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Farscape:
Season One:
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John Crichton, on a experimental ship, called Farscape One, was flung into an unknown part of the universe by a mysterious "wormhole" and into the middle of a battle. While out of control John's helpless ship smashed into an unexpecting Peacekeeper ship, killing the person on board. Little did John know it was the brother of the Peacekeeper Captain, Captain Bialar Crais. Crichton found himself inside a living ship called Moya, a Leviathan. Had it not been for Moya and her new crew of escaped prisoners - The Luxan warrior Ka D'Argo, the Delvian priest Pa'u Zoto Zhaan, the Dominar of the Hynerian Empire Rygel The Sixteenth and Moya's symbiant, Pilot; John Crichton would be dead!
To flee from the Peacekeepers, Moya and her crew had to Starburst before Moya was ready. When they came out of Starburst they were somewhere in the Uncharted Territories, not knowing where they were or how to get back. Unfortunatly, they quickly discovered that Captain Bialar Crais had taken his Peacekeeper Command Carrier into the Uncharted Territories to recapture Moya and to get his revenge upon Crichton for accidentally causing the death of Crais's brother during the chaos of the battle. During their escape from the Peacekeepers they also managed to capture Officer Aeyrn Sun(Soon), who because of her time with John Crichton and the others has become "irreversably contaminated" and was banished from her life with the Peacekeepers. The crew of Moya, with a little convincing from John, decided to keep her aboard as one of the crew.
I know that was a long synopsis. Later synopses will be much shorter but I wanted to make sure that everyone knew what was going on.
By Electron on Monday, October 09, 2000 - 8:31 pm: The Farscape shuttle is lifted out of the cargo bay by the "arm" and starts the rocket engine. The NASA sure wouldn't like this procedure but the IASA seems to like it...
By The Undesirable Element on Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 3:30 pm: Well, I FINALLY saw the Farscape Series Premiere last night. It was awesome.
It was weird to see Crais so evil this episode since the last time we saw him was Friday when he was ready to go fight along side Crichton against Scorpius.
GREAT LINE 1:
JOHN: "Boy was Spielberg ever wrong. Close encounters my a$$!"
GREAT LINE 2:
JOHN: "And there's life out here dad. Weird, amazing, psychotic life. And in technicolor"
GREAT LINE 3:
D'ARGO: "Does Moya know where we are?"
PILOT: "Of course. We're someplace else"
GREAT LINE 4:
JOHN: Get down on the ground or I'll fill you full of.... little yellow bolts of light."
GREAT LINE 5:
D'ARGO: "I am a Luxan warrior. I have seen TWO battle campaigns."
ZHANN: "Only two?"
GREAT LINE 6:
JOHN: "You know those rattlers we were talkin' about before? I feel 'em now, dad"
>> Boy, I forgot how different D'Argo looked back in season 1.
>> John must have gotten his superspeed slingshot ideas from Captain Kirk's school of time travel.
>> How do Peacekeeper ships travel to different systems. They must have some kind of faster than light travel. Isn't starburst a "leviathan-only" kinda thing?
>> So D'Argo's been on the ship for 9 cycles? I thought Moya was used to TRANSPORT prisoners, not house them.
See ya later
TUE
By Callie on Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 7:04 pm: Pilot mentions “another minute or two.” It wasn’t until a couple of episodes later that they developed their own Farscapian terminology for time periods.
One of the Peacekeepers keeps pronouncing Aeryn’s surname like it’s spelled instead of with the longer ‘oo’ sound.
By Gordon Lawyer on Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 5:22 am: You know, I'm not sure that they've ever mentioned an equivalent for a minute. Microts for seconds and arns for hours, but nothing I can recall for minutes.
By Callie on Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 4:02 pm: I’m sure that on occasions they’ve used ‘microts’ as if they’re minutes. There’s been more than one time when I’ve puzzled about the length of a microt - they never seemed to be quite sure whether they were the equivalent of seconds or minutes!
By Gordon Lawyer on Monday, May 26, 2003 - 5:40 am:In Through the Looking Glass, they're clearly used as seconds.
By Callie on Monday, May 26, 2003 - 12:52 pm: Yes, they’re mostly used as seconds but I’m sure there are some times when they seem to be a longer unit of time. I’ll let you know when I find an episode where, for example, 50 microts lasts a whole lot longer than a minute!
By Josh M on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 4:24 pm:Same in PK Tech Girl. Pilot uses microns as a countdown after the Sheyangs fire their weapon at Moya.
By Scott W R on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 1:00 am:Actually, I've been rewatching a lot of the older episodes on DVD, and I've been paying a lot of attention to the use of 'microts.' I can't speak definitively on it, but it seems like 'microts' are closer to seconds and there is nothing between a microt and an arn. In Through the Looking Glass the time limit is something like 300 microts, rather than 5 minutes, and in Mind the Baby, the command carrier will be in firing range in 600 microts. I haven't yet noticed a place where microts vary much from seconds (though I haven't been timing them), but I am going to keep looking.
By Taoiseach on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 2:08 pm: I would guess that microt, being close to "micro-", implies that there are one thousand microts in a arn. If a microt is a small measure of time (a second or three) than an arn is somewhere between 16 minutes and a hour. To further extrapolate my guesses, a microt must be around 3.6 seconds, and then one arn would be one hour. Just a guess, mind you...
By mike powers on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 11:51 am:As a devoted SF fan you find that when a TV series debuts it goes one of three ways
1.)You fall madly in love with it,(2.)You like it but don't love it,(3.)You get as far away from the series as possible.Farscape was no.#1 for me,& continued right through the miniseries.This show came out of the gate & hit the ground running!The premise,actors,directing & production values were all spectacular.The writing superb!I don't think that I ever got into a series as quickly as this one.I still mourn its far too soon end,they had several years of stories left in them.This show clearly belongs in the SF TV Hall of Fame in my opinion.