History Characters / Farscape

* [[Characters/FarscapeSpecies Species]]

* [[Characters/FarscapeDelvians Delvians]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeHumans Humanity]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeHynerians Hynerians]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeKalish Kalish]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeLeviathans Leviathans]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeLuxans Luxans]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeNebari Nebari]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeScarran Scarrans]]
* [[Characters/FarscapeSebaceans Sebaceans]]
** [[Characters/FarscapePeacekeepers Peacekeepers]]

* [[Characters/FarscapeMainCharacters Main Characters]][[note]]John Crichton, Aeryn Sun, Ka D'Argo, Dominar Rygel XVI, Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, Pilot, Moya, Bialar Crais, Chiana, Scorpius, Stark, Harvey[[/note]]

* Characters/FarscapeMainCharacters[[note]]John Crichton, Aeryn Sun, Ka D'Argo, Dominar Rygel XVI, Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, Pilot, Moya, Bialar Crais, Chiana, Scorpius, Stark, Harvey[[/note]]
* Characters/FarscapeDelvians
* Characters/FarscapeHumans
* Characters/FarscapeHynerians
* Characters/FarscapeKalish
* Characters/FarscapeLeviathans
* Characters/FarscapeLuxans
* Characters/FarscapeNebari
* Characters/FarscapePeacekeepers
* Characters/FarscapeScarran
* Characters/FarscapeSebaceans
* Characters/FarscapeOtherCharacters

* Characters/FarscapeLuxans

* Characters/FarscapeMainCharacters

[[folder:Civilisations and Organisations]]
!The Ancients

->'''Crichton:''' What will you do now?
->''' "Jack":''' What we've done since before I was hatched. We continue searching for a home...

A mysterious race of highly advanced aliens, who are searching for a new home after their original homeworld was destroyed.

* DyingRace
* InnocentAliens: Certainly not naive, though -- the test they put Crichton through in their first episode was used to determine whether the human race would accept them if they ever chose Earth as a haven.
* InsectoidAliens
* MysteriousWatcher: Apparently, the Ancients were originally created to act as this for an entire universe, having been sent into our dimension to monitor and catalogue the state of wormhole technology in it. Of course, by the time of their first episode, they've forgotten this role.
* ThePromisedLand: With their species in decline and their original mission lost, the Ancients are now seeking out a world where they can flourish -- preferably in coexistence with the local sentients. They find one and settle on it between appearances, but refuse to give any details.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Quite apart from their ability to craft physical environments based on Crichton's memory, they'd also mastered the art of wormhole travel and weaponry.
* {{Telepathy}}

!The True Ancients/"Einstein's People"

Cousins of the previous culture who retained their full power.

* TheGhost: We only ever meet ''one'' of them -- and he isn't willing to show his true face.
* RealityWarper
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TimeMaster

! The Eidolons

->As youths, we open our faces to the universe, absorbing the joy and anguish all creatures feel. Then, upon maturation, we step to the altar to receive Hora Dalay: the ability to encourage rationality and tranquility in others. [[ComesGreatResponsibility The capacity to influence others toward peace carries great responsibility.]] [[DareToBeBadass Do you accept this burden for the rest of your days?]]
-->-- Hierarch Yondalao

A species of mystical peacemakers, long believed extinct.

* CharmPerson
* TheEmpath: A subtle example, but also a very effective one.
* HiddenElfVillage: Both the cloaked refugee settlement on Quajaga and the sealed temple on Arnessk function as this.
* MoreThanMindControl: The Eidolons' diplomatic techniques; since they can't actually control minds, they use their powers to lull their opponents into a receptive state, and then use their empathic abilities to present a compelling argument.
* PerfectPacifistPeople: Averted; while generally opposed to violence, they aren't above using it in emergencies; the Quajagan Eidolons, having lost the art of activating their powers, employed heavily-armed soldiers. And at the height of their power, [[spoiler: the Eidolons actually created the Peacekeepers as a security force for the systems under their control.]]
* PowerGlows: When they use their powers, a faint glow emanates from the patterns on their faces.
* {{Precursors}}
* ProudScholarRace
* RubberForeheadAliens: Used and subverted; on the surface, they look like humans with raised patterns on their faces. However, these patterns are actually edges; when transferring the knowledge of how to use their powers, their faces ''literally'' open!
* SealedGoodInACan: A temple-city of them were sealed outside of time on Arnessk up until Crichton and Co managed to unlock them.

!The Delvians

A culture of mystically-inclined, blue-skinned humanoid plants. Currently subjugated by the Peacekeepers.

* BaldOfAwesome: Delvian males (and the odd female) tend to be completely bald.
* CorruptChurch: Around the time Zhaan left her home planet, the normally [[SaintlyChurch benevolent]] Delvian Seek was under the control of a few very conservative Pa'us and their Peacekeeper allies.
* TheDarkSide: Delvians are prone to falling to this as they ascend the ranks of the priesthood, especially if they commit murder.
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Most of the powers held by Pa'us are gained through their tentative steps toward enlightenment. Some of them are based on obvious psychic power, while others are far more magical in nature.
** {{Telepathy}}
*** MentalFusion
*** MindRape
** [[MasterOfIllusion Illusionism]]
** MindOverMatter / PowerFloats
** TouchOfDeath
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Starved Delvians sprout poisonous buds from their skin, and exhale clouds of choking spores.
* PlantAliens
* ProudScholarRaceGuy
* RedEyesTakeWarning: A sure sign that the Delvian in question has fallen to TheDarkSide.
* RubberForeheadAliens
* SpaceElves
** EnslavedElves: The concequences of Pa'u Bitaal's coup.

!The Hynerians

A sentient amphibian species, who have a large empire despite their diminutive size and clumsiness on land.

* BigEater: Apparently due to the three stomachs.
* BizarreAlienBiology
* DeadlyDecadentCourt
* FishPeople: Well, amphibious.
* GodGuise: At one point, one of Rygel's ancestors went out of his way to ensure that Hynerians visiting a certain planet would be welcomed as gods; he did this by stranding an entire settlement of Sebaceans loyal to the Hynerian throne on a remote planet and disabling their technology.
* LittleGreenMen
* {{Muppet}}s
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent
* ZergRush: In desperate times, the Hynerian military have favoured these kinds of tactics.

!!The Peacekeepers

The dominant Sebacean culture, a completely militarised society constantly seeking to expand their zone of conquest.

* CommieNazis: Their aesthetics are a deliberate fusion of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union's short-lived modernist period. (The Peacekeeper emblem is based on the famous abstract Bolshevik propaganda poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge".)
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The smaller the group of Peacekeepers, the deadlier they seem to be -- to the point that individuals seem almost unstoppable.
* TheEmpire
* FacelessGoons: Peacekeeper troopers.
* FantasticRacism: Quite apart from their distrust of non-Sebaceans -- sometimes to the extent of discharging soldiers for "Irreversible Contamination" -- hybrids are treated with utter contempt. However, the Peacekeepers are practical enough to recognize the value of keeping individuals like Scorpius around.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Not entirely the case with all Peacekeepers -- see ConservationOfNinjutsu.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: An entire ''empire'' of them, with a nasty habit of conquering their clients.
* PuttingOnTheReich
* SpacePolice: Hence the name "Peacekeepers". They were created by the Ancients as a neutral military peacekeeping force, and now act as interstellar law enforcement and defense for less powerful planets and species. Unfortunately this power is open to abuse, with the Peacekeepers allying with planetary rulers who use their power as a big stick to maintain their own positions. Hence the Peacekeepers control an empire by proxy.
* TheSpartanWay: Peacekeepers are either born into the organisation or forcibly recruited as children, then brought up brutally and lovelessly to see duty and discipline as the only things that matter; friendships (sometimes [[FriendsWithBenefits with "benefits"]]) are permitted among the soldiery, but any relationship approaching love is terminally discouraged -- as Xhalax Sun discovered.

!!The Breakaway Colonies

A Sebacean group who broke away from the Peacekeepers to lead a less militaristic and more libertarian lifestyle.

* [[DefectorFromDecadence Defector To Decadence]]: Broke away from the Peacekeepers almost two thousand cycles ago, and have never looked back. As Rygel noticed, they seem to enjoy their freedom a bit too much.
* [[TheEmperor The Empress]]: Empress Novia -- manipulative and stubborn, but strictly neutral.
* {{Matriarchy}}: Of the Original variant. While it's clear that the Regent has power, the Empress is clearly the one in charge. Downplayed, as its clear that succession law does allow male Emperor.
* StandardRoyalCourt: Not quite to the extent of DeadlyDecadentCourt, but the influence of Prince Clavor and the Scarran ambassador certainly brought it close.
* TakenForGranite: Immediately after marriage, the future Empress and her Regent are petrified for the next eighty cycles, allowing the current Royal Couple to finish off their reign peacefully while their [[AndIMustScream still-conscious]] successors absorb all the royal court procedures going on about them. Thanks to the calming influence of psychic communication, this would seem to work quite well.
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!Bekhesh

->''It's been so long since anyone has told me the truth, I don't recognize it anymore...''

->Played by John Adams

Leader of a Tavlek bandit gang. A tough and ruthless criminal, but not without moral standards.

* ArmCannon: The gauntlet.
* TheAtoner
* BadassPreacher: Or, as he calls himself, the "Holy Warrior of Tarou."
* BenevolentBoss: When he was still in charge of the Tavlek gang, it was demonstrated that he actually cared about his underlings- to the point of threatening to kill Moya's crew if they mistreated Kyr.
* BlindfoldedVision: The top of Bekhesh's head is covered by a thick metal faceplate; according to production notes, it's actually a cybernetic replacement for the top of his head.
* FunctionalAddict: While still clearly addicted, he doesn't need the gauntlet nearly as often as Kyr did.
* GoodScarsEvilScars / {{Gonk}}: Bekhesh is pretty much walking scar tissue.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: "It's easier to reform when you're rich."
* ReformedCriminal
* ShouldersOfDoom: Part of his uniform while still leading the Tavlek gang.

!Teurac

->''I make it a point to someday kill my clever opponents...''

->Played by Derek Amer and Thomas Holesgrove; Voiced by Philip Hinton

A Sheeyang space pirate who once tried to capture ''Moya''.

* BreathWeapon: As a Sheeyang, he can breathe fire. Unfortunately, he's getting old, and not as efficient at it as he once was.
** MadeOfExplodium: Equally unfortunately, the same biological quirk that allows him to do so also makes him... a little unstable.
* TheCaptain: Of his vessel, up until it was crippled in an attack.
* CoolOldGuy
* GracefulLoser: Compliments D'Argo on managing to bluff his way through negotiations and ultimately foil his attempt at claiming Moya and the Zelbinion.
** Note that he still threatened to kill D'Argo one day- he just did so in a very respectful manner.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Twice. Once by remaining at his post when his ship was crippled so his crew could evacuate, and later by blowing himself up to help save Crichton.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: "You said you had an opportunity for profit..."
* SalvagePirates
* SpacePirates

!Maldis

->''I admit, I feed on death. But don't we all? Some eat plants. Some meat. I consume the life essence itself. Preferably medium rare.''

->Played by Chris Haywood

Nobody quite knows what Maldis is, but he has powerful mystical powers, feeds on souls, and is a sadistic predator to the weaker, which is just about everyone.

* ArchEnemy: To Zhaan.
* EmotionEater: He likes to spice up his meals by encouraging his victims to excesses of fear or anger- as an appetiser. Unfortunately for his victims, he's ''very'' good at knowing which buttons to push...
* EvilSorcerer: Explicitly called as such.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Maldis was dispersed by Zhaan and left as a disembodied mind trying to pull his body back together again. He describes the experience as [[{{Understatement}} "Less than pleasant."]]
* FauxAffablyEvil / LaughablyEvil: Say what you like about his vile eating habits and devious schemes- he's undoubtedly having the time of his life.
* IntangibleMan
* LargeHam: Oh so very, very much.
* LongBusTrip: After being dispersed twice, he never bothered the crew again, even though it's established that he can return from the dead, if given time. It's speculated that because his main interest was in Zhaan, he simply [[spoiler: lost interest in Moya's crew following the events of "Self-Inflicted Wounds."]]
** Some fans have speculated that he was really the one behind the game in "John Quixote" due to certain elements of it and how Crichton got in it the first place. Note that he is name-dropped in the episode.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MasterOfDisguise: Appeared in different guises as part of his plots against the crew, with his actor appearing in different costumes and make-up for the effect.
* MasterOfIllusion: When not using his magic powers in a "real" sense, he's not above confusing his victims with images from their past.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Crichton refers to him as basically a psychic vampire.
* RealityWarper
* SorcerousOverlord: In his first episode, he was ruling an entire planet.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes

* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* YourSoulIsMine: His most direct means of feeding.

!"Jack" the Ancient

->''We needed a reaction, a human reaction, John. Your reaction.''

->Played by Kent [=McCord=]

A member of an ancient race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, who have been searching for a new home and have unique knowledge of wormholes.

* CoolOldGuy
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* InsectoidAliens: His true appearance.
* TheMentor
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His true name is unpronounceable outside of his native tongue.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien
* [[spoiler: ThisWasHisTrueForm]]





!Natira

->''Animal, you have lovely eyes. I love red eyes. Very sensual. Very unusual.''

->Played by Claudia Karvan

A corrupt banker to gangsters, and Scorpius's ex.

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]]
* BrainsAndBondage
* ContemplativeBoss: Manages this with the windows of her office while torturing Crichton.
--> Blue eyes, look out at that. That is the last sight your eyes will ever see.
* CuteLittleFangs
* DarkMistress- to Scorpius. [[spoiler: She's actually planning to assassinate him.]]
* EvilMentor: Apparently, she served as this to Scorpius when he was younger.
-->'''Natira:''' Without me, you'd still be the same angry, hotheaded young creature I took in so many cycles ago.
-->'''Scorpius:''' Without me, your head -- among other things -- would be a trophy on the wall at Peacekeeper Command.
* EyeScream: Those flexible spines on her head -- the ones that stand upright and twitch when she gets sexually excited? Those are used for stabbing people's eyes out.
* {{Foil}}: To Scorpius. While Natira sees their relationship as a sort of game and her [[spoiler:attempt to kill him]] as part of said game, Scorpius takes it completely seriously and does not appreciate [[spoiler:her attempted murder of him]]. Scorpius sees torture as a means to an end. Natira plucks people's eyes out for her own twisted pleasure.
* GorgeousGorgon: Not literally, but her appearance does lend itself towards this- to the point that Crichton calls her "Medusa."
* InsectoidAliens: Okay, more crustacean than insect...
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Apart from the torture and murder comitted on a daily basis, she also claimed the contents of Scorpius' vault for herself, presuming that Scorpius had died in the destruction of his Gammak base. Then, when Scorpius showed up alive and asking for his money, Natira was very happy to steal the contents of someone else's vault to repay him. [[spoiler: However, it's actually a deathtrap... which the crew of Moya end up stealing.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Quite apart from having orange-red eyes of her own, she has a thing for red eyes in general.
* SexyWalk: As evidenced in her "BetweenMyLegs" introduction, which also draws attention to the fact that her exoskeleton has ''high heels.''
* SoftspokenSadist
* TortureTechnician
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The producers wanted her to return in a later episode, but Claudia Karvan didn't want to put herself through the prosthetics and animatronics again.




!Pathfinder Neeyala

-> "Will" ''is a poor substitute for beersian alloy when crushed by astronomical tidal forces!''

->Played by Victoria Longley

An alien scientist pitted by circumstances against the ''Moya'' crew, after a wormhole accident.

* AffablyEvil
* ApologeticAttacker: "I have never before released my bristles to kill. Your forgiveness."
* BenevolentBoss: As indicated by her PetTheDog moment.
* ChekhovsGunman: At the end of her second and final episode, she implants Moya with a beacon that will alert the Pathfinder elite to their presence; though Crichton worries, nothing more is thought of it... until Moya is unexpectedly yanked down a wormhole at the end of the third season. "Unrealised Realities" reveals that Einstein, inspecting the state of wormhole knowledge in the region, detected the Pathfinder beacon and brought Moya in for examination.
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[FishPeople Fish Person]]
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Like all Pathfinders, she has the ability to shoot poisonous bristles from her gills.
* TheSpock
* SpockSpeak: Even when clearly under great stress, she's still adept at flinging technobable about.
* SssssnakeTalk: Even though she's technically piscine.

* [[IHaveYourWife We Have Your Family And The Families Of Your Crew]]: One of the reasons why Neeyala is so fanatically devoted to saving her ship is because the Pathfinder government would have her family and the families of her crew executed if they returned without it and the data they'd acquired.

!1812

->''Beep beep beep!''

->Played by Itself

A DRD who becomes Crichton's personal mascot.

* TheCameo: In the miniseries.
* ChekhovsSkill: In "I Shrink Therefore I Am," it's the only DRD on Moya not disabled by the bounty hunters, because it originates on a different Leviathan.
* DoAnythingRobot
* DoomedHometown: The last surviving DRD of Elack, a dying Leviathan that [[spoiler:sacrificed himself to save the crew of Moya]] in the third episode of Season 4.
* MauveShirt: Both figuratively and literally, in the sense that Crichton has repainted it to look different than the rest of the RedShirtArmy.
* MundaneUtility: When not performing repairs or defence duties, 1812 is either operating Crichton's distillery or singing the 1812 Overture.
* NoGender
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* RobotBuddy
* TheUnintelligible: It "speaks" in R2-D2-style beeps, but Crichton [[BilingualDialogue seems to understand it just fine]].
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Crichton has painted 1812 with the colours of the French flag.
* YouAreNumberSix

!Einstein

->''Your knowledge is quite extraordinary for one of your realm. And your many travels inside wormholes... troubling. But now that I've glimpsed your mind, I'm aware this has made you a target of more aggressive species: a liability which must be dealt with...''

->Played by John Bach

A mysterious superbeing attempting to make sure that various characters' attempts to gain wormhole knowledge don't disrupt the multiverse too much.

