List of minor Farscape characters
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While Farscape did not have the sheer number of characters as other science fiction series, there were several that appeared in multiple episodes, or had more than a minor impact on the storyline.
[edit] War Minister Ahkna
Ahkna is an upper-caste member of the Scarran race, played by Francesca Buller. She is Scarran War Minister in the last few episodes of season 4, beginning with Bringing Home the Beacon. She is featured in the trilogy We're So Screwed and in the miniseries Peacekeeper Wars. Her father was previously deposed and executed by Emperor Staleek.
[edit] Bekhesh
Bekhesh is the leader of a group of Tavlek mercenaries but later gives up his life of violence. He is played by John Adam. He wears a gauntlet weapon that injects him with a narcotic stimulant, giving him increased speed, strength, and aggression, but also resulting in addiction. The gauntlet can also fire short energy bursts with an output that is on par with a pulse pistol blast, able to kill a target in one hit, and can absorb blasts too. He is featured in the episode Throne for a Loss and the trilogy Liars, Guns, and Money
He is first encountered by the crew of Moya shortly after John Crichton's arrival in the Uncharted Territories. Posing as a group of traders, Bekhesh's group attempts to rob Moya shortly after boarding. While deterred from stealing any goods, Bekhesh manages to kidnap Rygel, because they have been led to believe by the Hynerian that he is a valuable prisoner, the current dominar of a great empire. Bekhesh takes Rygel to the planet below and imprisons him in a makeshift cell, burying the Hynerian halfway into the ground as he waits for the crew of Moya to pay Rygel's ransom. Despite Rygel's supposed value, Bekhesh treats him mercilessly and does not tolerate dissent. When Rygel tries to escape, Bekhesh strangles him, nearly causing the Hynerian's death. Rygel's crewmates eventually come for him and as Bekhesh and Crichton have a Mexican standoff, Crichton is able to convince Bekhesh that Rygel isn't worth anything. Bekhesh gives him up, deciding that Rygel has already been more trouble than he could ever be worth.
Almost two cycles later, Crichton seeks Bekhesh out, hoping to acquire the gauntlet to use it in an assault to rescue D'Argo's son. He discovers that Bekhesh had given up his life of violence and has joined a pacifist holy order. He is, however, unwilling to give up the gauntlet and agrees to go with Crichton. After Crichton later turns himself over to Scorpius in exchange for Jothee, Bekhesh helps stage an assault on a Shadow Depository, fighting beside D'Argo and Aeryn in an effort to rescue Crichton. After their success, Bekhesh takes his cut and thanks the crew of Moya for bringing him back to his life of violence.
Unlike other Tavleks, Bekhesh wears some type of masking shield over the top of his head. Its purpose is unknown but it is implied that it is due to injury. [1] [2][3]
[edit] D'Argo Sun-Crichton
D'Argo Sun-Crichton is the half-human, half-Sebacean son of John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. D'Argo was named after the Luxan Ka D'Argo after he died heroically saving them during a Scarran attack. D'Argo was birthed with assistance from Chiana and Crichton on Qujaga, the home planet of the Eidelons.
After conception, D'Argo was held in statis due to a Sebacean quirk that allows the birth of a baby to be delayed for up to seven cycles. During this stasis, several factions tried to gain control of the child for the chance at accessing Crichton's wormhole knowledge from its DNA.
The pregnancy came at a difficult time as well, as the child was accidentally released from stasis after Rygel ended up with a piece of a crystallized Aeryn inside of him that held the foetus. After developing inside Rygel for a time, it was transferred back to Aeryn.
[edit] Dominar Bishan
Nearly 165 cycles prior to the events of Farscape, Bishan helped to depose Dominar Rygel XVI while he was sleeping, and ascended the throne of his home planet, Hyneria. He turned over his cousin to the Peacekeepers, who subsequently imprisoned the deposed Dominar on the living prison transport Moya. Immediately prior to the disruptive arrival of John Crichton, Dominar Rygel acquired the codes to free himself and the other prisoners, thus leading to their escape.
