List of Farscape characters

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[edit] Main characters

[edit] John Crichton

John Robert Crichton, Jr. (surname pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/), played by Ben Browder, is an International Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut who in the opening few minutes of the pilot episode is accidentally catapulted through a wormhole across the galaxy, thus setting the scene for the show as a whole. As the only regularly appearing human on the show he is the main focus and (arguably) the main character as he narrates the weekly credits and is the only character to appear in every episode. Along with Michael Shanks' character of Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1, Browder's Crichton has been called one of the sexiest male characters in science fiction.^{[citation needed]}

Information about John Crichton's life before the first episode is only revealed slowly over the course of the series. He was the middle child born to Jack (an astronaut) and Leslie Crichton and has two sisters, Olivia (his younger sister) and older sister Susan. He has a childhood friend named Douglas "D.K." Knox. John's mother died of cancer four years before his Farscape One accident. John Crichton followed in his father's footsteps by becoming an astronaut and achieved the rank of Commander.

In the first episode of season one, during a test flight, a wormhole appears and John and his Farscape One module are pulled into and through it. On his exit from the wormhole, he finds himself in the middle of a spaceship dogfight and accidentally causes the death of Tauvo Crais, the brother of Peacekeeper Captain Bialar Crais. Crichton's craft is pulled aboard a large spaceship named Moya a Leviathan, a biomechanoid (living ship), where John meets his first aliens (Zhaan, D'Argo and Rygel). John shortly after meets Bialar Crais, who wants revenge for his brother's death. John has to adapt rather quickly to a life with aliens, guns, and space travel, without the comfort of Earth culture. Towards the end of season one, Crichton encounters a mysterious alien race known only as The Ancients, who gift him with a hidden wormhole knowledge, beginning a series-long chase by a Sebacean-Scarran hybrid Peacekeeper called Scorpius who hunts John and the rest of the Farscape crew to obtain that information.

Early in season two, Crichton learns that Scorpius implanted a neural chip into his head, which causes hallucinations of "Harvey", a neural clone of Scorpius. These hallucinations influence Crichton in an effort to get at the hidden wormhole knowledge. As a result, Crichton's behavior grows more erratic and unpredictable, also caused by his feelings for Aeryn Sun. With the beginning of Season three, the neural chip has successfully been removed, but a neural clone still remains in Crichton's head. A few episodes later, Crichton is "twinned" by another alien. Neither of the Crichtons can be called a copy and neither is the original. Eventually, the crew of Moya is split across the two Leviathans, Moya and Talyn, and are separated from each other. Each ship has one Crichton. One Crichton begins a romantic relationship with Aeryn, but he is killed. When the survivors of the two crews are reunited, Aeryn in her grief is very cold to the remaining Crichton. The crew members of Moya start going their separate ways at the end of season three. Just after Aeryn Sun leaves Crichton for good, he learns that she is pregnant.

Early season four leaves Crichton with nothing but time to work on his wormhole theories. He eventually reunites with the crew members of Moya and also Aeryn and Scorpius, who has fallen out of favour with Peacekeeper high command. Halfway through the season, Crichton finds his way back to Earth, but he voluntarily gives up the dream of Earth and returns to Moya. After a series of dangerous events, Crichton and Aeryn find time alone together. Aeryn tells him he is the father of her child, and Crichton proposes to her. The moment she accepts, an alien craft apparently kills the two and ends the season. Crichton and Aeryn are revived at the beginning of The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series, and Crichton uses his wormhole knowledge to successfully force a peace treaty between the warring Peacekeepers and Scarrans. Also during the mini-series, Aeryn gives birth to their son named D'Argo Sun-Crichton in honor of their late comrade.

[edit] Aeryn Sun

Aeryn Sun (pronounced /ˈɛərɪn ˈsʊn/), played by Claudia Black, is a former Peacekeeper pilot and officer. Her name was chosen by the show's creators, Rockne O'Bannon and David Kemper, to evoke "air and sun," vital elements of life.^{[citation needed]} Although she appears to be human, she is in fact Sebacean, a species indistinguishable from humans in external appearance. At the time John Crichton appears through a wormhole in the beginning of the series, Officer Aeryn Sun is in her Prowler battling to retake the Leviathan Moya, which has been seized by escaping prisoners Ka D'Argo, Rygel, and Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan.

However, Aeryn's prowler is caught up in the stream of Moya's starburst and is towed along with the escaping Leviathan. Aeryn is brought on board Moya as a prisoner, but when she and Crichton encounter her commanding officer Captain Crais, she defends John from Crais' allegation that John deliberately attacked and killed Crais' brother, saying he isn't brave enough or smart enough to have done so. In return, Crais declares her to be "irreversibly contaminated" from spending too much time with an unknown life form, which means a death sentence. John Crichton and D'Argo soon escape the Peacekeepers again, and having nowhere else to go, Aeryn reluctantly became a fugitive alongside them.

Aboard Moya, she learns to think beyond the strict, militaristic confines of her Peacekeeper upbringing. Born in service aboard a Command Carrier, it is the only life she has known, and thus is very well skilled in hand-to-hand and weapons combat. She also becomes a valuable and important member of Moya's crew, and a companion and romantic interest to Crichton during the series. It is only after leaving the Peacekeepers that she can begin to find out about her parentage. In season three she discovers that her mother, Xhalax Sun, was a Peacekeeper pilot who—against Peacekeeper regulations—fell in love with an older officer, Talyn Lyczac. They deliberately had Aeryn, a child born of love, and Xhalax sneaks into Aeryn's dormitory one night to tell her so, which is strictly against regulations. To redeem her crime, Xhalax was forced by the Peacekeepers to choose between Aeryn and Talyn, and she executed Aeryn's father so that Aeryn could live.

Aeryn evolves from a cold, detached soldier into a valuable friend and crewmate. Her relationship with John Crichton evolves also, Aeryn ultimately becoming a compassionate wife and loving mother in the end of the show. They name their son D'Argo Sun-Crichton, after their dear friend who seemingly lost his life in the Peacekeeper Wars.

[edit] Bialar Crais

Bialar Crais, played by Lani Tupu, is a primary antagonist of Moya's crew throughout seasons 1 and 2 . The series' creator, Rockne O'Bannon, named the character after his friend, contemporary mystery novelist Robert Crais.^{[citation needed]}

Bialar Crais was born in a Sebacean farming community, but while still a boy, he and his younger brother Tauvo were taken from their family and conscripted into the Peacekeeper military. As they were hauled away, Crais' father charged him to look after his younger brother, which was a major burden for Crais. When the human John Crichton accidentally followed a wormhole into the midst of a Peacekeeper battle at the beginning of the series, the younger Crais was killed. For the course of the show's first season, Crais scoured the Uncharted Territories for Crichton and Moya, obsessed with finding the man he blamed for his brother's death. When Scorpius gets hold of Crichton months later in the end of the first season, Crais joins Scorpius in interrogating Crichton in the Aurora Chair. Following Scorpius' takeover, Crais realizes that he will soon have to face the consequences of his decisions for the past cycle. He helps the crew of Moya escape and is granted asylum. During the second season, Bialar quickly forms a bond with Moya's offspring, Talyn. Crais finds Talyn difficult to control, but he becomes neurally linked to Talyn and they leave Moya. Crais and Talyn later again cross paths with Moya and her crew after Talyn hears a call of distress from his mother. In the penultimate episode of Season 3, Crais uses Talyn to perform a suicidal Starburst inside Scorpius' command carrier. This heroic act of self-sacrifice effectively destroys the Peacekeeper wormhole project, but Talyn and Crais along with it.

