Farscape

2000 • Syfy
4.9
339 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (22)

1 Premiere
3/19/99
Season-only
Astronaut John Crichton is sucked through a wormhole into a distant part of the universe and straight into the middle of a space battle, where he's brought aboard a ship full of escaping alien prisoners.
2 Exodus from Genesis
3/26/99
Season-only
Moya gets infested with bugs who've come on board to breed. They turn up the temperature to speed up the process but this causes Aeryn to get heat delirium, as she is cold-blooded. Also, the bugs seem to be able to replicate members of the crew.
3 Back and Back and Back to the Future
4/2/99
Season-only
The crew comes across a ship that is molecularly de-stabilizing. D'Argo makes everyone bring the ship's escape pod aboard when he discovers that the ship's passengers are Ilanics - long-time allies of the Luxans.
4 Throne for a Loss
4/9/99
Season-only
When a group of Tavleks come aboard for trade negotiations, Rygel takes a vitally important crystal from Moya to make himself appear wealthy. The Tavleks kidnap Rygel to hold for ransom.
5 PK Tech Girl
4/17/99
Season-only
The crew finds an abandoned Peacekeeper ship adrift in space. On board they discover that Crais recently deposited a unit of techs to make repairs. Rygel learns that this was the ship where he was first held captive and starts getting paranoid.
6 Thank God it's Friday. Again.
4/23/99
Season-only
The crew visits a planet full of happy workers. Soon D'Argo and Zhaan start working and refuse to return to the ship. Meanwhile Rygel's body fluids become explosive and Aeryn and Pilot must learn why before Rygel dies.
7 I, E.T.
5/7/99
Season-only
After a peacekeeper beacon goes off, Moya has to land on an alien planet to prevent its signal from being intercepted and Moya being discovered. Crichton, D'Argo, and Aeryn explore the planet in search of a substance that can numb Moya's senses.
8 That Old Black Magic
6/11/99
Season-only
Crichton is in a head-to-head battle with Crais by a magical being named Maldis who feeds off the emotions of others and makes himself stronger by absorbing all of the negative energy and anger from Crichton and Crais.
9 DNA Mad Scientist
6/18/99
Season-only
A scientist extracts DNA from several of Moya's crew, promising them that with it he will be able to find the locations of their home planets. Conflict arises when he asks for a sample from Pilot, specifically, one of his arms.
10 They've Got a Secret
6/25/99
Season-only
During routine searches for Peacekeeper beacons, D'Argo falls down a chute, destroys a Peacekeeper shield and gets ejected into open space. After being rescued, D'Argo starts to think that everyone on Moya are members of his family.
11 Till the Blood Runs Clear
7/9/99
Season-only
Crichton comes across the same conditions that created the wormhole that sent him to Moya. He and Aeryn leave Moya in his module in an attempt to create another wormhole and return home. Although a wormhole forms, it's unstable and damages the module.
12 The Flax
7/16/99
Season-only
While on a transport pod piloting lesson with Aeryn, Crichton gets caught in an energy field which is invisible to their sensors. Back on Moya, a strange guest boards to warn the crew about The Flax, an invisible energy net created to catch ships.
13 Rhapsoday in Blue
7/23/99
Season-only
Moya responds to a distress call from another pregnant Leviathan. The crew learns, upon arrival at the planet from which the call originated, that they've been deceived.
14 Jeremiah Crichton
7/30/99
Season-only
Several heated arguments with the crew prompt John to take his pod for a cruise. While in space, away from the ship, a problem with Moya causes her to starburst without warning, leaving John stranded.
15 Durka Returns
8/13/99
Season-only
When a Starburst goes wrong, Moya collides with a Nebari ship. On board is Durka, Rygel's former torturer, who has been mind cleansed and now serves the Nebari. Chiana, an attractive young rebel faces the same fate.
16 A Human Reaction
8/20/99
Season-only
After discovering a wormhole that appears to lead back to Earth, Crichton chances that it might be his ticket home. He crash lands on a beach in Australia and finds that although Earth is as he remembered it, it is not exactly what he was expecting.
17 Through the Looking Glass
9/10/99
Season-only
Moya starbursts to prove to the crew that she still can. It goes wrong, as she gets stuck in starburst and split into several different dimensions.
18 A Bug's Life
9/17/99
Season-only
A Peacekeeper ship is approaching Moya, so Crichton and Aeryn pose as Peacekeeper officers on a secret mission whilst everyone else gets locked into cells to make the deception seem realistic.
19 Nerve
1/7/00
Season-only
Crichton and Chiana try to infiltrate a Peacekeeper base to get some vital medicine for Aeryn. Crichton gets caught by Scorpius and imprisoned.
20 The Hidden Memory
1/14/00
Season-only
Although still recovering from her near-death experience, Aeryn is determined to save Crichton, who is held captive by the peacekeepers. Zhaan and D'Argo join her, while Chiana and Rygel stay behind with Moya who's about to deliver her offspring.
21 Bone to be Wild
1/21/00
Season-only
Moya hides in an asteroid field from a Peacekeeper command carrier. They receive a distress call, and Crichton, Zhaan and D'Argo go down to one of the asteroids to rescue a woman who becomes intent on eating them.
22 Family Ties
1/28/00
Season-only
Rygel steals a transport pod and goes to the peacekeeper command carrier to betray the others. However, he returns to Moya with Crais, who wants asylum. Meanwhile, Crichton decides to destroy Scorpius' Gammak Base.

About this show

Astronaut and astrophysicist John Crichton becomes stranded on the other side of the universe when his Farscape module goes through a wormhole. He is taken in by the misfit alien passengers of the sentient ship Moya, a spacecraft that's on the run.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
339 reviews
Rooth Dragon (Dave Michaels)
August 12, 2018
Just watched all 4 seasons again, and I'm reminded of why I loved it so. If you're watching it and struggling, be aware that it gets particularly engaging toward the end of Season 1 and into Season 2. Get that far and it'll likely keep you hooked all the way through. The character dynamics and growth are really well done, and even the 'fluff' episodes give the actors a chance to show their range playing out-of-band characters. Wayne Pygram is especially entertaining in his alternate roles.
Michael Rogus
November 21, 2017
My favorite show of all time. For once in tv, the universe feels truly alien. This show takes chances, they don't always stick the landing, but they always end up with something interesting anyway.
Tom Bruno
August 19, 2017
Amazing Shows, Spoiler Free review of why you should watch it. First off let me say Season One is not the best, its not terrible but it takes a while to get good, It gets good around Episode 18. That's a long way to go I know but it is worth it for the pay off. The spoiler free pay off is that you get to see an unconventional look at insanity caused by mental trauma. Its not preachy, its at times funny, at times scary and sad. But you get to see it occur in real time in a believable sense. That is the core of what takes this show so good, the setting is science fiction done very well and the characters feel truly complex without slowing down the pace at all. This is one of the greatest works of its genre once it gets up an going, which unfortunately takes some time and if you skip it you won't get as much as you could out the later parts of the show.
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