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The Boys Who Cried Dark

Children & Family

TV-Y

22

Jan 1, 1987

Slim gets stuck in charge of a training mission and amongst the six cadets are a couple of pranksters. Hatch sets up a phony Shadowbat and sounds the alarm which infuriates Slim. He puts Hatch under arrest and this distracts his attention long enough for a real Shadowbat to get close. As they are on a training ship they have no real weapons to fight with and are virtually defenseless. Slim fakes a surrender and gives Hatch a chance to prove himself when they turn the tables on Major Klag and Von Rodd, capturing them and their ship.

Season 1, 12 episodes

season 1 (12 episodes)

The new defense satellite aides the StarCom vehicles in repulsing an attack by General Vondar, Unfortunately it malfunctions and fires on its own men. Crowbar goes against regulations and shuts down the system for repairs, leaving Saturn Ring Station vulnerable. Before Crowbar can complete the repairs, Vondar, Malvanna, and Torvek attack, crippling the station allowing them to steal the satellite, which continues to malfunction and firing at random. While Malvanna is busy destroying the satellite, Dash, Slim, and Crowbar retrieve fuel modules from the ring plane to put the station back into orbit, exploding one of them which drives off the forces of Emperor Daark. The station is saved and our heroes have three weeks of cleanup duty for going against regulations and causing the whole mess.

The Trojan Crowbar,

Slim, Dash, and Crowbar experience a few diversions while trying to deliver a new security computer modem to researchers on Ganymede Colony. Malvanna plants a cyberbug in Crowbar which enables her to see and hear everything Crowbar does. StarCom joins a supply convoy hoping to mask the importance of their mission but things keep going wrong hindering their journey until, oddly enough, the security system shuts down right after Crowbar says how it can be done. Slim, Dash, and D.D. (the supply convoy leader) scan for internal transmissions and realize its coming from Crowbar. Using Morse code with Crowbar wearing a blackedout helmet, StarCom is able to stop Malvanna from listening in and her mission to steal the modem fails. Crowbar is cured of the cyberbug with the help of the new security computer modem.

Torvek is massing drones on Io, the volcanic moon, for an allout surprise attack on StarCom. Suspecting this, StarCom is forced to set up a base on Europa, the frozen moon, where a young scientist has just discovered what he believes to be an intelligent life form. Dash, Crowbar, and Slim decide to hit Io in a surprise attack in order to protect the explorations on Europa, but Torvek's massive forces catch them unaware. Slim and Crowbar crash land on Io and cause a volcanic eruption thwarting Torvek's plans. They are rescued by Dash and the scientist's arc able to continue their search for intelligent life.

The Galactic Heartbeat,

Emperor Daark stumbles across plans for controlling electromagnetic pulses and immediately puts it into use. Slim, testing the new Microfighter, barely escapes a crash when the EMP causes the ship to malfunction. Next, Daark uses the EMP on Mars dooming the domed cities to a dark, airless atmosphere. While the cities are being evacuated Crowbar develops a small force field to cover three LASER Rats which enable him, along with Slim and Dash to get to the warehouse where this devastating machine is located. Crowbar sneaks inside by wit rather than weapon and blasts the machine out of existence.

The Caverns Of Mars,

An archeological dig on Mars is interrupted by a sandstorm and upon returning to base, Slim's niece and nephew and Lt. Bob Anders are reported missing. Caught in the sandstorm, they end up in the ancient city the archeologists were looking for. Dash, Slim, Crowbar, and Consuela discover the city and are lowered into it by mysterious power. It is an incredible discovery as it still seems to be functioning but most incredible of all, the city and a mysterious presence save Bob and the children when their oxygen runs out and then reunites them with Slim and friends. The city buries itself once again, leaving no trace of its whereabouts.

The Verdugo Commune, a successful and peaceful farming community is besieged over and over again by mercenary raiders who consider these people ripe for the picking since they are passive and do not fight back. Slim, Dash, and Crowbar chase them away for the moment, but are told to leave by the elders who dislike fighting violence with violence. Our guys still try to help, though, but the people, with Dash's lead, defend themselves by using the gigantic mirrors in their valley to blind and confuse the raiders.

The Boys Who Cried Dark,

Slim gets stuck in charge of a training mission and amongst the six cadets are a couple of pranksters. Hatch sets up a phony Shadowbat and sounds the alarm which infuriates Slim. He puts Hatch under arrest and this distracts his attention long enough for a real Shadowbat to get close. As they are on a training ship they have no real weapons to fight with and are virtually defenseless. Slim fakes a surrender and gives Hatch a chance to prove himself when they turn the tables on Major Klag and Von Rodd, capturing them and their ship.

Hot Enough For You?,

Slim and Crowbar investigate a distress call on Mercury which turns out to be from Emperor Dark's men, Ramor and Slash. Slim and Crowbar rescue them and Ramor offers information in return. A battle with Drones forces them back onto the hot surface of the planet and they are really starting to cook when Ramor helps them find a Shadow Force fuel depot. Dash flies to their rescue but is kept too busy with Drones to help. Ramor recommends Slim and Crowbar leave to help their friend, since they will be picked up by the Drones and saved from the blistering heat. He promises them safe passage. This encounter between enemies was arranged by Emperor Dark who is intrigued by his men's sense of honor.

Dark's forces shoot down a Starmax, but let the pilot, Rogers, get away in a Starwolf. Sergeant Ramor is after the operation systems computer chip which controls all StarCom vehicles and weapons and he finds this chip in the wreck of the Starmax. StarCom is surprised by unmanned attacks by their own machines. It's hard work avoiding the flying ammunition and the base is taking a beating. But Crowbar is able to override the control chip which shuts down Torvek's attack forcing him to flee.

A Few Bugs In The System,

General Torvek plants a bug on the mining ship Go Placid which causes machinery to malfunction causing little irritating mishaps and some big dangerous accidents. Torvek's plans to cause dissension amongst the men works and the ship looks ripe for picking since Dark needs the ore for fuel. Slim, Dash, and Crowbar with the guidance of Champ O'Ryan, a former worker on a mining ship who wants to forget his past, arrive to help. Champ rejects the miners at first until he sees them accusing each other of sabotage. He pulls them together and united as one they all repel the forces of Emperor Dark.

Flash Moskowitz, Space Cadet,

Our heroes are officially escorting honored space cadet Flash to Saturn where he will be put on the workstudy project. Unofficially, they are transporting the very secret oscillation hyperthruster. Flash lets the news out directly to Vondar who ruthlessly pursues them all to steal the hyperthruster and the boy. Flash's heroworship of our heroes starts to irritate them. Crowbar tells him just to be himself and use his mind instead of trying to be a space jockey. Flash takes his advice and tricks Vondar into installing a bomb instead of the hyperthruster and he becomes a real hero.

The Last Star Ranger,

Trying to escape a sandstorm, four battle cranes fall through a crack in the surface of Mars into an abandoned and dangerously boobytrapped Star Ranger station. Slim, Dash, and Crowbar also fall through and activate a selfdestruct mechanism. It's up to Kelsey and Lucas Hull, the last existing Star Ranger, to rescue the group and stop the computer countdown to oblivion.

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Starcom

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