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Bad Timing

Episode Number: 88    Season Num: 4    First Aired: Friday March 21, 2003    Prod Code: #10422
With their Crystherium stores low, the Scarrans must travel to Earth through a wormhole to replenish their supply, as those flowers grow there. With Pilot's help, Crichton tries to collapse the wormhole leading back to Earth.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: David Kemper
Director: Andrew Prowse
Star: Gigi Edgley (Chiana),  Wayne Pygram (Scorpius/"Harvey"),  Jonathan Hardy (Voice of Dominar Rygel XVI),  Anthony Simcoe (Ka D'Argo),  Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun),  Ben Browder (John Crichton)
Recurring Role: David Franklin (Captain Meeklo Braca),  Lani Tupu (Voice of Pilot),  Kent McCord (Jack Crichton),  John Adam (Pennoch),  Francesca Buller (War Minister Ahkna),  Duncan Young (Emperor Staleek),  Paul Goddard (Stark),  Melissa Jaffer (Noranti),  Raelee Hill (Sikozu)

Notes

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Ben Browder voiced the alien pilot that strafes Crichton and Aeryn in the final scene. (edit)
The cast and crew did not find out about the show's cancellation until the last day of shooting. (edit)
At the show's wrap-up, Rockne S. O'Bannon stated that the show was 80% done. This would suggest that they planned to end the show after its ill-fated 5th season. (edit)
Jack's half of the phonecall conversation between him and Crichton was filmed way earlier in the season, at the same time as "Kansas" and "Terra Firma." Ben Browder then filmed his half later on, with someone shouting Jacks lines at him so he could hear them through his helmet. (edit)
Ben Browder (John Crichton) is the only actor to appear in every episode of the series. (edit)

Quotes

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Crichton: (into a tape recorder) My name is John Crichton...an astronaut. Four years ago, I got...shot through a wormhole to a distant part of the galaxy. I ending up on this ship...this living ship, populated by escaping prisoners...who became my friends. I made enemies... (edit)
Harvey: (wearing bunny suit) Curious holiday, Easter. A religious leader dies, comes back from the dead, and you end up celebrating like this. (edit)
Chiana: Why are you doin' this? Why would you sell your own people out?
Crichton: Because I am proud to bring Peacekeeper protection to my backward ass little planet.
(Chiana punches him in the stomach)
Chiana: Then don't do it. Pop the frelling bubble. Make the wormhole collapse.
Crichton: Pip, I can't do it.
Chiana: Yes, you can.
Crichton: I'm not smart enough...
Chiana: Yes, you are.
Crichton: I'm not fast enough...I am not alien enough, and you know what? There are people in the Universe who don't like me. I'm only human. (edit)
Crichton: We've got a little problem.
Jack: Worse than a $300 clipboard that you can put paper in when it's upside down?
Crichton: Yes. The Scarrans have located Earth. And, they're on their way.
Jack: What can we do?
Crichton: Nothing. I gotta do it.
Jack: What the hell does that mean? Why do you have to do it? You've already done enough, son.
Crichton: I'm gonna seal up the wormhole. That'll isolate Earth, but it should protect it.
Jack: Then how do we get into deep space?
Crichton: The old-fashioned way. You build the rocket. I've left you...technology and navigation information...here at your flagpole.
(sets a tape recorder by the flagpole)
Jack: How long do we have?
Crichton: Not long.
Jack: Then take me with you. Take us all...we're ready. Five hundred of the world's best. We can help.
Crichton: There's no time.
Jack: What do you mean, there's no time? For Moya to get from the Moon to the Earth, what's it take? A blink of an eye? Two seconds? Come on, son.
Crichton: We're down to minutes...Dad. How do you want to spend 'em? (edit)
Jack: Son...listen...the...the Secretary General of the UN is...he speaks for the planet on all space matters now. We're starting to come together, just like you wanted.
Crichton: That's good. Keep that up.
Jack: I was looking forward to coming with you, boy.
Crichton: Well...sometimes things don't happen quite the way you imagine 'em. Tell Susan and Liv that...I love 'em . And I'll contact ya if I can. Tell everyone.
Jack: I will, son. You tell my grand-kids about me.
Crichton: Come on, that's a no-brainer. They've got to know who my hero is.
Jack: You're going to find, when you have your own, that you want them to pass you. Be better, climb higher. I guess if that's the measure, I'm...the greatest dad on Earth.
Crichton: I love you, Dad.
Jack: You're the heart and soul of my life, son. I love you...Good-bye. (edit)

Trivia

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Sikozu's comment to Crichton of "Weak species" echoes her earlier statement in "Unrealized Reality." (edit)
Scorpius asked Braca to have Noranti brought aboard, but his reasoning is unknown. (edit)
Commandant Grayza is in confinement on the Command Carrier, and is under sedation at the last check. (edit)
Stark references his time as a pilot, talking of his taking control of Talyn in season three's "Meltdown." (edit)
Chiana is blinded after her slowing down Pilot's controls, but this time it's taking so long to go away that she believes she may be permanently blind. (edit)

Allusions

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Dr Strangelove:

Crichton writes "Dear John" on the fission bomb he straps to Scorpius. The two (fission) bombs in Doctor Strangelove have "Dear John" and "Hi There!" written on them. In the previous episode, "We're So Screwed, Part 3: La Bomba", Crichton writes "Hi There!" on another fission bomb. (edit)
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10.0
Perfect
Bad Timing
"A very special episode"
Studio executives, in their "infinite" wisdom think they know what WE want????
Continue » Posted Oct 13, 2007 6:05 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Bad Timing
"Series finale"
The end of Farscape well until the Peacekeeper Wars at least.
Continue » Posted Jul 18, 2007 7:56 am PST

RezW
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9.9
Superb
Bad Timing
"Series classic"
Farscape - out with a bang.... well, at least for a little while.
Continue » Posted Jun 9, 2007 11:35 pm PST

BadgerBorg
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10.0
Perfect
Bad Timing
"A very special episode"
What a way to end a series. What a very special show. What a way for a channel to treat its viewers.
Continue » Posted Mar 8, 2007 10:45 am PST

Entilzha37
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9.6
Superb
Bad Timing
"Painful to watch"
The Scarrans have found the wormhole to Earth. They're on their way. Crichton must close the wormhole permanently to stop them. Aeryn tells him the baby is his. He proposes, she accepts and they get crystallized.
Continue » Posted Mar 18, 2006 6:44 pm PST
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