Farscape

[ProfCrash]

Discussion of the Sci Fi Channel's series Farscape

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[ProfCrash]

Well, i finally got the sci Fi Channel and have been sucked in by Farscape. I am afraid that I am a bit lost on the back story. When I came in the hunky astronaut dude was faced with the decision of marrying the Princess or being turned over to Scorpious (sp) and erin was pissed that the hunky astronaut dude was going through with the marriage...

ie, I have been watching for one week.

Can someone give me a bit of background (like what all the names are.....)

[MorganaK]

Commander John Crichton Hubba hubba


He is a second-generation astronaut came and has a doctorate in Theoretical Sciences. As a scientist/astronaut Crichton lived in the shadow of his famous father Jack Crichton. He was always trying to impress and please his father but never forced to make a name for himself, since he was born into the legacy without even lifting a finger.


On an experimental mission aboard the Farscape One module shot Crichton through a wormhole. This causes him to at last forced to call upon the heroic qualities he'd inherited from Dad but had never needed to use. Crichton's natural leadership and decision-making skills make him an important member of Moya's crew.

The frist episode is about the wormhole.

ATTENTION FARSCAPE FANS! The Farscape Soundtrack is finally available on CD!

[MorganaK]

I just found the offical Farscape website.
<a href=http://www.farscape.com/>Click here</a>

[Cosmic]

Thanks Morgana...I'm in the same boat as Crash, having only seen the last two episodes and have no idea about what's going on.

[AsIs]

Not another show I have to start watching!

I also have a Farscape CD I should probably look at, I guess.

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- "How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his friend. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see." - Sebastion, Babylon 5
- Really I am a woman...honest!
- Resident KiSA (Knight in Shining Armor!)
- I believe trust is more important than monogamy (Savage Garden - Affirmation)
- Namesake of AsIs the kitten!
- Member of the *Save Mary Beth* Club!

[ProfCrash]

CT, the Farscape website is a good place to start, it has mission logs and character descriptions.

Azziz, yeah its a good show. I am really enjoying it now that I have Sci Fi Channel

[iznardy]

Farscape stuff

First thing, the official homesite is actually this one: http://www.scifi.com/farscape/

Farscape

There are summaries of all episodes, Seasons 1-3, if you have the time to read them.

Brief summary: Crichton, astronaut, gets blasted out of earth orbit in the "Farscape" during an experiment that goes wrong. He gets sucked down a wormhole into the middle of a battle in which prisoners aboard the Leviathan ship Moya are trying to escape their Peacekeeper captors. He ends up aboard Moya, with prisoners Dargo, Zhaan, Rygel, and Pilot, as well as with a Peacekeeper pilot, Aeryn, accidently captured during the escape.

Whole first season revolves around these folks trying to cooperate and evade the pursuit of Capt. Crais of the Peacekeepers. Aeryn refuses to cooperate at first, even through the Peacekeepers will execute her for "alien contamination" if she goes back to them. Crichton is considered an over-active monkey until he saves the crew's butts several times.

Important developments. Aeryn and Crichton become attracted to each other. Aeryn begins to reject her Peacekeeper ideology. Crichton begins to experiment with creation of wormholes to get back home. He meets an alien species that embeds wormhole technology in his subconscious. When raiding a Peacekeeper outpost to find medical treatment for Aeryn, he is captured by the character Scorpius. Scorpius tries (unsuccessfully) to extract the wormhole knowledge from Crichton and is now pursuing him to recapture him.

Meanwhile--we find out Dargo married a Peacekeeper woman and had a child with her. Her own brother killed her for marrying an alien; the child was placed in hiding. Dargo is trying to find the boy. He has recently learned the boy was sold into slavery.

Rygel is a deposed dominar of his people and is trying to regain his throne. Zhaan has had a stormy career as priest, including several murders, and is sometime violent. She has also met the builders of the Leviathans and has been appointed Moya's guardian. Aeryn, while a Peacekeeper, was part of a force that murdered Moya's original [female] Pilot and put [current] Pilot in her place. She and Pilot feel guilty about the role they played in eliminating the first Pilot.

New developments: Capt. Crais's original assignment was to impregnate Moya and develop a new offspring--an armed Leviathan subject to Peacekeeper commands. He did not succeed, but Moya accidently became pregnant anyway and has given birth to a gunship. Crais had to flee the Peacekeeper's when Scorpius tried to eliminate him. He has since convinced the new child gunship, Talyn, to accept him as its captain, and has taken off with it.

Chiana also joined the crew. She and her brother were infected by their own people with a sexually transmittable disease intended to wipe-out as many other races as possible. They are now immune to the effects. Her brother has become a resistance fighter. Her people wish to capture both her and her brother.

That brings us up to Season Four. Scorpius continues to pursue Crichton. He has a secret weapon--he has implanted a program in Crichton's mind (ala Bester and Garibaldi). Moya wants to find and recover her offspring Talyn. Dargo wants to find his son. Everyone else basically wants to get to their homeworlds, except Aeryn, who is trying to decide if she should tie her future to Crichton's.

In the "Princess" episodes, we finally meet the Scarrans. The three competing powers in this show are the Peacekeepers (Sebaceans), the Nebari (Chiana's species) and the Scarrans (lizard-like warloads). Scorpius is a half-breed Peacekeeper/Scarran allied to the Peacekeepers. The Nebari appear to be the most powerful, the Scarrans are the most war-like.

I think that's all the basic stuff.

iz

[AsIs]

Great synop Iz, thanks! I'll try to give it a go.

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- "How do you know the chosen ones? No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his friend. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame... for one person. In the dark. Where no one will ever know or see." - Sebastion, Babylon 5
- Really I am a woman...honest!
- Resident KiSA (Knight in Shining Armor!)
- I believe trust is more important than monogamy (Savage Garden - Affirmation)
- Namesake of AsIs the kitten!
- Member of the *Save Mary Beth* Club!

[MorganaK]

Iznardy... Thanks! :-)
Now I sure was sent off to the wrong Galaxy. *chuckles*