John Robert "Jack" Crichton, Sr. is a fictional character on the science fiction television series Farscape played by Kent McCord. He is a retired astronaut who at one point had walked on the Moon and the father of John Crichton.
During his time in the Uncharted Territories, Crichton would often think of his father. In his first year, he would sometimes record his thoughts into a tape recorder, usually addressing Jack in his recordings.
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John Robert "Jack" Crichton, Sr. is a fictional character on the science fiction television series Farscape played by Kent McCord. He is a retired astronaut who at one point had walked on the Moon and the father of John Crichton.
During his time in the Uncharted Territories, Crichton would often think of his father. In his first year, he would sometimes record his thoughts into a tape recorder, usually addressing Jack in his recordings.
A member of the Ancients took on his form when conversing with John Crichton. Initially this was to fool John while studying human reactions (for a possible colonisation of Earth). Following John seeing his true form, the illusion was retained for unknown reasons (Possibly to make John feel more at ease with him).
Around a cycle later, John would again encounter a false image of his father. This was the result of a Scarran interrogation device which presented Crichton with increasingly erratic and irrational imagery in order to break his mind.
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