Farscape: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Farscape Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Crichton Kicks
Jun 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 clus
What Was Lost - Sacrifice (1)
Jun 13, 2002
Elac arrives at the planet where D'Argo, Jool and Old Woman are investigating the ruins of an ancient civilization.
What Was Lost - Resurrection (2)
Jun 20, 2002
Crichton must find the third probe to end the magnetic summer, while avoiding Grayza and Oo-Nii.
Lava's a Many Splendored Thing
Jun 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, Cric
Promises
Jul 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 grant
Natural Election
Jul 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 entir
John Quixote
Jul 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
I Shrink Therefore I Am
Aug 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 res
A Prefect Murder
Aug 8, 2002
Moya arrives at a planet where Aeryn gets accused of murder.
Coup By Clam
Aug 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.
Unrealized Reality (1)
Aug 22, 2002
Crichton falls into a wormhole and meets up with a strange man who shows Crichton the consequences of wormhole travel.
Kansas (2)
Jan 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 'Challe
Terra Firma (3)
Jan 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
Twice Shy
Jan 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 ene
Mental as Anything
Jan 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.
Bringing Home the Beacon
Feb 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 mee
A Constellation of Doubt
Feb 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.
Prayer
Feb 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.
We're So Screwed - Fetal Attraction (1)
Feb 28, 2003
Moya arrives at a station where the Scarran vessel transporting Aeryn is docked.
We're So Screwed - Hot to Katratzi (2)
Mar 7, 2003
Moya arrives at Katratzi. Crichton attends the peace talks between the Scarrans and the Peacekeepers ...with a nuclear bomb.
We're So Screwed - La Bomba (3)
Mar 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 Utili
Bad Timing
Mar 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 leadi