Created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. Starring Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun), Ben Browder (John Crichton), Gigi Edgley (Chiana) and Anthony Simcoe (Ka D'Argo)
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"My name is John Crichton... An astronaut... Three years ago I got shot through a wormhole... I'm in a distant part of the Universe... Aboard this living ship of escaped prisoners... My friends... I've made enemies... Powerful, dangerous... Now all I want is to find a way home... To warn Earth... Look upward and share the wonders I've seen"
Thank you for 4 amazing years.
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Stranded in space after Moya was swallowed by a wormhole, Crichton is picked up by an old, dying Leviathan called Elack. With only a decrepit old Pilot and a reprogrammed DRD for company, he works interminably on his wormhole equations until a small scout craft carrying an exotic female alien named Sikozu crashed his part.Shortly afterwards, Elack is stormed by another ship, bearing Grudek mercenaries intent on harvesting the Leviathan's rare neural tissue.
Original Airdate: 07-JUN-2002
NOTE: From this episode, Farscape airs in Widescreen. The opening credits and Crichton's monologue are changed. Anthony Simcoe does not appear in this episode.
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Crichton, Chiana, Rygel and Sikozu reach the planet of Arnessk home to an archaeological site manned by Interions. They are joyfully reunited with Jool and D'Argo, who have been studying under renowned archaeologist Instructor Vella. On Arnessk, her word is law.
Vella explains that the planet was once the homeworld of an order of priests who by mysterious means maintained peace between Scarrans and Peacekeepers for five hundred generations.
Original Airdate: 14-JUN-2002
NOTE: Claudia Black does not appear in this episode.
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Surviving Granny's attempt on his life, Crichton is attacked by Oo-nii, who is convinced that Crichton intends to give the probes to Grayza. D'Argo and Sikozu arrive just in time, armed with a plan to get everyone off the planet. They convince Crichton to keep Grayza occupied - however he likes.
Sikozu seems to have thwarted the escape when she is brought before Grayza and confesses all. After witnessing her betrayal, Crichton accuses Grayza of being a mere puppet in Scorpius' master plan.
Original Airdate: 21-JUN-2002
NOTE: Claudia Black does not appear in this episode.
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While seeking Moya, the crew lands on a barren, rocky planet, their stomachs turned by a "restorative" given out by Noranti. Rygel stumbles into a nearby cave full of crates marked with the symbols of the Tarkan Freedom Fighters. D'Argo, Crichton and Noranti enter the cave and see Rygel set off a trap which leaves him covered in an unbreakable amber-like substance. Simultaneously, the cave entrance seals up, dividing the crew.
Original Airdate: 28-JUN-2002
NOTE: Claudia Black does not appear in this episode.
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Moya is finally reunited with her crew. However, Crichton's excitement at seeing Aeryn back onboard the ship is instantly soured when Scorpius appears. In the throes of Heat Delirium, Aeryn tells John that Scorpius saved her life by fitting her with a coolant suit as a stopgap.
Suddenly, a giant Lukythian Ship rockets up to Moya, its mass preventing starburst. Its captain, Ullom, claims that Aeryn was one of a team of assassins who liquidated the Prime Lukythian.
Original Airdate: 12-JUL-2002
NOTE: N/A.
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Crichton correctly predicts the appearance of a wormhole near Moya, but the Leviathan is then almost immediately ensnared by a giant space plant that shorts out her systems and starts eating her skin.
D'Argo insists on a quick fire plan to blast the plant off Moya's hull with Lo'La's cannon. At the same time, Noranti uses her unorthodox methods to study the plant, revealing an error in D'Argo's tactics. But her warning comes too late...
Original Airdate: 19-JUL-2002
NOTE: N/A.
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Crichton and Chiana are flying back to Moya in a transport pod when a transmission comes through from D'Argo concerning a problem with Scorpius. While Crichton is talking, Chiana mischievously pulls him into a virtual reality game against his will.
