Voice Cast:
Buzz Lightyear .................................. Patrick Warburton
Evil Emperor Zurg ............................... Wayne Knight
Commander Nebula ................................ Adam Carolla
Booster ......................................... Stephen Furst
XR .............................................. Larry Miller
Princess Mira Nova .............................. Nicole Sullivan
Warp Darkmatter ................................. Diedrich Bader

Episodes

Tape 1

1. Good Ol' Buzz (Originally Aired 11/25/2000)

   With a wrist-mounted time travel device, a 150 year old Buzz (which would make him from about 110 years in the future...see "Lone Wolf"...) travels back to "now" to prevent Mira from being killed. Unfortunately, it happened so long ago that he can't quite recall just how, when or where Mira is going to die (...and, it would seem, time travel turns one's memory to "Swiss Cheese").

2. Return To Karn (Originally Aired 12/2/2000)

   Mira is assigned to accompany the Galactic President to a conference. Mid-trip, they're attacked by Zurg and forced to make a crash-landing on Karn. Forced to maintain radio silence, to prevent Zurg from tracking them, they attempt to prevent being eaten, mauled, and otherwise laid low by the various Karnian beasties. Not only is Zurg scouring the face of Karn looking for them, but so is the rest of Team Lightyear (aided by Dr. Furbanna). Eventually, it is disclosed that Smoltz is actually a turn-coat, working with Zurg to try to capture the President. With a bit of lucky assistance from a mother Narlzak and her young (...large tunneling Karnian beasts, resembling a cross between a mealworm and a Dune Sandworm...), manage to save Mira and the President from Zurg's plans.

3. Speed Trap (Originally Aired 12/9/2000)

   Team Lightyear is delegated to traffic duty. They spot a large freighter going almost the speed of light the local speed limit is about .45 light speed...) The freighter slams into, and destroys, the resort moon Sandis O'Lait, and continues on towards the sun of Capital Planet (...the resulting impact could, potentially, cause the sun to go supernova...). Team Lightyear board the freighter to find it abandoned, except for a maniacally tidy robo-cleaner called "Care-Bot". Booster is sent down to the engine room to attempt to power down the engines. While down in the lower levels, Booster is frozen solid by Care-Bot. It would seem that Care-Bot determined that the crew of the ship was the root cause of all the un-tidiness, and decided to remove the cause of it's problems instead of just "treating the symptoms". Buzz saves the day by shooting a few Care-Bots; the resulting debris provides a distraction, so that Buzz is able to shoot the unwitting Care-Bots that are attempting to clean up the remains of their fallen comrades.

4. Holiday Time (Originally Aired 12/16/2000)

   It's sort of like A Christmas Carol as Zurg tries to ruin Christmas

5. Opposites Attract (Originally Aired 12/23/2000)

   Comm. Nebula sends Team Lightyear to Mamba 6 to investigate a gravity problem. It turns out to be Gravitina, making a distraction so she can see Buzz and ask him out. He, of course, refuses, and she's then convinced it's because of her head. To get even she zaps Buzz that makes HIS head huge, and since it's causing a problem at Star Command he has to leave. Well, Buzz decided he didn't like these arrangements, so he went to confront Gravitina. Anyway, team Lightyear was there, they had tried the same thing before, it didn't work very well. Buzz Lightyear defeats Gravitina, his head is back to normal.

