The Worst Episodes of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

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6.5/10(26 votes)
#1 - Funeral for a Friend
S1:E363/14/2000
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
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Writer:Greg Weisman
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6.6/10(24 votes)
#2 - The Face of Truth
S1:E252/15/2000
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?
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6.8/10(40 votes)
#3 - Basic Training
S1:E59/3/1999
Rico has to train Higgins the reporter to defend himself in combat, as the Roughnecks try to defend themselves from new flying Bugs that seem impervious to laser fire.
Director:Sam Liu
Writer:Michael L. Kramer
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Director:Sam Liu
Writer:Michael L. Kramer
6.9/10(41 votes)
#4 - Stranded
S1:E49/2/1999
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.
Director:Jay Oliva
Writers:Marsha Griffin, Jennifer Levin
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Director:Jay Oliva
Writers:Marsha Griffin, Jennifer Levin
6.9/10(30 votes)
#5 - Heart
S1:E191/3/2000
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.
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6.9/10(29 votes)
#6 - Sole Survivor
S1:E1211/4/1999
While trying to find out what happened to Lt. Ross, who was found wandering on Hydora with his memory gone and his entire squad missing, the Roughnecks are captured by the Bugs.
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Writer:Jules Dennis
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6.9/10(27 votes)
#7 - Ice-Olation
S1:E232/8/2000
Returning from a combat mission in a retrieval ship, the Zephyr, the Roughnecks are re-routed to an asteroid to join scientists from another ship, the Sequoia, in a quest for a bio-weapon against the bugs. Just as they are coming in for a landing, tiny flame-breathing bugs, Firefries, hatch from Zander's skin. The ship crashes, badly damaged, but there are no serious injuries. Teams are sent out to locate the Sequoia. One team, Razak and Doc, falls into a subterranean network where they are attacked by marshmallow-like Leeches. Another team, Brutto and T'Phai, find themselves in a battle with adult, human-sized Firefries. Razak and Doc, joined by Dizzy and Gossard from the ship, join in this battle. Meanwhile, the third team, Carmen and Rico, is buried by an avalanche, and beneath the snow they share some intimate moments. Dizzy saves them. All return to the Zephyr, where Higgins awaits with the recovering Zander. They finally realize that they're on the wrong asteroid; the Sequoia awa
Director:Unknown
Writer:Peter Gaffney
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6.9/10(26 votes)
#8 - Betrayal
S1:E262/16/2000
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?
Director:Unknown
Writer:Greg Klein
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6.9/10(25 votes)
#9 - The Ice Men Goeth
S1:E343/9/2000
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.
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6.9/10(21 votes)
#10 - Among Us
S1:E323/3/2000
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
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7.0/10(66 votes)
#11 - Freefall
S1:E18/30/1999
Rookie troopers Rico, Flores and Jenkins journey to Pluto as part of Alpha Team "Razak's Roughnecks" on what is supposed to be a simple mop-up operation, but find a major threat to the research stations from plasma-shooting alien Bugs.
Directors:Christopher Berkeley, Audu Paden
Writers:Duane Capizzi, Marsha Griffin
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Directors:Christopher Berkeley, Audu Paden
Writers:Duane Capizzi, Marsha Griffin
7.0/10(29 votes)
#12 - ...And Then There Were Two
S1:E1712/9/1999
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.
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7.0/10(24 votes)
#13 - Metamorphosis
S1:E282/18/2000
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
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Writers:Tom Pugsley, Greg Klein
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7.1/10(29 votes)
#14 - Search & Destroy
S1:E1110/21/1999
Searching for the Rippler nest on Hydora, the Roughnecks come under heavy fire and Jenkins is severely wounded by an acid-tipped barb. Can Jenkins survive his wound and can they find the nest?
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7.1/10(25 votes)
#15 - The Inside Story
S1:E211/17/2000
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
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7.1/10(21 votes)
#16 - Marooned
S1:E302/22/2000
Rico is left floating in space after his pod malfunctions during a drop.
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7.2/10(20 votes)
#17 - Letters Home
S1:E292/21/2000
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.
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7.2/10(25 votes)
#18 - Mixed Signals
S1:E242/15/2000
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, 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.
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7.2/10(25 votes)
#19 - D-Day
S1:E272/17/2000
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
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7.2/10(25 votes)
#20 - Requiem
S1:E353/13/2000
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.
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7.2/10(28 votes)
#21 - No Substitute
S1:E1411/19/1999
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.
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7.2/10(28 votes)
#22 - Hot Ice
S1:E1511/25/1999
Having crashed on a barren asteroid, the Roughnecks try to make their way to a crashed science vessel for help.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Steve Cuden
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7.2/10(30 votes)
#23 - Liquid Dreams
S1:E1812/17/1999
While a monsoon hits the Zegema Base hard, Rico floats unconscious in a regeneration tank, fighting his subconscious to stay alive.
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Writer:Greg Weisman
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7.2/10(44 votes)
#24 - Plasma Bugs of Navarone
S1:E28/31/1999
When the Roughnecks pick up a distress call from pilots Ibanez and Barcalow, who are under attack at a research outpost, Rico risks the safety of his own squad to save Carmen.
Director:David Hartman
Writers:Tom Pugsley, Greg Klein
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Director:David Hartman
Writers:Tom Pugsley, Greg Klein
7.3/10(26 votes)
#25 - Captured
S1:E221/28/2000
The Roughnecks are captured by the skinnies, and held for interrogation.
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The Worst Episodes of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

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#1 - Funeral for a Friend

#2 - The Face of Truth

#3 - Basic Training

#4 - Stranded

#5 - Heart

#6 - Sole Survivor

The 20 BEST Episodes of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

#7 - Ice-Olation

#8 - Betrayal

#9 - The Ice Men Goeth

#10 - Among Us

#11 - Freefall

#12 - ...And Then There Were Two

#13 - Metamorphosis

#14 - Search & Destroy

#15 - The Inside Story

#16 - Marooned

#17 - Letters Home

#18 - Mixed Signals

#19 - D-Day

#20 - Requiem

#21 - No Substitute

#22 - Hot Ice

#23 - Liquid Dreams

#24 - Plasma Bugs of Navarone

#25 - Captured

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