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Farscape s01e14: Jeremiah Crichton

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1. Series: Farscape (per Wikipedia contributors)
2. Season: Season 1
3. Episode: Episode 14
4. Running time: 48 minutes 17 seconds
5. Summary
6. Jeremiah Crichton is a single-episode story from the first season of Farscape, the science fiction series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and co-produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment. According to YouTube automatic captions, the episode separates John Crichton from the rest of Moya's crew, sending him to a planet populated by descendants of human colonists while the others deal with their own troubles aboard the ship.
7. What happens in "Jeremiah Crichton"?
8. YouTube automatic captions record that John Crichton is caught in a starburst and stranded on a planet whose people speak a dialect of twentieth-century American English, the descendants of early human colonists.
9. YouTube automatic captions state that on the planet, Crichton is given a place among the settlers and grows close to Sarah, but his instinct for science keeps pulling him toward the strange sky above the planet, which he believes hides an alien presence. According to YouTube automatic captions, the settlers, fearing that his curiosity will undo them, turn on him and drive him out.
10. Jeremiah Crichton The episode as published by the rights holder, from the opening titles to the end credits.
11. Memorable quotes
12. I get a little stressed out and the second I'm off the ship boom you guys Starburst the hell out of there
13. you have been wrong horribly wrong by my Empire I admit that but your belief that I am a God is so wrong let me explain
14. why can't we decide our own fate make our own rules
15. In the episode
16. Pilot and Crichton argue over the pregnancy blockage On Moya, Pilot accuses Crichton of causing the amnexus buildup, and Crichton bristles at being dependent on alien technology.
17. Crichton snaps at Aeryn and leaves the ship Crichton tells Aeryn he is sick of everything about this place and storms out in his module for a joyride.
18. Crichton records a stranded astronaut log Alone on a downward trajectory, Crichton records a message explaining he is an astronaut lost in a distant universe.
19. Aella gives Crichton a hand drawn map of the sky A local hunter named Aella presents Crichton with a chart of the constellations as a gesture of fondness.
20. The crew debates abandoning the search for Crichton Moya detects Crichton's module but the crew, already weary of being hunted, argue about whether to keep looking for him.
21. The chieftain invites Crichton to sit beside him The local leader singles Crichton out for a seat of privilege, alarming his hunter son Ran who wants Crichton gone.
22. Moya loses contact with Crichton's module Moya reports a power drain that kills communications, and D'Argo, Aeryn, and Zhaan prepare a rescue mission.
23. D'Argo reaches Crichton in the village D'Argo tracks Crichton to the settlement, only to be attacked by the locals and branded a monster.
24. Rygel wakes on the planet and goes exploring Rygel emerges from his hiding place on the planet and walks into the local community, who immediately begin worshipping him.
25. Crichton is sentenced to ten cycles of hard labor After a fight between D'Argo and the chieftain's guards, Crichton accepts banishment to the compound to defuse the crisis.
26. The crew launches a probe toward the power drain On Moya, Aeryn and Zhaan build a shielded projectile and fire it at the coordinates of the energy vortex.
27. Rygel tries and fails to ascend as a god At the celebration, Rygel cannot fulfill the prophecy by rising into the light and the crowd turns against him.
28. Rygel exposes the planet wide power drain device Rygel speaks out against the priests, revealing the empire built machine that keeps the colonists stranded and ignorant.
29. Rygel declares himself sovereign over the people Rygel announces he is their returning king, claims dominion over the village, and prepares to leave with Crichton.
30. Air date, credits and where to watch
31. According to Wikipedia contributors, Jeremiah Crichton is the fourteenth episode of Farscape's first season. Per the Wikipedia episode list, it first aired in the United States on 30 July 1999 and in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2000, and was written by Douglas Heyes, Jr. and directed by Ian Watson. The episode sits inside a season of 22 episodes that ran on the Sci-Fi Channel beginning 19 March 1999.
32. The episode can be watched on this page because the rights holder published it on its own YouTube channel under the name Farscape, uploading it on 10 September 2024. The upload is titled "Farscape S1E14 FULL Episode | Jerimiah Crichton", which is not the episode's title; a reader arriving from the channel by search should know this is the same installment. The upload runs 2,897 seconds, about 48 minutes 17 seconds.

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