* AllPowerfulBystander
* BaldOfAwesome
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Okay, maybe [[DarkIsNotEvil not exactly evil...]]
* CreepyMonotone
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: We don't even get the slightest glimpse of what he ''really'' looks like.
* TheMentor
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PowerFloats: During a conversation with Crichton, (who's sitting on top of an iceberg) Einstein very subtly levitates until he's at eye-level with him.

* SharpDressedMan: In the words of Crichton, "nice threads."
* SpockSpeak
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien

* TheWatcher

[[folder:Civilisations and Organisations]]
!The Ancients

->'''Crichton:''' What will you do now?
->''' "Jack":''' What we've done since before I was hatched. We continue searching for a home...

A mysterious race of highly advanced aliens, who are searching for a new home after their original homeworld was destroyed.

* DyingRace
* InnocentAliens: Certainly not naive, though -- the test they put Crichton through in their first episode was used to determine whether the human race would accept them if they ever chose Earth as a haven.
* InsectoidAliens
* MysteriousWatcher: Apparently, the Ancients were originally created to act as this for an entire universe, having been sent into our dimension to monitor and catalogue the state of wormhole technology in it. Of course, by the time of their first episode, they've forgotten this role.
* ThePromisedLand: With their species in decline and their original mission lost, the Ancients are now seeking out a world where they can flourish -- preferably in coexistence with the local sentients. They find one and settle on it between appearances, but refuse to give any details.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Quite apart from their ability to craft physical environments based on Crichton's memory, they'd also mastered the art of wormhole travel and weaponry.
* {{Telepathy}}

!The True Ancients/"Einstein's People"

Cousins of the previous culture who retained their full power.

* TheGhost: We only ever meet ''one'' of them -- and he isn't willing to show his true face.
* RealityWarper
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TimeMaster

[[folder:Recurring Characters]]
!Jack Crichton

->''Each man gets the chance to be his own kind of hero. Your time'll come and when it does, watch out. Chances are, it'll be the last thing you ever expected.''

->Played by Kent [=McCord=]

John Crichton's beloved father, and a former astronaut himself.

* CoolOldGuy
* DomesticAbuse: Played with in "Kansas." A teenaged Crichton ''thought'' that Jack treated his mother badly. Though arguments between the parents were apparently frequent, an older Crichton was very much aware of how much this trope was averted.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Following the events of "Terra Firma", [[spoiler: during which Jack organizes a global peace initiative in preparation for exploring space]].
* OpenMindedParent: Though shown to butt heads with his son, Jack has always been very supportive of what he had to say.
* PatrioticFervor: Following the World Trade Center attacks.

!Furlow

->''Ol' Furlow can handle it. "Everything's gonna be just fine", that's my motto.''

->Played by Magda Szubanski

Everybody's nightmare auto mechanic.

* BrawnHilda
* [[spoiler: ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]]
* FatBastard
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Mostly neutral, smokes cigars.
* HonestJohnsDealership: She's a perfectly competent engineer (enough to make a working copy of Crichton's module), but she's not too choosy about her employees: they're either "thoddoes" or disguised bounty hunters.
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini]]
* StoutStrength
* WrenchWench
* WrenchWhack

!Grunchlk

->''This is business: '' I '' have the supply, '' I '' make the demand.''

->Played by Hugh Keays-Byrne

The crooked fixer to a Diagnosian super-medic.

* BeardOfEvil: Grows one of these in ''The Peacekeeper Wars.''
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Backstabs Crichton by alerting Scorpius, backstabs Scorpius by defrosting a Scarran spy, who he'd backstabbed a lot earlier to hand over to Scorpius if everything went well...
* FatBastard
* {{Fingore}}: Ends up being forced to eat one of his own fingers by Scorpius.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Though the Diagnosan doctors he represents are as skilled as advertised, Grunchlk will always ensure that their services are ridiculously overpriced. Plus, the "donors" frozen in the cryogenics facility are patients that didn't survive their treatments... or looked like they were going to die before they were operated on... or related to the deceased...
* LargeHam
* NotQuiteDead: When Stark reveals that Grunchlk's frozen donors are preserved just before they die, [[AndIMustScream trapping their souls inside their bodies]], Grunchlk reassures him that they're "effectively dead."
** IronicEcho: Some time after the Scarran agent locks him into [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of the cryopods]], Stark finds him... and leaves him there, reporting him as "dead, effectively."
* SmugSnake
* StoutStrength: Forces Stark into paying extra by casually performing a NeckLift on him.
* TheUnpronounceable: Scorpius is the only character capable of pronouncing his name properly.
* VillainousGlutton: Always seems to be eating something while on-screen -- to the point that Braca was able to find him by noticing that he'd dropped his sandwich right in front of his hiding-spot.

!The Nebari

-> ''All is forgiven if it is in the service of the greater good.''
-->-- Varla, spouting a favourite Nebari creed

Grey-skinned self-righteous wowsers who are trying to export their uniquely smug brand of totalitarianism to the rest of the galaxy.

* [[BlackBlood Blue Blood]]
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: The Mental Cleansing Process.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Grey Skinned]] HumanAliens
* HigherTechSpecies: Technically advanced and very heavily armed -- just one of their cargo freighters was enough to destroy one of the biggest and deadliest ships in the Peacekeeper armada.
** Not a freighter: Salas said that the Zelbinion had been destroyed by "One of our standard host vessels," right after saying that the Nebari have no warships. In this case, it's probably a creative euphemism for a warship.
* MindRape: The mental cleansing process. It's said that there are two ways of doing this, the first is supposed to be permanent but takes years to do. The second in a drug, but is temporary and only works on non-Nebari. The entire crew is subjected to the latter, and Chiana was going to be subjected to the former when she was introduced. She was hysterical about it, insisting she'd rather die.
* PaleFemalesDarkMales: Nebari females have white hair- as opposed to the black-haired males.
* ThePlague: One of their plans for taking over the galaxy consists of infecting their rebels with a very potent STD and sending them in the direction of their future enemies; when it comes time for the great Nebari invasion, the virus will be activated -- leaving the many ''billions'' of infectees defenceless.
* LaResistance: As "Clockwork Nebari" demonstrated, there's a resistance movement working against the Establishment.
* SpaceElves: The Dark Elf version.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian

!Ka Jothee

->''I'm only ''half Luxan...'' and for many cycles, I didn't even want to be ''that.

-> Played by Grant Magee (child), Matt Newton (adult, series 2-3), Nathaniel Dean (adult, "The Peacekeeper Wars")

D'Argo's long-lost son, who has deep issues relating to his mixed ancestry, his mother's death, his separation from his father, and... well, you name it.

* BackForTheFinale
* BeardOfBarbarism: Grows one in time for ''Peacekeeper Wars'', after becoming reconciled to his father's culture.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jothee bears a deep scar across his nose, and most of his head-tentacles have been mutilated. "Die Me Dichotomy" revealed that these were actually self-inflicted.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Sebacean Hybrid]]
* MarkOfShame: After finding out that Jothee was having an affair with Chiana, D'Argo branded him with one of the union tattoes he'd intended for himself and Chiana- and destroyed the other tattoo so that Chiana couldn't mark herself with it's twin.
* OnlySaneEmployee: When he joins the Luxan military this is explicitly the job of his rank. As his sergeant puts it, "The rest of us just like to fight."
* TheOtherDarrin: Only recurring character to be recast during the series' run.

!The Luxans

->'' As a race, Luxans can be inartful at love... inadequate at war... and intrinsically'' inept.
-->-- Natira

A Proud Warrior Race, recognisable by their facial tentacles, who apparently have a tradition of mercenarism.

* BadassPreacher: The Luxans have an entire class of priests called Oricans, most of whom are revered among the general populace for their abilities. Given that just one of them almost aged Moya to death without even getting within firing range, without even realizing she was doing it2, the reverence is pretty damn justified.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Made of hair and tentacles.
* MultipurposeTongue
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: They aren't above diplomacy, though.
* ReligionIsMagic: In contrast to Delvian EnlightenmentSuperpowers, the Luxan Oricans actually perform magic in their duties. Apparently, this is one of the reasons why D'Argo treads carefully around supernatural beings like Maldis or the Delvian Pa'us, given the amount of power just ''one'' Orican can wield.
* RubberForeheadAliens: A pretty impressive prosthetic, but still qualifies as Rubber Forehead.

!War Minister Ahkna

->''Grayza doesn't frighten me. Her command carrier doesn't frighten me. Your bomb doesn't frighten me -- and neither do you.''

->Played by Francesca Buller

The brutal and grudgeful leader of the Scarrans' war effort.

* CuteMonsterGirl
* [[spoiler:FamousLastWords: "At least you die," referring to John, but she gets killed by Aaeryn seconds before Ahkna pulls the trigger]].
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Borderline case -- Ahkna was apparently courting Pennoch, a member of a lower Scarran caste.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: By Aeryn]].
* NiceHat
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: With Staleek. He's willing, at least in principle, to bargain with Crichton, but Ahkna does everything she can to sabotage the deal.
* TheStarscream: To Staleek. Strangely, Staleek himself let her sit on his throne, giving her an ultimatum - carry out one final order from him, and get a promotion that would subsequently lead to her becoming "Empress".
* TortureTechnician

!Emperor Staleek

->''War is our path. At the peace table, we know how we're viewed: brutish, ignorant.''

->Played by Duncan Young

The leader of the Scarran culture, determined to increase his race's power by (almost) any means necessary.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Zigzagged. He acknowledges that the Scarrans are [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy incredibly violent and ruthless]], but he takes issue that other species flanderize his species as "brutish, ignorant".
* BigBad: Takes over in season four and TheMovie.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: Inverted. He gets influenced by an Eidolon in an attempt to end the war with the Peacekeepers, and it's largely successful... until Ahkna kills the Eidolon and dispels the control he had on Staleek]].
* CostumePorn
* EvilOverlord: He's the Emperor of the Scarrans.
* LargeAndInCharge: Stands ''at least'' a full head taller than any other Scarran on the show.
* NobleDemon
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: With Ahkna. While Staleek himself is at least in principle willing to deal with Crichton, Ahkna tries to sabotage any deal at every turn. He's less than pleased about this, because as Emperor, his word of honor is his trust capital.
--> '''Staleek:''' '''STOP! SEEING BITUBIAN VIPERS IN EVERY CORNER!!''' And ''never'' countermand my orders again.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* VillainousBreakdown: Looks rather.... apprehensive at agreeing to a peace treaty with the Peacekeepers. Guess that's what happens when you're almost literally ''two minutes'' away from getting swallowed up by a wormhole weapon.
* WellIntentionedExtremist
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!The Scarrans

Ferocious, extremely tough reptilians with expansionist tendencies, known for especially brutal treatment of the defeated.

* AgonyBeam: All Scarrans have one naturally built in.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subverted -- while very aggressive and almost psychotic at times, they can be reasoned with.
* BallsOfSteel: As Chiana found out [[AgonyOfTheFeet the hard way]], their ''mivonks'' are internal.

* HenchmenRace: They employ two of these. The Kallish are a conquered race that handles administrative and technical work, while the Charrid voluntarily signed up and act as ground troops.
* HiveCasteSystem
* MadeOfIron
* MarsNeedsWomen: They toyed with the idea of using Sebaceans as breeding stock. Following Scorpius' rebellion, they decided it wasn't worth the trouble.
* NoSell: They almost literally shrug off blasts from any weapon smaller than a bazooka.
* TheReptilians
* ScaryDogmaticAliens
* {{Telepathy}}: Most high-class Scarrans have a certain degree of telepathic power.



!!The Peacekeepers

The dominant Sebacean culture, a completely militarised society constantly seeking to expand their zone of conquest.

* CommieNazis: Their aesthetics are a deliberate fusion of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union's short-lived modernist period. (The Peacekeeper emblem is based on the famous abstract Bolshevik propaganda poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge".)
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The smaller the group of Peacekeepers, the deadlier they seem to be -- to the point that individuals seem almost unstoppable.
* TheEmpire

!The Sebaceans

-> [[DeadpanSnarker Intellectually suited to carry weapons and die marching in formation.]]
-->-- Jool

A prominent culture who mysteriously look exactly like Earth-humans. Their reputation does not make this comfortable for Earth-humans, though.

* BizarreHumanBiology: Stronger, faster and more durable than humans, with one hell of a WeakSauceWeakness.
* HumanAliens: Almost indistinguishable from humans as far as surface appearances go.
** [[spoiler:TransplantedHumans[=/=]HumanSubspecies : they are eventually revealed to be descended from proto-humans abducted, genetically modified, and transferred across the galaxy by the Eidolons.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Sebaceans have a very poor tolerance for heat, and suffer brain damage and death at temperatures that would be simply uncomfortable for most species.

!Gilina Renaez

->''It seems human and Sebacean men are much the same.''

-> Played by Alyssa-Jane Cook

A low-ranking Peacekeeper technician, who met the ''Moya'' crew as sole survivor of a destroyed ship and fell in love with John.

* BrokenBird
* [[spoiler:DeathOfTheHypotenuse]]
* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]
* MookFaceTurn: As a tech, however, she was one of Crais's EvilMinions rather a Mook.
* ReverseMole: In "Nerve" and "The Hidden Memory," Gilina functions as this, sabotaging the Gammak base's surveilance systems to help Crichton and Chiana enter and escape.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She was originally going to be killed off in "PK Tech Girl," but the actress's performance convinced David Kemper to bring her back.
* WrenchWench

!Captain Selto Durka

->''When I am finished with you, Dominar, death himself will pray for you!''

->Played by David Wheeler

A high ranking Peacekeeper captain. Famous as a hero, but actually a coward and an incredibly vicious sadist even by Peacekeeper standards. Rygel's jailer and torturer for a period in backstory.

* ArchEnemy: Of Rygel.
* BaldOfEvil: He prefers to keep his head clean-shaven. In fact, some time after his brainwashing is reversed, he goes so far as to cut off the long hair he's grown in the meantime.
* BrainWashed: After being defeated and captured by the Nebari, he was given a very thorough mind-cleansing... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which Rygel ended up undoing on their next encounter.]]
* BrokenPedestal: It was a bit of a shock for Aeryn to discover that one of the greatest heroes of the Peacekeepers was little more than an opportunistic coward.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: After being killed by Rygel, his head is mounted on a pike and kept as a trophy]]
* DecoyGetAway: When the battle with the Nebari turned against him, Durka faked his death by killing an improvised BodyDouble and making it look like a suicide. Not that it helped, as the Nebari easily caught up with him -- hence the brainwashing -- but Rygel was certainly fooled when he revisted the Zelbinion 100 cycles later.
* DirtyCoward: As Aeryn noted, retreating from an unwinnable battle is one thing, but murdering one of your own officers to put the finishing touches on your own private escape attempt...
* [[ElectronicEyes Electronic Eye]]
* EvilOldFolks
* EyepatchOfPower: While still under the mental cleansing, he covered his artificial eye with an eyepatch.
* FakingTheDead
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a massive scar running through his right eye, which has been replaced with the abovementioned prosthesis.
* MilesGloriosus
* SpacePirate - turns into one of these after parting ways with the Nebari (and having his mental cleansing undone); he joins the Zenetan Pirates
* TortureTechnician
* VillainousBreakdown: Towards the end of "Durka Returns", his calm demeanour quickly fades when he realises his plans have been utterly foiled.
--> ''Crichton!'' Don't leave me out here! ''I'll hunt you down and I'll kill you!''

!Miklo Braca

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->''Like you said, sir, I don't question High Command.''

->Played by David Franklin

A junior officer under Scorpius and his most faithful follower. As he gains character development, it becomes clear that his feelings for his boss, while ambiguous, go far beyond those of the average minion.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Definitely has feelings for Scorpius. His attraction to Grayza, however, could have just been the Heppel oil messing with his head.
* AndThisIsFor: When he's giving Scorpius a good kicking after becoming [[note]]only not really[[/note]] Grayza's [[TheDragon Dragon]]:
-->'''Braca''': This is for all the times I've had to say "yes"!
* AscendedExtra: He started out as a generic Peacekeeper that Scorpius would talk to in order to provide the audience with exposition. Over time, Braca started gaining his own personality. He becomes increasingly important to the plot, to the point where [[spoiler:he is given the honor of fighting alongside the heroes during the miniseries' final battle.]]
* BadassBeard: Grows a goatee in time for the miniseries.
* ButtMonkey:
** Crichton humiliates him on a regular basis.
** Braca spends most of "I-Yensch, You-Yensch" wearing a bracelet that makes him feel everything that D'Argo feels. After a bunch of comedy at Braca's expense, the good lieutenant gets shot and spends the rest of the episode trying not to bleed out.
** For a few episodes in Season 4, Grayza uses her pheromones on him only to refuse his pheromone-induced advances, both because it amuses her and so she can use him as a living communicator so she can speak with a telepathic assassin without anyone knowing.
* TheCaptain: Is a Lieutenant for most of the series, until he is later promoted to Captain. [[spoiler:He is later promoted to Admiral in the comics.]]
* TheDragon: To Scorpius, and then later to Grayza. [[spoiler: Later episodes revealed that he was still loyal to Scorpius even while working for Grayza.]]
** CoDragons: Him and Sikozu to Scorpius, during Season 4 and the miniseries.
* FantasticRacism: At first, he's not too pleased at having to serve under a half-bread like Scorpius. He grows out of it once he realizes that Scorpius is the one thing standing between the Peacekeepers and their destruction at the hands of the Scarrans.
* LastNameBasis: His first name isn't revealed until the second-last episode of the series.
* MauveShirt: Braca was originally just another mook in a couple of late Season 1 episodes, but Scorpius needed a number two and David Franklin was such a damn good actor that he eventually got a MookPromotion.
* MookLieutenant: Starts as one. He gives Scorpius someone to talk to.
* MookPromotion: From a random Peacekeeper soldier to "Captain Miklo Braca, Officer of the Fleet, Peacekeeper Interplanetary Service".
* SubordinateExcuse: His feelings for Scorpius quite clearly go way beyond simple loyalty or careerism, shown most blatantly by how emotional he becomes when he thinks Scorpius is putting his own life at risk in "Incubator".

