Zotoh Zhaan

Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan was one of the main characters featured in the first two seasons of the sci-fi television series Farscape. Played by British actress Virginia Hey, Zhaan was a Delvian priest known for being somewhat of an anarchist among her people. She was captured by the Peacekeepers and imprisoned aboard the Leviathan transport ship Moya. With the help of two other prisoners, Ka D'Argo and Rygel XVI, she escaped from the Peacekeepers and ultimately befriended two more fugitives; the human astronaut John Crichton and the Sebacean former Peacekeeper Aeryn Sun.

Biography
At some point during her sentence, Zhaan spent three cycles working on a Peacekeeper labor planet called Mekkar 7. She worked with a Peacekeeper Intellilan interface, which provided her with fundamental knowledge of Peacekeeper computer coding. This knowledge proved beneficial later in her life when she was serving aboard Moya.

Abilities
Zotoh Zhaan possessed reflex action and reaction time far beyond that of a normal human. This was first demonstrated after escaping from the Peacekeepers when she had to manually operate Moya's guidance system with her hands.

Notes & Trivia



 * Pa'u is actually a title which refers to a Delvian's vocation as a priest of the Goddess of the Delvian Seek.


 * Zhaan's final appearance as a living character was in the season three episode "Self-Inflicted Wounds (Part 2): Wait for the Wheel". She makes a posthumous flashback appearance in the season four episode Unrealized Reality".


 * Actress Virginia Hey was forced to leave the show after season two after developing adverse reactions to the makeup she was required to wear. As such, the producers of the show elected to kill off the character.

Notable episodes

 * "Premiere" (1st appearance; escape from Peacekeepers)
 * "Rhapsody in Blue" (Other Delvians)
 * "Self-Inflicted Wounds (Part 2): Wait for the Wheel" (Death)