...Different Destinations

Season 3, Episode 5, Aired

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While visiting a Peacekeeper memorial, Stark accidentally sends himself, Crichton, D'Argo, Aeryn and Jool back in time where they alter the timeline and then are forced to interfere further to restore it.
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  • Farscape without Zhaan and in the past.

    9.9
    "Superb"
    By SleepTight, Aug 01, 2006
    A great episode to continue the very sad death of Zhaan, an episode that is also pretty depressing and very well written.

    The episode begins with some b!tching between Aeryn and Jool, Jool is becoming a very annoying character, especially when she screams. But she delivered some humor moments this episode each time she got hit.

    The characters aren't over Zhaan's death yet, Both Rygel and Chiana try to steal something of Zhaan but they can't do it, that makes both develop at least a little bit.

    When Stark puts on a mask about the past to look at it, something goes wrong and he brings them back in time, soon to that Jool gets hit. The people there see it and they give Jool pee to get better. After some stuff becoming different Stark tries to open the portal and they shove Jool in but then it closes and Stark goes inside again, the world changed and Jool is on it, but nothing outside the world Changed.

    Everytime Crichton tries to help he makes the future worse, he tries to rescue one of the lions who will make peace but one of the women kill him. They think Crichton is a traitor and tight him onto something and he talks to Scorpius.

    Meanwhile one of the men becomes a hero by shooting an arrow which gets himself killed and the future world gets so bad that it disappears.
    When the lions come in Crichton decides to shoot them and destroy them, he promises the woman that they will make peace and he goes into the future again with the rest of the gang but there they find that the lions killed all the women because they had killed to many of their men.
    Crichton felt like he failed them because he promised them they wouldn't, but Aeryn comforts him and tells him that he did what he could.

    The episode was pretty dark unlike most, it made Stark also the funny one for once with a still pretty dark storyline about him knowing a lot about death. D'Argo also develops by talking to the little girl and telling her to write her name on the wall and that way she can be remembered by someone.
    the episode was pretty dark and depressing and also very good mostly, I did miss Zhaan but they managed to continue with the show being great,
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  • Stark accidentally sends the crew into the past. They must figure a way to get back to their time without altering history.

    9.4
    "Superb"
    By Entilzha37, Mar 19, 2006
    The show's producers really wanted to set Farscape apart from the rest other Sci-Fi shows. This was very evident with the ending of this episode. This is not your typical Sci-Fi time travel episode. They altered the past with some serious repercussions. They showed that the characters are flawed, and made it more realistic.

  • Very sad episode. This is definately one of the best episodes of this show because of its dramatic side.

    8.8
    "Great"
    By sasg_2, Dec 09, 2005
    This was a very special episode. It was the one right after Zhaan's death so they were all a bit sad. In the credits you can see that the name of the actress that played Zhaan is gone so this episode has a very different and heavy feeling to it.
    They guys ae transported back in time and they somehow mess everything up: a war that was supposed to have never happened is now a reality. What can they do to fix what they messed up? They have no idea so they try everything but it seems that everything they do only makes things worse. Now people are dying and they don't know hwo to save them. Joll makes it back to the right time and goes back to Moya but everything is different now. They planet is dying because of the war that was supposed to never be.
    After many attempts they manage to fix what they made wrong but things turn out a bit different of what they had been originally: the children and woman got murdered and it wsa partially their faulth.
    Great episode with lost of emmotional parts.moreless

  • Another Great Example Of Farscape's Take On Sci-Fi Cliches

    9.3
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    By briankemper, Sep 02, 2005
    Different Destinations is a great example of how Farscape is different and, as a result, better than 95% of sci-fi out there. In this episode, Farscape plays with two well-worn cliches, one specific (Time Travel) and one general (Heros Always Fixes Their Mistakes).

