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The Best Episodes of Farscape

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The Best Episodes of Farscape

A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.

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  1. Background image for Die Me, Dichotomy (1)
    8.8/10(839 votes)

    #1 - Die Me, Dichotomy (1)

    S2:E22

    The crew find a doctor that can heal Moya's burns and remove Crichton's neural chip. Things are complicated however when Crichton is informed he needs additional brain tissue from a donor in stasis who will die when the tissue is removed. Also Scorpius is beginning to take over Crichton's brain.

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    Director:Rowan Woods
  2. Background image for The Way We Weren't
    8.6/10(945 votes)

    #2 - The Way We Weren't

    S2:E5

    A datacam tape is uncovered showing Aeryn as part of a Peacekeeper firing squad that executed a previous Pilot aboard Moya. The rest of the crew wants answers but Aeryn is recalcitrant about revisiting her past - especially her relationship with Velorek, the man charged with forcibly bonding a new Pilot to Moya. Pilot two refuses to communicate with the crew, not wanting to reveal his own complicity in the murky circumstances surrounding his installment as Moya's guide.

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    Director:Tony Tilse
  3. Background image for Liars, Guns and Money - Plan B (3)
    8.6/10(792 votes)

    #3 - Liars, Guns and Money - Plan B (3)

    S2:E21

    Crichton turns himself over to Scorpius in order to free Jothee. With all the mercenaries now aboard Moya, the crew form a plan to rescue Crichton and destroy the depository.

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    Director:Tony Tilse
  4. Background image for We're So Screwed - La Bomba (3)
    8.6/10(663 votes)

    #4 - We're So Screwed - La Bomba (3)

    S4:E21

    With the option to leave on the Peacekeeper Command Carrier no longer available and his nuclear bomb disarmed, Crichton must follow Scorpius' plan and destroy the Crystherium Utilia.

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    Director:Rowan Woods
  5. Background image for Infinite Possibilities - Icarus Abides (2)
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Infinite Possibilities - Icarus Abides (2)

    S3:E15

    Jack (The Ancient) unlocks the wormhole knowledge in Crichton's mind so together they can build a device to destroy the Scarran dreadnought.

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  6. Background image for We're So Screwed - Hot to Katratzi (2)
    8.5/10(660 votes)

    #6 - We're So Screwed - Hot to Katratzi (2)

    S4:E20

    Moya arrives at Katratzi. Crichton attends the peace talks between the Scarrans and the Peacekeepers ...with a nuclear bomb.

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  8. Background image for We're So Screwed - Fetal Attraction (1)
    8.4/10(656 votes)

    #7 - We're So Screwed - Fetal Attraction (1)

    S4:E19

    Moya arrives at a station where the Scarran vessel transporting Aeryn is docked.

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  9. Background image for Liars, Guns and Money - A Not So Simple Plan (1)
    8.3/10(779 votes)

    #8 - Liars, Guns and Money - A Not So Simple Plan (1)

    S2:E19

    Stark returns to Moya with a plan to rob a shadow depository and buy a contingent of slaves, one of which is D'Argo's son Jothee. D'Argo attempts the robbery on his own however and now the crew must recover him as well as the money they require.

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  10. Background image for Terra Firma (3)
    8.3/10(705 votes)

    #9 - Terra Firma (3)

    S4:E13

    Moya arrives at Earth in present day, Christmas. The crew show their ships and technology to Earth's scientists. Crichton starts writing a journal. The creature left on board Moya by Grayza manages to get to Earth where it starts killing and hunting down Crichton.

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    8.3/10(722 votes)

    #10 - Bad Timing

    S4:E22

    With their Crystherium stores low, the Scarrans must travel to Earth through a wormhole as those flowers grow there. With Pilots help, Crichton tries to collapse the wormhole leading back to Earth.

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  12. Background image for Liars, Guns and Money - With Friends Like These... (2)
    8.2/10(767 votes)

    #11 - Liars, Guns and Money - With Friends Like These... (2)

    S2:E20

    Scorpius buys the slaves containing D'Argo's son before D'Argo can. Some of the crew leave Moya in search of mercenaries to rescue Jothee. Meanwhile back on Moya, the stolen money has turned into metal eating spiders that begin to consume Moya.

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  13. Background image for Season of Death (2)
    8.2/10(8 votes)

    #12 - Season of Death (2)

    S3:E1

    D'Argo and Stark try to heal John, left with his head open on an operating table, while Scorpius attempts to avoid discovery. Zhaan makes a great personal sacrifice, while Jothee and Chiana commit an indiscretion.

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  14. Background image for Out of Their Minds
    8.1/10(918 votes)

    #13 - Out of Their Minds

    S2:E9

    An alien ship fires a weapon at Moya. Although the energy shield is active, some of the blast makes it through and causes everyone's consciousness to jump into another body.