!Xhalax Sun

->''I've heard loved ones leave you in pieces. That little by little, you start to forget things about them. But that's not true: you lose them -- everything -- instantly. And suddenly, nothing can replace them. Nothing. And now '' you ''have nothing. How does it feel?''

[[spoiler:Aeryn's mother,]] a loyal Peacekeeper sent to recapture ''Talyn''.

->Played by Linda Cropper

* ArchEnemy: To Aeryn
* AxeCrazy
* BadassLongCoat: In "The Choice."
* CrazyPrepared: Left a knife and a supply of stimulant concealed inside her wrist in case she was ever captured.
* [[spoiler: DisneyVillainDeath]]
* FemmeFatalons: Used for cutting her wrist open to retrieve the knife.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The left side of her head has been badly scarred, and she's missing her left ear.
* HeartbrokenBadass
* LukeIAmYourFather: Xhalax decided to reveal the fact that she was Aeryn's mother many years before the series began; she also informed Aeryn that she was concieved not to provide the Peacekeepers with another expendable soldier, but out of love.
* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: Xhalax was this up until Crais revealed who was leading the Retrieval Squad.
* SadisticChoice: Peacekeeper Command discovered her LukeIAmYourFather moment and were outraged. They ordered her to kill either Aeryn or Aeryn's father Talyn Lyczac as a way of redeeming herself. Xhalax chose Talyn.
* TwoFaced
* VillainousBreakdown: After watching the hologram recording of her [[PetTheDog first meeting with Aeryn]], Xhalax throws a temper tantrum which continues until the end of the episode.

!Commandant Mele-On Grayza

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->''What I want may not be as bad as you think. You might even like it.''

->Played by Rebecca Riggs

A manipulative and decadent senior Peacekeeper officer, who becomes Scorpius's rival for power within the organisation.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Or, as Crichton refers to her, "Commandant Cleavage."
* BadBoss
* BigBad: For the first half or so of Season 4.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Thanks to a gland implanted in her chest, she can secrete a powerful pheromone that goes beyond mind control. This leads to John Crichton's big aversion of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale trope.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: ''Heavily'' averted, although she certainly seems to believe that what she's doing isn't rape.
--> My interrogations are ''much'' more agreeable than Scorpius' methods.
* [[spoiler:ExpressDelivery]]: Between season 4 and the miniseries.
* {{Expy}}: In appearance and personality, she bears a strong resemblance to Servalan, the BigBad of ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
* FemmeFatale
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Her attempts to appease the Scarrans in season 4. She's obvious enough about it that it actually tips them off that the Peacekeepers are weaker than they had thought.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:The superior she kills is also strongly implied to be the father of her unborn child.]]
* [[spoiler:MamaBear]]: It's implied that the main reason she goes along with [[spoiler:Crichton's demands in "The Peacekeeper Wars" is to protect her unborn child]].
* MindRape: The Heppel oil secreted by a gland implanted in her chest acts as an extremely potent pheromone, with which she uses to rape Crichton.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Rebecca Riggs really was [[spoiler: that heavily pregnant]] when "The Peacekeeper Wars" was filmed: she'd thought that the show was cancelled permanently and decided it was time [[spoiler: to have a child]].
** She also missed "Bad Timing" because of her wedding. Grayza was consequently said to be detained and sedated in the episode.
* SmugSmiler
* SmugSnake
* VillainousBreakdown: After Crichton makes her realize her plans for peace have failed, she goes through this, though regains ''some'' sanity later.
--> In my hands - you can have peace! '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! CAN! HAVE! PEACE!]]'''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It is never made entirely clear if [[spoiler:the father of her unborn child is Crichton or Maryk.]]
* WomanInBlack

!Jenavian Charto

-> ''John - if I fail, so many innocent lives will be lost. Help me do my job, and I'll help you get what you want. Whatever it is.''

-> Played by Bianca Chiminello

A Peacekeeper secret agent, encountered by John while trying to reduce Scarran influence over the Breakaway Colonies.

* ActionGirl: Reveals her true identity to Crichton in the most ass-kicking manner possible [[spoiler: by effortlessly slaughtering a group of assassins that had just thoroughly kicked his ass]].
* [[spoiler: AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thoroughly averts this where the Peacekeepers are concerned. She's certainly ruthless at her job and leaves no doubt that she's willing to kill anyone who jeopardizes her mission, (she attacks ''Scorpius'' to [[ItMakesSenseInContext rescue Crichton's severed head from him]]) but she expresses genuine concern for the lives at risk should she fail. Jenavian is one of the first characters in the series to show that the Peacekeepers do indeed have an altruistic purpose.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Has a stiletto hidden in her wrist, which she can extend {{Wolverine}}-style.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jena gets quite a few choice lines.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Despite only appearing in three episodes, Jenavian is one of the most popular characters in the series, and actress Bianca Chiminello is in high demand at any gathering for the series.
* FirstNameBasis: One of the few characters to regularly address Crichton by his first name.
* GirlOfTheWeek: To Crichton.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Jenavian's orders are to preserve the neutrality of the Breakaway Colonies and prevent Clavor from aligning them with the Scarrans, which Scorpius indicates would provoke an all-out war. She's willing to take whatever measures are necessary to see this through, no matter [[DirtyBusiness how ugly]].]]
* ShipTease: Jena and Crichton spend a night together and she even expresses an interest in starting an ongoing relationship with him.
** ShipSinking: Though Crichton does let her down on the latter.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Jenavian is introduced as Prince Clavor's fiance. In truth she's a Peacekeeper Disruptor infiltrated into the royal court by Special Directorate to protect the neutrality of the Breakaway Colonies by preventing Clavor from succeeding to the throne and allying with the Scarrans.]]

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!Commander John Crichton

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->''Once upon a time, there was a boy named John, and John was an astronaut. He lived in a far away place called Earth, which is so far away you've never heard of it. One day, when John was out doing astronaut things, a big, blue wormhole gobbled him up and spat him out at the far end of the Universe.''

->Played by Ben Browder.

A human astronaut testing a new theory created by himself and his friend about using a planet's gravity to accelerate a space vessel's speed, John Crichton accidentally opens a wormhole leading to a distant part of the galaxy, stranding himself amongst alien lifeforms. Rescued by the escaped prisoners of Moya, and discovering that the Sebacean Peacekeeper Captain Crais wants to kill him because his brother died after crashing into Crichton's ship, Crichton finds himself wandering the galaxy aboard Moya in pursuit of a way home.

* ActionSurvivor: Crichton was just an ordinary scientist[=/=]pilot before he got shot through a wormhole and was forced to become a badass.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Aeryn is more important than ''everything else in the damn galaxy''.
* AudienceSurrogate: Like the audience, Crichton knows nothing about the distant part of the universe he gets sent to. Most exposition delivered to Crichton is for the audience's benefit as well.
* BadassLongcoat: One of his many costumes.
* BadassNormal: Despite being an ordinary human, Crichton can hold his own against some of the biggest badasses and deadliest monsters in the universe.
* BashBrothers: Crichton and D'Argo have this type of relationship - at least when the two of them are getting along.
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Crichton and Aeryn continue to fight alongside one another after they finally get together.]]
* BerserkButton: Mess with him, mess with Moya's crew, or god help you threaten his family, and he will take a special interest in making your life unpleasant. Even if it tears apart the universe.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Crichton is a fairly easy-going kind of guy, especially in the first season; in later seasons, this crosses over with BewareTheSillyOnes as Crichton's behaviour takes a turn for the eccentric. One particular example of this occurs in "Suns and Lovers," when, upon encountering a suicide bomber who's magnetised herself to Moya's hull, he goes so far as to wearily congratulate her... before informing her that the door she's magnetised herself to is ''detachable''.
--> '''Crichton''': Pilot, I'm clear... suck this ''bitch'' out!
* BigBrotherInstinct: He [[BerserkButton especially doesn't like it]] when people try to hurt Chiana and Jool.
* ChickMagnet: Aeryn, Chiana, Gilina, and Jenavian Charto all have a thing for him.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Crichton gets "twinned" into two - each copy is completely identical to the other and there is no original. Both Crichtons remain worried that the original Crichton is dead and that they are merely a clone.]]
* CommandingCoolness: Crichton was a commander back in IASA.
* CrazyAwesome: In-universe. Crichton freely admits the reason his plans tend to work, is because they are so insane, no-one could possibly prepare for what he does.
* CunningLinguist: Often peppers his speech with phrases and expressions from several Earth languages, (and even some fictional ones), implying that he had a gift with languages even ''before'' he was injected with translator microbes.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loves making fun of the absurd crap Moya keeps getting faced with.
* FireForgedFriends: With D'Argo. D'Argo considers Crichton to be a useless, whiney moron until the two of them work together to fend off the bloodtrackers.
* FishOutOfWater: Crichton is initially overwhelmed all the strange things he sees.
* GeniusDitz: From the way he acts, you'd often forget he's actually a brilliant astrophysicist and talented engineer.
* GenreSavvy: Crichton gets pretty good at predicting the various tropes his enemies will use against him.
* GodzillaThreshold: The war between the Peacekeepers and Scarrens in ''Peacekeeper War'' is his incentive [[spoiler: to finally construct a fully functional wormhole weapon and give a demonstration]].
* GuileHero: Crichton's insane plans are practically the reason why he's still alive.
* HellBentForLeather: Wears leather from time to time. [[spoiler:He also mentally dons his own version of Scropius's gimp[=/=]coolant suit whenever Harvey takes control of him]].
* TheHero: The main character and generally speaking, the most heroic and idealistic of the Moya crew (although the idealism gradually fades away as time goes on).
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Talyn!Crichton sacrifices himself to prevent the Scarrans from escaping with wormhole technology.]]
* HotScientist: To Aeryn's ActionGirl. Especially once outfitted in leather, and involving [[FemaleGaze a surprising amount]] of rear-angle camera shots.
* ICallItVera: Crichton's pulse pistol, "Winona".
* IndyPloy: Crichton's plans are most successful when he makes them up as he goes.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Aeryn. [[spoiler: Revealed in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'' to be not so different species after all.]]
* TheKirk: He started out as TheMcCoy, and then becomes this: Crichton is still somewhat idealistic, but its been tempered by pragmatism.
* LargeHam: Anytime Crichton has to go undercover. His Peacekeeper cover is just an exaggerated and louder version of Crais, for example.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Why Aeryn is hesitant to enter a relationship with Moya!Crichton, after having fallen for Talyn!Crichton, [[spoiler: who died of massive radiation exposure while performing an HeroicSacrifice]]
* MissingMom: Crichton's mom died of cancer some time before the series began.
* MrFanservice: Ben Browder gets a lot of {{Shirtless Scene}}s.
** Ahem. Leather pants.
* NiceGuy: (Aside from [[BadassPreacher Zhaan]]) he is the nicest person on his crew.
* TheNicknamer: He comes up with nicknames for about half the cast.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Does this so often that even his friends forget that he's actually a brilliant engineer and astrophysist.
* OnlySaneMan: Note that even when he's going ''crazy,'' John is usually the voice of sanity. This should give you an indication of how messed-up the world he lives in is.
* PopCulturedBadass: Crichton constantly pops pop culture references. By the end of the series, Crichton's one of the biggest badasses in the universe.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:In "Twice Shy," it's revealed the reason he's so distant to Aeryn for half of Season 4 is because Scorpius is on Moya and could use her (plus the baby) as leverage against him if he were to ever discover his true feelings for her. Aeryn calls him on being paranoid and then we all learn Scorpius has been secretly listening in on the comms - proving Crichton right.]]
** AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Scorpius wasn't fooled by Crichton's attempt at covering up the relationship. Worse still, he manages to engineer a situation in which Crichton offers him wormhole weapons in return for Aeryn.]]
* SanitySlippage: With occasional bouts of LaughingMad.
* ScienceHero: He might not act like it most of the time, but he's a pretty good astrophysicist and occasionally gets to use his theories to save the day.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Everyone seems to forget that John started out as a ''scientist'', and that he is ''very'' good at ObfuscatingStupidity. Even Einstein is surprised that [[spoiler: John managed to figure out ''wormholes'', even with the help the Ancients gave him]].
* SouthernFriedGenius: Born and raised in Florida and is quite smart for a human.
* SouthernGentleman: He's quite chivalrous even in a crisis.
* SpiderSense: In Season 4, thanks to his extensive wormhole research and the knowledge in his brain, he's able to accurately predict when and where a wormhole will open. As he says, he can smell them.
** Even ''before'' this he gains the wormhole knowledge, Crichton is shown in "Till the Blood Runs Clear" to have a great sense of where and when the conditions that can cause a wormhole to form.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: When they finally do get back to Earth near the end of season 4, Crichton finds himself disgusted and disillusioned with the post-9/11 paranoia and lack of understanding he and the crew encounter, clashes with his father over it, and decides to leave again on Moya. He still saves his home planet, but decides once and for all that it's no longer his home.
* TokenHuman: Justified because no human has ever reached the part of the galaxy where the series takes place before Crichton, and his doing so was an accident.
* TookALevelInBadass: He takes multiple levels of badass over four seasons: he starts out as a clueless nerd, and by series end is so badass he manages to intimidate two entire galactic empires into leaving him the frell alone by threatening to wipe out the universe. '''''THE ENTIRE FREAKING UNIVERSE!''''' And what makes it {{Badass}} is he can ''absolutely'' pull it off.
* TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer: Becomes this because his knowledge and culture are far more primitive than those of his present surroundings.
* UniquenessValue: Scorpius summarizes his reason for hunting Crichton as this.
* {{UST}}: With Aeryn, for a long, ''long'' time.
* TheWatson: He's completely ignorant about the greater universe. Much of the exposition is the rest of the crew explaining stuff to him.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Given how much his father gushes over Crichton becoming a bonafide American hero, it's implied he continued with the launch of ''Farscape One'', despite his own misgivings that something would happen, so not to let him down.
--> '''Crichton''': I'm not ''your'' kind of hero, dad.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He starts off thinking that he's in a much more idealistic setting. He grows out of it eventually.
* YouFightLikeACow: Crichton loves to make fun of his opponents.

!Officer Aeryn Sun

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->''No offense, human, but what could I possibly need from you?''

->Played by Creator/ClaudiaBlack

A Sebacean Peacekeeper involved during the initial attempt to recapture Moya when she first escaped, Aeryn dared to speak up on Crichton's behalf when Crais captured them and was condemned as a criminal herself, forcing her to abandon the Peacekeepers and throw herself in with the escaped convicts.

* ActionGirl: One of the most badass characters in the series.
* ActionGirlfriend: In the early phase of the series. By Season 3, she and Crichton are a bona fide BattleCouple.
* ArcWords: Crichton's declaration to her in the pilot.
--> '''Crichton''': You can be ''more''.
* TheAtoner: for parts of seasons 1 and 2, most notably "The Way We Weren't."
* {{Badass}} / [[spoiler: PregnantBadass]]: Even by the end of the series, she's ''still'' the toughest character on the show. While D'Argo's technically ''stronger'', it's a still toss who would win in a straight fight...heavily leaning towards Aeryn.
* BareYourMidriff: Full-blown in the first-season episode "Back and Back and Back to the Future" and when dressed as a hippie in "Kansas", but her season two look where she rarely wears anything under her jerkin tends to create a lot of navel-visibility.
* BizarreAlienBiology: As a [[HumanAliens Sebacean]], Aeryn can't regulate her internal body temperature and suffers from Sebacean Heat Delirium, a degenerative condition that results in memory damage and eventually brain death, if it get too hot.
* BookDumb: Has an intense dislike for "scientific dren," which is apparently due to her training; apparently, Peacekeeper soldiers and pilots are taught to look down on technicians and scientists. Inverted in later episodes, when it's revealed Aeryn has an eidetic memory and can memorize whole languages [[spoiler:just by watching TV]].
* BraidsOfAction: One of her hairstyles.
* BrokenBird: Not only does Aeryn have everything she's ever known taken away from her in the very first episode, she eventually starts to realize how terrible being a Peacekeeper was. Various other terrible crap keeps happening to her as the series goes on.
* DeadpanSnarker: She likes mocking the stupidity of others, especially Crichton.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Although even once the process is complete, it's hard to tell unless you're a close friend. Or a small, cute child.
* FireForgedFriends: With Chiana and Sikozu.
* FlowerInHerHair: In ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', this is Aeryn's only concession to the fact she's getting married.
* FriendToAllChildren: Has a soft spot for children. Her storyline in "Suns and Lovers" is about her rescuing children trapped on a damaged space station.
* HumanAliens: It's suggested here and there throughout the series that Sebaceans may be [[AncientAstronauts humans who were taken from Earth millennia ago]] [[spoiler: Eventually confirmed in The ''Peacekeeper Wars''.]]
* InstantBirthJustAddWater: Played with. Her son's birth is very long and drawn out by Sebacean standards, but very quick by human ones; she barely stops shooting.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Crichton.
* TheLancer: Aside from being the second lead character, Aeryn is usually Crichton's most trusted confidant.
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughter]]: Both Aeryn and her mother fell in love with a fellow Peacekeeper, but ultimately betrayed them, in order to save their own career.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Ever tried introducing yourself to a woman whose thighs are clamped around your skull?
* LoveInterest: To Crichton.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: She keeps flirting with Crichton only to claim that she's not interested in her.
* MookFaceTurn: She's forced out of the Peacekeepers by Crais in the first episode and helps the heroes fight against them.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Girl]]: At first, she's very proud of Peacekeeper military achievements and her role as a Peacekeeper Officer. This changes when she realizes how horrible the Peacekeepers actually are.
* SingleTear: This is a talent of Claudia Black's, who trained herself to drop tears on cue so as not to ruin her water-based makeup. Averted, however, when she is completely and utterly grief-stricken.
* SlapSlapKiss: With Crichton. It's not uncommon for the two of them to start coming on to one another in the middle of an argument.
* SmallGirlBigGun: That pulse rifle is almost bigger than she is.
* TheSpock: She was raised to see emotions as a weakness.
* TheStoic: She very rarely shows her emotions.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Can go from being really warm to a ruthless Peacekeepr in a heartbeat.
* {{Tsundere}}: She keeps claiming that she's not interested in Crichton despite the fact that both of them are obviously in love with one another.
* UnscrupulousHero: Shot down a woman in cold blood even before finding out she was a projection created by Maldis, shocking even Rygel of all people. Not to mention subjecting an already subdued Crais to the Aurora chair.
* {{UST}}: With Crichton, for a ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment long, long time]]''.