[edit] Chiana

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Chiana, played by Gigi Edgley, is a street-smart, savvy, and mercurial type of character who is willing to scam or steal for an adventure and risk her life for the people she loves. Chiana is a Nebari, a grey-skinned race whose society is heavily regimented by the government (known as The Establishment). The Establishment venerates control and order, pitting Chiana's independent ways in a society all about conformity against the Nebari's ideal about "the greater good" and making her a target for government reprogramming (called "cleansing"). In her premiere episode, "Durka Returns," she successfully escapes from their custody while on the living ship Moya, and ends up a passenger on Moya with the rest of the crew.

Edgley's portrayal of Chiana is known for her adventurous spirit and open nature. Many episodes have demonstrated that she is a more than competent fighter, and amazingly agile and acrobatic. Because of the thick lenses that Edgley wears, she makes her movements as Chiana very different than the rest of the cast, cocking her head at times, and she tends to crouch on objects, rather than sit or stand.

One of Chiana's other characteristic traits is her strong sense of individuality. Of all the Farscape's characters, Edgley's Chiana has the most clearly defined political philosophy: anarchy and libertarianism. She respects no institutional authority (her constant insistence that she doesn't follow rules) and the one thing she values more than anything or anyone else is her freedom. This desire for extreme freedom from restrictions unfortunately gives her the appearance of being very promiscuous, often attempting to seduce male and female passengers on Moya and elsewhere, including D'Argo, D'Argo's son, John Crichton (both present and past versions), and others.

In Season 2, the writers created a backstory for Chiana, along with a family member. She has one named relative, her brother Nerri, three years her senior. Along with Nerri, she escaped Nebari Prime at a young age, and then the two traveled around for some years. Nerri decided to join the resistance fighting against the Nebari leaders, and split up with Chiana so she would not be endangered by his activities. In the third season of the show, Edgley demonstrated Chiana harboring hopes of meeting up with her brother and joining the resistance to reunite with him.

In Season 3, the writers created a scenerio where the Chiana developed a new ability. After her encounter with an Energy Rider, Chiana began to experience precognitive visions that left her with blindness and splitting headaches. These visions later evolved into being able to see the present and future in slow motion, and each time she used this ability, the blindness afterwards lasted longer, until she ended up completely blind at the end of season 4. Shortly before the start of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, she received new eyes from a Diagnosan that allowed her to see energy sources and to see through walls. Many fans of the show criticized the uneven way that Chiana and her powers were portrayed, since every subsequent season depicted the change of this power. Many fans criticized it because the writers kept changing Chiana's powers to suit their particular scenerio; first, she was clarvoyant, then she could slow down time, which caused her to become blind; she was blinded permanently; then she could see heat signatures.

Edgley plays Chiana as smart and focused. Initially, in "Durka Returns," she was a thief so slippery that she evaded Moya's internal sensors. She was resourceful in "Nerve," distracting the Peackeepers from John, disguising herself as a tech, manipulating Galina and delivering Talyn. Edgley portrayed a strong woman in Chiana, ably portraying a fascinating (albeit fictional) alien who accomplished many incredible things in her time on Moya.

[edit] Ka D'Argo

Ka D'Argo (called simply D'Argo), played by Anthony Simcoe, is a Luxan warrior who was imprisoned aboard the Leviathan Moya by the Peacekeepers after being convicted (falsely) of killing his Sebacean wife Lo'Laan in a fit of Luxan Hyper-Rage. During his time as a prisoner, the Peacekeepers shackled D'Argo in his cell with heavy chains attached to a pair of metal hooks surgically implanted around his collar bones to keep the powerful Luxan under control. He later escaped (along with Rygel and Zhaan). As a Luxan warrior, D'Argo carries a weapon known as a Qualta Blade, a heavy broadsword that can transform into a Qualta Rifle. Though he is initially ill-tempered and distrustful during the early episodes of the show, he is later elected Captain of Moya by the crew. He also has a powerful tongue that he can shoot out at a high velocity, similar to that of a frog or chameleon. The tip can inject an "adaptive" venom controlled at will by D'Argo which can render the victim instantly unconscious or dead (or varying states in between).

Throughout the first half of the series, finding the son he had with Lo'Laan, Jothee, was D'Argo's consuming desire. After Jothee was found, his plans to settle down with his son and Chiana scared the Nebari girl, but she betrays him. D'Argo and Jothee part in bad terms "Suns and Lovers", but they are later reunited and somewhat reconciled in the miniseries. After being mortally wounded in The Peacekeeper Wars, D'Argo covers the escape of his comrades off of Qujaga, which was then accidentally destroyed by Crichton's wormhole weapon. John Crichton and Aeryn Sun then name their son, born during the battle, D'Argo, in his memory.

The character made appearances in other mediums. In Horizons, a story by creator Rockne S O'Bannon that takes place far in the future, and that was written before Peacekeeper War, D'Argo is still alive. However, he did lose his arm, which is now a clear prosthetic. D'Argo was also parodied by the character Teal'c in the Stargate SG-1 episode "200."

[edit] Moya

Moya is a character/spacecraft and a member of the Leviathan race. She had her first appearance in the "Premiere", and was last seen in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

Like others of her race, Moya was captured by a Peacekeeper squad at a young age and was bonded with a Pilot, who serves as the Leviathan's navigator, operator, companion, and link to the crew of the ship. Leviathans are ships of peace, and as such have no offensive capabilities. They do have an impressive defensive maneuver, however, called starburst, which allows the ship to travel at incredible speed through a tear in space-time.

Moya was once a captive of the Peacekeepers who control her and other Leviathans through the use of giant control collars placed around the ships that prevent autonomous control and inflict pain upon any disobedience. Moya and Pilot, with the help of Crichton, Zhaan, Rygel and D'Argo, manage to escape. Moya has become a friend and home to her crew and they have been through many bizarre, disheartening, and exhilarating events together.

Moya is maintained by DRDs (Diagnostic Repair Drones), which are small, beetle-like robots that help Leviathans build as they grow. They also help with Moya's upkeep, by repairing and maintaining Moya. DRDs also play a major role in many of the adventures, helping John and the crew. At the end of season one, Moya gives birth to a Peacekeeper/Leviathan hybrid gunship that Aeryn Sun names Talyn, after her father.