   Tape 2

6. 42 (Originally Aired 1/13/2001)

   As an auto-piloted freighter is attempting to make a routine transport run, it is attacked by Valkyran raiders. The Valkyrans are an Amazonian race that has been around far longer than the Galactic Alliance. In attempting to battle the Valkyrans, Team Lightyear is stymied by the Valkyran ships' ability to phase out in a dimensional warp, thus rendering the ship unreachable. Planning for more raids by the Valkyrans, the LGMs whip up a system that can detect ships that are phased out via some sort of artificial intelligence kind've thing. When using the phase detector thingie, Star Cruiser 42 is struck by a fairly massive energy jolt. This causes the experimental detector to unexpectedly grant the operating systems of 42 to become sentient (…and female, to XR's delight…). XR is the only one to actually know about this, since 42 doesn't really trust the organic beings. Thinking that it's just some bug in the system, Buzz turns 42 off and has it towed back to Star Command for an overhaul. While the LGMs are in mid-examination of 42, XR sneaks on board 42 and runs off with her. Covering for XR by claiming that Buzz told XR to take 42 out for a test-run (…he didn't lie, he told a "cover story"…because Buzz would NEVER lie; though he might tell a "cover story" once in a while…), the rest of Team Lightyear set out in Star Cruiser 5.5 (the Star Cruiser that Buzz was first trained aboard…many, MANY years ago…) to look for him. After rescuing XR and 42 and returning to Star Command, the LGMs whip up a body for 42's sentience to occupy. XR thinks that this now gives him and 42 the opportunity to be a couple, but 42 decides that (since she's so new to the world) it'd be better if she were to get used to this whole "sentience" thing first. XR mopes about this for a short while, but soon gets over it.

7. Wirewolf (Originally Aired 10/28/2000)

   Buzz is needed on Canis Lupus to help Ranger Ty Parsec figure out something that has been destroying their robots, which everyone knows as NOS-4-A2. When he arrives, Parsec resents the fact that he needs Buzz to help him.

8. The Rescue Mission (Originally Aired 11/4/2000)

   Star Command receives a distress call, and the instructions on how to build a device that will teleport one to where the call is coming from. Buzz is sent; he is met by the insectoid Professor Samsa who informs him that his race's queen is in trouble, and that his entire race is also threatened by some large, powerful race that is attempting to wipe them out. The rest of Team Lightyear is sent to help w/ insect extermination at Cosmo's Diner. It turns out that the insects that are plaguing Cosmo's are the race that contacted Buzz (the device not only teleported Buzz, but also shrunk him). The biggest threat (and the major reason that Buzz is unable to contact Team Lightyear right away) is a Remote Disposal Unit that Cosmo is using to clean up the "bugs".

9. Enemy Without A Face (Originally Aired 11/18/2000)

   Team Lightyear get separated and meet up with the last Beletor and the last Krnozian, who're warring over possession of their home planet. It turns out that they're actually of the same race, but small leech-like critters had attached themselves to the backs of their necks and caused them to act violent (violent thought is what the critter feeds off of). In attempting to return the critters to Star Command for further study, they escape, reproduce, and attach themselves to Team Lightyears' necks. Upon arrival, they spill loose and ravage Star Command. Cold air stuns the critters, so XR turns the air conditioning to freezing, thus solving the problem.

10. Star Smasher (Originally Aired 11/11/2000)

    LGMs develop remote trash compactor; Zurg steals it, compacts 42, and then compresses Capital Planet's sun in order to form a black hole. Buzz puts on heat resistant power armor (that reduce down to oven mitts when not in use), flies into the event horizon of the black hole, and activates trash compactors in reverse, thus returning the black hole to its star-state.

    Tape 3

11. Shiv Katall (Originally Aired 10/20/2000)

    One of Zurg's Brain Pods (Number 13) goes AWOL, so Zurg hires the Boba Fett-esque bounty hunter Shiv Katall to track him down; Buzz turns out to've been Shiv all this time, in order to make defectors from Planet Z seem to be dead, when they're really in a witness relocation program; Buzz gets found out, so Commander Nebula has to do the Shiv-thing (...which he USED to do, before Buzz came along...), in order to make Zurg regain trust in the existence of Shiv Katall.

12. Root Of Evil (Originally Aired 10/24/2000)

    Zurg mutates Jo-Ad vegetables w/ Transdibulator. Team Lightyear goes to Jo-Ad to investigate the problem. Booster's childhood pal, Buster, was lured into helping Zurg w/ the promise of glory and power (he had been jealous of Booster getting to join Star Command while he was stuck back home on the farm).

