Crazy Farscape theory

Cafe Society
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I’m currently a little over halfway through the first season of Farscape (just after Chiana’s come on board), and I’ve come up with a hypothesis that I think can explain many odd things about the show. To whit:

[ul][li]Nobody’s ever heard of humans or Earth, despite having a Galaxy-spanning civilization[/li][li]The humanoid races (basically, all those who aren’t Muppets) seem to all be related, to varying degrees. We’ve already seen races described as being related to the Luxans or the Sebaceans, and it’s even possible for apparently very different races to interbreed.[/li][li]To anything short of a medical exam, humans and Sebaceans are indistinguishable, and even to a medical exam, the first difference noted is that humans have funny gut bacteria. It’s considered plausible that humans and Sebaceans might be closely related, despite us never having had alien contact before and being clearly related to Earthly life.[/li][li]Many units of measure have names that sound an awful lot like comparable Earthly units (“arn” for “hour”, for instance).[/ul][/li]
So here’s the idea that pulls all of this together: Crichton isn’t just displaced in space; he’s displaced in time, as well. He comes out of that wormhole millions of [del]years[/del]cycles after he went in. In the mean time, humanity has gone Fermi and populated the entire Galaxy, only occasionally encountering other races like the Hynerians. The dispersed humans have continued to evolve, and the geographical isolation has led to speciation or sub-speciation into Luxans, Delvians, and other such races. A few populations such as the Sebaceans, who highly value genetic purity, have stayed fairly close to the ancestral form, at least superficially. Language also continued to evolve, but a few terms remained close to the terms in the Earthly languages whence they came. Crichton can never return home, because enough time has passed that everyone has forgotten about the original Earth and humans, and Earth itself might not even be habitable any more. The genetic mad scientist can’t figure out where Crichton is from, because he’s about equally related to everyone.

Without any more spoilers than are necessary, a simple yes-no question: Does this continue to hold water?

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Have you seen the wrap up movie: Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars?

Can’t remember or find it offhand right now, but they introduce the long-lost original race that set up the Peacekeepers as their assistants and enforcers, over 10,000 years previously.

They found a “primitive race” (clearly implied to be Humans) in another galaxy (or a remote part of this galaxy, I can’t recall offhand) and genetically manipulated them for their needs. It is clear throughout the series that the Peacekeepers have continued to manipulate their own genes since then.

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Like I said, only partway through the first season.

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No, it does not.