SCIFI.COM | Farscape: Journey Logs

The universe, in all its vastness, seems to be made up of only two types of lifeforms: those who leave homes and sometimes return to them, and those — like myself — who travel with our homes around us. All too well have I learned how creatures, rendered homeless, can be driven to take desperate actions. Still, when Moya came across a wormhole that appeared to lead to Crichton's homeworld, Earth, it hardly seemed irrational for the Human to seize this best, possibly only chance of rejoining his species.

After a moment of hesitation, Crichton piloted his Farscape One module into the center of the vortex, at which point we lost all contact with him. Seeing the Human disappear into that unstable wormhole proved ... difficult for the crew. So when the small craft vanished from Moya's sensors, Aeryn, D'Argo, and Rygel elected to venture out in our Transport Pod to take a closer look.

Meanwhile, Crichton's homecoming was not as joyous as he had hoped. Landing on a landmass known as Australia, he was immediately picked up and detained by a team led by former associates, Wilson and Cobb. They distrusted Crichton for initially opening the wormhole (which had seemingly never closed) on his maiden voyage, and they questioned the motives behind his return as well as his very identity. The unexpected arrival of a Transport Pod containing three alien "friends" only deepened their suspicions.

Even with the help of his father, Jack, Crichton proved unable to prevent the humans from drugging and imprisoning Rygel, D'Argo, and Aeryn. Suddenly, Crichton's idyllic dream of rediscovering Earth had mutated into a waking nightmare in which nothing less than his friends' very lives were at stake....