Finding himself in the middle of a skirmish—and watching helplessly as a ship of highly-advanced technology is destroyed after clipping his module—he is captured and brought aboard the Leviathan Moya, a living ship, commandeered by escaped prisoners: Ka D'Argo, a Luxan warrior; Dominar Rygel XVI, a deposed Hynerian ruler; and Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, a Delvian priestess.

Distracting the Peacekeeper guards, Crichton manages to escape with D'Argo and a reluctant Aeryn back to Moya, only to realize Crais' Command Carrier is in hot pursuit.

Unable to starburst away, Crichton manages to use his own acceleration theories, originally formulated for Farscape One, to help Moya successfully escape the Peacekeepers.

Free from pursuit, the escaped prisoners, lost human, and ex-Peacekeeper slowly adjust to life aboard the liberated Leviathan, but not without a few clashes.

[1] In order to highlight their puppetry skills, The Henson Company puppeteers created Rygel to be as small as possible, so the viewers could clearly see that it was not a human being in a suit.

[3] A DVD Empire reviewer felt that both Rygel and Pilot were state-of-the-art animated marvels, and surpassed The Jim Henson Company's work on Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.