Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - Season 1

Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes40
DatesAug. 30, 1999 - Apr. 5, 2000

Episodes

Freefall
Season 1Episode 130 min

Freefall

When Rico, Flores and Jenkins arrive on Pluto they discover that research ouposts are being threatened by dangerous plasma-shooting alien bugs.

Aug. 30, 1999
Plasma Bugs of Navarone
Season 1Episode 230 min

Plasma Bugs of Navarone

Pilots Carmen and Zander have to be rescued when their ship is shot down by the plasma bugs.

Aug. 31, 1999
Handle with Care
Season 1Episode 330 min

Handle with Care

The Roughnecks are sent on a special mission behind enemy lines to help an intelligence officer bring back a live plasma bug.

Sept. 1, 1999
Basic Training
Season 1Episode 430 min

Basic Training

The Roughnecks must rescue a demolition squad trapped in a canyon by flying warrior bugs. Meanwhile, Rico must train a reporter so that he can defend himself in combat.

Sept. 3, 1999
Deep Trouble
Season 1Episode 530 min

Deep Trouble

When the Roughnecks are sent underground to locate the tunnel with the bug army's hatchery, Dizzy suffers from an attack of claustrophobia.

Sept. 22, 1999
Water, Water Everywhere
Season 1Episode 630 min

Water, Water Everywhere

When a transport bug is followed from Pluto to the planet Hydora, the Roughnecks are ordered to determine if it could be the bug home world.

Okt. 12, 1999
Swarm
Season 1Episode 730 min

Swarm

Rico is reunited with Carmen when what starts as a simple retrieval mission on Hydora develops into a full blown battle with huge numbers of a aggressive new strain of ripplers known as kamikazes.

Sept. 30, 1999
Search & Destroy
Season 1Episode 830 min

Search & Destroy

The Roughnecks are sent to destroy a rippler nest on Hydora.
 

Okt. 21, 1999
Missing in Action
Season 1Episode 930 min

Missing in Action

The Roughnecks return to Hydora to locate two squads that have seemingly vanished into thin air.

Nov. 11, 1999
Sole Survivor
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Sole Survivor

The Roughnecks discover the commander of Delta Squad, Lt. Ross, wandering around on Hydora with his long-term memory wiped out and his entire squad missing.

Nov. 4, 1999
Betrayal
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Betrayal

Arriving on the planet of Tophet, the Roughnecks are surprised to meet an advanced indigenous species. They claim the bugs came, but couldn't adapt to their climate and died... But where are all the corpses then?
Feb. 16, 2000
Stranded
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Stranded

As the war moves to the planet Tophet, the Roughnecks go after Razak and Higgins, who are trapped behind enemy lines and about to be blown up by their own air strike.
Sept. 2, 1999
Of Flesh and Steel
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Of Flesh and Steel

On a mission to capture an important mountain pass, Rico has trouble trusting the squad's newest member, a cyborg.
Sept. 8, 1999
Captured
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Captured

The Roughnecks are captured by the skinnies, and held for interrogation.
Jan. 28, 2000
The Face of Truth
Season 1Episode 1530 min

The Face of Truth

The capture of the "skinny" Colonel T'Phai reveals that the entire race are being mentally controlled by the bugs and that they are using the planet for fuel and plan to blow it up after they are done. Can the Roughnecks stop the bugs in time?
Feb. 14, 2000
No Substitute
Season 1Episode 1630 min

No Substitute

The Skinnies, formerly working for the Bugs, have changed sides but one of them meets considerable resistance when he joins the squad for its assault on Zegema Beach.
Nov. 19, 1999
...And Then There Were Two
Season 1Episode 1730 min

...And Then There Were Two

Rico still doesn't trust T'Phai, but In the jungle on Tesca Nemerosa, they are forced to work together when the other squad members start disappearing.
Dez. 9, 1999
Marauder
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Marauder

As the squad tries to locate a brain bug on Tesca Nemerosa from underwater, Rico is trapped when his Marauder suit runs out of power.
Dez. 3, 1999
Liquid Dreams
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Liquid Dreams

While a monsoon hits the Zegema Base hard, Rico floats unconscious in a regeneration tank, fighting his subconscious to stay alive.
Dez. 17, 1999
Heart
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Heart

Still in the tank, Rico grows increasingly angry and frustarted that no one is taking his claims that the bugs are coming seriously. Meanwhile, the squad is out to charting bug tunnels near the base.
Jan. 3, 2000
Ice-Olation
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Ice-Olation

The Roughnecks are sent on mission on what appears to be an asteroid. Complications arise during the mission however that has the Roughnecks fighting for survival.

