When his experimental spacecraft is thrust through a wormhole, astronaut John Crichton finds himself transported to a strange, alien galaxy light years from Earth! He now finds himself on the run from a totalitarian regime, the "Peacekeepers." Crichton's only hope of survival is a band of escaped prisoners - a renegade Peacekeeper soldier, a raging Luxan warrior, an anarchist priestess and a deposed despot - all onboard a living starship the fugitives have used for their escape!