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Farscpe -A brief review

© Tanya M. Blakeley

Farscape is one of the new Sci-Fi programs now showing on the Sci-Fi Channel. It's about an American Astronaut named John Crichton, who while testing a newly designed and ultra-fast space ship-type plane, gets drawn into a Wormhole. The Wormhole takes him to another galaxy, via some two thousand other galaxies, straight into the middle of a fierce alien battle. Farscape stars Ben Bowler as John Crichton, Claudia Black as Officer Aeryn Sun, Anthony Simcoe as Ka D'Argo and Virginia Hey as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan. Rygel XVI's voice is done by John Eccleston and the puppetry is done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop..

He is then rescued from the battle by a big alien biomechanoid (a "living" ship) called Moya, which is trying to escape captivity. After being brought onboard Moya, Crichton is met by a host of other aliens. Ka D'Argo a 'Chewbacca'type Luxan Warrior, Rygel XVI is the sluggish Dominar of the Hynerian Empire (who is puppetry at it's finest), Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan a priestess from the planet of Delvia, all of whom are trying to escape the Peacekeepers. The Peacekeepers are a ruthless, merciless and deadly alien humanoid race of warriors.

While D'Argo, Zhaan and Rygell XVI try to escape the relentless Peacekeepers, Crichton ends up in a cell with a beautiful female alien humanoid pilot named Officer Aeryn Sun, who also happens to be a member of the Peacekeepers. After awhile Crichton and Aeryn Sun escape their cell, Aeryn Sun calls in her friends, who are led by the merciless Captain Crais (played by Lani John Tupu) and who have followed Moya and crew into the 'uncharted territories'.

However, Captain Crais and his fellow Peacekeepers have other plans for the pilot of the unknown craft that accidentally cost Crais' brother his life in the earlier battle with the Peacekeepers. That pilot is none other than John Crichton.

After Aeryn Sun attempts to vouch for Crichton, she is called a traitor by Captain Crais and she along with the others (Crichton, D'Argo, Rygel, Zhaan and Moya) are sentenced to death for their crimes. Together she, Crichton, Moya, Rygel XVI, Zhaan and D'Argo become fugitives, wanted by the Peacekeepers. Crichton, who is a stranger in a strange land, forges a bond with his fellow fugitives. Together they must strive to survive and possible find him a way to get back home.

Farscape reminds me a little of Star Trek: Voyager in that, both Crichton and the Crew of Voyager are trying to get back to Earth. It also has strains of the Sci-Fi classic Lost

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