Feb. 8, 2000
Mixed Signals
Season 1Episode 2230 min

Mixed Signals

The Zephyr remains crash-landed on a frozen asteroid. A team is sent out to collect Toxin B-3, a potent bio-weapon that they've found here (to their surprise, since it was supposed to be found on another asteroid entirely), while Gossard and others remain at the ship to try to get the communications system working to send an SOS... and to protect the ship from Firefries, fire-breathing bugs that the Roughnecks accidentally brought to the asteroid as eggs. The collection team fights Leeches, aggressive amorphous blobs, inside a cave; in the aftermath of the battle they discover that the Leeches are the source of the Toxin B-3. But while collecting them the team finds itself at the mercy of a hurricane-force wind coming from inside the cave. The wind blows Carmen away, and the team fears for her life. The episode climaxes in a massive battle with the Firefries around the ship. When it's over, Gossard is able to send an SOS, and Carmen returns. It looks like help is on the way. (from pazs
Feb. 15, 2000
Hot Ice
Season 1Episode 2330 min

Hot Ice

Having crashed on a barren asteroid, the Roughnecks try to make their way to a crashed science vessel for help.
Nov. 25, 1999
The Inside Story
Season 1Episode 2430 min

The Inside Story

The Zephyr is still stuck on the ice asteroid. The Roughnecks are running low on ammunition and the Fireflies keep attacking. Gossard suggests they use the Toxin they've collected to set up a poison gas perimeter. To give him time T'Phai, Flores and Rico lead the Fireflies off as human bait. Things go wrong though and they are trapped with no apparent way out. Suddenly Zander appears and does a Pied Piper act with the Bugs - they all seem to fall into a giant crater. The team return to the ship and their report convinces every one Sander has bought the farm - but he suddenly reappears even crazier then before. Razak boots Rico up to a Corporal during the next battle session during which an tremor send the Zephyr into another crater. The ship eventually lands in a lake of corrosive liquid and is running low on air. Doc and Brutto go looking for an oxygen supply. T hey manage to find one but barely make it back to the ship. Doc though has other news! He is
Jan. 17, 2000
The Ice Men Goeth
Season 1Episode 2530 min

The Ice Men Goeth

The Zephyr is trapped inside a giant Bug. Razak sends out a team to try and retrieve oxygen from the location found by Doc and Brutto. The way to the oxygen is down a shaft. Flores and Doc enter a strange portal in the side of the shaft but Brutto has a bad fall. Rico rescues Brutto and returns him to the ship then returns with Higgins to find Doc & Flores. These have been swept away in one of the Bugs arteries. Rico has to leave Higgins but finds Flores and Doc OK. Razak goes looking for them and finds Higgins who is suffering from lack of air in his suit. Air is now being pumped into the ship. Back at the ship, Zander is getting madder. Gossard gets the idea of using the Firefries as a fuel source from listening to him The rest of the squad return to the ship just prior to take off. Zander has been restrained but somehow escapes and attempts to sabotage the ship but the squad stop him. As they prepare to launch he escapes again and triggers the self-de
März 9, 2000
Metamorphosis
Season 1Episode 2630 min

Metamorphosis

The Valley Forge is enroute to their next campaign, a long trip. The Roughnecks drew the watch as most of the ship's crew is in stasis. Doc is suddenly attacked by Zander who has mutated into a new form of Bug. Zander escapes and runs amok in the ship, letting samples of other Bug types free to keep the Roughnecks busy whilst it heads for the bridge. There it captures Carmen and the Commander and, to stop the Roughnecks from interfering, kills power to the stasis tubes. Gossard manages to restore power to the tubes whilst Rico and Brutto go outside the Valley Forge to the emergency air lock on the bridge. As they enter the Sander Bug notices them and closes the door trapping Brutto in the process and damaging his legs. The rest of the team arrive and Zander escapes in a life-pod to the planet he was trying to crash the Valley Forge onto. Carmen manages to avoid the crash causing the Commander to withdraw earlier comments about automated pilots. The planet is t
Feb. 18, 2000
D-Day
Season 1Episode 2730 min

D-Day

S.I.C.O.N. prepares for the D-Day invasion of the bug home planet of Klendathu. During the build-up Flores gets an M.I.A. notice from telling her. that her brother, Eddie is MIA - presumed dead in a retrieval ship crash. She is badly shaken by this bombshell and her performance as a trooper is severely affected. The Roughnecks land in an area deemed uninhabited by Intel, as usual Intel get it wrong and the meet stiff opposition. Flores hesitates in the DZ and Rico who's been kicked up to Sergeant to replace Brutto is worried as Lt Razak has left it to him to decide whether she is now a liability. Rico is torn and leaves Flores in charge of a group of wounded troopers from other squads whilst the Roughnecks carry on the fight. As they get bogged down in the fighting Flores is brought back to reality by the will to fight of an injured trooper from another squad. She is able to surprise the Bugs from behind and save the Roughnecks. Later she meets another trooper who
Feb. 17, 2000
The Mission
Season 1Episode 2830 min