    With regard to the Time Travel cliche, heros travelling in time generally always do something accidental to change the past, and as a result, the present (from Star Trek's great classic, City on the Edge of Forever to Back to the Future, to many, many episodes of Quantum Leap). However, the hero or heros always are able to put things back the way they were (Edge of Forever) or even better (Back to the Future). Of course, this cliche is a collary to the general cliche, that if a hero screws up, he make things right, so that everyone can go home happy.

    Similar to the City on the Edge of Forever, Farscape has always shown that actions have their costs, and that it's very hard to fully fix a bad mistake. With regard to time travel, it's almost impossible.

     In City, Kirk had to sacrifice his own feelings and the woman he loved in order to make sure the United States entered WWII. In Different Destinations, Cricton, Areryn, and D'argo, ever mindful of trying to protect the past, irrevocably change it by appearing in the past in the first place. Each of them struggles to put "right, what once went wrong," but, like life, it's not that simple. In the end, Crichton, D'argo, and Areyn were able to put the timeline right for most of the universe most of it right, but the cost was the lives of those they were trying to protect, and little bit of their souls, especially Crichton's. In doing so, the story gave each of these characters something about the past to care about, whether it was the little girl for D'argo or Dacon, the Peacekeeper legend for Areyn, and then took it away.

    In addition to the great story, the ep featured great performances from Ben Browder, Claudia Black and Anthony Simcoe, who did a great job of showing the caring, frustration and effort of their characters. Paul Goddard also did a great job with Stark's emotional pain, which by the end mirrored Crichton's own pain.

    Admittedly, the episode is not a light, uplifting episode, but it maintained the underlying feeling that permeated the "Season of Death," which in turn led to a great season of storytelling.moreless

  • The gang try, desperatly to un-mess up the timeline they've accidentally altered.

    9.2
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    By chrisbd1, Aug 23, 2005
    More than anything else, I like the presmise of this episode. When Stark acedentally send he, aeryn, john and jool bak in time, they end up altering the timeline. They know that people died at the holy spot they are on, but their being there affects a different outcome. They end up trying serveral different times, enduring battle after battle, watching people they come to know, die. There are so many varibles to an event, it's difficult to come up with the same one twice. Finally, they succeed in getting time back, as close to right as hey can.moreless
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  • TRIVIA (7)

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    • Stark is able to sense the dead in the future and past, and recognize the differences between each set, when he is looking at the time tear through the goggles.

    • Both Chiana and Rygel go to steal from Zhaan's former possessions in her quarters, but neither can actually do it.

    • Fellip urine is apparently good at soothing wounds, and also quite tasty.

    • The changes in the timeline only affect the planet and the history in Moya's data stores (and presumably elsewhere), as opposed to having an impact on everything else, like everyone on Moya.

    • The time tear, which sends everyone back in time, is only visible whilst the timeline is stable. When it has been changed the time tear cannot be seen.

    • The title refers to what Stark tells Kelsa. When she asks if she will be with her daughter when she dies, he says he doesn't know; "different beliefs, different destinations".

    • Stark is able to see through the goggles even though the eyepiece is over his metal mask.

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    • Crichton: Two guns, Aeryn! We only have two guns! Aeryn: Well, make it look like more. Crichton: How?! Aeryn: Well, keep running firing running backwards and forwards- pretend you're an army. Crichton: Oh yeah, that's gonna work! Aeryn: Just do it!

    • Aeryn: Sub-Officer Dacon, you are a soldier, a brave hero. Dacon: (smiling) Nah, heroes always get killed. I'll be fine. (he throws the message spear over the wall, and takes a fatal arrow in the chest)

    • Pilot: Have you heard from Crichton at the Peace Memorial? Chiana: Yeah, D'Argo commed about an arn ago. He said Jool and Aeryn were tralk-fighting, and that seemed normal.

    • Stark: When you killed the general, what did you feel? Nurse Kelsa: I felt hatred... and fear. Stark: Fear is good. Keep that. But travel light. Forget hate.