Vowing to return to Hyneria and rectify his cousin's betrayal and retake the throne, Dominar Rygel XVI tries to persuade his fellow escapees, especially the Luxan Warrior, Ka D'Argo to help him. He meets with little success, and Bishan's rule remains unchallenged for some time.
However, while aboard Scorpius' Command Carrier, Dominar Rygel XVI learns that Bishan's rule is in disarray and is hopeful that if he returned to Hyneria, he will be able to easily retake his throne.
A cycle later, Bishan sends a holographic message to Dominar Rygel XVI, reaching him aboard Moya during the height of the ongoing intergalactic war raging between the Scarrans and the Peacekeepers. Bishan begs Dominar Rygel XVI to return to his home planet of Hyneria and help to unite its 16 billion subjects.
[edit] DRD 1812
1812 is a unique DRD modified and adopted by Crichton during his time on the dying Leviathan Elack. Crichton alters 1812, coloring him the French patriotic colors of "bleu, blanc et rouge" (emulating the French flag) and scrawling "1812" on the side. He also teaches the DRD to play the 1812 Overture which Crichton will sometimes whistle, sing, or hum with 1812's accompaniment. 1812 has the capabilities of all DRDs, but also exhibits some level of independence and seems to have a relationship with Crichton that resembles that of a much-beloved dog. Crichton brings 1812 with him on his return to Moya, where 1812 joins her already numerous DRDs. He is first featured in the episode Crichton Kicks.
[edit] DRD One-Eye
One of the DRDs on Moya, One-Eye is the first DRD encountered in the Premiere of the show. It becomes One-Eye when a piece of Crichton's ship hits it and damages one of its eye-stalks, such that it hangs useless and unlit. Later in the episode, Crichton fixes the damaged stalk with blue electrical tape, and the DRD, with the distinctive tape, is seen periodically throughout the rest of the series.
[edit] Jenavian Charto
Disruptor, Peacekeeper Special Directorate, played by model/actress and former Miss Australia Bianca Chiminello. Appeared in the Look at the Princess season 2 Farscape trilogy. A Peacekeeper spy living on the Royal Planet and engaged to marry Prince Clavor, her assignment is to kill him if he assumes the throne. She also saves Crichton's life twice and is (briefly) his lover.
Although she only appeared in 3 episodes, her character was so popular she is highly sought for appearances at Farscape conventions and is listed as on of the most memorable characters to appear.
[edit] Jack Crichton
John Robert "Jack" Crichton, Sr. is a retired astronaut and the father of John Crichton; Jack is played by Kent McCord.
A member of the Ancients took on his form when conversing with John Crichton. Initially this was to fool John while studying human reactions (for a possible colonisation of Earth). Following John seeing his true form, the illusion was retained for unknown reasons.
[edit] Selto Durka
To the right:The "normal" Dura. He removed his eye-patch and cut off his long hair after having his natural personality restored.
Selto Durka (played by David Wheeler) was a legendary Peacekeeper captain in command of the command carrier Zelbinion. His most famed accomplishments were the liberation of Mintaka III and the quelling the Senovion rebellion. Many of his tactics are required learning during Peacekeeper training. Durka was also an inveterate sadist, and frequently tortured prisoners that came under his supervision. In Farscape, he was particularly known for torturing Rygel. He was first seen in PK Tech Girl, then in Durka Returns, and finally in Liars, Guns and Money
During a Peacekeeper invasion of the Nebari sector, over 100 cycles (years) prior to the events covered by the TV series, the Zelbinion was crippled and boarded by the Nebari. The crew refused to surrender to Nebari "mind cleansing" and were all killed, and Durka was presumed killed in action. However, it is later revealed that he had faked his own death by murdering a junior officer, and fled the Zelbinion in an escape pod. He was later captured by the Nebari and spent the next 100 cycles (years) in stasis being mind cleansed into an obedient, pacifistic servant of the Nebari Establishment.
