Farscape: Premiere

"Each man gets a chance of being his own kind of hero. Your time will come and when it does, watch out. Chances are it'll be the last thing you ever expected."

- Jack Crichton

"Premiere" is the first episode of the science-fiction television series Farscape. Directed by Andrew Prowse, the episode first aired in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel on March 19th, 1999. When his experimental spacecraft is thrust through a wormhole, astronaut John Crichton finds himself transported to a strange, alien galaxy light years from Earth and directly into an interstellar battle! On the run from a totalitarian regime, Crichton's only hope of survival is a band of escaped prisoners - a renegade Peacekeeper soldier, a raging Luxan warrior, an anarchist priestess and a deposed despot - all on board a living starship the fugitives have used for their escape!

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode has been made available on the Farscape: The Complete First Season DVD collection, the Farscape: The Complete Season One DVD collection and the Farscape: The Complete Series DVD collection.


 * Lani Tupu is credited as a guest star. In addition to playing the role of Captain Bialar Crais, he is also the voice artist behind Pilot.


 * Aeryn Sun mistakenly refers to Earth as "Earp". Normally, the translator microbes would correct the mispoken word for those who hear it, but since nobody in that region of space has ever heard of Earth before, there is no equivilant phrase within the microbes' database.