"The Artificers of Aldebaran"
Episode transcript (provided by Andrew Norris)
Episode transcript (provided by Kooshmeister)
The crew of the Righteous has made a pit stop on Aldebaran so that Jenny can test one of her students, Felicia, the granddaughter of the Queen of Aldebaran, on her Aldebaran powers. Bucky and the rest of the crew are forbidden to know what she is doing, but Willy's wanderings lead him to chasing after a quark demon, and he ends up stumbling in on the lesson. Jenny swears him to secrecy and breaks the bad news to Felicia that she is not ready to go on her "soul quest" in the Dark Heart Nebula that will make her a true artificer. As Jenny leaves with the crew on her ship, Felicia decides to go on her quest without permission and show them all up.
Meanwhile, Toadborg is aboard a toad ship when he detects a large power source coming from the Dark Heart Nebula. Determined to have its power, he concludes after an unsuccessful journey inside that he needs an Aldebaran. Fortunately, Felicia's ship is nearby, and he intercepts it and kidnaps her. Felicia barely has time to contact her grandmother before she is captured.
Back on a space station elsewhere, Jenny is recalibrating the ship's Aldebaran sensors when she gets the distress call from the Queen. She is about to leave with the ship alone when Willy convinces her to take him along, and she leaves a message for Bucky with Blinky. She then flies to the Nebula and demands Felicia's release. Toadborg bargains that he will release Felicia if Jenny guides him into the Nebula herself, and she agrees. Willy and Jenny take the Toad Croaker into the Nebula and lead Toadborg to the source of its power. While they are busy rescuing Felicia, Toadborg goes to drain the power, only to awake a giant demon that is only stopped by the power of all of the Aldebarans combined, including Felicia. She completes her soul quest, and they head out of the Nebula. On their way back to the, ship they are intercepted by the toad ship, but it is forced to run from The Screaming Mimi, carrying Mimi and Bucky, who found them because Blinky had placed a homing device on the Righteous before Jenny took it. The toad ship picks up Toadborg, who has lost his memory of the whole event.
This episode is available on the US video "Corsair Canards" and was not released on video in the UK.