13. Downloaded (Originally Aired 10/26/2000)

    XR downloads Star Command Mainframe to prevent the system from crashing (due to Warp Darkmatter using info-stealing techno-ticks); Zurg heists XR in order to gain Star Command classified information; XR uses techno-ticks to help HIM out.

14. Super Nova (Originally Aired 10/25/2000)

    Mira ghosts into a Crystallic Fusion Generator Core and becomes a glowing, supercharged, power-speed-junkie. Mira's father warns Mira about how her race can fall prey to such temptation, but Mira has to find out on her own. Eventually, after she attempts to battle Zurg on her own, she realizes that her need for "re-charging" is getting worse and worse and is beginning to take control of her life, but she manages to overcome her "energy addiction".

15. Devolutionaries (Originally Aired 11/5/2000)

    Warp Darkmatter goes to the distant planet of Binipinardia to nab a naturally occurring de-evolving gas, guarded for eons by the local Binipinardians (...who happened to take a coffee-break at exactly the wrong time...). When Team Lightyear arrive on Binipinardia, they find the locals to be missing, and the only critters that seem to be around are some semi-sentient lemur-like things. XR is marketing his comic book, breakfast cereal, and adventure series at the time, so when the rest of Team Lightyear go off to look for the missing Binipinardians, he stays behind to look after the ship and to test out some product marketing research on the lemur-like things. Shortly after discovering that Warp Darkmatter has set up a pumping station, to ship the gas to Zurg, the rest of Team Lightyear gets hit by the de-evolving gas; Mira becomes ameboid, Buzz becomes neandertalic, and Booster becomes ankylosaurus-ish. When he finds out what has happened to his comrades (...and that the native Binipinardians have been de-evolved into the lemur-like critters that he has been working with...), XR has to save the day w/ little to no advanced help from the rest of the team.

    Tape 4

16. The Lightyear Factor (Originally Aired 11/1/2000)

    Testing a new weapon of mass destruction, Zurg opens a gate to parallel universe where Buzz is evil and managed to take over the universe (...and just might be more evil than Zurg himself...). He drafts the evil Buzz into helping him fight our good Buzz and repeat the takeover that happened in the parallel universe.

17. Bunzel Fever (Originally Aired 11/3/2000)

    Team Lightyear receives a call from Jo-Ad while in the early phase of an investigative mission (involving a series of thefts); Booster's family is letting Booster know that the bunzel harvest (the primary crop on Jo-Ad, which resembles eggplant) is due. When Booster claims that his duty to the Space Rangers supersedes his farming history, his Grandfather reminds him of the legendary "Bunzel Fever", that strikes down any native of Jo-Ad that isn't involved in the bunzel harvest. Booster dismisses the legend and eschews the harvest. When it turns out that the legend isn't a myth, Booster goes through a "pon-far"-type thing, that is marked by him "hulking out" into a large, bellicose form that is determined to harvest bunzels, or anything bunzel-esque (...and since this transformation is also marked by him having spells of mistaking anything roughly ovoid for a bunzel, this gets fairly hazardous for anyone who is rotund and/or in a space ranger suit, XR, and Team Lightyear's ship, #42...). This initially causes problems for Team Lightyear's mission, but Booster's hulked form serendipitously manages to help them defeat Torque and XL (...who are behind the crime spree...). When Booster is brought to Jo-Ad, he begins maniacally harvesting bunzels, thus assuring that he'll be back to normal in no time.

