5.7/10905 votesLoading...#1 - Taking the Stone
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/2000
Chiana leaves Moya and goes to 'grave planet' populated by reckless thrill seekers who play dangerous and life threatening games.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Justin Monjo
6.6/10846 votesLoading...#2 - Vitas Mortis
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/2000
D'Argo takes part in a sacred ritual that helps an old Luxan, an Orican, to survive. During the ritual the Orican draws energy from who she thinks is D'Argo but is actually Moya. Consequently Moya starts to age rapidly.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Grant McAloon
6.7/10791 votesLoading...#3 - Home on the Remains
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 6/15/2000
With Moya out of food, Chiana leads everyone to a dead boudong where she once worked.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: Harry Werksman, Gabrielle Stanton
6.7/10797 votesLoading...#4 - Dream a Little Dream
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/22/2000
While waiting inside a transport pod to be picked up by Moya, Zhaan tells Crichton about being accused and tried for murder during his absence.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Rockne S. O'Bannon
6.7/10724 votesLoading...#5 - 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
6.7/10648 votesLoading...#6 - 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
6.8/101,023 votesLoading...#7 - Thank God It's Friday, Again
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/22/1999
The crew visits a planet full of happy workers. Soon D'Argo and Zhaan start working and refuse to return to the ship. Meanwhile Rygel's body fluids become explosive and Aeryn and Pilot must learn why before Rygel dies.
Director: Rowan Woods
Writer: David Wilks
6.8/10925 votesLoading...#8 - Rhapsody in Blue
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/22/1999
Moya responds to a distress call from another pregnant Leviathan. On arrival at a planet they are contacted by a Delvian who informs them that the distress call was a deception. It was her way a getting Moya to come to them. The Delvians have a hidden agenda though. They want to forcefully take Zhaan's knowledge and learn how she overcame her insanity.
Director: Andrew Prowse, Peter Andrikidis
Writer: Ro Hume, Justin Monjo
6.9/10917 votesLoading...#9 - Jeremiah Crichton
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/29/1999
Crichton leaves Moya in his module for a drive. Moya starbursts leaving Crichton marooned and alone in space. He finds a planet and makes it his home where he lives for several months until the others find him. He is unwilling to accept however, that Moya didn't starburst intentionally.
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Doug Heyes, Jr.
7.0/10769 votesLoading...#10 - Beware of Dog
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 8/10/2000
The crew bring aboard an alien tracker to remove some creatures that came aboard hidden in some cargo.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Naren Shankar
7.0/10651 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.1/101,026 votesLoading...#12 - I, E.T.
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/7/1999
A peacekeeper beacon goes off and Moya has to land on an alien planet to prevent it's signal being intercepted and Moya being discovered. Crichton, D'Argo and Aeryn leave Moya and explore the planet in search of a substance that can be used to numb Moya's senses so the beacon can be removed. Crichton gets separated from the group and meets up with some inhabitants of the planet who hide him from the authorities.
Director: Pino Amenta, Brian Henson
Writer: Sally Lapiduss, Ro Hume
7.1/10656 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.2/101,161 votesLoading...#15 - Exodus from Genesis
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/26/1999
Moya gets infested with bugs who have come on board to breed. They turn up the temperature to speed up the process but this causes Aeryn to get heat delirium as she is cold blooded. The bugs seem to be able to replicate members of the crew. And as if that isn't enough, a peacekeeper ship shows up.
Director: Brian Henson, Rowan Woods
Writer: Ro Hume, Babs Greyhosky
7.2/101,104 votesLoading...#16 - Back and Back and Back to the Future
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/1/1999
The crew come across a ship that is molecularly de-stabilizing. D'Argo makes everyone bring it aboard when he discovers that there are Ilanics on board. Crichton goes on to the escape pod he gets a shock and starts experiencing strange visions of the future, firstly of himself and Matala, then of Moya's destruction.
Director: Rowan Woods, Tony Tilse
Writer: Babs Greyhosky, Nan Hagan
7.2/101,064 votesLoading...#17 - Throne for a Loss
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/8/1999
A group of Tavleks come aboard for trade negotiations. Rygel takes a vitally important crystal from Moya to make himself seem wealthy. The Tavleks kidnap Rygel and take him down to the planet, leaving one of their wounded on board. Everyone goes to the surface to get him except Zhaan who stays on board to keep an eye on the Tavlek left behind.
Director: Pino Amenta
Writer: Richard Manning
7.2/10940 votesLoading...#18 - They've Got a Secret
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/24/1999
During routine searches for Peacekeeper beacons, D'Argo falls down a chute, destroys a Peacekeeper shield and gets ejected into open space. After being rescued D'Argo starts to think that everyone on Moya are members of his family. Moya, meanwhile, starts to alter the environmental conditions inside the ship so that it is hardly habitable for the crew. .
Director: Ian Watson
Writer: Sally Lapiduss
7.2/10938 votesLoading...#19 - Till the Blood Runs Clear
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/8/1999
Crichton comes across the same conditions that initially created a wormhole. He leaves Moya in his module with Aeryn where he attempts to create a wormhole and return home. Although a wormhole forms it is unstable and the module gets damaged and he is forced to make an emergency landing on the planet to make repairs. On the planet he and Aeryn encounter a holographic message sent by Crais, offering rewards for: D'Argo, Zhaan and Rygel.
Director: Tony Tilse
Writer: Doug Heyes, Jr.
7.2/10799 votesLoading...#20 - Revenging Angel
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 8/9/2001
There is an accident while D'Argo is demonstrating what his ship can do. He blames Crichton and knocks him out. In his unconscious state Crichton has some animated dreams.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: David Kemper
7.2/10630 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.2/10633 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.2/10627 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.3/10979 votesLoading...#24 - That Old Black Magic
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/10/1999
Crichton is put into a head-to-head battle with Crais by a magical being named Maldis who feeds off the emotions of others and makes himself stronger by absorbing all of the negative energy and anger from Crichton and Crais.
Director: Brendan Maher
Writer: Richard Manning
7.3/10801 votesLoading...#25 - Picture if You Will
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2000
Maldus returns to torment the crew, convincing them that their friends have perished. One by one, the evil sorcerer drags them into his realm.
Director: Andrew Prowse
Writer: Peter Neale
The Worst Episodes of Farscape
Every episode of Farscape ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Farscape!
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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Taking the Stone" is the worst rated episode of "Farscape". It scored 5.7/10 based on 905 votes. Directed by Rowan Woods and written by Justin Monjo, it aired on 3/31/2000. This episode scored 0.9 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Vitas Mortis".
