To the left: The obedient, pacifistic mind cleansed version of Durka as he was when he first encountered Moya's cew.
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. Image File history File links Screen capture from the Farscape TV show. ... Image File history File links Screen capture from the Farscape TV show. ... David Wheeler (actor) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The main cast of Farscape in its third season, from left to right: Chiana (Gigi Edgley), Ka DArgo (Anthony Simcoe), Dominar Rygel XVI (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), Commander John Crichton (Ben Browder), and Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black). ...

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. Peacekeepers are a militaristic organization in the Farscape universe. ... Command carriers are the capital ships of the Peacekeeper fleet in the fictional Farscape universe. ... The Zelbinion is the name of a Peacekeeper command carrier from the fictional Farscape universe. ...

Unknown to most Peacekeepers, Durka was in fact a violent, conniving, cowardly sadist, who took great pleasure in torturing helples prisoners in his custody. One such prisoner was Dominar Rygel XVI, who later found himself onboard Moya at the start of the TV series. Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... Dominar Rygel XVI (called simply Rygel) is a fictional character and one of two regular puppet characters on the television science fiction series Farscape. ... Moya is a character in the Farscape universe. ...

During a Peacekeeper invation 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 cew refused to surrender to Nebari mind cleansing and were all killed, and Durka was presumed killed in action. Later it is however revealed that Durka had survived. He had faked his own death by murdering a junior officer, and fleeing 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 a obedient, pacifistic servant of the Nebari Establishment. The Nebari are a fictional alien race in the Farscape universe. ...

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 explotion only succeeded in somehow negating the mind cleansing, and Durka was returned to his old violent self. In short order, he murdered his Nebari keeper and hijacked Moya, but the cew eventually succeeded in luring him into a trap. While he was powering up the weapons on the crippled Nebari ship he had arived on, it was jetisoned into space, leaving him stranded onboard the derelict vessel.

About a cycle (year) later, Rygel discovered that Durka survied their last encounter and was then the head of the Zenetian 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.