If you were creating a new series, and you were allowed to steal one piece of technology from Star Trek, which would you choose?

I think people steal all sorts of things from Star Trek. With Farscape, we�re trying to do a series that�s very different from Star Trek. But because Star Trek exists, we have something to play off of.

We don�t want it to be as technologically advanced as Star Trek. We want our show to be much more dirty fingernails. In Farscape you�ve got to take a wrench to do this, and you have to take a transport down to a planet, you can�t take the transporter. It�s a less technological world that we�ve created, but it�s a direct reaction to Star Trek.

It�s not because we don�t like Star Trek, it�s exactly the opposite. What we want to do is to do something that was as fresh and original and different for the audience as we could. We�d always say that that�s too much like Star Trek, or what did Star Trek do here, and how can we make it a little bit different? We work very hard at that, but we�re all very aware of the original Star Trek.