Farscape: Premiere

"Premiere" is the first episode of the US/Australian science fiction television series Farscape. Directed by Andrew Prowse and written by series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon, the episode first aired in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel on March 19th, 1999. When his experimental spacecraft is thrust through a wormhole, astronaut John Crichton finds himself transported to a strange, alien galaxy light years from Earth and directly into an interstellar battle! On the run from a totalitarian regime, Crichton's only hope of survival is a band of escaped prisoners - a renegade Peacekeeper soldier, a raging Luxan warrior, an anarchist priestess and a deposed despot - all on board a living starship the fugitives have used for their escape!