Peacekeeper Wars is on tonight
Yeah, I'm a frelling Farscape fanatic. So what?
For those of you that don't know what's happened in the past, here's a very (very, very, very) compressed (and probably missing some important details) version of our story so far...
SPOILER WARNING!!!
Astronaut John Chricton is testing his new module, when he gets sucked into a wormhole and deposited... someplace else. He promptly crashes into a fighter, and sends it spinning into an asteroid. He's then brought aboard the ship that's under attack from those fighters: Moya, a biomechanical, living Leviathan transport. It's being used as a prison transport and the "passengers" are in the process of escaping. Our crew is: D'Argo, a Luxan warrior who was framed for the murder of his wife; Zhaan, a Delvian priestess ("The Blue Bitch"), and the only one who actually commited a crime; Dominar Rigel XVI, deposed ruler of the Hynerian Empire; and Pilot, who is Moya's... pilot. He's bonded to Moya. They manage to Starburst away, and suck one of the fighter pilots along with them. Aeryn Sun, it's pilot, is brought aboard. She's a "Peacekeeper" (which is definatly a misnomer). She is deemed "Irreversibly Contaminated" by her commanding officer (They're just a little xenophobic) Bialar Crais, and is forced to join our crew. Over the fist season, we see our crew on the run from the PK's and Crais who, well, goes mad for revenge. We pick up a new crew member, Chiana, a Nebari ("The Monochromatic Bitch") Eventually, John has an encounter with the "Ancients" who place knowledge about wormholes into his head. But he doesn't know this yet. Moya has a baby, a hybrid Leviathan-Gunship which is named Talyn. John is captured by Scorpius, who tortures him in a device called the "Aurora Chair". During this process, he learns of the wormhole knowledge in John's mind. He is unable to extract the information, but implants a chip which contains a "Neural Clone" of himself to obtain the knowledge. Around this time, we also meet Stark, who can safely be described as "insane". He was Scorpius's test subject for the Aurora Chair. Crais is forced to seek asylum aboard Moya to escape Scorpius who has taken control of Crais's command carrier. He later takes Talyn. We spend most of the season on the run from Scorpius, but the neural clone ("Harvey") is gradually gaining strength. Eventually, our hero's rob a shadow depository (a big bank for bad guys) to get currency to free D'Argo's sun Jothee from slavery. However, Scorpius buys the lot of slaves first, and eventually captures John. Aeryn and co. eventally free him, destroying the depository in the process. The chip then takes controll of John, and causes him to eventually kill Aeryn. She's revived, but Zaahn has to sacrifice herself to bring her back. The chip is removed, and we now spend much time inside John's head with Harvey who has lost most of his strength without the physical chip as backup. These times are bizzare, but seem strangely normal. We also have a new crew member, Jool. She was cryogenically frozen at the facility where John had the chip removed. Later, John is "twinned". Basically, he makes like an amoeba and becomes two identical copies of himself. One of the John's goes on Talyn with Aeryn, Stark, Rigel, and Crais. The other John, along with D'Argo, Chiana, Jool, and of course, Pilot stay on Moya. They have to split up when they come under attack from the PK's. Talyn John is eventually killed, after using a wormhole to destroy a Scarran dreadnaught. Our crews reunite, and then attempt to destroy Scorpius's project to harness wormholes. The succede, but Talyn and Crais are killed in the process. We pick up another crew member, Noranti, who doesn't bathe, can't cook, and tends to deal with problems by using drugs. Our crew splits up, and John gets seperated from Moya. He spends time on another Leviathan, Elack, where he encounters a new person, Sikozu. She's being paid to find Leviathans for harvesting by some people who like to eat their neural fibers. We reunite with the rest of the crew and wind up dropping Jool off at archaeological dig site. Scorpius seeks asylum aboard Moya, and recieves it. Eventually, our heros wind up at Earth, then have to go back to the uncharted territories. They wind up destroying a Scarran base, and killing a flower (with a fusion bomb, FYI) that the Scarrans use as a sort of mental steroid (it's the one that all the other's are polinated from). Without it, they are rather... dumb. Ie, you "dog could beat them at checkers". However, John had let slip that that plat grows on Earth, and the Scarrans move. John is forced to collapse the wormhole to prevent the invasion, which will strand him away from Earth. At the end of the episode, John and Aeryn are disintegrated by a fighter right after John asks Aeryn to marry him. TO BE CONTINUED...
This caused much distress amoungst fans, since Sci-Fi had cancelled Farscape (in what was generally considered one of the dumbest decisions a TV network made that year).
But, they're baaaack....