Episode Guide

Thank God It's Friday. Again.: When D'Argo flies into a rage and leaves the Moya, the rest of the crew pursue him to the planet Sykar, a seemingly idyllic workers' paradise with a deadly secret.

DNA Mad Scientist: On a distant asteroid, Moya links up with an alien geneticist, who promises to help crew members find their home worlds, but seizes the opportunity to make radical DNA experiments.

The Flax: An invisible "drift net" in space, which is controlled by ruthless Zenetan pirates, traps Crichton and Aeryn, whose survival hinges on an eccentric alien — and reformed pirate.

Jeremiah Crichton: Temporarily lost in space aboard a module, Crichton ultimately lands on the planet Acquara, a seemingly utopian world where he becomes "the other man" in a romantic triangle.

A Human Reaction: A return to Earth invites chaos for Crichton, whose military father figures in the fates of the Moya crew and especially the destiny of his son, who reveals his passion for Aeryn.

Through the Looking Glass: Stuck halfway through a starburst maneuver, Moya is split into several copies all existing in the same space, crossing dimensional axes. The crew must figure out how to restore her, while also dealing with a frightening cross-dimensional alien.

A Bug's Life: Peacekeeper commandos and the Moya crew join forces to contain a virtually undetectable and deadly virus that has infested the ship and moves from host to host.

The Hidden Memory: Conclusion. The Moya crew mounts an attempt to rescue Crichton, imprisoned by Peacekeepers.

Family Ties: Intriguing plot twists and clever action sequences mark this episode, which finds the Moya travelers imperiled by the pursuing Peacekeepers, led by Scorpius. This is easily my favorite episode in the entire series. Great story, great dialogue, great performances and an outstanding musical score.

Mind the Baby: Scheming Crais seizes command of Moya's offspring, a living spaceship that has separated from its mother and is hiding out in an asteroid field.

Vitas Mortis: A dying Luxan matriarch with holy powers is transformed under D'Argo's care into a young beauty, whose regenerative energy has dire consequences for Moya. The episode title is Latin for "life causing death."

Crackers Don't Matter: Strange things begin happening to Crichton and the others when a strange alien life-form is brought on board.

Picture If You Will: The saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" takes on a whole new meaning when a shape-shifting painting is brought aboard Moya, exposing the crew to an old enemy, the sorcerer Maldis.

The Way We Weren't: Chiana discovers a Peacekeeper recording of the murder of Moya's original Pilot, a female. One of the shooters appears to be Officer Sun.

Home on the Remains: Crichton, D'Argo and Chiana land on Chiana's home planet, searching for food for Zhaan. However, Chiana's people are not too happy about the visitors, and even less happy to see Chiana.

Dream a Little Dream: On a strange planet overwhelmingly populated by lawyers, Zhaan finds herself framed for murder as part of a political plot. Chiana and Rygel must defend her in court and win their case within three days or Zhaan will be executed. Meanwhile, Crichton, D'Argo and Aeryn are nowhere to be found.

Out of Their Minds: The crew of Moya have a collective out-of-body experience after a weapon fired by an enemy ship causes their minds to transfer into different bodies.

Look at the Princess, Part 1: A Kiss Is but a Kiss: In uncharted territories, the crew comes across an inhabited system that is about to crown a new queen. But she is still in need of a king — and Crichton is a perfect candidate.

Look at the Princess, Part 2: I Do, I Think: As Crichton tries to decide if he should marry the princess or try to flee Scorpius, conspiracies abound, threatening to make his decision for him by ending his life. Meanwhile, Zhann and Pilot follow a course that only Moya knows and Aeryn decides to reveal her feelings for Crichton.

Look at the Princess, Conclusion: The Maltese Crichton: Crichton's statue has been made headless and the search is on for the culprit — and the head. Meanwhile, Aeryn is lost in the wilderness, and no one has any idea where she is.

My Three Crichtons: After Moya is struck by a strange beam of light, Crichton finds himself split into three separate stages of evolution. Now he must work with his other selves to solve the problem and reintegrate himself into one whole being.

Beware of Dogs: A shape-shifting parasite called a Vorc gets aboard Moya and attacks D'Argo, leaving him with a mortal wound. The crew must track down the Vorc and use it to make a serum to counteract the creature's venom and save D'Argo's life.

