Getting hooked on PK Tech Girl was the beginning. DNA Mad Scientist cemented my Farscape addiction, because in this episode we see what some of Moya’s crew will do to get home, and how much it may cost them.

Written by Tom Blomquist, this episode was first broadcast on 18 June, 1999.

When the crew find a scientist, Nam Tar (Adrian Getley), who works on a deep genetic level. They are delighted at offers of maps to their home world, derived from their genetic samples D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe), Zhaan (Virginia Hey) and Rygel (voiced by Jonathan Hardy), and are more than willing to pay the cost… one of Pilot’s (Lani John Tupu) arms, which they take, brutally.

And then argue over who gets to access the map and go home first. But Moya cannot access the information on the map crystal.

Nam Tar can’t even find Crichton’s (Ben Browder) species in his billions of records, and Aeryn (Claudia Black) struggles with what she will do if everyone finds a way home. She wants somewhere of her own.

When she goes to Nam Tar to find a Peacekeeper world she can reside on away from Crais (Tupu), Nam Tar instead experiments on her. She quickly undergoes a transformation even as the other three bicker over the crystal.

Nam Tar has injected Aeryn with Pilot’s DNA, and it is changing her. As Crichton investigates, he learns the truth about who and what Nam Tar is and tries to find a way to save Aeryn.

As the episode closes, D’Argo tries to find a way to make amends to Pilot.

This is a brilliant episode, it shows how flawed (and occasionally selfish) these characters can be.

They’ve Got a Secret was written by Sally Lapiduss and was initially broadcast on 25 June, 1999. As the crew attempt to remove and deactivate more Peacekeeper devices from Moya, D’Argo is accidentally ejected into space.

As a Luxan he can survive for a short amount of time, but how will they find him in the vastness of space? Aeryn finds him with her prowler. As he recovers he can’t quite connect to the present and mistakes his fellows for friends and family from his past.

Crichton and the gang work to find him as time runs out, and as they proceed a couple of secrets are revealed. The truth of D’Argo’s crime, and a surprise hidden deep inside Moya. A surprise that she’s more than willing to kill to protect, despite her promise to serve her crew and passengers.

Crichton and Aeryn come face to face with a number of DRDs (Diagnostic Repair Drone) working to keep the secret, one trapping Aeryn with an adhesive, and discover… Moya is pregnant.

This episode really opens up D’Argo’s character, revealing his wife and son. It also throws the Moya pregnancy into the mix. That ups the ante for keeping the living ship, a leviathan, safe from Crais and the Peacekeepers who will enslave the child when its born.

So everyone will keep the secret of Moya’s baby, and D’Argo’s marriage to a Sebacean and their son. The continuity builds!