The Mission

Higgins is on guard duty at a camp on Klendathu. Whilst in front of the gates he sees a trooper staggering along. As he talks to the trooper a new type of Bug, hence known as an Impostor Bug, bursts out of the suit. The Impostor is a Bug that approximates the size and shape of a human and is able to fit inside stolen power suits. As such they present a major threat to the security of S.I.C.O.N. forces. The troopers manage to kill the bug but not before it manages to drop Lt Razak and knock his helmet off. After the attack, the Roughnecks are ordered to rescue the crew of a downed transport ship. When they get to the crashed ships location they discover that the crew have been captured by Bugs. As the squad track them Bugs back to their nest Lt Razak collapses - it seems he has been infected by spores carried by the Impostor Bug. Doc and Flores go to find the fungus responsible so Doc can synthesise an antidote whilst the rest of the squad keep tracking the Bugs.
Feb. 25, 2000
Letters Home
Season 1Episode 2930 min

Letters Home

The Roughnecks are dug in on Klendathu and are facing an inevitable Bug attack. High Command order them to hold the position at all costs. Higgins finds an unfinished letter home an anonymous trooper had begun but not finished. This gives him the idea of taping a series of ""Goodbyes"" from the rest of the squad to the folks back home - just in case. Through out the night the troopers individually record messages to their families on Earth. At day break the Bugs attack but the Troopers manage to hold them off just long enough for a major air strike to hit the Bugs. As they prepare for retrieval Higgins asks Lt Razak if he wants to tape a message to his family - Razak points him at the squad and tells him that these are his family.
Feb. 21, 2000
Checkmate
Season 1Episode 3030 min

Checkmate

Lt Razak is called to a mission briefing to find it being given by Sky Marshall Sanchez himself. The Sky Marshall tells the assembled officers about the of the Bug Queen. He then assigns Alpha and Echo squads the mission of locating and destroying the Queen. One bit of seemingly good news is the return of Carl to the squad. But the Roughnecks are dismayed to find an apparent change in his personality. Carl guides the roughnecks to the queens lair but is captured by Bugs enroute losing his helmet in the process. The Roughnecks find the Queen but she is holding Carl as a shield and Rico is unable to pull the trigger on his friend. In the fire fight the Queen drops Carl and Rico returns his helmet. The squad give chase to the Queen but are unable to stop her escaping on a Transport Bug - enroute to Earth!!!!
März 6, 2000
Trackers
Season 1Episode 3130 min

Trackers

The S.I.C.O.N. Fleet is hunting for the Bug Queen, after she escaped in a Transport Bug from Klendathu. Whilst in transit the Roughnecks get a mail delivery and find out Higgins had a girlfriend they weren't aware of who had just dumped him. The Roughnecks get annoyed that, whilst Higgins has the info. on them, they are ignorant about him. The Valley Forge intercepts what seems to be the Transport Bug the Queen is in and destroys it. As they make their report the same thing is received from the other fleet vessels. Carl twigs that the destroyed bugs were just decoys to distract the fleet whilst the Queen heads toward Earth. Due to Carls psychic abilities the Valley Forge is able to intercept the Queens Transport Bug. But the Bug seems resistant to all the ships weapons. 2The Roughnecks are sent into blow the Bug from the inside. They only have 48 hours before it reaches the Earth. Despite heavy resistance inside the Transport Bug they apparently achieve their missi
März 28, 2000
Among Us
Season 1Episode 3230 min

Among Us

All S.I.C.O.N. forces revert to peace status after the Bug Queen has apparently been destroyed. Carl, though, keeps insisting the Queen is still very much alive and on the earth - somewhere. After another argument General Redwing sends him on leave to cool down. Meanwhile the roughnecks are reassigned - to the moons of Jupiter to repair the radio telescopes. Rico believes Carl is right and manages to convince Lt Razak too. Razak cuts through the red tape and gets Gossard to review satellite imagery of the earth before and after the Queens assumed arrival. Gossard finds an new, unexplained, hot spot near to Little Butte, North Dakota. The roughnecks divert their shuttle there without formal authorization but the town seems to be normal - until they realize the towns- people all look alike and sound alike. A s soon as they realize this they are attacked by the residents. The Roughnecks manage to capture a resident and get back to the ship. As they take off the r
März 3, 2000
Hide n' Seek
Season 1Episode 3330 min