The two of them appear in a fantastic, though glitchy, game world where they are greeted by the game's Avatar, Stark. Laying down the ground rules, he explains that the level design is based on the other John Crichton's memories.
Original Airdate: 26-JUL-2002
NOTE: N/A.
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While en route back to Moya, Crichton and Noranti are alerted to the presence of hostiles by a suspicious transmission from Pilot. Sending his Transport Pod crashing into a strange attack craft leeched to Moya's hull, Crichton uses the diversion to steal back on board. He finds his friends held by armoured bounty hunters, who torture their captives in an attempt to flush Crichton out.
Crichton hides himself, and is found by Scorpius - out of his cell and in hiding.
Original Airdate: 02-AUG-2002
NOTE: N/A.
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John, D'Argo, Sikozu, Aeryn and Chiana land on a planet divided by generations of clan war. Chiana quickly upsets the local women enough to be banished. As D'Argo tries to smooth things over with Gaashah - a clan leader - John negotiates with the planet's Prefect for the others to be allowed to stay. As he leaves the Prefect's castle, E'Alet, an offworlder, threatens him.
Sent back to Moya, Chiana manages to route around its controls and lands back on the planet.
Original Airdate: 09-AUG-2002
NOTE: Wayne Pygram does not appear in this episode.
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While in quarantine high above the patriarchal planet Khurtanan, the crew shares a meal of Quatal molluscs and immediately suffers a violent physical reaction. Each crew member becomes bodily linked to one of the others, Crichton to Sikozu, Aeryn to Rygel, and D'Argo to Noranti.
Doctor Tumii, brought on board to certify the crew free of 'space madness', reveals that he deliberately poisoned the crew, and demands a huge sum of money to cure them, or else they will die.
Original Airdate: 16-AUG-2002
NOTE: N/A.
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John is sucked into a wormhole whilst floating outside Moya, and finds himself on a strange iceberg at its centre. There he is faced by an eyeless man in black, who attempts to kill him. Backing away, John finds himself transported back to the day he arrived on Moya.
Just as D'Argo tongues him into unconsciousness, he is dragged back to the iceberg, where the man in black reveals himself to be an Ancient. As faces from John's past flash by, the man explains that John's possession of wormhole knowledge makes him a danger to the Ancients.
Original Airdate: 23-AUG-2002
NOTE: This episode began filming even before writer David Kemper had finished the script.
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Floating helplessly above Earth, to his relief John gets a com from Moya. D'Argo, Aeryn, Chiana and Rygel follow his signal through the wormhole and pick him up, but a radio broadcast reveals that they have arrived in the mid-1980s - over a decade too early.
Arriving back at his family home, John soon realises how his presence has upset the timeline when he discovers that his father is due to fly on the Challenger - just before the space shuttle disaster. He must prevent this or history will be changed.
Original Airdate: 30-DEC-2002
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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Arriving back on Moya, Crichton is confronted by his father. Shared memories convince him that this is the real Jack Crichton, and he and Moya's crew return to Earth with him.
On Earth the aliens are well treated, whilst they and their technology is examined by scientists. John catches up with his family, workmates, and old flame Caroline. John soon clashes with his father - now appointed the official IASA Project Director for Extraterrestrial Studies - when he insists the alien technological knowledge be shared between all nations.
Original Airdate: 06-JAN-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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After selling the crew of Moya some up-to-date maps of tormented space, a group of traders offer one last item - a young girl they've enslaved.
Chiana insists the girl, Talikaa, is bought. In apparent terror, she runs, touching person after person until Chiana takes her away.
An upbeat John and cold Aeryn discuss their relationship. Aeryn leaves, arriving at Chiana's chamber in time to interrupt her kissing Talikaa.
Original Airdate: 13-JAN-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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D'Argo, Rygel, Scorpius and John visit a mental arts training camp to obtain information from the leader, Katoya. One of the other trainees turns out to be Macton, the Peacekeeper who killed D'Argo's wife Lo'lann, his sister, and framed him for the crime. He accuses D'Argo of beating Lo'lann to death. D'Argo vows to kill him.