[edit] Pilot

Pilot is a member of a race known to viewers simply as Pilots. He is introduced in the "Premiere" and plays a significant role in the resolution of The Peacekeeper Wars. Pilot was one of two regular animatronic puppet characters in Farscape. He is operated by Sean Masterson, Tim Mieville, Matt McCoy, Mario Halouvas and Fiona Gentle. His voice is provided by Lani Tupu (who also plays the character Captain Bialar Crais on Farscape).

Moya's pilot is only known by his species' name, which also doubles as a description of his role on the ship. His real name, if he has one, is unknown. Pilots bond with organic Leviathan spacecraft and become their navigator, companion, and liaison to passengers. Once bonded, Pilots can survive only a brief period of time of separation from their Leviathans, and only when travelling in something made of a Leviathan's components (as in a transport pod). Pilot is at least the second Pilot that Moya has had. Pilot was initially artificially bonded, which caused him great pain until, during the series, he was separated from Moya out of grief for his involvement in the death of the first Pilot. After he came to terms with it, Pilot and Moya began a long and difficult natural bonding process.

[edit] Rygel

Dominar Rygel XVI (called simply Rygel) was once the royal ruler of the Hynerian Empire. He is known for being selfish, and collects anything valuable. He uses the word "yotzah" for "jackpot", when he come across treasures of great value. Rygel was one of two regular puppet characters on the television science fiction series Farscape. Rygel was operated by John Eccleston, Sean Masterson, Tim Mieville, Matt McCoy, Mario Halouvas and Fiona Gentle. His voice was provided by Jonathan Hardy.

Rygel has a vast history; he was overthrown by his cousin Bishon over 130 cycles (years) before the events of Farscape and became a prisoner of the Peacekeepers. He was tortured and humiliated by the ship's captain, Selto Durka, but survived. He was eventually transferred off that ship, and endured an unknown number of prisons before finally landing onboard Moya. After the escape, Rygel at times provides valuable services for the crew. After the destruction of Scorpius's Command Carrier, Rygel warms to his role as a member of Moya's crew.

[edit] Scorpius

Scorpius, played by Wayne Pygram, is the half-Sebacean, half-Scarran Peacekeeper who pursues John Crichton for the secrets of wormhole technology locked in John Crichton's unconscious mind to create a wormhole weapon. He is the product of an experiment by the Scarrans - his Sebacean mother was raped by a Scarran in order to see if there would be any benefit to a hybrid. Raised by Scarrans, he has come to hate them, to reject his Scarran side, and to live for revenge against them. Both his physical attributes as well as his character traits are influenced by his race. For the most part, Scorpious is the primary antagonist in the Farscape series. The character first appeared in "Nerve" and made his last appearance in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

Scorpius prides himself on his patience and his intellect. Scorpius is willing to do absolutely anything to achieve his goals, which he is very honest about when it suits him. He will (and does over the course of the series) lie, kill in cold blood, order the deaths of multitudes, torture innocents, and sacrifice those close to him in order to get what he wants. He is also willing to aid his enemies or humiliate himself if it will further his goals. He has returned from supposedly fatal situations more than once, which he credits to his "foresight and preparation." He manipulates others to do his work but does much on his own; his obsession with Crichton and his wormhole secrets is proof of that. He is highly educated, very intelligent, and extremely clever. Only he knows how deep his schemes run and, while he claims his main desire is to eliminate the Scarran threat, protagonist John Crichton is loathe to ever trust him.

His rank is never mentioned, and it is assumed that he does not officially hold one. Wayne Pygram seemed to confirm this during an interview on the Farscape DVD set,^{[citation needed]} and Dominar Rygel XVI once claimed that he was "higher even than a captain" ("I-Yensch, You-Yensch"). His authority is not absolute, however, as Commandant Mele-On Grayza informed him when she superseded it. During the series, he is shown to have the authority to command a research base, a command carrier, a fleet of command carriers, and an even larger fleet in Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars. However, the exact Peacekeeper ranks at this level have never been established in the show.

[edit] Harvey

Harvey is a neural clone of Scorpius and exists solely in the head of John Crichton. He was also played by Wayne Pygram. Harvey is the result of a neural chip that was placed into Crichton’s brain by Scorpius after the Aurora Chair failed to reveal the wormhole information he was after. His name, given to him by Crichton, is taken from the Mary Chase play Harvey, in which Harvey is an invisible six-foot, one-and-a-half-inch tall rabbit that only the chronically inebriated Elwood P. Dowd can see. Harvey first appeared in "Crackers Don't Matter" and had his last appearance in The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2.

Harvey’s purpose is three-fold: he is to unlock the wormhole knowledge stored somewhere in Crichton’s brain, protect Crichton’s life until Scorpius manages to retrieve the chip, and prevent Crichton from hurting or killing Scorpius. Harvey also has the ability to stop Crichton’s brain functions for a short time, making him appear dead. He can control Crichton’s memory and nervous system when the chip is in place, which he uses to hide his presence from Crichton. Eventually, the chip becomes strong enough to completely dominate Crichton’s mind and body. Even after the chip is removed, Harvey is able to exert limited control over Crichton. After Scorpius reprograms him, Harvey has some type of mental link to Scorpius that allows Scorpius to track Crichton down after John is revived from his crystallization by the Eidelons. Harvey contains much of Scorpius’ knowledge and intellect.

Harvey often appears in different outfits or settings that fit whatever situation Crichton happens to be in at that time, for example: a black and white World War II movie, a police interrogation room, a Hawaiian shirt, or as Nosferatu the vampire when he returns from the "dead". With so much time spent in Crichton’s head, it’s possible that he knows and understands the human better than anyone else on Moya’s crew ever could or would.

According to the show’s executive producer David Kemper, the idea for Harvey came from a necessity to have the character of Scorpius more visible during the show.^{[citation needed]} As the show’s main villain, he needed to be a constant and viable threat. After seeing a hallucinated Scorpius interact with Crichton in the second season’s fourth episode, “Crackers Don’t Matter”, they came up with the idea of putting Scorpius inside of John’s head. The clone’s presence was hinted at in the second and third episodes of the “Look at the Princess” trilogy as well as in “Beware of Dog” before his presence was revealed to Crichton in the season’s 15th episode, “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

[edit] Stark

Stark, played by Paul Goddard, is Stykera, a specialized subrace of the Banik. He is introduced to the series late in the first season and became a main character during the third season, before disappearing at the end of it and only returning at the end of the fourth season; he played a major part in The Peacekeeper Wars mini-series.

