John Robert Crichton, Jr. (played by Ben Browder) is a fictional character from the science fiction television series Farscape. He is an IASA astronaut who in the opening few minutes of the pilot episode is accidentally catapulted through a wormhole across the galaxy, thus setting the scene for the show as a whole. As the only regularly appearing human on the show he is the main focus and (arguably) the main character as he narrates the weekly cr...
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John Robert Crichton, Jr. (played by Ben Browder) is a fictional character from the science fiction television series Farscape. He is an IASA astronaut who in the opening few minutes of the pilot episode is accidentally catapulted through a wormhole across the galaxy, thus setting the scene for the show as a whole. As the only regularly appearing human on the show he is the main focus and (arguably) the main character as he narrates the weekly credits and, thanks to a third season plot device (in which he was duplicated and the two Crichtons spent time on two different ships), he is the only character to appear in every episode.
At the start of the series John Crichton is an astronaut and theoretical physicist in his 30s. As the first episode opens he is setting out on the space shuttle to test a theory he and his childhood friend, DK, have proposed, while his proud father (Jack Crichton), who was also an astronaut in his younger days, watches. However, due to a scientific...
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