So Xena must find out which Roman was behind Cleopatra’s assassination - Marc Antony or Ceasar’s former right hand man, Brutus.

written by Carl Ellsworth
directed by Michael Hurst
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Jon Bennet (Marc Antony), David Franklin (Brutus), Mark Warren (Octavius), Josephine Davison (Cleopatra), Mariama Smith (Shiana), Dion Blair (Soldier), Benjamin Crellin (Brutus’ Lieutenant), Geoffrey Knight (Antony’s Lieutenant), Paul Willis (Advisor #1)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate 53849.2: Voyager is confronted by an angry Telusian who demands that Janeway make reparations for a costly scam she pulled on his people - which naturally comes as a surprise to the captain. It turns out that a trio of skilled con artists have been swindling innocent people out of valuable resources and selling “Federation memberships” to those with the necessary funds. The Telusians aren’t “Captain Janeway”’s only victims, either. Now the real Voyager crew must track down their impostors before an entire sector of civilized systems turns against them.

written by Robin Burger
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Kaitlin Hopkins (Dala), Greg Daniel (Mobar), Francis Guinan (Zar), Dennis Cockrum (Orek), Ted Rooney (Varn), Timothy McNeil (Miner #2)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Chiana discovers an old recording that reveals the fate of Moya’s previous Pilot - he was killed by a squad of Peacekeepers under Crais’ command, a squad that included Aeryn. The discovery forces both Aeryn and Pilot to re-examine how they first came to Moya as part of Crais’ project to breed a Leviathan warship. Aeryn, stuck on guard duty while pursuing assignment as a fighter pilot, became involved with Velorek, the Peacekeeper Leviathan expert in charge of the project. Pilot, eager to be bonded with a ship, allowed the Peacekepers to mechanically bind him to Moya when she did not immediately accept him. In the present, overcome by guilt, Pilot demands that Aeryn leave the ship and detaches himself from Moya.

written by Naren Shankar
directed by Tony Tilse
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Alex Dimitriades (Velorek), Lani John Tupu (Capt. Crais)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Stanley and Kai plummet into the ocean of Water, where Kai sinks immediately. Though he is able to tread water for a while, Stan eventually weakens and drowns, and Xev later retrieves his body with a moth. She is unable to revive him, which doesn’t explain why Stan awakens after washing ashore on a beach - and landing at Prince’s feet. Prince intends to try Stan for his life’s wrongdoings, and Stan quickly realizes that Stan will leave no stone unturned, no misdeed unjudged, and no thought unscrutinized. Facing this kind of prosecution, how will Stanley wind up anywhere except Fire?

written by Paul Donovan
directed by Paul Donovan
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Nigel Bennett (Prince)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A peddler in a tavern claims to have the last known scroll written by the Bard of Poteidaia. An old man at the bar makes a grab for the scroll. It’s Joxer, and he confirms that the handwriting is indeed Gabrielle’s. The peddler begins to take bids for the parchment, but Joxer hands over a small bag with 65 dinars in it and leaves with the scroll before anyone else can bid. He hopes that the scroll will give him clues as to what happened to Xena and Gabrielle.

written by Carl Ellsworth
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Lucy Lawless (Meg), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Paris Jefferson (Athena), Jason Hoyte (Hephaestus), Stephen Lovatt (Hades), Theresa Healey (Celesta), Mark Warren (Octavius), Jed Brophy (Ramius), Kate Smeda (Kara), Michael Langley (Theon), Samantha Adriaanse (Clotho), Elizabeth Pendergrast (Atropos), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Alister Babbage (Patron #2), Bob Blackwell (Bartender), Bruce Burfield (Inebriated Patron), Rachel Gilchrist (Lead Archer)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell