The way that Farscape works, it would be impossible for one of the cast members to direct an episode. There’s two units running at any one time, an A unit and a B unit and so that means that we’re shooting more than one episode at a time. Any time you may think we have some down time, we don’t. If we’re not shooting on A unit we’re shooting on B unit. If we’re not shooting on A and B unit we’re doing ADR (Additional Dialogue Replacement).

Shooting an episode of Farscape, because it really is such a big, involved and detailed show, takes so much pre-production, not only in terms of negotiating sets and costumes and guest sets but also negotiating the shots with the CGI house and the CGI people. Then you’ve got to shoot it and edit it and then you’re got to re-meet with all the CGI people. It’s a really long process to direct an episode of Farscape, so if you think about taking a cast member out and putting them inside that process you realise it’s an absolutely impossible thing to do.