Stark wears a half-mask - strapped to his head by two separate buckles - of an unidentified metal, covering an incorporeal area that glows dark orange when uncovered, on the right side of his face (roughly his eye and cheek-bone) that he only reveals when he is taking away someone's pain or "crossing over" a soul--aiding or comforting a person in the moments prior to their death. However, in doing so, Stark absorbs a small fragment of the soul - and thus the knowledge and lingering emotions - of the person he "crosses over" into his own psyche, something which might explain his somewhat unbalanced mental behaviour. In addition, by virtue of being a Stykera, Stark can ease the pain and suffering of others, one of the traits that made him sought after for Scorpius' Aurora Chair research.

As the series progresses, three different 'versions' of Stark are seen: as a not-quite-sane Gamesmaster in a twisted virtual-reality style game ("John Quixote"), a fused Stark/Sikozu character witnessed in an alternate reality ("Unrealized Reality"/"Prayer"), and as a convincing bioloid replica of himself ("We're So Screwed Part II: Hot to Katratzi").

[edit] Zhaan

Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, played by Virginia Hey, is a Delvian, a blue, spiritual, humanoid plant species, and a Pa'u (priestess) in their religious order. Zhaan was imprisoned aboard Moya because she murdered her lover who was collaborating with the Peacekeepers, which she and her associates felt was a betrayal of Delvians. She has also been an anarchist, and like other trained Delvians, Zhaan has several empathic and telepathic abilities. She is also skilled in medicine and other related sciences. During her time aboard Moya, she is often seen making drugs and explosives in her workshop to assist her shipmates.

As a Pa'u, Zhaan's spiritual abilities significantly improve upon achieving a new level. When first introduced, Zhaan is a level nine Pa'u, with the ability to lessen the pain of others by taking some portion of it into herself. Later in the series, she gains a level, becoming a level ten Pa'u and gaining the ability to protect others from psychic attack with her own mind. In the episode "Bone to Be Wild" she shows that for short periods of time she can make herself invisible.

Zhaan causes herself to become critically ill to save the seemingly dead Aeryn Sun. While searching for a planet with the right conditions for Zhaan to heal, John Crichton diverts Moya to investigate a wormhole instead, where the Leviathan collides with another spacecraft. In order to save Moya and her crew, Zhaan sacrifices herself by piloting the other craft away before it is destroyed early in the third season. In real life, Virginia Hey left the show because the character's extensive makeup was affecting the health of her kidneys. ^[1] She still reappeared as Zhaan in two fourth-season episodes, "John Quixote" and "Unrealized Reality".

[edit] Supporting characters

[edit] Jool

Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis, played by Tammy MacIntosh, is a young Interion woman of remarkable academic achievement^{[citation needed]}. She had her first appearance in "Self-Inflicted Wounds Part I: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a", and her last in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 1". While on vacation with her two male cousins--they were traveling around the galaxy to celebrate her graduation--they ran into some trouble. Her two cousins contracted a fatal disease, and they and she were frozen into stasis to be used for organ donation by a Diagnosan. After Crichton was healed by that Diagnosan, in part through a donation by one of her cousins, he took her and her other cousin's stasis capsules with him onto Moya. Her cousin died almost immediately upon being released from stasis, but Jool, who had not been sick, was fine. She awoke to find herself aboard the Leviathan Moya and discovered that she had been frozen for 22 cycles. Her species is closely related to humans.

John Crichton coined the name "Jool", and though she resented it at first, it soon grew on her, as did he. Her arrival aboard Moya came with the loss of Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, and the crew and fans alike were a little slow in accepting her^[who?].

While an intelligent young woman, Jool has led a sheltered life, and though she possesses a lot of knowledge, it was rarely practiced before joining the crew who soon became her friends.

Jool comes from a peaceful star system far away, and before meeting Rygel, she had not known Hynerians existed, though Sebaceans are familiar to her. When frightened or nervous, her orange hair blazes red and her screams can melt metal, an ability which proves useful on several occasions.

The crew parted ways and Jool and D'Argo found themselves on Arnessk, where Jool became acquainted with other Interions and helped in their excavation of the site. She helped John, D'Argo and Chiana to free the priests from 12,000-cycle-long sleep in suspended animation.

A scholar of Arnesskian history, Jool left Moya after over a cycle with the crew to follow her new destiny and help the priests adjust to the new life that lay ahead of them. In Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Moya returned to Arnessk, followed by the Scarrans who deployed a weapon which destroyed the temple. Jool was inside and is presumed dead.

[edit] Noranti

Utu Noranti Pralatong (called simply Noranti), played by Melissa Jaffer, joined the crew after taking refuge on Moya when Scorpius' Command Carrier was destroyed, in "Dog with Two Bones" at the end of Season 3 of the show. She is a Traskan, and little is known of her past before she joined the crew. Noranti is an accomplished herbalist, although sometimes not quite as successful as she would like, and has come to the crew's rescue with odd potions and powders on many occasions. She has her own agenda, though what that agenda is never quite made clear. At 293 years old, she occasionally appears to be slightly senile, causing her to act strangely. She was featured throughout Season 4 of Farscape, as well as being in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

[edit] Sikozu

Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu (called Sikozu), played by Raelee Hill, is a Kalish who grew up in Scarran-controlled space. She first appeared in "Crichton Kicks" and made her last appearance in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2". She becomes an expert (albeit a book expert) on Leviathans, and eventually goes to work for a pirate group who harvest toubray (nerve) fibers from Leviathans. She meets up with Crichton while he is aboard the Leviathan Elack in the Leviathan's sacred burial space; she led the pirates there and they subsequently try to kill her to prevent her telling anyone where the burial area is. Crichton nicknames her "Sputnik" due to the sputnik like shape of her hairstyle when she initially met Crichton. There is initial confusion at their meeting because she cannot tolerate translator microbes and so must learn all languages by hearing them. This may not be a species trait, given that she is later exposed as a Bioloid agent, and could be a consequence of that process instead. She is extremely intelligent and picks up information very quickly. She can "change her centre of gravity" so that she can walk on walls and ceilings, and she can easily reattach limbs that have been severed. She only has to eat several times a year.

She is extremely arrogant, a self-styled polymath who constantly belittles those around her. Shortly after meeting John Crichton she used the epithet 'Weak species', which was used once again upon her 're-introduction' in Unrealized Reality. It should be noted, however, that while her knowledge about technology, species, history, and the galaxy in general is vast, it is mostly academic. She is, in fact, extremely naive and unknowledgeable about how things function outside of a controlled environment (such as learning Leviathan physiology strictly via studying and not understanding that the floorplans of the biomechanoids vary as a result of passenger preference).

Shifting allegiance is a specialty of Sikozu, often switching sides in a battle with no notice and seemingly no premeditation other than at-the-moment judgments on who currently holds the greatest advantage. This has the net effect of total uncertainty as to where Sikozu's loyalties (if any) truly lie. Ironically, she is often the most surprised when her repeated betrayals of everyone around her are either turned around on or simply turned on her.

