7.3/10704 votes#1 - Crichton Kicks
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/6/2002
Crichton, now aboard a dying leviathan named Elack, encounters an alien named Sikozu who aids him in stopping the Grudeks who are intent on obtaining toubray (Leviathan neural cluster tissue).
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: David Kemper
7.1/10656 votes#2 - What Was Lost - Sacrifice (1)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/13/2002
Elac arrives at the planet where D'Argo, Jool and Old Woman are investigating the ruins of an ancient civilization.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Justin Monjo
7.5/10638 votes#3 - What Was Lost - Resurrection (2)
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/20/2002
Crichton must find the third probe to end the magnetic summer, while avoiding Grayza and Oo-Nii.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Justin Monjo
7.2/10630 votes#4 - Lava's a Many Splendored Thing
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/27/2002
When stopped off on a planet, Rygel leaves the rest of the group and is caught in an unbreakable orange substance while stealing treasures he discovers in a cave. When D'Argo, Crichton and Noranti go looking for him, the cave seals them in. Two huge grunts appear who have protective armor which protects them from weapons fires.
Director: Michael Pattinson
Writer: Michael Miller
7.6/10637 votes#5 - Promises
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2002
D'Argo, Rygel, Crichton, Chiana and Sikozu get back to Moya only to find that Scorpius is there waiting for them along with Aeryn, now suffering from heat delirium. Aeryn has granted Scorpius asylum and claims that Scorpius saved her life.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Richard Manning
7.2/10633 votes#6 - Natural Election
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2002
While in close proximity to a wormhole, Moya is preoccupied and doesn't notice a slowly moving object heading towards her. Moya collides with the object which then covers her entire hull, causing great discomfort to her as well as the crew.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Sophie C. Hopkins
6.7/10724 votes#7 - John Quixote
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/2002
While on a transport pod, Chiana nags Crichton to try out a virtual reality game. A transmission comes through from D'Argo concerning a problem with Scorpius. Despite this, Chiana pulls Crichton into one of the games, where they become trapped, and the only way out is to complete the game.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Ben Browder
8.0/10660 votes#8 - I Shrink Therefore I Am
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 8/1/2002
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.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Christopher Wheeler
6.7/10648 votes#9 - A Prefect Murder
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/8/2002
Moya arrives at a planet where Aeryn gets accused of murder.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Christopher Wheeler, Mark Saraceni
7.0/10651 votes#10 - Coup By Clam
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2002
The crew consume food, sharing amongst themselves. Although if not ingested by the same person, it becomes toxic. They must quickly find a cure or they'll die.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Emily Skopov
7.6/10684 votes#11 - Unrealized Reality (1)
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 8/22/2002
Crichton falls into a wormhole and meets up with a strange man who shows Crichton the consequences of wormhole travel.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: David Kemper
8.0/10677 votes#12 - Kansas (2)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2003
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'.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Justin Monjo
8.3/10684 votes#13 - Terra Firma (3)
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2003
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.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Richard Manning
7.2/10627 votes#14 - Twice Shy
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/2003
Moya takes on a new passenger, Talikaa, when Chiana insists upon it. However Talikaa turns out to be an alien creature in disguise and is intent on harvesting the crew's neural energy.
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: David E. Peckinpah
7.3/10625 votes#15 - Mental as Anything
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/2003
Scorpius signs D'Argo, Crichton and Rygel up for a training camp where the students learn mental discipline by battling in an artificial environment.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: Mark Saraceni
7.9/10633 votes#16 - Bringing Home the Beacon
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/2003
The women of Moya travel to a dead Leviathan to buy a sensor beacon for Moya which will allow her to appear to be a different ship. While there Aeryn and Sikozu spy on a secret meeting between the Peacekeepers and the Scarrans.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
7.8/10660 votes#17 - A Constellation of Doubt
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/2003
Crichton watches a documentary that Moya receives from Earth about their recent visit showing interviews with Crichton's relatives and other people who interacted with the crew.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: David Kemper
8.0/10635 votes#18 - Prayer
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/2003
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.
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Justin Monjo
8.4/10637 votes#19 - We're So Screwed - Fetal Attraction (1)
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/2003
Moya arrives at a station where the Scarran vessel transporting Aeryn is docked.
Director: Geoff Bennett
Writer: David E. Peckinpah
8.5/10640 votes#20 - We're So Screwed - Hot to Katratzi (2)
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/2003
Moya arrives at Katratzi. Crichton attends the peace talks between the Scarrans and the Peacekeepers ...with a nuclear bomb.
Director: Karl Zwicky
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
8.6/10642 votes#21 - We're So Screwed - La Bomba (3)
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/2003
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.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Mark Saraceni
8.3/10703 votes#22 - Bad Timing
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/21/2003
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.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: David Kemper
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A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Crichton Kicks" is the best rated episode of "Farscape" season 4. It scored 7.3/10 based on 704 votes. Directed by Andrew Prowse and written by David Kemper, it aired on 6/6/2002. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "What Was Lost - Sacrifice (1)".