The fourth and final season of Farscape (with a new credit sequence, and presented in widescreen) got underway on 7 June, 2002. It was written by David Kemper.

Last time we saw Crichton (Ben Browder) he was marooned in space, low on fuel. Moya had been pulled away by a wormhole, Aeryn (Claudia Black) has left, and she’s pregnant.

When we join up with Circhton, we discover he’s been picked up by a dying leviathan, Elac, and has grown a beard, and trying to eke out a bit of a living. Sikozu (Raelee Hill) shows up with a warning that something called the Grudeks are on their way.

It seems the Grudeks are intent in harvesting toubray, leviathan nerve tissue.

We see he’s still interacting with Harvey/Scorpius (Wayne Pygram) and having visions of Aeryn and her blossoming pregnancy. On the flip side, he may have finally figured out wormholes and may be able to get all of them home, maybe.

Just as things are getting super tense, Chiana (Gigi Edgely) – whose premonitions are getting stronger – and Rygel (voiced by Jonathan Hardy) arrive. They bring news that Grayza (Rebecca Riggs) has a bounty out on all of them.

Can they stop the Grudeks, get back to Moya and will Sikozu and a DRD christened 1812 join them?

Season four gets started with a bang, introduces new characters, and reminds us of the emotional arcs for Crichton, and we so want Aeryn to be brought back into the fold. Where is she? What’s happening with her?

What Was Lost: Part 1 – Sacrifice was written by Justin Monjo and was first broadcast on 14 June, 2002.

Elac takes Crichton and the gang to a planet covered in the remnants of a long dead civilization, something Jool (Tammy McIntosh) is delighted by. The whole team, including D’Argo (Anthony Simcoe) and Noranti (Melissa Jaffer) is back together, except Aeryn who is still out there somewhere.

Jool is involved in a dig to hopefully recover a mysterious probe that could fix the planet’s ecosphere. (or is she? What if the dig she’s on, with more of her species is up to something else?) But of course there are complications… there’s something in the water.

Crichton is intent on learning about the wormhole that captures and spat out Moya, and how Noranti knows about Aeryn’s pregnancy.

And not everyone on the dig can be trusted, and some of them think they are better than some of the species that Crichton has been palling around with.

Meanwhile, Scorpius is tortured to the breaking point by Grayza and Braca (David Franklin) for information about Crichton. And when Grayza’s command carrier shows up, Crichton finds that he can’t resist her commands – she’s got a unique pheromone control, and things are going to go very badly for Crichton and the rest.

As we close in on the To Be Continued cliffhanger of the episode, Noranti drugs Crichton and makes him believe that he must die. So he throws himself off a cliff into the ocean far below…

Oh, and just from a movie fan angle, the location they are shooting served as Bare Island in Mission: Impossible II!