Crichton spends a few months marooned on a planet where technology doesn’t work.

Tell It Like It Is, Earther!

Crichton: I'm sick of it, Aeryn. I'm sick of Napoleon the Fourteenth, I'm sick ofBlue, I'm sick of Tentacle Boy and guess what? I'm sick of you. Crichton: Since I left my home, I've been hunted, beaten, locked up, shanghaied, shot at . . . I've had alien creatures in my face, up my nose, inside my brain, down my pants . . . This is the first time, the first place where I've found peace.

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D'Argo: How did you know about the sacred text? Rygel: Where were you brought up? Every religion's got one.

Written by Doug Heyes, Jr.
Directed by Ian Watson

Natalie Mendoza –LaShala
Kevin Copeland – Rokon
John O’Brien – Kato-Re
Deni Gordon – Neera

Crichton’s day doesn’t get much better. He’s fed up – tired of alien technology, tired of translator microbes that can’t translate human idiom and tired of his shipmates.

Needing a break, he abandons the repair job and climbs into Farscape One to get away from it all. He succeeds beyond his expectations – a dangerous backwash builds up from the blockage, and Moya is forced to starburst immediately to solve the problem.

Crichton watches the Leviathan vanish into space, all too aware that her faulty navigation systems will make it almost impossible to return for him.

The truth is that for all his snotty attitude, Rygel likes people. He’s all for adoration and pampering, but he has no interest in being worshipped.

Even as a Dominar, he would go incognito among his subjects, although -- as he cheerfully relates near the end of "Through the Looking Glass" – he’s not above putting them on trial if they unknowingly speak ill of him in his presence.

There’s a telling moment in his final speech to the villagers, when he says, "I am but a worthy being like yourselves." Rygel is sincerely proud of being a Hynerian of the people, not just their ruler.

In the end, belonging may be more important than ruling for Rygel. It’s one reason why for all the trouble he causes, he’s still a valued member of Moya’s family.

On the other hand, the theme of idols runs deep into the episode. The priestens raised up the Hynerian Dominars as gods to preserve their own power, and the destruction of the idol is what liberates the villagers.

As part of this theme, the title’s reference to "Jeremiah Crichton" at first seems to be more of a nod in a vaguely Biblical direction, but is actually a direct reference to a specific player in the Old Testament.

Jeremiah was a prophet who warned Judah in the 6th century BC that the nation would suffer in captivity if its people did not forsake idols and return to the true worship of God. He’s an angry fellow, very different from the easy-going Crichton, who just wants to be left alone to fish and sunbathe on Farscape One.

Having exhausted the last of the fuel he brought from Earth, Crichton is now dependent on Leviathan technology to operate his mini-shuttle.

What adventures did Moya and her crew have during Crichton’s three-month absence? How did they get along and survive?

Reruns continue. Crichton finds a wormhole to Australia in "A Human Reaction". Could getting home really be this easy?