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bending misadventure for John Crichton. Apparently, the Farscape One launch
misfired in this alternate reality. When John recovers, he finds that all his friends
(and enemies) have new Terran identities. Aeryn is medical doctor Bettina Fairchild
who is supervising his recovery; Zhann is his personal psychiatrist; D’Argo is a
daredevil astronaut; Rygel is a cigar-chewing CEO; Crais is an overzealous police
officer; and Scorpius (a new villain introduced at the end of Season One and played
by Wayne Pygram) has his own rock band, the Scorpytones. While John’s encoun
ters with these new personas are comedic and quite entertaining, his visions of his
deceased mother requesting him b 䁡