When Durka and his Nebari master later encountered the crew of Moya, he was recognised by Rygel who promptly tried to kill him with a makeshift bomb. However the explosion only succeeded in somehow negating the mind cleansing, and Durka was returned to his old violent self. In short order, he (allegedly) murdered his Nebari keeper and hijacked Moya, but the crew eventually succeeded in luring him into a trap. While he was powering up the weapons on the crippled Nebari ship on which he had arrived, it was jettisoned into space, leaving him stranded onboard the derelict vessel.
About a cycle (year) later, Rygel discovered that Durka survived their last encounter and was then the head of the Zenetan pirates with which he was trying to negotiate. Durka tried to kill Rygel, but Rygel came prepared for his treachery and killed Durka instead. For the next few days, Rygel carried Durka's severed head around on a stake, as a trophy of his final victory over the man who tortured him for so long.
[edit] "Einstein"
First introduced in Season 4, "Einstein" is an extradimensional entity who has tremendous knowledge of wormholes, time and theoretical physics. His appearance is a plot device which provides John Crichton with an opportunity to finally harness wormhole travel and return to Earth, a main focus of the series. He is shown as enigmatic and ultimately fake, appearing as an eyeless, gray-skinned human being wearing a suit and tie, obviously in imitation of Crichton's memories, as he is not truly existent in Crichton's world, simply a manifestation of another, vastly powerful being. He is one of the many 'godlike aliens' which episodes of Farscape often center around, presenting alternate realities and confusing illusions, similar to Maldis and the Ancients. Einstein actually reveals to Crichton that the Ancients are members of his race, though substantially modified, who provide intelligence of 'normal' space. There are allusions and references made to the Pathfinder wormhole-traversing race as well as the extradimensional entity from the Season One episode "Through the Looking Glass." The moniker "Einstein" is given to him by Crichton. His true name, and whether he has one, is not known.
He is played by John Bach.
[edit] Furlow
Stranded on a hot desert planet, John Crichton encounters Furlow in her repair shop, where she successfully repairs his Farscape One module. She is played by renowned Australian actress Magda Szubanski.
In payment, Furlow demands Crichton's data recording of his creation of a wormhole, which she spends the next two years investigating. She intended to sell the technology to all of the major power blocs in the galaxy, believing that this course of action will make her very rich. She appears in the episodes Till the Blood Runs Clear and Infinite Possibilities.
[edit] Tollona Javio
Tollona Javio, played by Stephen Leeder, is a Peacekeeper officer and the commander of the Gammak Base visited by John Crichton near the end of his first cycle in the Uncharted Territories. Javio answers only to Scorpius. Javio greets Crichton, who has disguised himself as Peacekeeper Captain Larraq, and, like many of the men at the base, has an immediate attraction to Crichton's companion, Chiana. It later allows him to recognize Chiana, now disguised as a Peacekeeper tech. After rejecting Chiana's offer to come with him, he tries to kill her. Instead Chiana kills him, burning him alive. [4]
[edit] Jothee
Jothee is the half-Luxan/half-Sebacean son of Ka D'Argo and his late wife Lo'Laan, played by Matthew Newton, and later by Nathaniel Dean. He was estranged from his father, who left him in the care of others. Unfortunately, he somehow became enslaved, and mutilated his Luxan features as the result of teasing and abuse. He is known for his affair with Chiana, who was also romantically linked with D'Argo.
[edit] D.K. (Douglas Knox)
John Crichton's childhood friend who, along with Crichton, formulated the theory that was being tested by the Farscape project. Crichton helped D.K. cheat on his SATs, and helped get him his job at IASA. In the episode Terra firma D.K. and his wife were killed by a alien named Skreeth. D.K. appears in the episodes Premiere, Won't Get Fooled Again, Unrealized Reality and Terra Firma.