!Ka D'Argo

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[[caption-width-right:250:'''I'm''' your daddy.]]

->''I will '''not''' be taken prisoner again!''

->Played by Anthony Simcoe

A male Luxan warrior who was sentenced to imprisonment for the crime of killing his Sebacean wife, a crime actually committed by his brother-in-law and the truth of which was ignored for his having dared to marry a Sebacean and have a half-breed child.

* AncestralWeapon / MixAndMatchWeapon: The qualta blade.
* {{Badass}}: He and Aeryn are the crew's best fighters.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Male Luxans all have a Beard Of Barbarism made up of a mixture of hair and tentacles.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' get between him and his son.
* {{BFS}} / {{BFG}}: The Qualta Blade. To illustrate, it's gun form is three times the size of a pulse rifle.
* TheBigGuy: Taller than the rest of the crew and the one most likely to use violence to solve problems.
* BizarreAlienBiology: As a Luxan, D'Argo has an extendable tongue that can inject a neural toxin, he can survive in space unprotected for fifteen minutes, and if he starts bleeding, the wound requires PercussiveMaintenance until the blood runs clear. He also has more than one heart.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: After he lets the bravado fade and starts acting like his real self, he's actually a pretty soft-hearted guy.
** This is mostly due to the fact that in early episodes, he expected imminent recapture, which he vowed he would ''never'' suffer again. In the early episodes of the first series, he often showed willingness to betray John and Aeryn to the Peacekeepers if it ensured his continued freedom. As his relationships grew with his shipmates and they continued to elude capture, he began to show he'd gladly put himself in great danger to protect his friends and rescue them.
* CallToAgriculture: D'Argo managed it for a while with Lo'Laan and Jothee, and spends the entire series trying to get back to it.
* TheCaptain: Of Lo'lah. In addition, [[spoiler:the crew elect him captain of Moya]] during Season 4.
* CoolStarship: Lo'lah, a voice activated Luxan ship which can turn invisible.
* DeadpanSnarker: He loves making fun of how stupid Crichton's plans can be.
* FireForgedFriends: With Crichton. D'Argo thinks of Crichton as a huge liability until John saves him from the Bloodtrackers.
* HairTriggerTemper: A given due to his Luxan Hyper-rage.
* HeartbrokenBadass: His wife was murdered by his brother-in-law. [[spoiler:And again when Chiana responds to his marriage proposal by cheating on D'Argo with his son Jothee.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After being severely injured in the miniseries, he stays behind to delay approaching Scarran forces.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: With Chiana.
* IHaveNoSon: When Jothee and Chiana have an affair, an enraged and heartbroken D'Argo disowns him. [[spoiler:The two eventually begin to reconcile before D'Argo's HeroicSacrifice.]]
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: His Qualta Blade. It's a sword ''and'' a gun in one.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Lo'Laan and Chiana.
** Staanz tries to put the moves on him when she meets him, but fails, in part because she's rather annoying and in part because, well, she [[BizarreSexualDimorphism looks a lot]] like a ''male'' HumanAlien.
* {{Jerkass}}: For most of the first season, D'Argo has a habit of letting his temper make everyone around him miserable; he begins to grow out of it towards the season finale, but its not until the second season that he really loosens up.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After CharacterDevelopment - he still quarrels with the others and has a temper, but he genuinely likes them, and would happily put himself in danger to protect them.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: With Lo'Laan.
* MeaningfulName: By proxy. In Season 3, D'Argo acquires a ship that ultimately saves his life more than once and greatly calms anger brought on by other events. In Season 4, he has given it a very appropriate name:
-->"Lo'Lah. ... It's short for Lo'Laan. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming In memory of my wife.]]"
* MiscarriageOfJustice: D'Argo was framed for the murder of his Sebacean wife by brother-in-law Macton, a Peacekeeper and the actual murderer. To make it even worse, [[spoiler: Crais (his de-facto jailer) ''knew'' this was the case and kept him in chains anyway.]]
* TheNoseKnows: His sense of smell is both very strong and able to distinguish between individuals.
* OnceAnEpisode: D'Argo stomping onto the bridge and bellowing, "'''Why have we stopped moving?'''"
* OverlyLongTongue: With a stinger in it! That causes InstantSedation!
* PapaWolf: D'Argo will go to any lengths to save Jothee.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Though it gets subverted at every opportunity. D'Argo is a teenager by Luxan standards, trying to live up to the idealized image of the Luxan warrior even though all he really wants to do is [[CallToAgriculture start a farm and raise a family]]. As the series progresses, a lot of his stereotypical ProudWarriorRaceGuy attitudes mellow out, allowing him to be more of a...
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Zhaan's blue.
* TeamDad: D'Argo eventually takes on this role, to the point where he is elected Captain of Moya.
* TriggerHappy: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yljVM5YHo2g D'Argo loves shooting things.]]
* UnstoppableRage: The aply-named Luxan Hyper Rage, although doesn't experience this often.
* WarriorPoet: D'Argo's surprisingly elegant for a Luxan. He's also a hell of a musician.
* TheWorfEffect: As TheBigGuy, this job often falls to D'Argo in the early episodes. Not as often as the TropeNamer as the series continues, and he usually creams the bad guys in a brawl. Near the end, Scarrans give him significant trouble, but then again, [[MadeOfIron Scarrans]] give ''everyone'' trouble.

!Dominar Rygel XVI

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->''If you must address me, do so as Your Supreme Eminence. Which you should be doing anyway.''

->Voiced by Jonathan Hardy

Once the Dominar of the Hynerian Empire, ruler of over six hundred billion subjects, Rygel was deposed by a cousin of his and sent into Peacekeeper custody over a hundred cycles before the start of the series.

* AlienCatnip: He gets high on sugar.
-->'''Rygel''': Crichton, how illegal is this dren? You have to get me ''more''. I don't care what it costs!
** This is also funny because ''humans'' [[GRatedDrug are easily addicted to sugar as well]], but some humans eat it so regularly that they don't always immediately think of it as an easily-abused addictive substance.
* AntiHero: At first, Rygel only cares about himself and [[spoiler:flat out betrays the crew to Scorpius, at the end of Season 1 and only returns when he learns that Scorpius plans on killing him anyway.]] Rygel eventually becomes less selfish and starts to care for the crew, [[JerkassFacade though he would never admit it.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's actually extremely frightening when he has the chance. When he's in Crichton's body in "Out Of Their Minds", he's psychopathic and murderous, and, in another episode, he kills [[spoiler:Durka]] and spends the rest of an episode parading around with the dead man's head on a stick. Then, in Season 3, he [[spoiler: messily tortures a Charrid to death.]] Even in his first episode, he shows he has some very nasty teeth and temper when he bites a chunk out of Aeryn's arm and messily swallows it. The only reason he's not taken seriously is his stature and normally cowardly, greedy nature.
* BizarreAlienBiology: At just under two feet high, he's broadly humanoid, but he has three stomachs, can breathe water, farts helium when nervous (which as a noble gas, basically means he has a nuclear reactor in his guts), and his bodily fluids turn explosive if he eats tanna root, the main ingredient of "chakan oil", which is the standardised ammo for Peacekeepers.
** BizarreAlienReproduction: He comments in one first season episode that his people aren't "body breeders" whilst Zhaan is trying to seduce him. A couple of episodes later, he comments on his belief in keeping his wives pregnant. So, however Hynerians reproduce, it evidently isn't quite as simple as "females lay eggs, males spray semen on eggs", despite his frog-like nature.
* BigEater:
-->'''Crichton:''' Dude eats and craps twice his body weight every day.
* BreakTheHaughty: Often subjected to this sort of thing; ultimately, it forces him to start cooperating with the others and actually become a better person- not that he'd ever admit it.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The main reason the rest of the crew didn't space the selfish little git in the first month? He's an ''extremely'' skilled negotiator, often making sure the crew gets the supplies they need on their shoestring budget.
* TheCaligula: Heavily implied to be the very reason he was deposed in the first place.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Though he eventually shows some loyalty, for a few seasons his tendency to stab the rest of the cast in the back is so reliable it borders on being a JustEatGilligan scenario.
* CoolChair: His "throne sled", a gilded chair that floats.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Some episodes play up his cowardliness, greed and fart jokes, but then he does something like [[spoiler: knife a Charrid to death as painfully as possible]].
* DirtyOldMan: Apparently several centuries old, more-than-middled aged by Hynerian standards, and more than willing to spy on Chiana having sex with Jothee. He objects to seeing Zhaan naked, though.
* DoYouWantToHaggle: Rygel is the crew's go to for procuring supplies.
* EarAche: Rygel's shipmates routinely pull on his ear brows when displeased with him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he discovers a primitive world that his ancestor set up to create people who would slavishly worship his lineage as gods, he's quite perturbed. This despite his usually arrogant and self-serving nature.
* FantasticArousal: His "ear brows" are very... sensitive.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Let's just say, he knows how to get things that aren't exactly legal.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The ''only'' reason that they keep him on ''Moya'' is because he's incredibly good negotiator for the things they need and because he was the mastermind of their escape.
* {{Gasshole}}: He farts helium as a running gag. [[note]]How does that even work? Does his metabolism work by cold fusion?[[/note]]
* GoalInLife: Depose his cousin and reclaim the throne. He even states that single goal is what keeps him going.
** After discovering Durka is still alive, he engages in a stream of murder attempts, one of which [[NiceJobBreakingItHero breaks the neural conditioning]] that turns him from the peace-loving hippy, right back into the monster he formerly was. After finally getting his revenge in ''Durka Returns'', he spends some time carrying Durka's severed head around with him.
* GracefulInTheirElement: Revealed towards the end that underwater he's a graceful swimmer.
* InSeriesNickname: "Sparky," "Spanky," "Froggy," "Buckwheat," "Guido," "Your Lowness," "Your Flatulence."
* JabbaTableManners: On top of being a BigEater, he's also a very messy one.
* {{Jerkass}} / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He ''is'' a flat out Jerk, but shows more than a few moments of genuine caring and compassion to his crew mates throughout the series.
** Treads into "Heart of Gold" territory whenever Moya is concerned. Though he [[JerkassFacade rarely admits it (if ever)]], his being on Moya longer than anyone else makes him partial to her well-being.
** It says a ''lot'' about him that when [[spoiler: Aeryn]] was temporarily killed during the series 2 finale, he not only relinquished his medallion of office into [[spoiler: her]] casket, stating his belief that [[spoiler: she]] was far more worthy, but also is revealed to have been the one who swam down in freezing cold water to retrieve [[spoiler: her]] body. [[ManlyTears Dammit, Rygel!]]
** In one episode, it's shown that while he's insistent on being called Dominar and enjoys being in power, he is equally insistent that he not be deified by subjects that his ancestors conditioned for that purpose.
* JerkassFacade: Its implied that he eventually comes to care for the rest of the crew. He'd never admit it though.
* KingBobTheNth: He's (presumably) the sixteenth Dominar named Rygel.
* LittleGreenMen: He more or less fits this trope. In the same way that [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] does.
* TheLoad: He's completely useless when he's not using his diplomatic skills for the crew. Often times he makes things worse.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "'''I''' am a Dominar of [insert noun]!"
* ManBitesMan: Rygel is decidedly ''not'' above using his teeth as a weapon, which leads to a rather impressive moment in "Coup By Clam" in which he manages to bite off a [[SinisterSchnoz psychotic doctor's nose]].
* ManipulativeBastard: One of the show's best (heroic) examples. He's even complemented as such during the "Look at the Princess" trilogy, and later takes ''Scorpius'' to a master-class in "I-Yensch, You-Yensch."
* MisterSeahorse: [[spoiler:Through a fluke in the miniseries, he winds up carrying Crichton and Aeryn's baby after they're reconstructed.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Rygel usually has a plan in mind that helps further his friends' cause whenever it looks like he's doing something really dumb.
* TheOtherDarrin: The {{Muppet}} portraying Rygel in Season 2 is visibly different from the one used in Season 1.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: At the start of the series, the plan was that we would one day see him take back his throne from his traitorous cousin. However, after an episode with just one other Hynerian puppet caused endless problems, the crew realized they'd never be able to handle a whole planet of them. Luckily, this plot thread does get wrapped up in the comics, which had no such restrictions.
* {{Revenge}}: Desires it against Bishan, the cousin who deposed him, and against Selto Durka, who took great pleasure in [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing him for cycles]].
* SanityBall: He has a way of suddenly managing to be the rational one while everybody else, even John, is freaking out. It may or may not come from his emotional removal from the suffering of others.

!Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan

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->''Am I the only species in creation that doesn't thrive on conflict?''

->Played by Virginia Hey

A Delvian former criminal turned priestess, she was imprisoned aboard Moya for the murder of her lover, a Sebacean sympathiser.

* AllLovingHero: As long as you don't do something stupid... like [[BerserkButton threaten her adoptive family]].
* TheAtoner: Once a savage, she has sought to purge her sins from her soul.
* BadassPreacher: Zhaan is a peace-loving Delvian priestess when we meet her. However, she was imprisoned on Moya for a reason (for killing her lover) and, as she says to Chiana, "My dear, [[BadassBoast I've kicked more ass than you've sat on.]]"
* BaldOfAwesome: Zhaan doesn't always act like it, but she is capable of great feats of badassery.
* BaldWomen: One would think this is due to the [[AlienHair Delvians being descended from plants]]. It turns out there are Delvians who do have hair ([[YouGottaHaveBlueHair it's blue if you're wondering]]), though baldness isn't uncommon. It's unclear if Zhaan is naturally hairless or shaves it off.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is very nice, sometimes bordering on TechnicalPacifist levels. She could also ''break you in half'' if she wanted to. Be thankful she doesn't. Most of the time.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Zhaan is a Delvian. Delvians are a species of hyper-evolved, sentient ''plants'', who look like blue, scaly-skinned humanoids. And their females have [[NonMammalMammaries breasts]], for some reason. They also absorb ionic radiation (such as solar flares) and orgasm as a result of doing so, and have PsychicPowers.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]: She's the show's main source of fanservice early on.
* TheChick: Zhaan has pacifistic inclinations and is not always helpful during combat situations. She does subvert this fairly often though, as she will fight to protect the crew.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Zhaan was held by the Peacekeepers because of a murder charge and unlike other captives, she actually did do it. It was her time in captivity that saw her become a priest.
* DyeingForYourArt: Alongside the blue pigment [[spoiler:that wreaked havoc on Virginia Hey's kidneys]], she also had to shave her head and her eyebrows to play Zhaan. She held in there for as long as she could, but finally she couldn't take it anymore. She initially tried to compromise with a bald cap and prosthetics, but she finally had to leave.
* EmpathicHealer: Usually by literally absorbing the pain of others into herself. Note that this is just for ''pain,'' actual healing needs to be done by conventional methods.
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Being a priestess either trained or enhanced her psionic powers.
* HappyPlace: Zhaan has a habit of going into trance-like prayer whenever she's even the least perturbed. (Rygel lampshades this at one point.)
* HeroicSacrifice: In "Dream A Better Dream," she attempts to plead guilty to save Chianna and Rygel from the consequences of defending her in court. [[spoiler:Early in Season 3, she gives most of her remaining life span to revive Aeryn from near death. A few episodes later, she gives her life to save Moya.]]
* HotScientist: She's a skilled biologist who has NoNudityTaboo.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Zhaan belongs to a species with NoNudityTaboo. She does wear clothes most of the time, though her nude scenes are often quite abrupt.
* MsFanservice: Her species has NoNudityTaboo, she tends to dress in revealing clothing and has a couple of partial nude scenes.
* ObiWanMoment: [[spoiler:She spends her last moments reassuring the crew that they'll do fine without her.]]
* PlantAliens / {{Planimal}}: Despite looking like reptilian humanoids, thanks to their scaly skin, Delvians officially evolved from plants.
* TheProfessor: She's a skilled biologist.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler:Apparently no one bothered to test that blue pigment before smearing it all over Virginia Hey; her departure was due to health problems caused by the makeup.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes turn red when she is upset. And when Zhaan snaps, [[BewareTheNiceOnes people get hurt.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to D'Argo's red.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: The smartest member of the crew during the first half of the show.
* StatuesqueStunner: Virginia Hey is quite tall.
* TeamMom: Actually refers to the crew as her children [[spoiler:as she is dying]].
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: When she gets pissed off, she gets ''pissed off''.

!Pilot

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[[caption-width-right:300:Hmmmm...]]

->''When one of my species is bonded to a Leviathan, we give our lives to the service of others. Ship first, then those who travel aboard her.''

->Voiced by Lani Tupu

A member of an alien species that can only travel by being physically and mentally bonded to the biomechanoid ships known as Leviathans. As Moya's Pilot, he directs her in their travels through the stars.

