John Crichton
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In the science fiction television series Farscape, John Robert Crichton, Jr. (played by Ben Browder) is an IASA astronaut from our current time-frame of the year 2000. He is in his 30s and he became an astronaut because of his father, Jack. John, however, is a more theoretical scientist and he developed a module called Farscape One to test his theory that, by using the gravitational pull of the Earth to slingshot his craft (a maneuver called a gravitational slingshot), he could achieve flight speeds faster than any previous craft with no fuel expenditure. He holds the rank of commander but it appears not to be a military rank.
However, during his test flight, a solar flare caused a wormhole to appear and pull John and his module through to the far end of the universe. As soon as he arrived, the the brother of Bialar Crais crashed into Farscape One's wing with his Prowler, causing him to lose control and collide with an asteroid. This made Crais a sworn enemy of John.
John is a typical science-nerd who, because of his current situation, has had to adapt rather quickly to a life of aliens, guns, being hunted, and no chocolate or TV. The last item may have been the toughest for Crichton, as he's very fond of his pop culture, and makes numerous references to 20th century products, movies, commericals, TV shows, and the like, all of which are hopelessly lost on his friends and crewmates aboard Moya, though John does sometimes try to explain some aspects of Earth culture to his friends.
Crichton's main goal is to somehow find a wormhole that can take him back to Earth. But in the meantime, he has to learn how to get along and co-exist with the other members of the crew on Moya while surviving in a hostile and chaotic universe.
In the first season a race called the Ancients implanted in his subconscious mind the equations, theories, and a "sixth sense" for wormholes. Crichton can sense when and where a wormhole is about to appear, and then successfully navigate them.
The greatest of Crichton's many enemies is Scorpius, a Peacekeeper military scientist who wants the wormhole knowledge embedded in Crichton's unconscious. Crichton has to share his mind with a neural-clone of Scorpius, who appears as a hallucination only Crichton can see, and can sometimes control his behaviour.
"I try to save a life a day. Usually it's my own."