[edit] Larraq
Larraq is a Peacekeeper captain and leader of a group of Special Ops commandos. He is played by Paul Leyden. He and his squad board Moya after their Marauder is damaged while on its way to a Gammak base. They come face to face with Moya's crew, who are posing as a Peacekeeper ship. Larraq has the Leviathan set course for the base, stating that he and his team are on a mission of utmost importance: recovery and transport of a dangerous fugitive. Not long after their arrival, Chiana and Rygel's curiosity result in the release of the prisoner--a highly dangerous intelligent virus. The virus jumps from host to host as the commandos and Moya's crew work together to track it down, resulting in the deaths of the commandos and Larraq's eventual infection. With the virus controlling him, Larraq attempts to escape in the Marauder, stabbing Aeryn (whom Larraq had grown close to) to give him time. Quick thinking by Crichton, however, allows Moya to ignite the Marauder's leaking cesium fuel, destroying the ship and Larraq with it. This is the first time that Crichton kills an intelligent being in the series.
Crichton later poses as Larraq when he attempts to infiltrate the Gammak Base to find a tissue sample to save Aeryn's life.
[edit] Lo'Laan
Lo'Laan (played by Alison Fox and later Rachel Gordon) was the late Sebacean wife of the Luxan D'Argo. D'Argo was accused of killing her during a fit of hyper-rage by her Peacekeeper brother Macton. Most Peacekeepers considered D'Argo's marriage to her an abomination, so they wasted no time investigating the accusation, and D'Argo soon found himself in Peacekeeper prison.
Lo'Laan died before the events covered by the TV series, but she appears in a number of flashback scenes in the episode Mental as Anything and she is also often referred to. She also appears in a holo image in They've Got a Secret. D'Argo names his ship "Lo'La" in honor of her.
Lo'Laan and D'Argo had a single child - a son, Jothee.
In Mental as Anything the true circumstances of her murder are finally revealed. Her brother Macton accidentally stabbed her during a heated quarrel over her choice of mate. After realising what he had done, Macton mutilated her corpse in order to frame D'Argo for her murder.
[edit] Talyn Lyczac
Talyn Lyczac was a Peacekeeper soldier and the father of Aeryn Sun. At the beginning of the series, he has been dead for many cycles.
Talyn is rare for a Peackeeper in that he met and fell in love with another Peacekeeper, Xhalax Sun. Together, they deliberately conceived Aeryn, as a symbol of their love. When the Peacekeepers discovered their relationship and the daughter they had sired, they gave Xhalax a choice. She could kill Talyn or she could kill Aeryn. Xhalax executes Talyn, which is her initiation into a life as an assassin for the Peacekeepers.
Aeryn would later name Moya's son Talyn in honor of her father. Almost two cycles later, Aeryn tries to contact her dead father on the planet Valldon. There, an alien being claims to be Talyn. It is soon revealed, however, that he is not Talyn, but an impostor hired by Xhalax in her attempt to kill Aeryn and cause her the same kind of pain Xhalax felt when forced to make her horrific choice between her daughter and her lover.
[edit] Maldis
A recurring villain within the series, Maldis (played by Chris Haywood) is among the most tormenting of the Moya crew's enemies. By his very nature, Maldis enjoys the pain and death of others, feeding off them like a vampire. Though his exact origin and nature is unknown, Maldis is a powerful, magical being, having seemingly met his mortal end on several occasions, but always returning. He appeared in the episodes That Old Black Magic and Picture if You Will. Maldis wields immense powers which enable him to shapeshift, allowing him to take on any form he wishes, thus obscuring his true age or species. Maldis has reconstituted his physical form on more than one occasion, and occupied spaces beyond the normal dimensions of spacetime, hinting that he may be more than a mere sentient being.
The crew first encounters Maldis while visiting a commerce planet early in their adventures. Taking the form of a benevolent old magician named Haloth, Maldis presents himself as one who knows a great deal about John Crichton and his troubles. He persuades Crichton to present his case of mistaken circumstances to Bialar Crais, ending the Peacekeeper captain's pursuit. Maldis, as Haloth, also approaches Crais, offering him John Crichton for a price. When Crais agrees, Haloth reveals himself to Crichton, and unleashes Crais upon him within an arena of his own devising.
As the two fight, Zhaan gains help from a local high priest, Liko. Together, they work to unleash Zhaan's abilities to inflict pain and damage on others. Interrupting Maldis' attempt to kill Crichton and feed off his soul, Zhaan renders the dark sorcerer tangible, allowing Crichton to smash his physical form to bits.
