Editing Staleek

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{{Infobox Character
| box_color  = #7CC576
| name       = Emperor Staleek
| image      = [[File:Farscape Staleek.jpg|220px]]
| caption    = 
| first      = "[[We're So Screwed - Hot to Katratzi]]"
| last       = ''[[Farscape:  The Peacekeeper Wars]]''
| nickname   = Emperor Sleestack (John Cricthon)
| gender     = Male
| species    = [[Scarran]]
| affiliation= [[Scarran Empire]]
| age        = 
| romantic   = 
| vehicle    = [[Decimator]]
| weapon     = [[Heat projection]], 
| episode    = 
| actor      = [[Duncan Young]]
}}
'''Emperor Staleek''' was the leader of the [[Scarran Empire]] at the time of the [[Peacekeeper/Scarran War]].

His ascension to the throne was facilitated by his assassination of his predecessor, the father of his War Minister [[Ahkna]]. During the Peacekeeper/Scarran War, Staleek announced his intention to have Akhna succeed him.

Staleek was first encountered by [[John Crichton]] while holding a conference at the secret moon of [[Katratzi]]. Crichton was there under the guise of selling the [[wormhole technology]] to the highest bidder. When Crichton escaped with [[Scorpius]] and severely damaged the Katratzi base, Staleek ordered Captain [[Pennoch]] to [[Earth]], as he learned that the planet contained a large supply of the [[Crystherium Utilia]] flower, vital to the Scarrans' power. Pennoch's mission failed and his ship was destroyed by Crichton and [[Aeryn Sun]].

In the following months, Staleek, now certain that the Peacekeepers did not have wormhole technology, declared war. 

During the Peacekeeper/Scarran incident, Staleek traveled on his flagship, ''[[Decimator]]'', and managed to capture Crichton at [[Arnessk]]. He was also at the battle over [[Qujaga]] where Crichton unleashed the [[wormhole weapon]] and forced the two sides to make peace. Staleek's reluctance to agree to peace went further than [[Mele-On Grayza|Grayza]]'s, however as the ''Decimator ''was doomed if Crichton didn't shut it off he finally agreed through gritted teeth to work out a peace treaty. He later put his seal to the treaty, simultaneously with Grayza, in a ceremony aboard ''Moya''. 

Some time after the war, Scorpius arrived at the Scarran homeworld with a [[Kkore]] fleet in tow, and Staleek was forced to acquiesce to his demands, the complete subjugation of the Scarran Imperium to the Kkore.

==Quotes==
"Stop seeing Vitubian vipers IN EVERY SHADOW! AND NEVER COUNTERMAND MY ORDERS AGAIN!"

==Trivia==
* Duncan Young first plays a Scarran named [[Axikor]] in the episode "[[I Shrink, Therefore I Am]]", a Scarran of the ruling class order and the first Scarran seen belonging to that order. As a result of seeing how well Young handled the make-up, producers cast him as Staleek and altered his voice in the earlier episode. He also plays a [[Diagnosan]] in "[[Twice Shy]]".

==Appearances==
* "[[We're So Screwed - Hot to Katratzi]]"
* "[[We're So Screwed - La Bomba]]"
* "[[Bad Timing]]"
* ''[[Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars]]''
* ''[[Farscape: Strange Detractors]]'':
** "[[Together Again for the First Time]]"
** "[[The Binds that Tie]]"
* ''[[Farscape: Scorpius]]'':
** "[[Knives at a Gunfight]]"
** "[[Speak in Thunder]]"
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