Hide n' Seek

A massive bug mound has appeared outside of Buenos Aires. S.I.C.O.N. thinks the Bugs are going to assault the city again so they try to bomb the mound from the air. Plasma Tanker Bugs shot the planes down though and, because they keep changing location the air attacks are unable to neutralize them. So the Roughnecks are sent in with four other squads to locate and destroy the Tanker Bugs so the mound can be bombed to destruction. The squads dig in and hide whilst s decoy force lures the Warrior Bugs defending the Tankers away. Rico's group is almost detected by a Bug but Carl is able to mentally change its view and thus save the group. As the squads move in at night the game is given away by a trooper from another squad who launches a grenade at some Bugs. However this turns out to have a positive effect as all the Tanker Bugs start to fire all at once believing it's another aerial attack thus revealing all their positions simultaneously. The squads launch a missi
März 17, 2000
Requiem
Season 1Episode 3430 min

Requiem

S.I.C.O.N has discovered that there is a vast network of Bug tunnels and colonies beneath the city of San Francisco. S.I.C.O.N. decides the only way to ensure victory is to hit the whole city with nukes the city thus destroying everything above and below ground. Because an evacuation of that size would warn the Bugs it has been decided not to warn the civilian inhabitants. Lt Razak objects to this action and, surprisingly, is supported by his nemesis from INTEL, Lt Walker. The Sky Marshal gives them 24 hours to complete the only alternate plan. They need to blow massive holes in the tunnels that run underwater and thus flush out the bugs to street level where troopers would be waiting for them. As a safeguard the bombs will be mixed with the last reserves of Toxin B3. If they fail though San Francisco will be destroyed by S.I.C.O.N. as will the two squads. Overall the mission is a success despite a bomb going non-op and needing to be reset. But Lt Razak is killed by
März 13, 2000
Funeral for a Friend
Season 1Episode 3530 min

Funeral for a Friend

S.I.C.O.N has discovered that there is a vast network of Bug tunnels and colonies beneath the city of San Francisco. S.I.C.O.N. decides the only way to ensure victory is to hit the whole city with nukes the city thus destroying everything above and below ground.
März 14, 2000
Spirits of the Departed
Season 1Episode 3630 min

Spirits of the Departed

General Redwing has ordered the Roughnecks to be split up as she does not have a spare Lt to assign to them. They are given time, though, to time to honour Lt Razak's Last Will so they got to spread his ashes over Luna Lake in Colorado. They are joined by General Redwing and by Sgt. Brutto who is now in a wheel-chair and who doubts his own worth. The squad come across a Bug operation and try to withdraw but General Redwing and Higgins are captured. They are threatened by a Brain Bug and Rico knows he ought to order General Redwing's death. However, by using the spare fuel cells from Sgt Brutto's wheel chair Gossard and Doc blow the mountain according to Rico's plan. Sgt Brutto uses his wheel chair to swoop in and save the hostages whilst the bugs are distracted. Afterwards General Redwing tells Rico he should have had her killed. Rico tells her that was plan ""B"". General Redwing realizes the squad is too valuable to split up so she offers Rico a battlefield prom
März 15, 2000
Pluto and Beyond
Season 1Episode 3730 min

Pluto and Beyond

Sept. 21, 1999
Propaganda Machine
Season 1Episode 3830 min

Propaganda Machine

Higgins is ordered to make a good Fed-Net report hiding the horrors of war and showing something positive about the bug campaign.
Jan. 14, 2000
Marooned
Season 1Episode 3930 min

Marooned

Rico is left floating in space after his pod malfunctions during a drop.
Feb. 22, 2000
Court-Martial of Lt. Razak
Season 1Episode 4030 min

Court-Martial of Lt. Razak

The Roughnecks are about to be dropped on Klendathu into a hot LZ. Lt Razak tells Carmen to clear the LZ as he thinks it's too dangerous for the squad to land. Carman tells him INTEL in the form of Lt Walker ordered no weapons to be used, stealth drop only. Lt Razak overrides her and the LZ is cleared by bombs. As soon as Lt Walker finds out he tells Lt Razak that 6 squads were in that area under General Redwing but they'd lost radio contact. Lt Razak asks why he wasn't told and Walker tells him it was a covert op. on a need to know basis - and Razak didn't need to know. Back at the base Lt Razak faces a court of inquiry with Walker as prosecutor. Lt Walker charges Razak with endangering the squad and wrecking S.I.C.O.N. equipment needlessly, using troopers evidence and flash backs as proof. As the hearing goes on a swarm of bugs attacks the base prompting Lt Walker to exclaim there was a traitor in their midst feeding information to the Bugs and he points at LT Razak
Apr. 5, 2000

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