Sikozu accompanies Crichton as he reunites with his crewmates from Moya, and she gradually allies herself with Scorpius, who she initially seems intrigued by both because he saves her life and because he is arguably the most powerful and intelligent person on Moya (or possibly he is the first mind Sikozu has known who she acknowledges as her equal or superior). They eventually become lovers and she takes a place at his side when he is kicked off Moya. Just prior to the Scarran-Peacekeeper war, it is revealed that she is a bioloid (a type of android) and a double-agent. She is working with the Kalish resistance to free the Kalish from Scarran servitude, and as such was specially bioengineered to be able to hover in the air and release heat rays from her hands that destroy Scarran heat producing glands, rendering them weak and vulnerable. A further revelation comes late in the war when it is revealed that she is really a Scarran spy (in exchange for a promise from them to free her people from servitude). Scorpius has long known this but has not acted on it for some time. Finally, though Scorpius assaults her after revealing his knowledge about her betrayal and leaves her for dead on the water-planet Qujaga, though it is left open that she might live--she is seen allying with Grunschlk, who was also abandoned on the planet.

Sikozu's true alliance with the Scarrans was actually foreshadowed in the middle of Season 4 when — under the guidance of the Ancient "Einstein" — Crichton attempts to better understand wormhole travel. In a visit to an Unrealized Reality, Crichton — in that reality, a ranking Peacekeeper officer — is forced to execute Sikozu after she is revealed to be a Scarran spy. Whether Crichton dismisses this as an event in one reality which might not hold true in his own is not mentioned. At their first meeting, as well, Chiana thinks she is a spy because she has Scarran currency and speaks Scarran. Sikozu explains this away by saying that she's been living in Scarran-controlled space. Nevertheless, Chiana takes a dislike to her and nicknames her "Psycho Zoo".

Sikozu's bioloid nature is foreshadowed in the episode Twice Shy, where Talika, a spider that feeds on emotions, attacks Sikozu but refrains from harvesting her. Sikozu claims this was because she was immune to the spider, whereas in truth she is a machine and thus inorganic and inedible. Her intolerance to translator microbes could be due to this, instead of her ersatz Kalish nature

Sikozu was engineered to be a Scarran killing weapon. She can generate radiation tuned to specifically kill Scarrans, as a burst from her body, or in smaller quantities from her hands. This radiation seems to still be harmful, although to a lesser degree, to Scarran hybrids, such as Scorpius. When using her power in his presence, she instructs him to take cover and not to look at her.

[edit] Braca

Meeklo Braca, played by David Franklin, was introduced in "Bone to Be Wild" at the end of season one. At the end of fourth season, it is revealed that Braca's first name is Meeklo.^[who?] He made his last appearance in "The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2".

Braca quickly established himself as Scorpius's assistant, which John Crichton compared to a Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers interaction.

At the beginning of season four, Lieutenant Braca was promoted to Captain Braca by Commandant Mele-On Grayza.

Initially, it appeared that he had betrayed Scorpius to Grayza, but by the end of the season it was revealed that Braca was really Scorpius's spy.

When Grayza had a mental breakdown in the end of season four due to incompetent handling of a confrontation with the Scarrans, Captain Braca relieved her of command. Braca assumed command of the command carrier and welcomed Scorpius on board. When he inquired where Grayza was, Braca said he threw her in the brig, under heavy sedation.

Later, in the "Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars" miniseries Scorpius had been made commander of an armada and used Braca's command carrier as his flagship, and Braca is once again at his side. Although he is wounded during the climactic ground fighting on the planet Qujaga, he is able to return with the rest of the group to safety and is last seen fully recovered at the signing of the peace treaty.

It appears that Scorpius treats Braca in a strangely paternal way, remaining loyal to the Peacekeeper and advancing his career, as Braca idolizes him in return. Braca's complete devotion to Scorpius is clearly evident when he braves the wrath of Mele-On Grayza in order to remain Scorpius' spy amongst the Peacekeepers, at great risk to his own life and position.

[edit] Mele-on Grayza

Commandant Mele-on Grayza, played by Rebecca Riggs, is a Sebacean female (although her pale white/grey countenance and dark lips may suggest some Nebari heritage) who has risen through the Peacekeeper ranks to achieve the status of Commandant. Politically astute and ruthlessly ambitious, she will use anyone or anything at her disposal to achieve her goals. To this end, she has had a gland implanted in her chest that secretes a substance known as Heppel oil, which she uses to bend her (male) victims to her will. A drawback to the gland is that it severely lowers her lifespan. To what degree it is lowered is not explored.

Grayza is first seen in "Into the Lion's Den Part I: Lambs to the Slaughter" towards the end of season three of the series, when she arrives aboard Scorpius' Command Carrier to put a stop to his wormhole research, considering it to be a threat to her efforts to negotiate a truce between the Sebaceans and the Scarran race.

However, she becomes intrigued by John Crichton and his wormhole knowledge, believing it to be a potential bargaining chip in her dealings with the Scarrans, and sets out to capture Moya. She is successful in tracking the crew down, and early in season 4, drugs and rapes Crichton: the stated purpose is to gain access to his wormhole knowledge, using allegedly more pleasurable methods than torture; the plan fails, though Crichton spends most of Season Four of Farscape traumatized by his treatment at Grayza's hands. Humiliated, Grayza directs Braca to keep searching for Moya - word spreads quickly to bounty-hunters of the price she puts on Crichton's head - but this also fails. Finally, when her bid for peace is lost, Grayza orders her Command Carrier to engage the Scarrans in conflict, only to be stopped by her subordinate Captain Meeklo Braca, who has secretly been allied with Scorpius while pretending to be loyal to Grayza. He assumes command of the Command Carrier.

Although reported by Braca to be under sedation in the brig at the end of the series, by the time of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Grayza is seen as an advisor to the Peacekeeper Grand Chancellor, whilst also pregnant. The child's father is not identified; leaving open the question of whether it is the Grand Chancellor's, John Crichton's, or someone else's baby. If Crichton's, Grayza's pregnacy could have been planned by her to get the wormhole knowledge from the child. The Scarran race had developed the science to remove knowledge from DNA, attempting to do just that from Crichton's unborn child with Aeryn Sun; it can be safely assumed that the Peacekeepers could do the same.

Grayza eventually kills the Grand Chancellor when he tells her of his intention to surrender to the Scarrans, and she takes command of the Peacekeeper forces herself. When Crichton finally demonstrates the destructive powers of the wormhole weapon, she proposes a truce with the Scarrans "for the sake of our children". She is last seen aboard Moya, signing the peace treaty alongside Emperor Staleek, overseen by the Eidelons.

[edit] Talyn

Talyn is a Peacekeeper/Leviathan hybrid gunship, a living spaceship that is the progeny of the Leviathan Moya. Talyn is named after Aeryn Sun's father. He first appeared in "The Hidden Memory" and made his last appearance in "Into the Lion's Den Part II:
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing".

