Selto Durka
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Farscape character | |
 |
|
| Selto Durka | |
|---|---|
| Title | Captain |
| Homeworld | Unknown |
| Race | Sebacean |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Peacekeepers; Zenetan Pirates |
| Portrayer | David Wheeler |
To the right:The "normal" Dura. He removed his eye-patch and cut off his long hair after having his natural personality restored.
Selto Durka (played by David Wheeler) is a fictional character in the television science fiction series Farscape.
Durka was a legendary Peacekeeper captain in command of the command carrier Zelbinion. His most famed accomplishments were the liberation of Mintaka III and the quelling the Senovion rebellion. Many of his tactics are required learning during Peacekeeper training.
Unknown to most Peacekeepers, Durka was in fact a violent, conniving, cowardly sadist, who took great pleasure in torturing helpless prisoners in his custody. One such prisoner was Dominar Rygel XVI, who later found himself onboard Moya at the start of the TV series.
During a Peacekeeper invasion of the Nebari sector, over 100 cycles (years) prior to the events covered by the TV series, the Zelbinion was crippled and boarded by the Nebari. The crew refused to surrender to Nebari "mind cleansing" and were all killed, and Durka was presumed killed in action. However, it is later revealed that he had faked his own death by murdering a junior officer, and fled the Zelbinion in an escape pod. He was however captured by the Nebari and spent the next 100 cycles (years) in stasis being mind cleansed into an obedient, pacifistic servant of the Nebari Establishment.
When Durka and his Nebari master later encountered the crew of Moya, he was recognised by Rygel who promptly tried to kill him with a makeshift bomb. However the explosion only succeeded in somehow negating the mind cleansing, and Durka was returned to his old violent self. In short order, he (allegedly) murdered his Nebari keeper and hijacked Moya, but the crew eventually succeeded in luring him into a trap. While he was powering up the weapons on the crippled Nebari ship on which he had arrived, it was jettisoned into space, leaving him stranded onboard the derelict vessel.
About a cycle (year) later, Rygel discovered that Durka survived their last encounter and was then the head of the Zenetan pirates with which he was trying to negotiate. Durka tried to kill Rygel, but Rygel came prepared for his treachery and killed Durka instead. For the next few days, Rygel carried Durka's severed head around on a stake, as a trophy of his final victory over the man who tortured him for so long.