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  15. Background image for Look at the Princess - The Maltese Crichton (3)
    8.1/10(843 votes)

    #14 - Look at the Princess - The Maltese Crichton (3)

    S2:E13

    Now married, Crichton and Katalla are frozen into living statues so that they may watch over the presiding governments of the next eighty cycles. Immediately, Clavor and the Scarran emissary attempt another assassination and succeed in removing Crichton's head. The crew must save John and Chiana while escaping Scorpius.

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  16. Background image for A Human Reaction
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #15 - A Human Reaction

    S1:E16

    Crichton is sucked down a wormhole and crash lands on a beach...on Earth, Australia. Although the home he has returned to isn't as real as it seems. Everything gets worse when the rest of Moya's crew shows up and are experimented on...killing Rygel.

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    Director:Rowan Woods
  17. Background image for Look at the Princess - A Kiss is But a Kiss (1)
    8.0/10(849 votes)

    #16 - Look at the Princess - A Kiss is But a Kiss (1)

    S2:E11

    Moya arrives at a planet where the population test their genetic compatibility by kissing. Crichton kisses a princess, who is next in line for the throne, and discovers that his DNA is a perfect match for her. He must now marry her and they will rule together.

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  18. Background image for Won't Get Fooled Again
    8.0/10(928 votes)

    #17 - Won't Get Fooled Again

    S2:E15

    The Scorpius clone puts John into a dream world to prevent the Scarrans from getting any wormhole knowledge.

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  19. Background image for Into the Lion's Den - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (2)
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Into the Lion's Den - Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (2)

    S3:E21

    Crais gets Talyn to starburst inside the command carrier, causing it to collapse in on itself.

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  20. Background image for I Shrink Therefore I Am
    8.0/10(677 votes)

    #19 - I Shrink Therefore I Am

    S4:E8

    A group of bounty hunters come aboard Moya and take everyone hostage. When Crichton arrives back with the Old Woman he destroys the bounty hunter's ship and goes aboard Moya to rescue everyone while the Old Woman puts herself into a coma where she can survive outside the ship.

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    8.0/10(697 votes)

    #20 - Kansas (2)

    S4:E12

    After accidentally returning to Earth, Crichton discovers it he is in 1985 and he has altered the time line, causing his father to be scheduled to fly on the doomed shuttle 'Challenger'.

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    Director:Rowan Woods
  22. Background image for Prayer
    8.0/10(655 votes)

    #21 - Prayer

    S4:E18

    Crichton and Scorpius travel to one of the 'unrealized realities' where Crichton believes he heard Stark say "Katratzi." Meanwhile on a Scarran ship, Aeryn resists torture.

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  23. Background image for Nerve (1)
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #22 - Nerve (1)

    S1:E19

    Crichton and Chiana try to infiltrate a peacekeeper base to get some vital medicine for Aeryn. Crichton gets caught by Scorpius and imprisoned. He is tortured using a device called the 'Aurora Chair' which is able to look inside his mind and where Scorpius learns that Crichton has the secret to creating wormholes.

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  24. Background image for Crackers Don't Matter
    7.9/10(990 votes)

    #23 - Crackers Don't Matter

    S2:E4

    The crew returns from a Commerce Planet with a load of Crackers and a meek alien called Traltixx, who promises he can alter Moya's electromagnetics to make her untraceable. Crichton is skeptical; it seems too good to be true. As they pass through a constellation of pulsars, an intense paranoia affects the crew, turning them violently again each other. Crichton must fight against his own paranoid delusions to work out what Traltixx is actually doing and how to stop him.

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    Director:Ian Watson
  25. Background image for Look at the Princess - I Do, I Think (2)
    7.9/10(818 votes)

    #24 - Look at the Princess - I Do, I Think (2)

    S2:E12

    Princess Katralla's mother brings in Scorpius promising Crichton that if he doesn't marry her daughter, she will hand him over. Meanwhile, Prince Clavor starts a plot to assassinate Crichton so that he may ascend to the throne instead of his sister.

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  26. Background image for Self-Inflicted Wounds - Wait for the Wheel (2)
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #25 - Self-Inflicted Wounds - Wait for the Wheel (2)

    S3:E4

    The crew work out a way of getting free from the other ship and out of the wormhole. Things become more complicated when their new 'friends' begin to sabotage Moya and Crichton picks up a transmission from Earth.

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    Director:Tony Tilse

Best Episodes Summary

"Die Me, Dichotomy (1)" is the best rated episode of "Farscape". It scored 8.8/10 based on 839 votes. Directed by Rowan Woods and written by David Kemper, it aired on 1/26/2001. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Way We Weren't".