* ActingForTwo / TalkingToHimself: In any episode with Crais, because Lani Tupu voiced Pilot as well.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The Elders told him he was not ready to become a Pilot, forcing him to take matters [[IJustWantToBeSpecial into his own hands.]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:After Moya's first Pilot was disposed of, our Pilot was bonded to her, but because the Peacekeeper techs didn't have time for him to bond with Moya naturally, they connected him through artifical means. Until "The Way We Weren't," he was in constant pain, which he once described as "unbearable." The crew was understandably stunned that he had spent ''years'' like this without telling anyone.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shy, retiring, and subservient... at least until you push him too far; not only does Pilot have control over Moya's life-support systems, but his claws are more than capable of crushing a Sebacean throat at close range. There are quite a few episodes in the series that show just how dangerous he can be when angered: in "The Way We Weren't," he [[spoiler: almost strangles Aeryn to death and disconnects the life-support systems in a fit of rage]]; in "Suns And Lovers," he flushes a terrorist out an airlock ''while laughing psychotically''. And in "The Peacekeeper Wars", [[spoiler:he consents to building a WeaponOfMassDestruction for Crichton]].
* DeadpanSnarker: He doesn't always put up with the bull the crew try to feed him.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Attempts this in ''The Way We Weren't'', when the reason he became Moya's Pilot catches up to him.]]
* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Him Pilot]]: His species's language is too complex for translator microbes to understand. As such, everyone calls him (and other Pilots) by his profession.
* HappinessInSlavery: Given that he's being allowed to explore the universe, Pilot is willing to accept a lot of abuse from his passengers over the course of his duties; it doesn't mean he's ''happy'' with poor treatment as such, but he can live with it. That said, there are some things which Pilot isn't willing to tolerate... He's also a literal slave to ''Moya'', since as he is bonded with her, it means he literally cannot leave his chambers without dying himself. In fact, its mentioned that his species lifespan is several times that of Leviathans, but Pilot sees himself losing entire ''centuries'' to wander the stars as a totally acceptable trade.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Pilot desperately wanted to be bonded to a Leviathan and explore the stars, something which is a rare honor among his species. To do this, Pilot [[spoiler:made a deal with the Peacekeepers to replace Moya's current (uncooperative) Pilot- even though he knew it would result in her execution.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Often refers to Aeryn and Crichton by their rank, being "Officer Sun" and "Commander" respectively, even though Aeryn is a traitor to the Peacekeepers and Crichton is presumed dead by IASA.
* MrExposition: Lampshaded by Crichton resignedly answering to one of Pilot's alerts. "''Yes'', Mr. Bad News?"
* MultiArmedMultitasking: His multiple arms allow him to use Moya's complex pilot interface.
* OddFriendship: With Aeryn. She's the first member of the crew to really bond with him, even though their personalities are quite different. [[spoiler:It helps that a mad scientist infects her with Pilot's DNA in an early episode.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Can sometimes take this role when on-board sanity takes a dive; becomes a frequent role in season three, when he has to end up trying to keep the crew from killing each other due to CabinFever and frustration over Crichton's wormhole hunt.
* ServileSnarker: Pilot's sworn to obey any order from the crew that doesn't endanger Moya. It doesn't mean that he can't make fun of the stupid ones.
* TheSmartGuy: Though the episode "Thank God It's Friday... Again" shows that Pilot, knowing that he can't contribute much else to the crew, ''works his ass off'' in order to be the team's Smart Guy.
-->'''Pilot''': "I don't get out much, so I read."
* StarfishAliens: Has one of the more alien designs in the series. The Henson Company's skill with creating animatronic puppets really helps.
* WetwareCPU: He regulates most of Moya's functions.

!Moya

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->'''Crichton''': That's big. That's ''really'' big.
-->--''Crichton's first impression of Moya''

A massive biomechanical lifeform that takes the form of a spaceship, Moya is a Leviathan that has been designated as a prison transport. When her latest cargo rebelled and escaped, she happily switched her loyalties to them.

* ActualPacifist: More a species trait. She really hates hurting any living creature; more often than not, this skirts [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]] territory. Of course, when it comes to [[BerserkButton her son]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes all bets are off]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Especially note, ''she doesn't have weapons''. And like Pilot, she consented to [[spoiler:building and using a WeaponOfMassDestruction]] during "The Peacekeeper Wars".
* LivingShip: She's a massive lifeform capable of traveling between stars at high speeds and carrying passengers.
* MamaBear: She does NOT like it when people try to hurt Talyn. [[spoiler:She actually goes so far as to give the crew permission to kill an insane Leviathan who tried to prevent her from giving Talyn a proper funeral. Normally, Leviathans are complete pacifists.]]
* PrisonShip: She was used to house criminals by the Peacekeepers.
* ThinkingUpPortals: An extreme version of this trope; the ships' FTL system, Starburst, is basically "sling a big portal and dive in".
* TheVoiceless: Moya cannot generally speak, though Pilot is aware of what she wants. The crew can also communicate with her through Pilot or the [=DRD=]s. [[spoiler:In "Look at the Princess, Part 3", this is subverted, as her builders allow her to briefly speak directly to Zhaan.]]

!Captain Bialar Crais

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->''Tauvo is dead- struck down by a weak... pathetic...'' inferior ''being. It must be avenged! I swear in Tauvo's name, Crichton, you will die in my hands.''

->Played by Lani Tupu

Leader of the Sebacean Peacekeepers who are attempting to retake Moya when John Crichton arrives, he is determined to capture them again; the prisoners for the stain on his record, Crichton for being involved in his brother's death.

* ActingForTwo / TalkingToHimself: In any episode with Pilot, because Lani Tupu voiced Pilot as well.
* ArchEnemy: Until Scorpius takes over, Crais was the greatest threat to the crew and Crichton's greatest personal enemy.
* BadassBeard: His goatee highlights his badassery.
* BeardOfEvil: Like many fiction goatee wearers, he's pretty evil. [[spoiler:However, he does keep the beard after he becomes a good guy.]]
* TheCaptain: First of his Carrier, and then of ''Talyn''.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay / TaxidermyIsCreepy: While still captain of his ship, Crais kept the stuffed heads of numerous Hynerians on the walls of his cabin, much to Rygel's horror. Scorpius, on the other hand, wasn't all that impressed, and suggested that the only reason why Crais kept them around was as a reminder of times when he still had power.
* DemotedToDragon: By Scorpius at the end of the first season, which contributes to his decision to leave the Peacekeepers and become a WildCard.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In the first season, Crais is pursuing Moya to avenge the death of his brother, but he gets replaced by Scorpius.
* {{Expy}}: Less extreme than the Grayza-Servalan resemblance, but in season one he has major similarities to Travis from ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
* FreudianExcuse: As children, Crais and his brother were forcefully taken from their parents by the Peacekeepers, and the last thing Crais Sr. did before his children were taken was to make Bialar [[BigBrotherInstinct promise to take care of his brother]]. Which makes his deranged homicidal quest across the Uncharted Territories a little bit easier to understand.
* GunsAkimbo: He will occasionally use two guns.
* HazyFeelTurn: After he gives up his quest for vengeance on John, he spends most of his time seeking a purpose for his existence, and makes it quite clear that until he finds it his main priority is his own freedom and survival.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He and ''Talyn'' kill themselves to destroy Scorpius's Command Carrier.]]
* HopelessSuitor: To Aeryn, later on. Even though she has more or less forgiven him for ordering her execution, she's too hung up on Crichton and distrusts Crais too much to actually consider his affections.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "That Old Black Magic", after Crichton makes it clear in no uncertain terms that his brother's death was a freak accident. Far from weakening his resolve, Crais' reexamination of scenes from his past (courtesy of Maldis) only renews his desire to kill Crichton.
* InsaneAdmiral: At first. He becomes a lot more laid-back after his defection from the Peacekeepers and comes to terms with Tauvo's death.
* InsistentTerminology: Despite all evidence to the contrary that his brother was responsible for the accidental collision that lead to his own death, Crais still insists that Crichton is a ''murderer'' who intentionally charged into his brother's prowler in his ''flying death-pod''.
* ItsPersonal:
** He barely even ''tries'' to hide the fact that he's pursuing Moya in order to have his revenge on Crichton.
** Later, [[spoiler:Crais invokes this to Scorpius before his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* LimaSyndrome: He initially steals Talyn just as a means of getting away from both the Peacekeepers and the Moya gang, but it soon becomes clear that he's genuinely come to love the boy.
* MadnessMakeover: Over the course of his pursuit of Crichton, Crais' immaculate hair becomes scraggly and his face unshaven.
* ManipulativeBastard: Occasionally, especially in his dealings with Xhalax.
* MoralMyopia: Convinced initially that his vengeance is justified...
* MotiveDecay: But later admits that it ended up not being about his brother but just for the sake of it.
* TheNeidermeyer: And not just because of SanitySlippage over his brother's death, either. "The Way We Weren't" makes it clear that he was always like this. When Scorpius overthrows him as commanding officer of his command carrier, it's as much because Crais's men simply like him better as because of the blackmail. [[CharacterDevelopment He gradually begins to mellow out after being overthrown, however]].
* PapaWolf: Towards Talyn.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Lani Tupu starts appearing in the opening titles at the beginning of Season 3.
* RevengeMyopia: His pursuit of Crichton, though he eventually realizes it.
-->'''Crais:''' I ''thought'' it was about my brother. It...''should'' have been about my brother.
* SamuraiPonytail: How neat or straggly it is tends to act as a barometer of his mood or sanity level in any particular episode.
* ShirtlessScene: In Season 3, although it isn't played for {{Fanservice}}, as [[spoiler:his body is covered in intensely painful blisters due to Talyn's unstable neural feedback.]]
* StarterVillain: The main villain in the first season, but later becomes first neutral and then an ally.
* WildCard: Especially in the second season, when his actions are very unpredictable but solely motivated by helping himself and ''Talyn''.

!Chiana

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->''If your hand is still there in one microt, I'll snap it off and use it as a good luck charm.''

->Played by Gigi Edgley

A female Nebari who tried to flee her highly conformative, oppressive culture and escape, only to be recaptured. When Moya accidentally crashed into the prison ship carrying her, she and her two captors were forced to stay aboard. When events left her the sole survivor, she gladly fled with the crew of Moya to avoid the neural reprogramming awaiting her if she returned to the Nebari.

* BareYourMidriff: Is that light-coloured strip in her first costume bare skin or cloth? The opening of "Taking the Stone" suggests it's meant to be skin, but in other episodes it looks like cloth, possibly to reduce the amount of real-world make-up needed.
* BlindSeer: In Season 3, Chiana gains the ability to see visions of the future, though can't control it. In Season 4, she gains a degree of control, but goes blind. It's [[TemporaryBlindness temporary]], but lasts longer with each time. When it looks like it's permanent, she ''replaces her eyes.''
* BrokenBird: Her tough and carefree persona isn't a pure facade, but it does cover up a lot of damage.
* CharacterTics: Her habit of moving her head from side to side outs her once while DressingAsTheEnemy. This is due to the restricted vision from the contacts used to give Gigi Edgley her alien eyes.
* TheChick: Doesn't do a great deal of on-screen fighting. According to Gigi Edgley, the writers wanted to give her more action scenes but they kept getting cut because directors were worried that the make-up would come off. To compensate for this, when she does get violent the violence tends to be [[CombatPragmatist really, really vicious]].
* ClassyCatBurglar: Sneaky, hot, and thieving, although she may not count as "classy" by some definitions.
* CombatPragmatist: Don't be fooled by the sunny personality. If she believes she is genuinely in danger, she has a knack for scanning her environment and instantly lighting on the most effective way of inflicting lethal or crippling damage on an enemy, no matter how gruesome or dishonorable it is.
* [[DefectorFromDecadence Defector To Decadence]]: The Nebari are a highly conformistic culture who preach peace and tranquillity, and gladly MindRape any other being whose personality they consider undesirable to match their wishes. Chiana considers this appalling and simply wishes to roam the galaxy and live her life as she wishes.
* EthicalSlut: The "ethical" part took a serious dent when she had an affair with Jothee, but for the most part, she tries not to edge in on previously established relationships.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: She is the focus of most of the series' LesYay[[invoked]] moments. She also has no sexual boundaries when it comes to gender, age, and even species.
* FireForgedFriends: With Aeryn and Jool.
* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Grey Skinned Space Babe]]: Is the subject of most of the series's fanservice.
* HellishPupils: [[spoiler:In "Peacekeeper Wars", she replaces her failing eyes with rather creepy looking ones with the ability to see through walls.]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: D'Argo is considerably taller and bulkier than she is. They eventually get together.
* InSeriesNickname: "Pip." It originates from the nickname Ben Browder gave to Gigi Edgley.
* InterspeciesRomance: With D'Argo.
* TheLadette: Unashamedly highly sexed, and loves other kinds of exciting physical action as well.
* LoveableRogue: She's a good hearted person, and loyal to her friends and family, but isn't overly concerned with the galaxy at large.
* MsFanservice: Did we mention the "highly sexed" part? She's involved in most of the on-screen sex scenes that aren't off-puttingly alien in nature.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Chiana randomly slips between an Australian and FakeAmerican accent in Season One. This is due to disagreements between directors over which accent Gigi Edgely should stick with.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: The opening titles are modified to include Gigi Edgely just in time for the Season 1 finale.
* ProphetEyes: Her eyes eventually start gaining cataracts when she uses her precognitive powers.
* PsychicPowers: Develops them in Season 3, following her possession by an Energy Rider.
* ScreamingWarrior: Has a very distinctive war cry that can best be described as "BRRRRRRUUUUGHHHH-YI-YI-YI-YAAAAAAH!"
* TookALevelInJerkass: To an extent - in Season 4, she has become a lot angrier than usual, because of her terrible experiences in between Seasons 3 and 4, in which she was [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured and raped]] by gangsters who caught her using her abilities to cheat at gambling.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's a subtext that she has an minor attraction to Crichton during Series 1. Since he treats her like a sister and only has eyes for Aeryn, it doesn't go anywhere. Though due to [[spoiler: time-travel, it's revealed she was the one to take his virginity.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: At first, she and Jool despise each other, but they gradually come to develop a love-hate friendship. She also has this going on with Rygel, to a certain extent. Mostly averted with Sikozu - although they have a few friendly moments together, they deeply dislike one another for the most part.

!Talyn

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->'''Crichton''': Open the door, you soulless pinheaded adolescent pig!
-->--''Crichton gets a bit fed-up with Talyn.''

The son of ''Moya'', due to [[spoiler:rape by the Peacekeepers who forcibly blended their own technology into the offspring's genetics. Unlike most Leviathans, created as a battleship with in-built armament. Unfortunately, WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity]].

* AxCrazy: He can't help it, he was ''literally'' bred to be this way.
* BilingualDialogue: Talyn, who lacks a Pilot to speak for him, communicates through trills and bloop noises.
* BreakTheCutie: The kid was practically born insane.
* EmoTeen: Oh so much. Crichton even calls him out on it when Talyn becomes too bratty and petty (brattiness includes: locking doors on John, stealing his stuff, trying to separate him and auntie Aeryn, and trying to throw him out (into ''space'')). The problem is that he's a [[TeensAreMonsters bratty teenager]] with a ''really big'' {{BFG}}.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]
* LeeroyJenkins: Can get a ''little'' carried away in engaging the enemy- forcing Crais to start playing the voice of reason.
* LivingMacGuffin
* LivingShip
* MommasBoy: A positive example, as despite his emotional problems, Talyn is shown to care deeply for Moya. [[spoiler:At the end of "The Ugly Truth," it is revealed that Talyn ''willingly'' destroyed the Plokavian ship because they carried material that could've posed a threat to her]]. [[spoiler:And if there was ever any doubt before, Talyn agrees to the HeroicSacrifice because Crais tells him, "Moya will soon be enslaved."]]
* ShipperOnDeck: In "Green Eyed Monster", it turns out that Talyn has been conspiring to get [[spoiler:Crais and Aeryn]] together, doing weird stuff like cranking up the heat in whatever room they're in. As someone correctly pointed out on the main page: "weirdest example ''ever''".
** Although since [[spoiler: Aeryn]] is a surrogate mother-figure, as well as [[spoiler: Crais]] being his ''Pilot'', you can see why.
* SoProudOfYou: When Talyn [[spoiler: sacrifices himself to destroy Scorpius' command carrier]], his mother and Pilot watch at a distance. It is clear that, aside from sorrow, Moya feels extremely proud of what her son has managed to do.
* TriggerHappy
* [[spoiler: WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity]]: Only Leviathan in the universe that's armed with any sort of weaponry, but [[spoiler: it turns out that whatever the Peacekeepers did drove him crazy.]]
** [[spoiler:While his biology likely made him unbalanced, the poor kid might have stood a chance if not for being under constant threat since birth. Crais theorized that it was the Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad hunt that finally pushed Talyn over the edge.]]
** [[spoiler:That and the fact that Crais (not exactly stable himself) was Talyn's first captain.]]
** [[spoiler:And that time he had Stark (a complete nutjob) for a pilot probably did him no favours either.]]

!Scorpius

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->''I long ago learned the advantages of patience.''

->Played by Wayne Pygram

A deformed, ruthless and surprisingly combat-hardened Peacekeeper scientist, obsessed with gaining knowledge of wormholes as a means to power. [[spoiler:Actually a hybrid Sebacean/Scarran created by a Scarran prisoner-rape experiment, his driving force is vengeance on the Scarrans for their horrifically brutal treatment of his mother and himself.]]

