Chiana (Gigi Edgley) flies through a white cloud of smoke in Farscape. But did you know Chiana wasn’t supposed to survive her initial introduction in the episode “Durka Returns”?

Great fun to watch – and it looked like great fun for the cast, too. True, it risked being like Star Trek: The Next Generation where whenever someone said something mildly nasty you knew they'd ...

Dr. Boyev, however, wasn’t there just to praise the former Sci-Fi Channel show, but to unbury it. Farscape fans have waged a clever, sophisticated and expensive campaign to revive the series.

Farscape fans who are dying to know if Chiana and D'Argo -- a huge, tentacled Luxan played with gusto by Anthony Simcoe -- will resume their supercharged relationship, will have to continue to wonder.

Farscape, which takes no shortcuts in quality, easily ties with The X-Files as the best sci-fi show on television. The Burbank convention in August was a rare appearance of the entire cast away ...

Why this Chiana/Noranti sub-plot was included seemed obscure. The reasons behind the transformation aren’t very clear, for instance, unless perhaps the make-up designers were getting bored.

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Still, the new regular Chiana – she's officially guest cast but is continuing – had only marginally more to do in this episode than last time. And again Zhaan had less screen time.