The Locket: Moya runs into a "hyper stream" of time that causes Aeryn and Crichton to age at an accelerated — and alarming — rate. The crew must find a cure before the pair die of old age.

A Clockwork Nebari: Moya is hijacked by members of the Nebari, who reveal Chiana's unknowing role in their scheme to take over part of the galaxy.

Liars, Guns and Money, Part 2: The crew makes good their escape from the Shadow Depository, but the currency poses a threat to Moya's life. Meanwhile, Crichton duels with Scorpius in a meeting of the minds.

Liars, Guns and Money, Conclusion: Crisis aboard Moya: the ship is dying, and Crichton is at the mercy of Scorpius, who plans to lobotomize his archenemy unless the crew can organize a desperate rescue with the help of a motley group of mercenaries.

Season of Death: Moya's crew, still reeling from Aeryn's death, returns to the Ice Planet to check on Crichton's progress, unaware that Scorpius has already paid their friend a visit and is lying in wait.

Suns and Lovers: Moya's life hangs in the balance after the ship is entangled in docking cables during a visit to a commerce facility to invest the crew's ill-gotten gains from the Shadow Depository. D'Argo, reeling from personal betrayal, risks his life to release Moya.

Self-Inflicted Wounds, Part 1: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Crichton's efforts to speed Zhaan to a recovery planet are thwarted when an alien research vessel inadvertently fuses with Moya inside a wormhole, forcing the two crews into an uneasy alliance made all the more tenuous by the collision's life-threatening damages to Moya.

Different Destinations: Moya's crew arrives at the site of an ancient battle in which Peacekeepers surrendered to a superior army. A mishap sends them back in time, where they accidentally change the course of the fight. In order to save their own futures, they must find a way to correct their mistake.

Thanks for Sharing: Talyn is injured and Crais is in a coma. The crew, including both John Crichtons, arrives at the planet Kanvia in order to get a stimulant called Chromextin in the hopes it will help heal Talyn.

Green-Eyed Monster: An encounter with an enormous space creature leaves Talyn and his crew fighting to stay out of the belly of the beast when the leviathan is swallowed whole in an episode penned by series star Ben Browder (who plays Crichton).

Losing Time: A malevolent energy being infiltrates Moya and buries itself in the body of one of her crew, leading to frantic efforts to uncover the identity of the unwitting host.

Incubator: Scorpius takes a new tack with his archenemy by trying to forge an alliance with Crichton. To do this, Scorpius reveals details of his own troubled past to earn Crichton's sympathy.

Meltdown: Talyn is drawn into a sun by Mu-Quillus, a being with a hunger for leviathans. Complicating matters is Stark's determination to free a female from Mu-Quillus' clutches, and a mist affecting the personalities of Crichton, Aeryn and Crais.

Scratch N' Sniff: A planet specializing in hedonism ensnares Crichton, D'Argo, Chiana and Jool with its pleasures, but the four are unaware of the price they are to pay for their debauchery.

Revenging Angel: Crichton's incapacitation forces D'Argo to assume command of a mission to save Moya from being crippled by a self-destructing ship.

The Choice: Aeryn's search for her missing father leads her to a murky world populated by mystics, seers and frauds. Here, she discovers the pursuit of truth to be a formidable challenge.

Fractures: Moya's crew encounters a ragtag group of fugitives on the run from the Peacekeepers, including a Nebari, a Scarran and a female Hynerian.

Into the Lion's Den, Part 1: Lambs to the Slaughter: Crichton begins his gambit to thwart Scorpius' efforts of mastering wormhole technology by meeting with his archenemy aboard a Peacekeeper command carrier, where renegade Peacekeepers Aeryn and Crais encounter old comrades.

Into the Lion's Den, Part 2: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: All the plots, all the counterplots, and everyone’s schemes from Crichton’s to Scorpius’s have been thwarted. Now there is no alternative: to stop the Peacekeepers from getting wormhole technology – if they should be stopped at all – Crichton is going to destroy the Peacekeeper Command Carrier. And he must trust Crais to do it. Spoiler: This episode effectively ends the long-running Scorpius-pursues-Crichton story arc.