* AchillesHeel: His need for cooling rods to keep his internal temperature in balance. And like any good AchillesHeel, savvy opponents will exploit it: Crichton once coated a rod in heat-reacting paste, hoping it would explode in Scorpius' head, and if anyone worth their salt manages to capture Scorpius, the first thing they do is deny him cooling rods or destroy the apparatus.
* AffablyEvil: He's ''evil'', no doubt, but he's unfailingly polite about it.
* AntiVillain
* ArchEnemy: With periodic EnemyMine events.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBookworm
** HandicappedBadass: He's in constant pain and almost always on the point of death from heatstroke, but he's a seriously dangerous physical opponent if driven to it.
* BeastAndBeauty: With Sikozu.
* BenevolentBoss: Actually shows a good deal of loyalty to his minions, particularly Braca, which pays dividends by the series' end.
* BerserkButton: It isn't a good idea to get between him and his plans, to say the least.
* BigBad: He removes Crais from this position as of the end of season 1, then he takes over this role for seasons 2 and 3.
* BrainsAndBondage: Both are pretty obvious.
* BreakoutCharacter: Originally intended as just a one-shot villain, but such a fan favorite that he was promoted to BigBad and, eventually, [[spoiler:one of the protagonists]].
* BreakTheCutie: His first 12 years of life consisted of torture. It's really not surprising that he got so good at preparing contingency escape plans.
* CheshireCatGrin: It isn't often he's capable of a ''benign'' smile. Then again, it is hard to grin infectiously when you have small, sharp, jagged teeth.
** He does, however, manage a much more heartwarming smile when [[spoiler:he strokes the flower he remembers his mother by]] at the end of "Incubator".
* TheChessmaster
* ChildByRape: Natira briefly mentions Scorpius' parentage in Season 2, but it isn't until Season 3's "Incubator" that the full story becomes clear: [[spoiler:Scorpius' mother was abducted and raped as part of a Scarren breeding program, resulting in Scorpius' conception. Not only that, but Scorpius ''[[ForcedToWatch is forced to watch a recording of the rape itself]]'', and then learns that [[DeathByChildbirth his mother died giving birth to him.]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge He does]] ''[[not]]'' [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas take this revelation well]].
* ClingyCostume: Not physically impossible to remove, but since it's necessary to keep him alive, he naturally makes sure it's ''extremely'' hard to take it off.
* CrazyPrepared: He's insanely paranoid -- and justifiably so, considering how often people have tried to kill him. CrazyPrepared is probably the only reason no one has managed it.
* DarthVaderClone: Deep (natural) voice, black suit containing life-support systems, inhumanly strong, and TheDragon to higher authorities of TheEmpire who relentlessly pursues TheHero.
* DeadpanSnarker: He definitely has his moments.
* {{Determinator}}: No matter the torture, no matter the assassination attempts, and no matter how many times someone tries to blow his plans up right in his face, Scorpius will never, ever stop pursuing his goal.
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Scorpius is ultimately loyal to one person alone -- himself. To this end, he will use and betray ''anyone'' to achieve what he wants.
* DragonInChief: To the Grand Chancellor of the Peacekeepers.
* EroticAsphyxiation: This is evidently one of his kinks, judging by his sex scene with Natira and his only on-screen sexual scene with Sikozu.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Scorpius' xenocidal hatred of the Scarran stems from both what they did to him and what they did to his mother.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He loves his mother, [[spoiler:in spite of the fact that he never got to meet her]], and he clearly cares a great deal for Sikozu.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted heavily; at one point in the fourth season, Crichton insists that Scorpius doesn't understand him, hence the reason why Scorpius had to use the Aurora Chair and the Neural Clone to unearth his secrets. Less than a few episodes later, [[spoiler: after Aeryn is kidnapped by the Scarrans]], Crichton realises that Scorpius arranged the whole thing, knowing that he'd trade ''anything'' for [[spoiler: Aeryn's]] safety.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Double-subverted. You would expect someone so otherwise stereotypically evil-looking to have a deep, growling voice, but his voice actually isn't low. Then it turns out that that's just an affectation he adopts to put other Peacekeepers at ease. His real voice (which is only heard when he's either really, really angry or in extreme pain) ''actually does'' sound like it rumbles up from the pits of Hell.
* TheExtremistWasRight: In The Peacekeeper Wars, [[spoiler:Cricthon weaponises the Wormhole Technology, leading to a lasting peace]].
* FakingTheDead: He fakes his own death in the Season 3 premiere.
* FantasticRacism: Towards Scarrans, which stems from both his horrendous upbringing and what the Scarrans did to his mother.
* FirstNameBasis: While everyone from shipmates to enemies call John "Crichton", Scorpius usually just calls him "John".
* FreudianExcuse: And a pretty damn good one, too.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Sebacean Hybrid]]: The other half is Scarran.
* HazyFeelTurn: He [[spoiler:joins the crew of Moya]] in Season 4, but he's very upfront about the fact that his goals and motivations haven't changed one bit, only his circumstances.
* HellBentForLeather
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Well, [[HumanAlien Sebacean]] mom, but it still counts.
* [[spoiler: [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Homeworld]]: Scorpius threatens Crichton at the end of Series 3 with the fact that he's learnt the location of ''Earth''.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Scorpius''': Even without wormholes, Earth is reachable. At top speed, just over ''60 cycles''.]]
* ImplacableMan
* InSeriesNickname: "Scorpy," "Grasshopper," "Nosferatu," "Bob."
* JokerImmunity: Scorpius always gets out of things that should rightfully be his end.
* KavorkaMan: He's extremely ugly -- even the parts of him that we're shown consist of lizard-like skin and serrated fangs -- but at the same time weirdly sexual, and definitely enjoys an amount of in-universe luck with beautiful women.
* LecherousLicking: Is shown enjoying being both the licker and the lickee.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: His relationship with Crichton is like this at times, lampshaded by Crichton when they forge a [[EnemyMine temporary alliance]] at the end of Season 3;
--> '''Crichton''': Why are you bitching at me like we're ''married'', Scorpy-sue?
* LivingLieDetector: His half-Scarran heritage give him an advantage that neither species has, and allows him to tell when people are lying.
* MachiavelliWasWrong: Just look at the example of BadBoss to see how he worked this one out.

* MinoredInAssKicking: It helps that he has SuperStrength, and he know how to use it.
* [[spoiler:MissingMom]]: [[spoiler:Scorpius is a ChildByRape of a Sebacean mother and a Scarran male, and the strain of having a half-Scarran child meant she suffered a DeathByChildbirth. He did not take the news well.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* NotSoDifferent: Scorpius confesses a real 'connection' to Crichton. (Not so much the other way around, though.) Wayne Pygram has mused that since Scorpy is alone in his uniqueness, perhaps he feels a kinship with the fish-out-of-water John.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: From wormhole physics to cybernetics to neuroscience.
* OnlySaneMan: When Scorpius can be considered among the most reasonable of the Peacekeepers, it's telling of how ''screwed'' the protagonists are.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 3 (although, arguably, the credit goes to both Scorpius and Harvey).
* RaisedByOrcs: He was brought up by Scarrans, who made no attempt to hide the fact that he was an experiment.
* {{Revenge}}: Revenge against the Scarrans is his driving motivation.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Seems to be standard M.O. for him, as he tries it in both "Family Ties" and "Look at the Princess". In the first case, however, the intended victim discovers what's in store for him and escapes, while in the second, TheMole gets killed by Crichton before Braca can get to her.
* SuperStrength: One of the benefits of being half-Scarran. He throws Crais around like a ragdoll on one occasion, and on another, he forced open an incredibly heavy, reinforced sliding door ''one-handed''. Said door had, moments ago, crushed a Peacekeeper to death when he was jammed in it to try and stop it from closing.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Gets like this around representatives of Peacekeepers High Command, especially Grayza.
--> '''Scorpius''': Now you understand what stupidity I have to deal with...
* TheDreaded: Even to his own people.
* [[spoiler: TokenEvilTeammate: In the fourth season.]]
* TooKinkyToTorture: On the rare occasions that he's ended up being captured and interrogated, his captors have to work hard to find a form of torture that he ''doesn't'' enjoy.
** Or if not enjoy, at least ignore. After all, he was tortured for over a decade (while growing up) by ''professionals''.
* VillainousBreakdown: At the end of series 3, following [[spoiler: Crichton's betrayal and the destruction of his research base and resources]], it's perhaps the only time in the series we see him looking genuinely ''broken''.
* [[AccentRelapse Voice Relapse]]: His deep, snarling Scarren voice is only heard when he's either a) in extreme pain or b) absolutely enraged.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Everything he does is in order to stop the Scarrans from taking over the galaxy. Of course, this is backed by his deep-seated hatred and desire for revenge, but he knows ''exactly'' what they're capable of, and he is willing to do anything, even sacrificing himself, to make sure that what happened to his mother doesn't happen to the rest of the galaxy. That's the entire reason he went and offered himself to the Peacekeepers: they were the ''[[OrderVersusChaos less evil choice!]]'' At the end of the Peacekeeper Wars [[spoiler: he is ''happy'' when the Scarrans and Peacekeepers sign a peace contract because it still stops them from taking over the galaxy. Undoubtedly though, he had a whole heap of plans set up to get rid of them from what they ''do'' control, but one step at a time, no?]]
* WildCard: One can never predict quite what he's going to do in a given situation.

!Stark

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->''This is '''my''' side! That's '''your''' side. You stay on your side. '''My''' side, '''your''' side! '''My''' side, '''your''' side! '''My''' side, '''your''' side!''

->Played by Paul Goddard

A Bannick who is part humanoid and part EnergyBeing, he has the power to heal mental torment and to comfort the dying as they pass over to wherever they go. Unfortunately, use of his powers always leads to some degree of MentalFusion, resulting in gradual corrosion of his sanity.

* AxCrazy: Every so often, Stark will get very violent -- and not in a funny way, either. In fact, when one particularly trying day ended with Jool whining at him, he actually went beserk and threatened to MindRape her. See under DoggedNiceGuy and BlessedWithSuck for why.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Stark is an energy being who ''built from raw matter'' his current body.
* BlessedWithSuck: That empathic/telepathic ability to interact with the dying? ''Not'' fun. In fact, he actually mentions that every time he helps someone cross over, he absorbs a tiny piece of their soul. And since a good deal of his early work was helping ''Scarrans'' cross over...
* BreakTheCutie: Oh god, poor Stark. He was broken when Crichton met him in season 1 [[spoiler: where he had been ''mind raped continuously for 2 years!!'']] and [[FromBadToWorse it just went downhill from there.]]
** It's even worse than that. Turns out that Stark grew up among the Scarrans and assisted in their death rituals. As a slave, you can imagine how that part of his life went. Considering his opinion (not to mention panic) of Scarrans, being Scorpius' prisoner was arguably an improvement for the poor guy.
* ButtMonkey
* CareBearStare
* TheChewToy: He was tortured for ''years'', and upon escaping in short order proceeds to get executed by disintegration (he [[DeathIsCheap gets better]]), experiences the agonising deaths of ten thousand of his own species being executed by Natira, gets puked on by Pilot, and finally is forced to listen as the woman he loves dies. ''Cannot'' catch a break.
* CloudCuckoolander
* CommutingOnABus: He appears in all four seasons and ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', but keeps joining and then leaving the main crew. His longest period as a regular cast member lasts from towards the end of the second season until towards the end of the third.
* CoolMask
* DoggedNiceGuy: A very creepy one towards Aeryn at times in the third season, eventually driving her to a memorable and deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. However, the reason he acts this way turns out not to be so much due to any kind of attraction to her, but that all the evil chaotic thoughts that he's absorbed over the years latch onto her as the latest object of his fragmented attention, because Zhaan isn't around anymore to help him control it. Let's face it, by the time season 3 and 4 come around, he flips between psychosis and neurotic breakdown like a light switch with a short circuit.
* {{Flanderization}}: His Sanity Slippage from ObfuscatingInsanity (in his introductory episodes) to total, pathetic psychosis (in the third season) looks like this to some fans.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Stark needs '''a lot''' of these moments, and he gets 'em.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Zhaan.
* ISeeDeadPeople

--> ''My'' side! ''Your'' side! ''My'' side! ''YOUR'' side! ''MY SIDE!''.
* TheLoad: On a good day, he's almost catatonic. On a bad day, he puts everyone on the ship in danger with his psychotic freak-outs.
* NegateYourOwnSacrifice: As an energy being, he is capable of regenerating himself if disintegrated - which comes in handy when aliens put him, Crichton, D'Argo, and Zhaan on trial and decide to execute them via that very method.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: Stark has an ''at best'' tenuous grip on his sanity, but he admitted to pretending to be far crazier while Scorpius' prisoner. Doing so got people to leave him alone more often than they would've otherwise.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 3.
* {{Psychopomp}}: He helps dying souls reach the afterlife, absorbing their negative traits, making him basically a ''Sin-Eater''.
* TalkativeLoon
* TooKinkyToTorture: Stark's been given the Aurora Chair treatment over 100 times, and he clearly enjoys it a little ''too'' much.
* TraumaCongaLine: No one has gone through more pain and suffering throughout the span of their life than Stark. No one. Think what happened to Aeryn in Scarran captivity was bad? Stark's got her beat: he ''absorbed some of the Scarran's souls''. Think John's purview in the Aurora Chair was horrific? Stark got ''2 years''. And he just keeps on getting hit!
* TwoFaced: The side of his face covered by the mask is PureEnergy [[spoiler:until he becomes completely corporeal at the end of ''The Peacekeeper Wars''.]]

!Harvey

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->''Go on, John! Do it! Then we can go to the beach! I know a place with naked Sebacean girls and margarita shooters!''

->Played by Wayne Pygram

[[spoiler:An AI copy of Scorpius's personality, hosted on a chip inserted into Crichton's brain as part of a ploy to gain access to his knowledge and control over him. Initially a dangerous EnemyWithin to John, he eventually develops a more complex relationship with him.]]

* AscendedExtra: Originally, Crichton was just hallucinating Scorpius in "Crackers Don't Matter" because he was just being driven crazy like everyone else in that episode. Then the writers realized how great it would be if they could keep Scorpius around (in John's head) while technically having the real one pursuing them from far away; thus, "Harvey" became a recurring character.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: He has a few of these with Crichton.
* CloneDegeneration: A variant of the trope. He started out as a carbon copy of Scorpius; but after he was essentially abandoned after he had fulfilled his original purpose and the chip that had put him into Crichton's mind (and presumably sustained him) was removed, he had started developing his own "eccentricities".

* FauxAffablyEvil: His ''relative'' friendliness is an act (see his meeting with Natira), one that Crichton rightfully doesn't buy.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He keeps trying to light up, but Crichton enforces a strict "no smoking" policy in his brain.
* HappyPlace: Often found lurking in the more pleasant areas of Crichton's psyche.
* HeelFaceTurn: Harvey eventually came to value his and Crichton's survival over the goals of Scorpius.
** FaceHeelTurn: In Season 4, Scorpius claims to remove Harvey, but instead reprograms/upgrades him. While maintaining similar characterisitics, he is loyal to Scorpius and committed to seeing his goals achieved.
* HomageShot: Numerous times his visitations with John would manifest themselves in scenes from famous Earth films (see ShoutOut below). When his program was dying, he replayed some scenes from the end of [[ASpaceOdyssey 2001]] a la Dave Bowman.
* ImaginaryEnemy
* ImagineSpot: Tends to make his presence known through these.
* LaughablyEvil: In spite of [[ImaginaryEnemy what he is]], some of his lines are ''gold''.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: He has no physical presence, but as a neural clone, he is an independent entity existing in John's head.
* ShoutOut: Yes, he's named after the bunny, and yes, it's lampshaded, and yes, in the season 4 finale, he and Crichton dress up in bunny suits.
** Another name for him that Crichton briefly considered was [[ItsAWonderfulLife Clarence]].
* SpiritAdvisor: Once CharacterDevelopment kicks in.
* VillainDecay: Created to avert this trope; the writers could keep Scorpius as a constant threat, yet not require the good guys defeat or escape from him every week. When the real Scorpius turns up, it's still an OhCrap moment.

!Joolushko "Jool" Tunai Fenta Hovalis

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->''I always wait. You know, see both sides -- be reasonable. But now... I have nothing to lose.''

->Played by Tammy [=MacIntosh=]

An alien gap-yah student who got into a very bad situation and ended up being rescued by the ''Moya'' crew, initially to the displeasure of both sides.

* [[spoiler: BackForTheDead]]
* BareYourMidriff: Especially her second costume.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Jool is an Interon, so her hair changes color depending on her mood, and her screams can melt metal. Which is good, because she screams. '''A lot''.
* BreakTheCutie
* BreakTheHaughty
* DeadpanSnarker
* EyepatchOfPower: When she is temporarily blinded in one eye due to a bit of Boolite flying into it (ItMakesSenseInContext), she sports a rather cool eyepatch for a few episodes.
* FieryRedhead: She is usually blonde, except for when she is nervous or angry, during which it turns bright red. It stays permanently red during the infiltration of Scorpius' Command Carrier - possibly due to the stress of the mission.
* FireForgedFriends: With Chiana.
* FishOutOfWater: Being from a peaceful star system that seriously frowns upon violence, she is initially completely out of her depth when she becomes part of Moya's crew. (She learns quickly.) Being cryogenically frozen for 22 cycles didn't help, either.
* [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Forgot About Her Powers]]: Her sound powers are rarely used in emergencies where they might actually be useful.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: At first, it's kind of obvious that everyone deeply wishes she'd never awoken from the cryogenic pod. This changes as her CharacterDevelopment kicks in.
* HotScientist
* HumiliationConga: Most of what transpires to her, such as being frozen for 22 cycles, accidentally drinking piss, being thrown through a time portal straight into a pile of mud, the Universe really seems to ''love'' to give her grief.
* InsufferableGenius: She has some traits of this, although not to the same extent as Sikozu.
* {{Jerkass}}: Starts off as one, before CharacterDevelopment kicks in. Emerging from a long cryogenic slumber on board a ship of a type she'd never seen and learning that her two cousins - with whom she was very close - are dead does not help.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* LockedIntoStrangeness: A possible reason for her hair staying red after Season 3.
* MakeMeWannaShout
* TheMedic: To an extent.
* MultipleChoicePast: There are conflicting reports as to whether she and her cousins were innocent tourists or {{Evil Colonialist}}s trying to rip off the cultures they met. Her past remains Multiple Choice because none of the regulars actually care enough to investigate.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* OverlyLongName: And she claims that ''everyone'' addresses her by her full name prior to being cryogenically frozen (this could presumably be an Interon cultural aspect), although she makes an exception for her cousins, who called her by her nickname. She resents being called "Jool" by her crewmates at first (in spite of, or perhaps because of, the fact that her cousins also used it), but it eventually grows on her.
* [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red Hair Take Warning]]: Her hair turns bright red when she's either a) scared or nervous, or b) really, ''really'' pissed off.
* ScreamingWoman: There's a ''reason'' the image on this page is her screaming. She does it a ''lot''.
* ShesGotLegs
* ShipTease: The writers teased a relationship between Jool and D'Argo -- ''especially'' in season 4's "What Was Lost" two-parter -- but Jool left the show and nothing came of it.
** And then when the crew catches up with Jool again in "The Peacekeeper Wars", she oddly and inexplicably goes for Crichton and seems to have completely forgotten D'Argo.
** There also seemed to be something of a ShipTease between [[HugeGuyTinyGirl her and Naj Gil]] (the only neutral/non-antagonistic Scarren to appear on the show) - they connect very quickly, and he offers her a place aboard the hospital ship with him. Unfortunately, he is killed before anything comes of it, and Jool is deeply upset at his death.
* [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]
* TechnicalPacifist: Sometimes bordering on ActualPacifist levels. She frowns upon violence due to her upbringing and abhors killing, but, as the series goes on, she becomes more willing to engage in violence when it is required.
* TookALevelInBadass: This trait starts to emerge towards the end of Season 3 - especially notable is the fact that she aids the rest of the crew in their infiltration of Scorpius' Command Carrier despite her nervousness, and that she's more than willing to put herself in danger to help D'Argo against a ''huge'' Peacekeeper wielding a circular saw. This trait is also especially evident in the "What Was Lost" two-parter: Not only does she kick Peacekeeper ass alongside Chiana and Sikozu, she also came ''very'' close to throttling Sikozu prior to this.
* VitriolicBestBuds: At first, she and Chiana despise each other, but they gradually come to develop a love-hate friendship.
* WrittenInInfirmity: The [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]] was because Tammy [=MacIntosh=] really did get hit in the eye by a piece of debris and injured during the relevant action sequence.