Many months later, Chiana obtains a unique picture from a woman named Kyvan. begins experiencing progressively more dangerous "accidents" seemingly predicted by images in the picture. After attempts to examine it end in Chiana's disappearance, the crew try destroying the picture to bring her back. The picture reassembles again and again, eventually causing D'Argo, to disappear as well. The remaining crew eventually learn from Kyvan that the image was commissioned by Maldis. Zhaan enacts a plan to defeat the wizard again. Zhaan thrusts Crichton into the portrait, where he distracts Maldis while Zhaan instructs Aeryn to kill Kryvan (actually an extension of Maldis) so that he is weakened enough to be physically dispersed again.
With more of his links to the physical world destroyed, Maldis is once again banished to an unknown region to conserve his energies once again before making his inevitable return.
[edit] Natira
Natira is an alien woman of an unidentified species and is in charge of a Shadow Depository targeted for a heist by Stark in order to obtain funds to pay for D'Argo's enslaved son. She is played by Claudia Karvan. She is of a blue-skinned, crustaceous species with a number of claws that normally lie flat along her head but can extend outward into a spider-like form, which she can use to stab with. She likes plucking out and eating eyeballs with them.
Natira has some history with Scorpius, apparently helping him out when he was younger, a kindess that he repaid many times. They have a sexual relationship, but neither trusts the other. After the crew of Moya robs the Shadow Depository and makes off with a shipment meant for Scorpius, it is revealed that the shipment contained a large number of metal-eating creatures disguised as money. After Crichton turns himself over to Scorpius, Natira learns from him and Scorpius' neural clone that Scorpius is planning to kill her. Knowing this, she betrays Scorpius by freeing Crichton and making him promise her that he will take her with him to Moya. However, when Crichton begins acting erratically due to the influence of the clone in his head, Natira abandons him, hoping to make her own escape. Her eventual fate is unknown, but it is possible that she dies in the destruction of the Shadow Depository. [5] [6][7]
[edit] Pennoch
Captain Pennoch is a high ranking Scarran soldier and the lover of War Minister Ahkna. He is played by Jonathan Pasvolsky and later by John Adam. He usually appears in the service of Ahkna or Emperor Staleek and can often be seen at their side or carrying out their orders. He accompanies Ahkna to her meeting with Commandant Grayza on a dead Leviathan and commerce center. He later assists in the capture of Aeryn Sun when her pulse rifle proves to be ineffective against his thick hide. He is also present at the meeting and devastation at Katratzi. He is sent on his final mission by Emperor Staleek. In command of a Scarran Stryker, Pennoch heads for the wormhole that leads to Earth. When the Stryker arrives and enters, however, Crichton has already begun to collapse the wormhole. The Stryker is caught in the implosion, destroying the ship and killing Pennoch as Ahkna can only listen helplessly. [8] [9] [10] [11]
[edit] Gilina Renaez
A Peacekeeper tech who was stationed on the same Command Carrier as Aeryn Sun, the Moyans first meet her when they board the dead Command Carrier Zelbinion in the eponymously titled PK Tech Girl. Gilina, along with several others, were left there by Captain Bialar Crais to explore the Zelbinion, while Crais continued on to search for Moya. Gilina's marauder is then destroyed by Sheyang raiders, trapping her, alone, on the Zelbinion. Crichton and she quickly become attracted to one another, and she helps the Moyans defend themselves against the returning Sheyangs. She then returns to her Command Carrier, but is reassigned to Scorpius' Gammak research base. She encounters Crichton there, in Nerveand helps him with his mission, but is killed by Scorpius while helping Crichton to flee. She is seen one more time in the series, in the Season 4 episode John Quixote, when her likeness appears in a computer game.