The Leviathan Moya was subjected to a hybridization experiment by the Peacekeepers while in captivity. A synthetic stimulant/conceptive was placed in her by a peacekeeper Leviathan expert called Velorek leader of the experiment. It was accidentally released by Ka D'Argo six months after their escape from peacekeeper captivity, leading to the conception of a fetus. Roughly six months later, Moya gave birth to a baby Leviathan, though the baby was far from normal: unlike typical Leviathans, which are streamlined and have no weapons whatsoever, the infant was "covered with weapons." During the birthing process, Talyn's external weaponry caused him to become stuck in the birth canal, and he had to fire a low-yield shot from those same weapons to free himself. Shortly after his birth, he had a few disagreements with his mother and refused to talk to her. Moya felt that a Peacekeeper should talk to him. Aeryn boarded Talyn and succeeded in convincing the young Leviathan to listen to his mother. Moya asked Officer Aeryn Sun to name her offspring, and Aeryn named it after her father, Talyn.

At times, Talyn could be emotionally unstable, even going so far as to deliberately attack Moya. He also panicked easily. It is unclear whether this resulted from his violent childhood, or from errors in his genome, perhaps the result of trying to create a warship from an essentially nonaggressive species.

Talyn was a very powerful ship when young, and had he achieved maturity he would likely have been one of the most powerful ships in the galaxy. He was young (and quite childlike) for much of Farscape, and was dwarfed by his mother Moya, although he did grow gradually over the series. It was theorized by Pilot that he might even have grown larger than a normal Leviathan.

At the end of season 3 Talyn sacrificed his life to save the crew of Moya. Captured and disabled while docked inside the Peacekeeper Command Carrier that had been following the crew for three years, Talyn starburst within the carrier, causing a massive energy wave that progressively destroyed the Carrier (while leaving enough time for most of the crew to evacuate the ship). Talyn's remains were carried by Moya to the Leviathan Sacred Space region, something of an elephant graveyard of Leviathans; space they regard as holy and where they go to die. He was mourned by Moya and her crew.

Unlike other Leviathans, Talyn doesn't have a Pilot bonded to him, but still has a vestigial Pilot's den: although he physically could be bonded to a Pilot (he managed to bond temporarily, yet successfully, to Stark in one instance through the Pilot's den), he does not require one in order to navigate himself and fire his weapons. He can operate purely on voice command; still, a humanoid can be implanted with a device that allows direct interface with Talyn, although not to the same extent as a Pilot (Talyn can resist orders from time to time: they're more suggestions than orders). This device, unless properly modified, can also be a two-way street through which Talyn can force feedback through to injure the implanted humanoid. It also leaves the humanoid open to feeling Talyn's pain as Pilot feels Moya's pain. The device's sympathetic effect can even go as far as to physically blind the humanoid if Talyn's sensors are damaged. Also because of the connection strength Talyn can force those connected to him to do his will to a certain degree. This causes great pain to the humanoid pilot to the extent that was seen on Crais.

[edit] Minor characters

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] Ahkna, War Minister

Ahkna is an upper-caste member of the Scarran race, played by Francesca Buller. She is a Minister of War throughout the last few episodes of Season 4 of the series. Her position makes her the third most powerful Scarran in the Empire, under Emperor Staleek. Ahkna believes in the superiority of the Scarran race and would do almost anything to ensure that the Scarrans dominate the galaxy.

Several months before the war between the Scarrans and the Peacekeepers, Ahkna meets with Commandant Mele-On Grayza to discuss a peace treaty between the two powers. Grayza offers the Luxan territories to the Scarrans in exchange for Peacekeeper control of the Uncharted Territories and a peace treaty. Ahkna accepts the arrangement and signs the treaty, but betrays Grayza a moment later when her escorts open fire on Grayza's party, killing everyone but Grayza and Captain Braca. Ahkna takes Grayza and Braca to her ship, planning to later interrogate them about the Peacekeepers' alleged wormhole technology. Before she can do this, however, Grayza and Braca are freed by Aeryn Sun and Sikozu. Ahkna's group manages to capture Aeryn, and she turns her over to Captain Jenek. ^[2]

Ahkna is later at Katratzi with Emperor Staleek when John Crichton arrives with the supposed intention of selling his wormhole knowledge to the highest bidder. Though she is suspicious of his motivations, she can do little to him since 1) it is Staleek's decision, not hers and 2) Crichton has a nuclear bomb strapped to his chest. Ahkna is relatively fearless, however, and menaces Crichton despite the nuclear bomb, almost setting it off. At the time, Scorpius is being held captive in the base and Ahkna takes much pleasure in torturing him. Despite the efforts of her underlings, Katratzi is all but destroyed by Crichton and his companions. With their precious flower destroyed, Ahkna leaves Katratzi with Staleek. ^[3][4]

Within a number of days, Ahkna and Staleek have discovered that a large supply of crystherium flower exist on Earth. Staleek sends Ahkna's lover Pennoch in a Scarran Stryker to attack and subdue the planet. Ahkna loses her love, however, when the efforts of Crichton, Aeryn, and Pilot cause the collapse of the wormhole connected to Earth while Pennoch is still inside of it. ^[5]

Two months later, Ahkna helps lead the war effort against the Peacekeepers. With superior forces and firepower, the Scarrans win every battle against the Peacekeepers. Ahkna is stationed aboard Staleek's Decimator at the Emperor's side. Ahkna is zealous in her campaign against the Peacekeepers, more so than the Emperor himself, believing that the war should only end with their enemy's total annihilation. Ahkna often acts without Staleek's consent, doing what benefits both her and the Scarran race. Pleased with her determination and ruthlessness, Staleek all but promises her rule of the Scarran Empire by his side at the completion of the war.

Ahkna's final battle takes place on the ravaged surface of Qujaga. After prolonged ground combat between Peacekeeper and Scarran forces, Crichton and his allies try to move out from their fortified position and escape to Moya. Ahkna's forces intercept them on the way and Ahkna holds Crichton at gunpoint. Before she can fire, however, Aeryn shoots her in the back, ending her life.

[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. ^{[6] [7][8]}

[edit] Bishan, Dominar

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. Rygel eventually went on the living prison transport Moya while being sent to a permanent penal colony. 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 would 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 60 billion subjects.

[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 an alien named Skreeth. D.K. appears in the episodes "Premiere", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Unrealized Reality" and "Terra Firma".

[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 stasis 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 eventually released from stasis after Aeryn visited Peacekeeper doctors. For a while, Rygel ended up with a piece of a crystallized Aeryn inside of him that held the fetus. After developing inside Rygel for a time, it was transferred back to Aeryn.

