John Crichton is an astronaut. He was the main man on a project that consisted on using Earth's atmosphere to propel a small module called Farscape 1across the solar system. Something went wrong and Farscape 1 was pulled through a wormhole. Now John Crichton is trying to survive in a distant part of the universe and find his way home. His task is made more difficult because he is now living aboard a living ship, Moya, with escaped prisoners.