I was kinda hoping those who'd watched the show would chime in... Rygel is the Hynerian emporer in exile, and he always dreams of glory and talks about how in his day he had all these servants, and such... he's very funny, and most of the time pretty worthless to the Farscape crew... He's amazingly selfish, but sometimes sweet, then he'll go and do something incredibly ruthless... it's a weird show... strangely coherent, though when you watch it at first, you really wonder if it is...

We've now watched the first three seasons, and we're trying to convince the mother in law to buy and bring Season 4...  (Season 3 ended with a rather huge cliffhanger...) 

--Ray