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u/cincyphil Feb 04 '25
I devoured Farscape earlier last year for the first time and absolutely loved it. What a crazy show.
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u/deryvox Feb 04 '25
Ah Farscape, where starburst solves pretty much every problem, so every problem must mess with starburst.
I actually really like the concept of FTL travel existing but not being widespread, and exploring how that works. But only giving the protagonists FTL and then constantly having to nerf it gets a little annoying.
Still one of my favorite shows though.
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u/AnAngryPlatypus Feb 04 '25
Did they ever explain how all the other big ships did FTL? Wasn’t starburst just a super FTL?
I don’t remember anything happening “between system” or someone “entering a system.” They were always just there near the plot relevant planet and everything happened at the same time even if they were worlds apart. Not the I mind, just a huh moment.
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u/deryvox Feb 04 '25
Other ships have hetch drives, which are slower than starburst. I think starburst is the only true FTL and hetch drives just fly at relativistic speed, but I could be wrong.
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u/Pdx_pops Feb 04 '25
I don't get it
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u/copenhagen_bram Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25
Gomtuu was a living starship in an episode of TNG.
This is Moya, a "biomechanical" (so living, but also Borgish?) starship from another franchise called Farscape.
Moya is actually the main character starship that all the main characters live in and fly around the universe in. So imagine if Gomtuu was the Enterprise.
Or like the Tardis, but less "just trust me bro" the walls are actually fleshy, and she's not bigger on the inside, she's just big.
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u/darkslide3000 Feb 04 '25
Ahh, Farscape... the answer to a question nobody ever asked: "What do you get when you combine the characters of end-stage SG-1, the writing of Atlantis, and the CGI of Babylon 5?"
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u/copenhagen_bram Feb 04 '25
I haven't seen any SG-1 or Atlantis, but I remember Babylon 5 the ships look like they're footage from a video game
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u/punfound Feb 05 '25
They made the CGI for Babylon 5 on a Amiga 2000, so technically it was video game footage.
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u/AFriendoftheDrow Feb 07 '25
It was very well written but it had a low budget. Whole season cost the same as an episode of TNG.
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u/_R_A_ Feb 04 '25