Farscape

Guide Note

FarScape is a science fiction television series about John Crichton, an American astronaut who, after accidentally traveling through a wormhole, becomes part of a crew of escaped prisoners who make their home inside a living ship.

Fast Facts

1. Network: Sci-Fi Channel
2. Produced by: Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment
3. Filmed in Australia
4. Original Run: March 19, 1999 – March 21, 2003
5. Created by Jim Henson Company (Henson Associates)
6. New webseries in production
7. Ten episodes will run three to six minutes each
8. A "fifth season" was broadcast in the form of a mini-series titled "The Peacekeeper Wars"

Cast Information

• Ben Browder as John Crichton
• Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun
• Anthony Simcoe as Ka D'Argo
• Gigi Edgley as Chiana
• Lani Tupu as Captain Bialar Crais
• Jonathan Hardy as Dominar Rygel XVI (voice)
• Virginia Hey as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan
• Wayne Pygram as Scorpius
• Paul Goddard as Stark

Crichton Quotes

• John Crichton: Lately, do I seem a little crazy to you?
• Aeryn Sun: What do you mean, "lately"?

• Aeryn Sun: Who are you to order me around?
• John Crichton: Order? I was offering a suggestion.
• Aeryn Sun: Well, who are you to offer suggestions?

• John Crichton: Ah, screw it. But I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash or Arthur frelling Dent. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas.

• John Crichton: Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows. How can you guarantee my safety?

• John Crichton: Have we sent the "Don't shoot, we're pathetic" transmission yet?

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