[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 after being thrown to the ground when Crichton's pod canopy ejects. The DRD lands on one of its eyestalks, breaking it. 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] Winona

Winona is a Peacekeeper standard issue automatic pulse pistol seen periodically throughout the series. Named by Crichton after Winona Ryder, Winona is Crichton's favorite weapon. He will often comment that other identical pulse pistols "just don't feel the same", and claim "Winona would never have let me down" when other guns fail to work.

[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 more 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

Furlow (played by Magda Szubanski) is a knowledgeable, yet somewhat arrogant, mechanic on the desert world Dam-Ba-Da. While her race isn't known, she appears to be a rather short and stocky female, likely Sebacean.

The crew of Moya first met Furlow when John Crichton and Aeryn Sun were forced to land John's IASA Farscape One module there after it had suffered damage in space. Furlow offered to repair John's ship, provided he could pay for it. When repairs were completed, and compensation was demanded, Crichton admitted that he had nothing with which to pay her. Furlow demanded as payment all copies of the flight data he recorded when he created a wormhole just prior to landing on Dam-Ba-Da, to Crichton's dismay.^[9]

Two cycles later, one of the twinned Crichtons would return to Dam-Ba-Da aboard Talyn. An Ancient in the guise of Jack Crichton had accused him of selling the wormhole knowledge given to him by the ancients. However, Crichton had given the knowledge to Furlow before ever meeting the Ancients. Furlow used the wormhole information given to her by John, as well as a replica of the Farscape One module, to conduct her own wormhole research. Her plan was to sell it to the highest bidder—in this case the Scarrans, via the Charrids. When John and Ancient Jack arrived on Dam-Ba-Da, the Charrids had already taken over Furlow's garage in order to secure the knowledge for the Scarrans, who were on their way to the planet. Before John, Aeryn, and Jack were able to destroy the information, the Scarrans downloaded some of it, so "Jack" came up with a plan to destroy the Scarran ship, deciding to build a device that used wormholes as a weapon. Before the Scarrans arrived, however, Furlow betrayed them, killing Jack. She stole the completed device—a displacement engine—and fled her shop in a vehicle, hoping to sell the engine to the Scarrans when they arrived. Crichton pursued and caused Furlow to crash, inadvertently exposing the radioactive material that powered the engine. Knowing that approaching the engine would mean risking a fatal dose of radiation, Furlow fled, and urged Crichton to do the same. But Crichton instead retrieved the engine, sacrificing his life in order to ensure that the Scarrans would not retain the information they'd just stolen.

Furlow's whereabouts thereafter are not known.

[edit] Gilina Renaez

Gilina Renaez (played by Alyssa-Jane Cook) is a Sebacean Peacekeeper technical specialist. Unlike the soldier caste, she sees little to no combat during her career and is instead utilized for maintenance and engineering tasks.

Gilina first encountered the crew of Moya when the Leviathan discovered the wreckage of the legendary Zelbinion (episode "PK Tech Girl"). After the crew boarded the derelict Command Carrier, they discovered Gilina already there. She explained that she was the lone surviving member of a team sent there by Captain Crais to salvage whatever they could from the vessel; the rest of her companions had been slaughtered by a previous visit of Sheyangs set on stripping the former ship. She had also heard of Aeryn Sun's defection from the Peacekeepers, and while not overly hostile, Gilina's opinion of her wasn't favourable (openly accusing her as a "traitor"). When the Sheyangs returned, she helped Moya's crew repair the Zelbinion's defence screen, preventing Moya from being destroyed, and agreed to install the screen on Moya. Gilina and John Crichton also shared an immediate attraction to one another. As they worked to move the defence screen to Moya, they grew continually closer until they eventually shared a kiss.

After the Sheyang attack was repelled and the screen was installed on Moya, the crew decided that the best course of action would be to leave Gilina behind to be picked up by Crais. Gilina readily agreed not to inform her superior of their visit and appropriation of Peacekeeper technology: while her opinion of Aeryn had changed to one of quiet respect despite her status, she may have also been fearful of suffering Aeryn's fate - being deemed "irreversibly contaminated" by alien life-forms and banished from the Peacekeepers - as Aeryn herself pointed out. Reluctantly, Crichton and Gilina parted ways (in Crichton's words: "Life sucks.").

Some time later, Gilina was transferred from Crais' ship to Scorpius' Gammak base. When Crichton and Chiana arrived to find a tissue sample for Aeryn (episode "Nerve"), she recognised Crichton masquerading as a Peacekeeper officer and aided them getting past the base's security. Though she realized that Crichton no longer felt as strongly for her as he had before, she agreed to help them. When Crichton was apprehended by Scorpius, Gilina used her superior knowledge of the Peacekeeper systems to get Chiana off the base, before attempting to help Crichton during his interrogations in the Aurora Chair while initially remaining undiscovered. Eventually, she reprogrammed the chair to show a false memory of Crais and Crichton making a deal, resulting in a reprieve for Crichton while Crais was later interrogated (episode "The Hidden Memory"). When Aeryn arrived to rescue Crichton, Gilina helped them flee the base, but chose to stay rather than leave her life as a Peacekeeper behind. However, she would later change her mind, realising that she truly did want to leave with Crichton and that if she stayed, her part in Crichton's escape would eventually be discovered. When Crichton was caught and held at gunpoint by Scorpius during his attempted escape, Gilina unexpectedly came to his rescue, armed with a pulse rifle; her hesitation to fire on Scorpius, however, led to him shooting her instead. This distraction gave Crichton the chance to break away and escape with the rest of Moya's crew and Gilina, now mortally wounded. She had saved Crichton's life, at the cost of her own.

She spent her final moments on Moya. As she lay dying, Stark helped ease her pain, showing her a memory of a place he had kept hidden during his many sessions in the Aurora Chair. She professed her love for Crichton and he admitted that he could have loved her as well. They shared one final kiss before she passed away.

Almost three cycles after her death, Crichton and Chiana would encounter Gilina in another form, appearing in a neural-based, video game-like device of Stark's that was apparently based on Crichton's own memories (episode "John Quixote"). Her character was present on the Gammak base level and was later destroyed by one of the game's versions of Scorpius.

[edit] Jack Crichton

John Robert "Jack" Crichton, Sr. is a retired astronaut who at one point had walked on the Moon, and the father of John Crichton; Jack is played by Kent McCord.

During his time in the Uncharted Territories, the junior Crichton would often think of his father. In his first year, he would sometimes record his thoughts into a tape recorder, usually addressing Jack in his recordings.

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 (Possibly to make John feel more at ease with him).

Around a cycle later, John would again encounter a false image of his father. This was the result of a Scarran interrogation device which presented Crichton with increasingly erratic and irrational imagery in order to break his mind.

A cycle after this incident, John again encounters the Ancient in the form of his father. Assumedly, this Ancient took the form of Jack to make Crichton more comfortable as they worked together to keep wormhole technology out of the hands of the Scarrans. "Ancient Jack" was eventually killed by Furlow who had hoped to sell the wormhole tech to the Scarrans.