!Utu-Noranti Pralatong

->''Never bathe, never bathe. It washes off the juice.''

->Played by Melissa Jaffer

An enigmatic old woman with powerful spiritual abilities who took advantage of an attack on a Peacekeeper ship to escape captivity and join the crew. Nobody's quite sure whether her mercurial switches between apparent senile dementia and ruthless plotting are real or an act.

* CloudCuckoolander
* CoolOldLady
* CordonBleughChef: Shifts between this and straight LethalChef depending on the episode.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DirtyOldWoman
* DrFeelgood
* FanDisservice: In "Lava's a Many Splendored Thing" and "Coup By Clam."
* InSeriesNickname: "Granny," "Wrinkles," "Old Woman."
* KaleidoscopeEyes: Her third eye changes colors like a mood ring.
* MasterPoisoner
* RememberTheNewGuy: Is a member of Moya's crew at the start of the season, claiming that they rescued her from Scorpius' Command Carrier. No-one can remember how she got there, and given her ability to affect memory with her potions, it may never have happened at all.
* TheMedic
* TheMillstone: Quite often, and the other characters are aware of it, too.
-->'''Crichton:''' Burning's too ''good'' for her.
* TheOtherDarrin: When the makeup started to affect Melissa Jaffer's health, she had to be replaced for some scenes in ''The Peacekeeper Wars''.
* ThirdEye: Has a third eye that changes color and intermittently opens when she uses her powers.
* TricksterMentor
* WickedWitch: Repeatedly invoked by the other characters, but she insists she isn't one.

!Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu

->''Everything lives and everything dies, whether you wish it to or not, and you have to deal with it.''

->Played by Raelee Hill

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A highly-educated, cold-blooded, but over-confident space hustler who attached herself to ''Moya'' after one of her proposed deals fell through and left her stranded. Never really trusted by anyone, she forms a perverted but sincere attachment to Scorpius.

* AlliterativeName
* BareYourMidriff
* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: Not really an increase in sexiness so much as a fashion style change, but her black-leather-and-tattoos makeover for "The Peacekeeper Wars" looks an awful lot like her playing to Scorpius's fetishes. She explicitly considers herself in a submissive relationship with him.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe / IOweYouMyLife: One of the reasons for her attraction to Scorpius was the fact that he managed to save her life in "What Was Lost."
* BizarreAlienBiology: As a Kalish, Sikozu can walk up walls and across ceilings, can't tolerate Translator Microbes (meaning she has to learn ''every language she ever encounters''), can reattched severed limbs and can go for months without eating. She also has the ability to project radiation, but that's a result of [[spoiler:also being a bioloid]].
* BrainsAndBondage: She's highly intelligent, and is implied to be completely happy with Scorpius's highly non-mainstream sexual tastes.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: She had a tendency to betray or at least undermine Crichton very early on. Then she met Scorpius. She colluded with him almost immediately, which still puts this trope in effect because his agenda was hardly in line with Crichton's or anyone else's. The only times she willingly cooperated with the rest of the crew was when their goals weren't mutually exclusive, though to her credit, she didn't decide to up and screw everyone like most examples of this trope. [[spoiler: And then she blew it by betraying the crew to the Scarrans, much to Scorpius' rage.]]
* CoDragons: Her and Braca, for Scorpius.
* ComboPlatterPowers: See above.
* DeadpanSnarker
* FieryRedhead
* FireForgedFriends: With Aeryn.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: 'Cause she sure does seem to get her arms ripped off a lot.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the comics, she finally picks a side. [[spoiler: And then [[HeelFaceDoorSlam dies]]]].
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]: In the comic books.
* HotScientist
* InSeriesNickname: "Sputnik," "Psycho-Zoo."
* InsufferableGenius: She really is brilliant (in an inexperienced, "book smart" way), but so insufferable that she manages to instantaneously alienate Pilot, the guy who otherwise feels respect and affection for every other character on the ship, including Rygel.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Scorpius.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the time acts very unpleasantly towards Moya's crew, save for Scorpius.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: An inversion, as she is quite educated. However, as Rygel noted, "You've learned, but you haven't experienced." For example, though book smart when it comes to Leviathans, she had never been on one before meeting Crichton, and he knew things she didn't thanks to living on Moya.
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: In "The Peacekeeper Wars", [[spoiler:she feeds Crichton and Scorpius' movements to the Scarrans. When Scorpius confronts her over this she said that the Scarrans had promised to free the Kalish from servitude; surprisingly enough, the Scarrans actually made good on this promise in the comics.]]
* OverlyLongName
* [[spoiler:RobotGirl: She's eventually revealed to be a Bioloid.]]

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her costume in episodes set aboard Moya, which consists above the waist of what is basically a bra with some cloth straps extending from it. She puts a jacket on when leaving the ship.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Jool.
* WallCrawl

[[folder:Recurring Characters]]
!Jack Crichton

->''Each man gets the chance to be his own kind of hero. Your time'll come and when it does, watch out. Chances are, it'll be the last thing you ever expected.''

->Played by Kent [=McCord=]

John Crichton's beloved father, and a former astronaut himself.

* CoolOldGuy
* DomesticAbuse: Played with in "Kansas." A teenaged Crichton ''thought'' that Jack treated his mother badly. Though arguments between the parents were apparently frequent, an older Crichton was very much aware of how much this trope was averted.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Following the events of "Terra Firma", [[spoiler: during which Jack organizes a global peace initiative in preparation for exploring space]].
* OpenMindedParent: Though shown to butt heads with his son, Jack has always been very supportive of what he had to say.
* PatrioticFervor: Following the World Trade Center attacks.

!Bekhesh

->''It's been so long since anyone has told me the truth, I don't recognize it anymore...''

->Played by John Adams

Leader of a Tavlek bandit gang. A tough and ruthless criminal, but not without moral standards.

* ArmCannon: The gauntlet.
* TheAtoner
* BadassPreacher: Or, as he calls himself, the "Holy Warrior of Tarou."
* BenevolentBoss: When he was still in charge of the Tavlek gang, it was demonstrated that he actually cared about his underlings- to the point of threatening to kill Moya's crew if they mistreated Kyr.
* BlindfoldedVision: The top of Bekhesh's head is covered by a thick metal faceplate; according to production notes, it's actually a cybernetic replacement for the top of his head.
* FunctionalAddict: While still clearly addicted, he doesn't need the gauntlet nearly as often as Kyr did.
* GoodScarsEvilScars / {{Gonk}}: Bekhesh is pretty much walking scar tissue.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: "It's easier to reform when you're rich."
* ReformedCriminal
* ShouldersOfDoom: Part of his uniform while still leading the Tavlek gang.

!Gilina Renaez

->''It seems human and Sebacean men are much the same.''

-> Played by Alyssa-Jane Cook

A low-ranking Peacekeeper technician, who met the ''Moya'' crew as sole survivor of a destroyed ship and fell in love with John.

* BrokenBird
* [[spoiler:DeathOfTheHypotenuse]]
* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]
* MookFaceTurn: As a tech, however, she was one of Crais's EvilMinions rather a Mook.
* ReverseMole: In "Nerve" and "The Hidden Memory," Gilina functions as this, sabotaging the Gammak base's surveilance systems to help Crichton and Chiana enter and escape.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She was originally going to be killed off in "PK Tech Girl," but the actress's performance convinced David Kemper to bring her back.
* WrenchWench

!Captain Selto Durka

->''When I am finished with you, Dominar, death himself will pray for you!''

->Played by David Wheeler

A high ranking Peacekeeper captain. Famous as a hero, but actually a coward and an incredibly vicious sadist even by Peacekeeper standards. Rygel's jailer and torturer for a period in backstory.

* ArchEnemy: Of Rygel.
* BaldOfEvil: He prefers to keep his head clean-shaven. In fact, some time after his brainwashing is reversed, he goes so far as to cut off the long hair he's grown in the meantime.
* BrainWashed: After being defeated and captured by the Nebari, he was given a very thorough mind-cleansing... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which Rygel ended up undoing on their next encounter.]]
* BrokenPedestal: It was a bit of a shock for Aeryn to discover that one of the greatest heroes of the Peacekeepers was little more than an opportunistic coward.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: After being killed by Rygel, his head is mounted on a pike and kept as a trophy]]
* DecoyGetAway: When the battle with the Nebari turned against him, Durka faked his death by killing an improvised BodyDouble and making it look like a suicide. Not that it helped, as the Nebari easily caught up with him -- hence the brainwashing -- but Rygel was certainly fooled when he revisted the Zelbinion 100 cycles later.
* DirtyCoward: As Aeryn noted, retreating from an unwinnable battle is one thing, but murdering one of your own officers to put the finishing touches on your own private escape attempt...
* [[ElectronicEyes Electronic Eye]]
* EvilOldFolks
* EyepatchOfPower: While still under the mental cleansing, he covered his artificial eye with an eyepatch.
* FakingTheDead
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a massive scar running through his right eye, which has been replaced with the abovementioned prosthesis.
* MilesGloriosus
* SpacePirate - turns into one of these after parting ways with the Nebari (and having his mental cleansing undone); he joins the Zenetan Pirates
* TortureTechnician
* VillainousBreakdown: Towards the end of "Durka Returns", his calm demeanour quickly fades when he realises his plans have been utterly foiled.
--> ''Crichton!'' Don't leave me out here! ''I'll hunt you down and I'll kill you!''

!Teurac

->''I make it a point to someday kill my clever opponents...''

->Played by Derek Amer and Thomas Holesgrove; Voiced by Philip Hinton

A Sheeyang space pirate who once tried to capture ''Moya''.

* BreathWeapon: As a Sheeyang, he can breathe fire. Unfortunately, he's getting old, and not as efficient at it as he once was.
** MadeOfExplodium: Equally unfortunately, the same biological quirk that allows him to do so also makes him... a little unstable.
* TheCaptain: Of his vessel, up until it was crippled in an attack.
* CoolOldGuy
* GracefulLoser: Compliments D'Argo on managing to bluff his way through negotiations and ultimately foil his attempt at claiming Moya and the Zelbinion.
** Note that he still threatened to kill D'Argo one day- he just did so in a very respectful manner.
* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: Twice. Once by remaining at his post when his ship was crippled so his crew could evacuate, and later by blowing himself up to help save Crichton.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: "You said you had an opportunity for profit..."
* SalvagePirates
* SpacePirates

!Maldis

->''I admit, I feed on death. But don't we all? Some eat plants. Some meat. I consume the life essence itself. Preferably medium rare.''

->Played by Chris Haywood

Nobody quite knows what Maldis is, but he has powerful mystical powers, feeds on souls, and is a sadistic predator to the weaker, which is just about everyone.

* ArchEnemy: To Zhaan.
* EmotionEater: He likes to spice up his meals by encouraging his victims to excesses of fear or anger- as an appetiser. Unfortunately for his victims, he's ''very'' good at knowing which buttons to push...
* EvilSorcerer: Explicitly called as such.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Maldis was dispersed by Zhaan and left as a disembodied mind trying to pull his body back together again. He describes the experience as [[{{Understatement}} "Less than pleasant."]]
* FauxAffablyEvil / LaughablyEvil: Say what you like about his vile eating habits and devious schemes- he's undoubtedly having the time of his life.
* IntangibleMan
* LargeHam: Oh so very, very much.
* LongBusTrip: After being dispersed twice, he never bothered the crew again, even though it's established that he can return from the dead, if given time. It's speculated that because his main interest was in Zhaan, he simply [[spoiler: lost interest in Moya's crew following the events of "Self-Inflicted Wounds."]]
** Some fans have speculated that he was really the one behind the game in "John Quixote" due to certain elements of it and how Crichton got in it the first place. Note that he is name-dropped in the episode.
* ManipulativeBastard
* MasterOfDisguise: Appeared in different guises as part of his plots against the crew, with his actor appearing in different costumes and make-up for the effect.
* MasterOfIllusion: When not using his magic powers in a "real" sense, he's not above confusing his victims with images from their past.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Crichton refers to him as basically a psychic vampire.
* RealityWarper
* SorcerousOverlord: In his first episode, he was ruling an entire planet.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes

* VoluntaryShapeshifting
* YourSoulIsMine: His most direct means of feeding.

!"Jack" the Ancient

->''We needed a reaction, a human reaction, John. Your reaction.''

->Played by Kent [=McCord=]

A member of an ancient race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, who have been searching for a new home and have unique knowledge of wormholes.

* CoolOldGuy
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* InsectoidAliens: His true appearance.
* TheMentor
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His true name is unpronounceable outside of his native tongue.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien
* [[spoiler: ThisWasHisTrueForm]]

!Furlow

->''Ol' Furlow can handle it. "Everything's gonna be just fine", that's my motto.''

->Played by Magda Szubanski

Everybody's nightmare auto mechanic.

* BrawnHilda
* [[spoiler: ChronicBackstabbingDisorder]]
* FatBastard
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Mostly neutral, smokes cigars.
* HonestJohnsDealership: She's a perfectly competent engineer (enough to make a working copy of Crichton's module), but she's not too choosy about her employees: they're either "thoddoes" or disguised bounty hunters.
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini]]
* StoutStrength
* WrenchWench
* WrenchWhack


!Miklo Braca

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->''Like you said, sir, I don't question High Command.''

->Played by David Franklin

A junior officer under Scorpius and his most faithful follower. As he gains character development, it becomes clear that his feelings for his boss, while ambiguous, go far beyond those of the average minion.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Definitely has feelings for Scorpius. His attraction to Grayza, however, could have just been the Heppel oil messing with his head.
* AndThisIsFor: When he's giving Scorpius a good kicking after becoming [[note]]only not really[[/note]] Grayza's [[TheDragon Dragon]]:
-->'''Braca''': This is for all the times I've had to say "yes"!
* AscendedExtra: He started out as a generic Peacekeeper that Scorpius would talk to in order to provide the audience with exposition. Over time, Braca started gaining his own personality. He becomes increasingly important to the plot, to the point where [[spoiler:he is given the honor of fighting alongside the heroes during the miniseries' final battle.]]
* BadassBeard: Grows a goatee in time for the miniseries.
* ButtMonkey:
** Crichton humiliates him on a regular basis.
** Braca spends most of "I-Yensch, You-Yensch" wearing a bracelet that makes him feel everything that D'Argo feels. After a bunch of comedy at Braca's expense, the good lieutenant gets shot and spends the rest of the episode trying not to bleed out.
** For a few episodes in Season 4, Grayza uses her pheromones on him only to refuse his pheromone-induced advances, both because it amuses her and so she can use him as a living communicator so she can speak with a telepathic assassin without anyone knowing.
* TheCaptain: Is a Lieutenant for most of the series, until he is later promoted to Captain. [[spoiler:He is later promoted to Admiral in the comics.]]
* TheDragon: To Scorpius, and then later to Grayza. [[spoiler: Later episodes revealed that he was still loyal to Scorpius even while working for Grayza.]]
** CoDragons: Him and Sikozu to Scorpius, during Season 4 and the miniseries.
* FantasticRacism: At first, he's not too pleased at having to serve under a half-bread like Scorpius. He grows out of it once he realizes that Scorpius is the one thing standing between the Peacekeepers and their destruction at the hands of the Scarrans.
* LastNameBasis: His first name isn't revealed until the second-last episode of the series.
* MauveShirt: Braca was originally just another mook in a couple of late Season 1 episodes, but Scorpius needed a number two and David Franklin was such a damn good actor that he eventually got a MookPromotion.
* MookLieutenant: Starts as one. He gives Scorpius someone to talk to.
* MookPromotion: From a random Peacekeeper soldier to "Captain Miklo Braca, Officer of the Fleet, Peacekeeper Interplanetary Service".
* SubordinateExcuse: His feelings for Scorpius quite clearly go way beyond simple loyalty or careerism, shown most blatantly by how emotional he becomes when he thinks Scorpius is putting his own life at risk in "Incubator".

!Natira

->''Animal, you have lovely eyes. I love red eyes. Very sensual. Very unusual.''

