Trivia
Crichton calls home: A new season, a new title sequence, in which Commandant Mele-On Grayza and Utu-Noranti Pratalong appear for the first time, although they don't get their own credits.
John's voice-over has changed too. Now it goes:
My name is John Crichton. An astronaut. Three years ago I got shot into a wormhole. I'm in a distant part of the universe, aboard this living ship of escaped prisoners, my friends. I've made enemies, powerful, dangerous.
Now all I want, is to find a way home, to warn Earth. Look upward, and share the wonders I've seen.
Mistress linguist: Sikozu, if she's not lying about being unable to withstand translator microbes, is one whizz at languages. In addition to picking up English in about five minutes, she must also speak Pilot, Grudek, Nebari and Hynerian.
Equal opportunities: Here's the second female Pilot to turn up in Farscape - Moya's first Pilot was female too. How do they breed, stuck in ships like that? Do they have a mobile life stage? We need to know.
A little mad music: 1812 is, fittingly enough, playing Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, on what sounds like cheap 80s synthesiser.
The John Crichton guide to pop culture.
Diving in: "So, you just Jacques Cousteau your way upstream to where they die." Cousteau was a French scuba diver who introduced undersea photography to the masses with his 60s TV series, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
Beginner's Guide: Referring to the popular series of manuals, Crichton claims to have "almost cracked Wormholes for Dummies." Sadly, this particular publication hasn't yet made it into the For Dummies range, although they do cover Running and Homebrewing.
Surf's up: "Hey man, you don't like the Baywatch thing, head inland." A series about a group of lissom lady lifeguards, and David Hasslehoff, Baywatch was the programme responsible for making a star out of Pamela Anderson.
Little Leviathans of Charity: Crichton calls Elack the "Mother Teresa of the Uncharted Territories," comparing her to the wrinked Calcutta nun famed for her charity work.
bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh!: Crichton is firmly of the opinion that the Grudeks are, in fact, Klingons. They do look like the classic Star Trek alien. Who'd have known John was so fluent in Klingon? The sentence above, by the way, means surrender or die.
So it goes: Kurt Vonnegut's classic sci fi/war novel Slaugherhouse 5 is namechecked by Crichton,.
That's only the short title though. In full, the book is called Slaughterhouse Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod (and Smoking Too Much) Who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a Prisoner of War, Witnessed the Fire-Bombing of Dresden, Germany, the Florence of the Elbe, a Long Time Ago, and Survived to Tell the Tale: This Is a Novel Somewhat in the Telegraphic Schizophrenic Manner of Tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, Where The Flying Saucers Come From.
I'm it: Tempting the Brindz Hound to attack him, Crichton calls "Red rover, red rover, send Cujo right over," - a catchphrase from the kid's tag game Red Rover. The name Cujo comes from a Stephen King novel about a rabid St. Bernard.
Avast, me hearties: Crichton's obviously been to Disneyland, as he mentions the animatronic Pirates of the Caribbean ride there.