Dog With Two Bones: Moya is taking Talyn's remains to a sacred burial ground in space, but the region is guarded by an insane Leviathan. Talyn's burial seems to a metaphor for the end of the show as we've known it so far, as each crewmember leaves in separate directions to their homes. Of course one of the big questions for us, the audience, is what will become of the John/Aeryn love story. Spoiler: There's a surprise "to be continued" development in the Crichton-Aeryn love story for this season finale.

What Was Lost, Conclusion: Resurrection: Captured by Grayza and facing imprisonment, Crichton and his comrades plot their escape, but the gambit fails to go as planned.
Comment: This one returned to the usual higher level of quality, but still had its lame moments. Example: The women discussed their escape plan with a guard standing three feet away and accommodatingly not reacting or closing the cell door.

Lava's a Many Splendored Thing: After a forced landing, the crew becomes trapped in a lava-filled cave, hunted by mercenaries with a hidden agenda.

Promises: A new nemesis takes aim at the Moya crew for harboring a wanted assassin - Aeryn. A mole within Peacekeeper ranks works to ruin Braca's plot to use a deadly missile against Moya. This episode marks the first appearances this season for Aeryn, Moya and Pilot. Spoilers: Crichton is forced to play nice with the back-from-the-dead Scorpius after he proves to be the only one who can save an ailing Aeryn, who has a hard time coming clean about her pregnancy. With the Scorpius-pursues-Crichton story arc ended, this episode begins the "Can we trust Scorpius and what the #$&@ is he up to anyway?" arc.

Natural Election: Crichton's efforts to reconcile with Aeryn are put on hold when he makes a breakthrough in his wormhole research and Moya is threatened by a parasite.

John Quixote: Crichton (Ben Browder, who also wrote the script) and Chiana become unwilling participants in a brutal virtual-reality game based on Crichton's exploits.

I Shrink, Therefore I Am: When bounty hunters seize Moya and the crew, Crichton risks forging an alliance with Scorpius. Scorpius discovers the hunters' boss has a secret, and the "Can we trust Scorpius?" arc continues.

A Prefect Murder: Lost on a chaotic world beset by civil conflict, Aeryn (Claudia Black) stands accused of assassinating the leader of a warrior clan.

Coup by Clam: The Moya crew suffers odd symptoms after an alien doctor poisons them with unusual mollusks. If you're trying to get a friend to watch the series, don't start with this one, which takes the prize as the most disgusting episode.

Terra Firma: Crichton and his comrades encounter Earth dignitaries eager to introduce the aliens to the public. Crichton's efforts to readjust to terra firma are complicated by a rift with Aeryn and a hidden menace aboard Moya.

Bringing Home the Beacon: Female members of the Moya crew observe a secret meeting that will have a drastic impact on the future of the Uncharted Territories - Grayza plans to ink a pact with the Scarrans.

A Constellation of Doubt: Crichton (Ben Browder) spends the trip back to the Uncharted Territories watching Alien Visitation. The sensationalistic program juxtaposes offbeat footage of Moya's crew shot by Crichton's nephew with obnoxious sound bites from spiritual, military and scientific talking heads. It attempts to expose Crichton's alien comrades as menaces to Earth. After screening it, Rygel (voice of Jonathan Hardy) concludes that Earth “is full of superstitious, xenophobic morons.” Crichton hates the tabloid show too, but it may be his only lead in the search for Aeryn (Claudia Black), to save her from the Scarrans. A tense episode peppered with riotous satire.

We're So Screwed, Part 2: Hot to Katratzi: Moya's crew tries to spring Scorpius from captivity at Katratzi, where Scarrans are torturing him for information about the wormhole.

Bad Timing: The Moya crew tries to keep the Scarrans from using the wormhole to invade Earth, which is rich in a flora valuable to the aliens. Although John Crichton (Ben Browder) concocts a way to collapse the wormhole, he doubts he can pull it off, an insecurity the Scarran-hating Scorpius (Wayne Pygram) tries to exploit to forge an alliance with his nemesis. And Crichton has more on his mind...namely, what the future holds for his relationship with Aeryn (Claudia Black).
This excellent episode has some long-awaited, satisfying developments. It also has a cliffhanger ending, because the show's makers were told there would be a fifth season. But in September 2002, Sci-Fi announced they had changed their minds about a fifth season. So, when this episode aired on March 21, 2003 we were left with a fantastic series that was fantastically unresolved.