(XXIX) Farscape: "Premiere" (Sn.1, Ep.1)

So here goes another out-of-space sci-fi storyline, with a human protagonist by the name of John Crichton. I'm assuming Earth, in this series, is supposed to reflect present times because what is seen of it doesn't look very different from the real world. John Crichton is an astronaut/scientist who came up with an interesting theory about high speed travel across space. His theory revolved around the idea that a planets atmosphere and gravitational pull could be used as a slingshot to propel vessels at unrecorded speeds. Obviously, theories are to be verified with experiments, and John Crichton volunteered to be the guinea pig of his own experiment. So he traveled beyond the skies with a traditional spaceship, then detached from it with a tiny vessel designed to support the experiment. The 'sling-shot' experiment was initiated, and worked well! Incredibly well! Perhaps too well, because Crichton developed a wormhole which shot his tiny vessel light-years across the universe. Worst of all, he was welcomed with the most unpleasant conditions; amidst a space battle between alien thieves and alien peace-keepers. While this poor fellow was in complete awe, one of the peace-keepers collided with his vessel (called Farscape 1 by the way), and spun uncontrollably to its explosive end on a giant floating rock. This was a mere accident which I'm sure Crichton will suffer for during the entire series, because the victim aboard this peace-keeping jet was brother to a peace-keeper Captain. Farscape 1 was reeled into the alien 'thief' ship, and what followed was a man in utter confusion about where he was and what these beings were. Crichton was then injected with a highly advanced alien substance which made him able to communicate with the alien beings aboard the ship. He was eventually thrown into a secured area together with a female peace-keeper captured during the conflict. Surprisingly, Peace-keepers look exactly like humans albeit their seeming lack of emotion. A display of this is shown when Crichton had to explain to the peace-keeper what empathy felt like. So essentially this episode establishes the beginnings of Crichton's adventures in space aboard this alien ship (moya) and many other alien creatures, composed off: an intimidating and mean looking alien warrior with a sword, an alien 'priestess'-hairless and blue in complexion, the female peace-keeper, Moya's pilot, Moya (since it's a living ship), and a tiny egomaniac who lusts after power and riches (besides him, moya, and the pilot, everyone else had a standard human build-thus two legs, two arms etc)

Fact of the matter is, I would be scared out of my mine if I was in John's shoes. But eventually the fear would just dissipate and I'll ask a lot of silly questions to figure out where I was. Then I'd try to understand the alien technology, and determine how I could use it to my advantage. I definitely would have felt extremely well of myself for introducing the 'sling-shot' theory to a group of technology advanced beings. Coming from 'primitive' planet Earth, you would expect these creatures, with highly advanced technology, to be familiar with all possible concepts regarding space travel. Ironically John's 'primitive' smarts saved moya and every life aboard.