    • D'Argo: Can't we just go through and sort it out later? Stark: We must do it here, now. As Zhaan always says, 'Do right by the wrong, Goddess helps us all aong.' Aeryn: Feeling left out, D'Argo? We're the only ones who don't have voices in our heads.

    • Crichton: Hey! Try not to kill anybody! D'Argo: I'm not gonna kill anyone. (Swinging his Qalta blade at a charging warrior) Oh, I might kill this guy.

    • Aeryn: This recording device is accurate. I learned about this Jocacean Memorial. Jool: (sarcastically) Well, need I say more? If you learned about it at military school, it's certain to be farca. Aeryn: 500 cycles ago, 30 Peacekeepers lost their lives defending this monastery, and Sub-officer Dacon is one of our greatest heroes! Jool: Propaganda for morons! Aeryn: I don't believe-! D'Argo: (interrupting Aeryn) Ah, ladies. Some decorum, please. This is a peace memorial. Let's not kill one another. Aeryn: (continuing the argument) You're wrong, you know. Jool: Bullfrell! Aeryn: You're wrong! Jool: Bullfrell! Aeryn: Sub-officer Dacon stood right up there. The device says right up there! Guts pouring out everywhere, bleeding, and yet he still managed to initiate the peace process to save the nurses. Jool: Bullfrell! Peacekeepers have always been a manifest military contagion that has raped and pillaged. They never died for any nurses! That's just a silly little story to help naive children sleep at night.

    • Aeryn: You know if we did change things it is possible that we could improve the future. Crichton: With our track record you think that's going to happen? Aeryn: I guess not.

    • Jool: Bastards! They shot me, they punched me, they made me drink piss!

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    • The actual harmonica track of "Home on the Range" was performed by composer Guy Gross, who was taught to play the instrument as a child by his father. Wayne Pygram had to mime playing it they hadn't decided yet what song would be used for the scene.

    • Lani Tupu is listed in the opening credits but does not appear. He does voice Pilot, as always, but this is a separate credit that appears at the end of the episode.

    • In the last three episodes, someone has spoken the title of the episode: Crichton says "could'a, would'a, should'a" towards the end of the episode in Pilot's den, Crichton says "wait for the wheel" to both D'Argo and Zhaan, and here Stark says "different destinations".

    • Virginia Hey is removed from the opening credits as of this episode.

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    • Crichton: D'Argo! (fires his pulse pistol at a Venek) D'Argo: Whoa. Crichton: Tony Montana! Crichton's referring to Al Pacino's psychotic gang lord character in Brian DePalma's 1983 film Scarface.

    • Crichton: If Grynes lives, he's a hero who averts a war. Dead, he's just another guy in the Laura Ashley Spring Collection. Laura Ashley is a line of women's clothing that started in England in the early 1950s, and by the mid-70s was worldwide.

    • Aeryn: Sub-Officer Dacon does not have to die. Crichton: He's Davy Crockett at the Alamo. One of the best known heroes in American history is Davy Crockett. After serving in Congress, he moved from his native Tennessee to Texas, where he died, along with over a hundred others at the siege of the Alamo mission in San Antonio, resisting a force of thousands of Mexican soldiers.

    • Stark: Zhaan bought these. Bought them for me. Crichton: I know, and you look great. You look like Astroboy. Astroboy is an extremely popular character from Japanese comics and animation, created by Osamu Tezuka.

    • Crichton: (to Sub-Officer Dacon) Yeah, no problem, Opie. This allusion is appropriate because of the youthful appearance of Dacon. Opie is the young son of Sheriff Andy Taylor on the classic comedy The Andy Griffith Show. The character was played by six year old Ron Howard, who later went on to star on Happy Days as Richie Cunningham, before going on to become an award winning director of feature films.

    • Toy Story: When you see Scorpius with the cowboy boots on and his feet are in Crichton's lap, you can see the name "Andy" written on the bottom of the boots. This is an allusion to the animated film Toy Story in which the cowboy Woody has Andy's name written on the bottom of his boots. As a side note, this specific reference was suggested by Ben Browder.

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