Scopius loses a mental duel with Katoya. Outside, John runs into Macton, who claims that D'Argo killed Lo'lann in a fit of blackout-causing hyper-rage.
Original Airdate: 20-JAN-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK. Gigi Edgley does not appear in this episode.
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The women on Moya head down to a trading station on a derelict Leviathan to buy a sensor distorter for Moya. While it's being customised, they have four arns to kill.
Wandering through the station, Aeryn and Sikozu are shocked to see Grayza and Braca, with a squad of Peacekeeper commandos. As they hide, another ship arrives - carrying a Scarran delegation.
They follow the two groups to a clandestine meeting, at which it becomes clear that Grayza is prepared to strike a deal with the Scarrans in return for peace - and her own advancement.
Original Airdate: 27-JAN-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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Sikozu checks her contacts for any clue as to the location of Katratzi, where Aeryn has been taken, but without success. Meanwhile, John watches a documentary on the aliens' visit to Earth, intercepted by Pilot.
The documentary consists of talking heads and video footage of the aliens, shot by John's nephew Bobby. Psychologists, sociologists, priests and others all give their opinion of the aliens' characters, and whether they present a threat.
Original Airdate: 10-FEB-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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Aeryn is being held captive aboard a Scarran freighter captained by Jenek, a ruthless and ambitious Scarran of the Ruling Order. Along with a traitorous Sebacean nurse, Vreena, Jenek questions Aeryn, using powerful drugs and Scarran heat torture.
After discovering that Aeryn is pregnant, they want to know the identity of the father. Aeryn is able to resist only by recounting stories of her time away from Moya apparently spent with other lovers.
Original Airdate: 17-FEB-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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Moya's crew arrives at a Scarran Border Station, where the freighter holding Aeryn is docked for inspection. Scorpius masquerades as a Scarran Captain with Crichton, Rygel, and Chiana as spies working for him. Sikozu discovers that Aeryn's ship is due to leave for Katratzi, a Scarran base, in barely half an arn - insufficient time to stage a rescue.
To keep the freighter at the station, Rygel feigns symptoms of the deadly disease known as Hynerian dermaphollica, forcing Trayso, the Kalish medical officer, to impose a lockdown.
Original Airdate: 24-FEB-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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The crew travels to Katratzi, a secret Scarran base, to stop the Scarrans from extracting wormhole information from Scorpius. They arrive during critical peace negotiations between Commandant Grayza and the Scarran Emperor, Staleek.
Crichton wears a nuclear bomb, rigged to explode should he come to any harm. He claims to have come to the base to sell wormhole knowledge to the highest bidder, hoping this will buy time for him to devise a plan to either rescue Scorpius or kill him before he breaks.
Original Airdate: 25-FEB-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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After Scorpius sabotages Crichton's escape plan, Staleek places Moya's crew under "protective" guard. Once alone, Scorpius reveals hes only pretending to be a Scarran spy, claiming his real agenda is the destruction of the Scarrans, using wormhole technology as the means.
As Crichton won't give up his wormhole knowledge, Scorpius has had to formulate a different plan to halt the Scarran invasion.
Original Airdate: 03-MAR-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK.
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Safely back on Moya, the crew is horrified to discover that Scorpius has made contact with Captain Braca's Command Carrier. In response they strand both him and Sikozu, who pleads for him, in deep space, knowing they'll be picked up by Braca once Moya has Starbursted away.
In return, Braca reveals to Crichton the details of a transmission intercepted from the Scarran base, indicating that the Scarrans intend to invade Earth via a wormhole.
Original Airdate: 10-MAR-2003
NOTE: First Aired on BBC2 in the UK. Though they had originally renewed Farscape for a fifth season, SciFi backed out of the deal during September 2002 and cancelled the series. This decision came just days before the final scenes were to be filmed, leaving the cast and crew unable to do a real series finale. For the first (and obviously last) time in the show's history, the credits run silently.
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