Crichton would finally see his real father again, about a cycle later, though this time he encountered Jack when he was younger in 1985. Crichton soon discovered that his presence in the past had altered history and that Jack was now to command the tragic final flight of the space shuttle Challenger. Crichton and his friends did what they could to fix the timeline, while John avoided any unnecessary contact with his parents. It seems, however, that Jack later caught a glimpse of his grown son shortly after he had rescued the younger 1985-John from a burning house.

When John and the rest of Moya's crew returned to the present, they discovered that they were still in Earth orbit, now in late 2003. John and Jack reunited on Moya, though John was hesitant at first, wary of yet another Ancient-created, or similar, illusion. John accepted that he had finally returned home and he along with the crew of Moya spent some time on Earth. During their stay, John was distressed to learn that Jack now had a nationalistic, isolationist attitude toward the other nations of the world, due primarily to the September 11 terrorist attacks. In spite of their differences, John eventually convinced his father to support a unified globe, knowing it was their only chance Earth had if they hoped to face the challenges of the galaxy that Crichton had already faced.

Months later, Crichton would contact Jack one last time. With the Scarrans on their way to attack Earth, John decided to collapse the wormhole linking Earth to the area of the galaxy near the Uncharted Territories and Tormented Space. After landing a transport pod on the Moon, John used one of its communicators to dial Jack's house. They wished each other good bye and Jack expressed his pride in John and all he had done before they closed the line.

[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] 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. After the death of Lo'Laan, D'Argo left Jothee in the care of others. In the time between D'Argo giving him up and his reappearance, the details are vague. It was implied that Jothee spent time as a slave, as he was found among Banik slaves.

As a result of his separation, Jothee was denied most of the Luxan upbringing and, after being the subject of abuse over his mixed heritage, mutilated his more Luxan features.

While on Moya Jothee had an affair with Chiana, who was his father's lover, which caused a rift between both D'Argo and Chiana, and D'Argo and Jothee. Jothee left Moya's crew at this point.

His whereabouts between his departure from Moya and PK Wars are unknown. Two cycles later, Jothee re-appeared as the "Cleaver" (strategist and officer) of a small Luxan commando unit during PK Wars.

[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 caesium fuel, destroying the ship and Larraq with it.

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] Maldis

A recurring villain within the series, Maldis (played by Chris Haywood) is among the most disturbing of the Moya crew's enemies. By his very nature, Maldis enjoys the pain and death of others, feeding off them like a psychic 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 clown named Igg, he demonstrates that he knows a lot about Chrichton, and explains that he serves a benevolent old magician named Haloth (also Maldis). Haloth tells Crichton he has the ability to set up a meeting between himself and Bialar Crais, at which Crichton can explain to Crais the circumstances of his brother's death, which will end the Peacekeeper captain's pursuit. Then 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. She 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 until he gains enough strength for 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.^[10][7][8] In the short story "Horizons" by Rockne S. O'Bannon, which tells the story of the crew of Moya in the future, it is implied that Natira survived the destruction of the Shadow Depository and lived aboard Moya for a time. However, due to differences between the "Horizons" future and events depicted in "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars", the canonicity of this statement is unreliable.

[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.^{[2][3][4][11]}

[edit] Selto Durka

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] Staleek, Emperor

Emperor Staleek is the Scarran emperor, played by Duncan Young and is a major antagonist in both the series and the mini-series. He first appears in the "We're So Screwed" three-part story in season 4, holding a conference at the secret moon of Katratzi. It was there he first encounters John Crichton. Crichton comes to Katratzi under the guise of selling the information he has on wormhole technology to the highest bidder. Crichton is truly there to rescue Scorpius, whom Staleek has prisoner at the base. During that time, Staleek hopes to find a way to capture Crichton without setting off the nuclear bomb attached to Crichton's belt. He is also under the impression that Scorpius is his spy and double agent, but in truth, Scorpius turns out to be a double agent whose true allegiance is to the Peacekeepers. When Crichton severely damages the Katratzi base, Staleek orders Captain Pennoch to Earth, as he has learned from Crichton that the planet contains a large supply of the crystherium flower, vital to the Scarrans' power. Pennoch's mission fails and his ship is destroyed by Crichton and Aeryn Sun.

Staleek later takes an active role in the Peacekeeper-Scarran war, traveling in his flagship the Decimator. He personally captures Crichton at Arnessk and is later present at the battle over Qujaga where Crichton unleashes 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] 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] Teeg, Lieutenant

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.^[12]

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. ^[13]

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] 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.^[14]

[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. Velorek's original costume was sold at www.MiamiSciFi.com in 2008

[edit] Xhalax Sun

Xhalax Sun (played by Linda Cropper) is the mother of Aeryn Sun, with whom she had never formed a personal relationship due to Peacekeeper rules.

Xhalax is first seen in season three of the series, as the leader of a Peacekeeper retrieval squad sent to recapture Talyn. It is revealed that Xhalax, a former spaceship pilot, had been forced to become an assassin as punishment for her crimes of having formed a romantic relationship with another Peacekeeper, intentionally chose to have a child with him, and then established contact with that child (albeit briefly), all of which violated Peacekeeper rules.

When her crimes were discovered via security camera when she secretly visited Aeryn when Aeryn was a child, in order to inform her that her life was not an accident or an assigned birthing to fill the ranks, Xhalax was forced to choose between killing Aeryn and killing Aeryn's father, Talyn (for whom the aforementioned Talyn had been named). Her superiors told her that after making this choice she would be forgiven and allowed to return to being a pilot, but she was never reinstated in her former position and was instead assigned assassination missions from that time on. This line of work slowly made her become cold and bitter, seemingly destroying the love that she'd shown during her clandestine visit to young Aeryn's barracks, and the love for which she'd sacrificed the life of her lover in order to save their child.

Decades later, when she was assigned to the Peacekeeper retrieval squad, she met Aeryn once again and explained what had happened after she'd visited Aeryn. She accused Aeryn of being sentimental and weak for having named the spaceship Talyn after the father she'd never met. That encounter ended with Talyn seriously crippled and Crais having claimed to have killed Xhalax to prevent her from completing her mission to capture Talyn for the Peacekeepers. In reality, he had allowed Xhalax to leave them because he knew that otherwise, the Peacekeepers would simply send another retrieval squad.

Aeryn encountered Xhalax once again later on, and a situation arose from which only one could escape alive. During a tense standoff, Aeryn managed to reason with Xhalax only to see Xhalax shot down by Bialar Crais who through no fault of his own misinterpreted the standoff as unacceptably dangerous to Aeryn. Dying, Xhalax told Aeryn that her true selfdom had been killed years before by her unyielding loyalty to the Peacekeepers. Her last request was for Aeryn to let her fall from the high ledge where their standoff had taken place. As a token of respect, Aeryn acquiesced.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Farscape Official Site
• Characters on scifi.com

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