12 Facts About Farscape

1.

Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series, produced originally for the Nine Network.

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2.

Co-producer Brian Henson later secured the rights to Farscape, paving the way for a three-hour miniseries to wrap up the cliffhanger, titled Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, which Henson directed.

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Farscape first ran on the Australian TV Channel Nine Network and the Canadian YTV channel, then in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel and on BBC Two in the United Kingdom.

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4.

Farscape finds himself in the middle of an escape attempt by Moya, a living spaceship, from the militaristic Peacekeepers, who had been using it as a prison transport.

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5.

Farscape is forced to sell what little progress he has made to an alien mechanic as payment for repairs on the Farscape module.

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6.

Farscape is lured into a wormhole that seems to lead directly back to Earth, only to find the entire situation is a construct created by mysterious aliens called the Ancients, who are testing to see if Earth is suitable for colonization.

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7.

Farscape removes the chip and leaves Crichton incapacitated at the hospital.

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8.

Farscape discovers that despite the chip's removal, the personality clone Harvey remains in his mind.

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9.

Farscape finally makes a breakthrough on the latter when he meets a supposed Leviathan specialist, Sikozu, on the run from her employers.

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10.

Farscape has been so affected by his experiences that he cannot relax there – a situation not helped when an agent of Grayza attacks and kills several of Crichton's friends.

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11.

Farscape is finally brought out of it when Aeryn places his new baby in his arms.

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12.

Farscape, like the later Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, was a spaceship-centered show that sought to distance itself from the Star Trek formula.

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