[edit] Dominar Rygel IX
Rygel IX was a militarily aggressive Dominar of Hyneria, the leader of the victorious Hynerian forces at the Battle of Katreen. [12] He apparently fought in the vanguard of his forces, rather than from the rear like most Hynerian commanders.[13] His victories are thought to be part of the Hynerian repulse of the Charrids, during the founding days of the Hynerian Empire. [14]
[edit] Dominar Rygel I
Also known as "Rygel the Great", Rygel the First was the first Dominar in what would be a long dynasty. Rygel XVI referred to him as his most "honored ancestor" and notes that he had lived in a simpler time, saying he "had it so very easy".
[edit] Emperor Staleek
Emperor Staleek is the Scarran emperor, played by Duncan Young. He first appears in the "We're So Screwed" three-part story in season 4. He takes an active role in the Peacekeeper-Scarran war, personally capturing John Crichton at Arnessk and later being present at the battle over the water planet Qujaga, where John Crichton unleashs a wormhole weapon and forces the two sides to make peace. Crichton mockingly calls him Emperor Sleestak, a play on his name and also a reference to Land of the Lost, a 1970s children's Saturday morning Sci-Fi TV show that featured lizard-like humanoid antagonists, presumably remembered from John Crichton's youth.
[edit] Xhalax Sun
Xhalax is the estranged mother of Aeryn Sun, who works as a pilot and assassin for the Peacekeepers. Children raised on Command Carriers never meet their parents, but one night when Aeryn is young, Xhalax sneaks into the creche, wakes Aeryn up, and tells her that she is her mother, and that she is special, because she was conceived deliberately, with love, between Xhalax and Talyn. This experience becomes a central one for Aeryn, making her want to emulate her warrior mother, and making her feel loved, special, and different from her peers. Unfortunately, the exchange was witnessed and taped by PK surveillance, and Xhalax is disciplined by the PKs, who do not trust her after this infraction. To prove her loyalty, Xhalax is given the choice: kill her lover Talyn or kill their daughter Aeryn. She chooses Talyn, setting her on a path as an assassin for the PKs, and as someone dead inside.
Xhalax is first seen in season three of the series, in a video Crais has found in Aeryn's file, of Xhalax's visit to Aeryn's creche. Later she appears in Relativity as the leader of a Peacekeeper retrieval squad sent to recapture and lobotimize Talyn, the ship ironically named after her murdered lover. She is later seen in The Choice.
She is played by Linda Cropper.
[edit] Teeg
Lieutenant Teeg was stationed on Captain Bialar Crais' Command Carrier as early as two cycles before Moya's escape from captivity. She is his first officer and is fiercely loyal and supportive. When Crais' brother is killed, it falls to her to inform him. [15]
Months after Moya's escape, Teeg and Crais receive orders from Peacekeeper High Command to withdraw from the Uncharted Territories. After Crais is abducted and returned by Maldis, Teeg informs him of an attempt by another officer to remove him from command, an action that she has prevented. She also notifies him that she remains the only other person besides Crais who knows about the admiral's order. Making sure it stays that way, Crais snaps her neck, ending the life of his most faithful officer. [16]
Teeg's murder goes undiscovered until Crais is placed into the Aurora Chair by Scorpius several months later.
She is played by Christine Stephen-Daly.
[edit] Velorek
Velorek was Aeryn Sun's lover, as seen in the episode "The Way We Weren't". Unlike most other Peacekeepers, Velorek is tender and sensitive, and tells Aeryn that she is different from other Peacekeepers, that she can "be so much more." Under the command of Captain Bialar Crais, he reluctantly oversees the project that involves killing the Leviathan Moya's original Pilot and replacing her with a new Pilot, who he has convinced to assist him despite opposition from the elders of Pilot's species. This is the Pilot who is bonded to Moya throughout the course of Farscape. The purpose of the project is to birth a Leviathan-Peacekeeper ship hybrid. Despite numerous prior attempts, the project has never resulted in a viable offspring and has caused the deaths of the Leviathan mothers. As a result, Velorek secretly sabotages the project by installing a contraceptive block to prevent Moya from becoming pregnant and dying. He mentions his sabotage to Aeryn, who then reports him to Crais in exchange for an assignment as a Prowler pilot. Velorek is then, it is implied, tortured and killed as a traitor. Velorek is later mentioned as the possible father of Aeryn's baby.