->Played by Claudia Karvan

A corrupt banker to gangsters, and Scorpius's ex.

* [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babe]]
* BrainsAndBondage
* ContemplativeBoss: Manages this with the windows of her office while torturing Crichton.
--> Blue eyes, look out at that. That is the last sight your eyes will ever see.
* CuteLittleFangs
* DarkMistress- to Scorpius. [[spoiler: She's actually planning to assassinate him.]]
* EvilMentor: Apparently, she served as this to Scorpius when he was younger.
-->'''Natira:''' Without me, you'd still be the same angry, hotheaded young creature I took in so many cycles ago.
-->'''Scorpius:''' Without me, your head -- among other things -- would be a trophy on the wall at Peacekeeper Command.
* EyeScream: Those flexible spines on her head -- the ones that stand upright and twitch when she gets sexually excited? Those are used for stabbing people's eyes out.
* {{Foil}}: To Scorpius. While Natira sees their relationship as a sort of game and her [[spoiler:attempt to kill him]] as part of said game, Scorpius takes it completely seriously and does not appreciate [[spoiler:her attempted murder of him]]. Scorpius sees torture as a means to an end. Natira plucks people's eyes out for her own twisted pleasure.
* GorgeousGorgon: Not literally, but her appearance does lend itself towards this- to the point that Crichton calls her "Medusa."
* InsectoidAliens: Okay, more crustacean than insect...
* MorallyBankruptBanker: Apart from the torture and murder comitted on a daily basis, she also claimed the contents of Scorpius' vault for herself, presuming that Scorpius had died in the destruction of his Gammak base. Then, when Scorpius showed up alive and asking for his money, Natira was very happy to steal the contents of someone else's vault to repay him. [[spoiler: However, it's actually a deathtrap... which the crew of Moya end up stealing.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Quite apart from having orange-red eyes of her own, she has a thing for red eyes in general.
* SexyWalk: As evidenced in her "BetweenMyLegs" introduction, which also draws attention to the fact that her exoskeleton has ''high heels.''
* SoftspokenSadist
* TortureTechnician
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The producers wanted her to return in a later episode, but Claudia Karvan didn't want to put herself through the prosthetics and animatronics again.

!Ka Jothee

->''I'm only ''half Luxan...'' and for many cycles, I didn't even want to be ''that.

-> Played by Grant Magee (child), Matt Newton (adult, series 2-3), Nathaniel Dean (adult, "The Peacekeeper Wars")

D'Argo's long-lost son, who has deep issues relating to his mixed ancestry, his mother's death, his separation from his father, and... well, you name it.

* BackForTheFinale
* BeardOfBarbarism: Grows one in time for ''Peacekeeper Wars'', after becoming reconciled to his father's culture.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jothee bears a deep scar across his nose, and most of his head-tentacles have been mutilated. "Die Me Dichotomy" revealed that these were actually self-inflicted.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Sebacean Hybrid]]
* MarkOfShame: After finding out that Jothee was having an affair with Chiana, D'Argo branded him with one of the union tattoes he'd intended for himself and Chiana- and destroyed the other tattoo so that Chiana couldn't mark herself with it's twin.
* OnlySaneEmployee: When he joins the Luxan military this is explicitly the job of his rank. As his sergeant puts it, "The rest of us just like to fight."
* TheOtherDarrin: Only recurring character to be recast during the series' run.

!Grunchlk

->''This is business: '' I '' have the supply, '' I '' make the demand.''

->Played by Hugh Keays-Byrne

The crooked fixer to a Diagnosian super-medic.

* BeardOfEvil: Grows one of these in ''The Peacekeeper Wars.''
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Backstabs Crichton by alerting Scorpius, backstabs Scorpius by defrosting a Scarran spy, who he'd backstabbed a lot earlier to hand over to Scorpius if everything went well...
* FatBastard
* {{Fingore}}: Ends up being forced to eat one of his own fingers by Scorpius.
* HonestJohnsDealership: Though the Diagnosan doctors he represents are as skilled as advertised, Grunchlk will always ensure that their services are ridiculously overpriced. Plus, the "donors" frozen in the cryogenics facility are patients that didn't survive their treatments... or looked like they were going to die before they were operated on... or related to the deceased...
* LargeHam
* NotQuiteDead: When Stark reveals that Grunchlk's frozen donors are preserved just before they die, [[AndIMustScream trapping their souls inside their bodies]], Grunchlk reassures him that they're "effectively dead."
** IronicEcho: Some time after the Scarran agent locks him into [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of the cryopods]], Stark finds him... and leaves him there, reporting him as "dead, effectively."
* SmugSnake
* StoutStrength: Forces Stark into paying extra by casually performing a NeckLift on him.
* TheUnpronounceable: Scorpius is the only character capable of pronouncing his name properly.
* VillainousGlutton: Always seems to be eating something while on-screen -- to the point that Braca was able to find him by noticing that he'd dropped his sandwich right in front of his hiding-spot.

!Pathfinder Neeyala

-> "Will" ''is a poor substitute for beersian alloy when crushed by astronomical tidal forces!''

->Played by Victoria Longley

An alien scientist pitted by circumstances against the ''Moya'' crew, after a wormhole accident.

* AffablyEvil
* ApologeticAttacker: "I have never before released my bristles to kill. Your forgiveness."
* BenevolentBoss: As indicated by her PetTheDog moment.
* ChekhovsGunman: At the end of her second and final episode, she implants Moya with a beacon that will alert the Pathfinder elite to their presence; though Crichton worries, nothing more is thought of it... until Moya is unexpectedly yanked down a wormhole at the end of the third season. "Unrealised Realities" reveals that Einstein, inspecting the state of wormhole knowledge in the region, detected the Pathfinder beacon and brought Moya in for examination.
* DeadpanSnarker
* [[FishPeople Fish Person]]
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Like all Pathfinders, she has the ability to shoot poisonous bristles from her gills.
* TheSpock
* SpockSpeak: Even when clearly under great stress, she's still adept at flinging technobable about.
* SssssnakeTalk: Even though she's technically piscine.

* [[IHaveYourWife We Have Your Family And The Families Of Your Crew]]: One of the reasons why Neeyala is so fanatically devoted to saving her ship is because the Pathfinder government would have her family and the families of her crew executed if they returned without it and the data they'd acquired.
!Xhalax Sun

->''I've heard loved ones leave you in pieces. That little by little, you start to forget things about them. But that's not true: you lose them -- everything -- instantly. And suddenly, nothing can replace them. Nothing. And now '' you ''have nothing. How does it feel?''

[[spoiler:Aeryn's mother,]] a loyal Peacekeeper sent to recapture ''Talyn''.

->Played by Linda Cropper

* ArchEnemy: To Aeryn
* AxeCrazy
* BadassLongCoat: In "The Choice."
* CrazyPrepared: Left a knife and a supply of stimulant concealed inside her wrist in case she was ever captured.
* [[spoiler: DisneyVillainDeath]]
* FemmeFatalons: Used for cutting her wrist open to retrieve the knife.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The left side of her head has been badly scarred, and she's missing her left ear.
* HeartbrokenBadass
* LukeIAmYourFather: Xhalax decided to reveal the fact that she was Aeryn's mother many years before the series began; she also informed Aeryn that she was concieved not to provide the Peacekeepers with another expendable soldier, but out of love.
* MysteriousMercenaryPursuer: Xhalax was this up until Crais revealed who was leading the Retrieval Squad.
* SadisticChoice: Peacekeeper Command discovered her LukeIAmYourFather moment and were outraged. They ordered her to kill either Aeryn or Aeryn's father Talyn Lyczac as a way of redeeming herself. Xhalax chose Talyn.
* TwoFaced
* VillainousBreakdown: After watching the hologram recording of her [[PetTheDog first meeting with Aeryn]], Xhalax throws a temper tantrum which continues until the end of the episode.

!Commandant Mele-On Grayza

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->''What I want may not be as bad as you think. You might even like it.''

->Played by Rebecca Riggs

A manipulative and decadent senior Peacekeeper officer, who becomes Scorpius's rival for power within the organisation.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Or, as Crichton refers to her, "Commandant Cleavage."
* BadBoss
* BigBad: For the first half or so of Season 4.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Thanks to a gland implanted in her chest, she can secrete a powerful pheromone that goes beyond mind control. This leads to John Crichton's big aversion of the DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale trope.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: ''Heavily'' averted, although she certainly seems to believe that what she's doing isn't rape.
--> My interrogations are ''much'' more agreeable than Scorpius' methods.
* [[spoiler:ExpressDelivery]]: Between season 4 and the miniseries.
* {{Expy}}: In appearance and personality, she bears a strong resemblance to Servalan, the BigBad of ''Series/BlakesSeven''.
* FemmeFatale
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Her attempts to appease the Scarrans in season 4. She's obvious enough about it that it actually tips them off that the Peacekeepers are weaker than they had thought.
* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:The superior she kills is also strongly implied to be the father of her unborn child.]]
* [[spoiler:MamaBear]]: It's implied that the main reason she goes along with [[spoiler:Crichton's demands in "The Peacekeeper Wars" is to protect her unborn child]].
* MindRape: The Heppel oil secreted by a gland implanted in her chest acts as an extremely potent pheromone, with which she uses to rape Crichton.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Rebecca Riggs really was [[spoiler: that heavily pregnant]] when "The Peacekeeper Wars" was filmed: she'd thought that the show was cancelled permanently and decided it was time [[spoiler: to have a child]].
** She also missed "Bad Timing" because of her wedding. Grayza was consequently said to be detained and sedated in the episode.
* SmugSmiler
* SmugSnake
* VillainousBreakdown: After Crichton makes her realize her plans for peace have failed, she goes through this, though regains ''some'' sanity later.
--> In my hands - you can have peace! '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! CAN! HAVE! PEACE!]]'''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It is never made entirely clear if [[spoiler:the father of her unborn child is Crichton or Maryk.]]
* WomanInBlack

!1812

->''Beep beep beep!''

->Played by Itself

A DRD who becomes Crichton's personal mascot.

* TheCameo: In the miniseries.
* ChekhovsSkill: In "I Shrink Therefore I Am," it's the only DRD on Moya not disabled by the bounty hunters, because it originates on a different Leviathan.
* DoAnythingRobot
* DoomedHometown: The last surviving DRD of Elack, a dying Leviathan that [[spoiler:sacrificed himself to save the crew of Moya]] in the third episode of Season 4.
* MauveShirt: Both figuratively and literally, in the sense that Crichton has repainted it to look different than the rest of the RedShirtArmy.
* MundaneUtility: When not performing repairs or defence duties, 1812 is either operating Crichton's distillery or singing the 1812 Overture.
* NoGender
* PintSizedPowerhouse
* RobotBuddy
* TheUnintelligible: It "speaks" in R2-D2-style beeps, but Crichton [[BilingualDialogue seems to understand it just fine]].
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Crichton has painted 1812 with the colours of the French flag.
* YouAreNumberSix

!Einstein

->''Your knowledge is quite extraordinary for one of your realm. And your many travels inside wormholes... troubling. But now that I've glimpsed your mind, I'm aware this has made you a target of more aggressive species: a liability which must be dealt with...''

->Played by John Bach

A mysterious superbeing attempting to make sure that various characters' attempts to gain wormhole knowledge don't disrupt the multiverse too much.

* AllPowerfulBystander
* BaldOfAwesome
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Okay, maybe [[DarkIsNotEvil not exactly evil...]]
* CreepyMonotone
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: We don't even get the slightest glimpse of what he ''really'' looks like.
* TheMentor
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PowerFloats: During a conversation with Crichton, (who's sitting on top of an iceberg) Einstein very subtly levitates until he's at eye-level with him.

* SharpDressedMan: In the words of Crichton, "nice threads."
* SpockSpeak
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien

* TheWatcher

!War Minister Ahkna

->''Grayza doesn't frighten me. Her command carrier doesn't frighten me. Your bomb doesn't frighten me -- and neither do you.''

->Played by Francesca Buller

The brutal and grudgeful leader of the Scarrans' war effort.

* CuteMonsterGirl
* [[spoiler:FamousLastWords: "At least you die," referring to John, but she gets killed by Aaeryn seconds before Ahkna pulls the trigger]].
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Borderline case -- Ahkna was apparently courting Pennoch, a member of a lower Scarran caste.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: By Aeryn]].
* NiceHat
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: With Staleek. He's willing, at least in principle, to bargain with Crichton, but Ahkna does everything she can to sabotage the deal.
* TheStarscream: To Staleek. Strangely, Staleek himself let her sit on his throne, giving her an ultimatum - carry out one final order from him, and get a promotion that would subsequently lead to her becoming "Empress".
* TortureTechnician

!Emperor Staleek

->''War is our path. At the peace table, we know how we're viewed: brutish, ignorant.''

->Played by Duncan Young

The leader of the Scarran culture, determined to increase his race's power by (almost) any means necessary.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Zigzagged. He acknowledges that the Scarrans are [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy incredibly violent and ruthless]], but he takes issue that other species flanderize his species as "brutish, ignorant".
* BigBad: Takes over in season four and TheMovie.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: Inverted. He gets influenced by an Eidolon in an attempt to end the war with the Peacekeepers, and it's largely successful... until Ahkna kills the Eidolon and dispels the control he had on Staleek]].
* CostumePorn
* EvilOverlord: He's the Emperor of the Scarrans.
* LargeAndInCharge: Stands ''at least'' a full head taller than any other Scarran on the show.
* NobleDemon
* OpposingCombatPhilosophies: With Ahkna. While Staleek himself is at least in principle willing to deal with Crichton, Ahkna tries to sabotage any deal at every turn. He's less than pleased about this, because as Emperor, his word of honor is his trust capital.
--> '''Staleek:''' '''STOP! SEEING BITUBIAN VIPERS IN EVERY CORNER!!''' And ''never'' countermand my orders again.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* VillainousBreakdown: Looks rather.... apprehensive at agreeing to a peace treaty with the Peacekeepers. Guess that's what happens when you're almost literally ''two minutes'' away from getting swallowed up by a wormhole weapon.
* WellIntentionedExtremist

!Jenavian Charto

-> ''John - if I fail, so many innocent lives will be lost. Help me do my job, and I'll help you get what you want. Whatever it is.''

-> Played by Bianca Chiminello

A Peacekeeper secret agent, encountered by John while trying to reduce Scarran influence over the Breakaway Colonies.

* ActionGirl: Reveals her true identity to Crichton in the most ass-kicking manner possible [[spoiler: by effortlessly slaughtering a group of assassins that had just thoroughly kicked his ass]].
* [[spoiler: AlwaysChaoticEvil: Thoroughly averts this where the Peacekeepers are concerned. She's certainly ruthless at her job and leaves no doubt that she's willing to kill anyone who jeopardizes her mission, (she attacks ''Scorpius'' to [[ItMakesSenseInContext rescue Crichton's severed head from him]]) but she expresses genuine concern for the lives at risk should she fail. Jenavian is one of the first characters in the series to show that the Peacekeepers do indeed have an altruistic purpose.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Has a stiletto hidden in her wrist, which she can extend {{Wolverine}}-style.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jena gets quite a few choice lines.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Despite only appearing in three episodes, Jenavian is one of the most popular characters in the series, and actress Bianca Chiminello is in high demand at any gathering for the series.
* FirstNameBasis: One of the few characters to regularly address Crichton by his first name.
* GirlOfTheWeek: To Crichton.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler: Jenavian's orders are to preserve the neutrality of the Breakaway Colonies and prevent Clavor from aligning them with the Scarrans, which Scorpius indicates would provoke an all-out war. She's willing to take whatever measures are necessary to see this through, no matter [[DirtyBusiness how ugly]].]]
* ShipTease: Jena and Crichton spend a night together and she even expresses an interest in starting an ongoing relationship with him.
** ShipSinking: Though Crichton does let her down on the latter.
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Jenavian is introduced as Prince Clavor's fiance. In truth she's a Peacekeeper Disruptor infiltrated into the royal court by Special Directorate to protect the neutrality of the Breakaway Colonies by preventing Clavor from succeeding to the throne and allying with the Scarrans.]]

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[[folder:Civilisations and Organisations]]
!The Ancients

->'''Crichton:''' What will you do now?
->''' "Jack":''' What we've done since before I was hatched. We continue searching for a home...

A mysterious race of highly advanced aliens, who are searching for a new home after their original homeworld was destroyed.

* DyingRace
* InnocentAliens: Certainly not naive, though -- the test they put Crichton through in their first episode was used to determine whether the human race would accept them if they ever chose Earth as a haven.
* InsectoidAliens
* MysteriousWatcher: Apparently, the Ancients were originally created to act as this for an entire universe, having been sent into our dimension to monitor and catalogue the state of wormhole technology in it. Of course, by the time of their first episode, they've forgotten this role.
* ThePromisedLand: With their species in decline and their original mission lost, the Ancients are now seeking out a world where they can flourish -- preferably in coexistence with the local sentients. They find one and settle on it between appearances, but refuse to give any details.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: Quite apart from their ability to craft physical environments based on Crichton's memory, they'd also mastered the art of wormhole travel and weaponry.
* {{Telepathy}}

!The True Ancients/"Einstein's People"

Cousins of the previous culture who retained their full power.

* TheGhost: We only ever meet ''one'' of them -- and he isn't willing to show his true face.
* RealityWarper
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
* TimeMaster

* BizarreAlienBiology: At just under two feet high, he's broadly humanoid, but he has three stomachs, can breathe water, farts helium when nervous, and his bodily fluids turn explosive if he eats tanna root, the main ingredient of "chakan oil", which is the standardised ammo for Peacekeepers.

* DyeingForYourArt: Alongside the blue pigment that wreaked havoc on Virginia Hey's kidneys, she also had to shave her head and her eyebrows to play Zhaan. She held in there for as long as she could, but finally she couldn't take it anymore. She initially tried to compromise with a bald cap and prosthetics, but she finally had to leave.