18. Clone Rangers (Originally Aired 11/2/2000)

    After pilfering samples of Team Lightyear's DNA with mosquito-esque micro-hornets, Zurg clones Team Lightyear; in his rush, he removes them from the maturation tanks before they have a chance to grow up into adults (...as an example of his hurried-ness, he initially planed to instill them with an "Evil Level" up in the thousands, but upon realizing that he himself has an "Evil Level" of a little over a dozen, he only gives them a level a little under his own...), so Team Lightyear has to deal with evil little kid versions of themselves named Zzub, Feara, and Blister (...after a lot of whining about not having a robot of their own, they get an evil version of XR called "X-Treme"...). When the eventually realize that due to being clones, the Evil Li'l Team Lightyear has the same character flaws as themselves, Team Lightyear manages to use their "flaws" as advantages and win the fight. As a joke tag-line, Zurg attempts the cloning process again at the end of the episode, but this time leaves them in too long resulting in geriatric versions of Team Lightyear.

19. A Zoo Out There (Originally Aired 10/23/2000)

    Chlorms (Epoch, Era, & Eon) kidnap Galactic Alliance senators for zoo exhibits. Team Lightyear gets nabbed, but Buzz attempts to rescue them. They all end up shipped to product testing due to a lack of co-operation. They escape and return to Star Command.

20. Head Case (Originally Aired 11/6/2000)

    Answering a distress call, Team Lightyear discovers a ship under attack by Vulturans (a vaguely bird-like race, that XR recognizes as a race that tends to have a thing against robots). Team Lightyear fights them off...but in the battle, XR flies into a mad rage (gets a little "blowie-uppy") and ends up being seriously disassembled. When the LGMs fix him up, they discover signs of metal fatigue. Their report is sent to Commander Nebula, who accidentally spills coffee on the report, smudging the lettering and making it look like "mental fatigue". XR is sent off to the resort world of Mahamba 6 for a weekend pass, before having to take a psychiatric evaluation from Star Command's resident psychiatrist, Dr. Animus (...who resembles a native of Binpinardia...). While on Mahamba 6, XR is picked up by a taxi driver who turns out to be XL (...he sent XR a fake "you have just won a free vacation!!"-flier to XR to lure him in...). XL kidnaps XR and steals his body. XL returns to Star Command, posing as XR, awaiting the arrival of an insanely large bomb that he sent in the mail before abandoning XR's head. XL locks down the exit routes in and out of Star Command, plants the bomb in Star Command's Fusion Core, and then attempts to make his getaway before the bomb goes off (...but he already locked down all the exit routes, remember?...). While trying to escape, XL is picked up by Buzz and taken for his evaluation...which he fails dismally. Meanwhile, XR has managed to wrangle his way onto XL's body. Upon his return to Star Command, XR is mistaken for XL and locked up. When the countdown for the bomb is nigh, both XR and XL are struggling to disarm the bomb, while trying to convince the rest of Team Lightyear that THEY are the "real XR". When XL asks to be put on the "stronger body", and XR asks to be put on the body of a robot ranger, Buzz realizes just one is the real XR. XR defuses the bomb and saves the day.

21. Star Crossed (Originally Aired 11/9/2000)

    When Brain Pod #57 defects to Star Command, Zurg hires Romac, a Tangean Grounder bounty hunter -- and Mira's ex-boyfriend -- to bring him in.

    Tape 5

22. The Yukari Imprint (Originally Aired 11/7/2000)

    Crumford Lorak hides in Senator Banda's fishtank (ambassador from Bathyos) in order to gain and sell Galactic Alliance secrets to the Raenoks at the Luna 9 Station. Booster is talked into purchasing a Yukari-egg; Yukaris, it turns out, are small creatures which take on the form of their "mother" (whomever is around the egg in the latter stages of development), but are quite ravenous and reproduce at an astounding rate (...imagine a cross between "Gremlins" and tribbles...). Booster's "fuzzy buddies" (...the name that the salesman was marketing them under, since his "demo model" was one that had taken on a fairly cute form...) ravage 42 and eventually all of Luna 9 Station, when Team Lightyear arrives there in order to help serve as protection for the ambassadorial delegates that are meeting there. Booster's (and thus the Yukari's that were imprinted from him) love for chocolate saves the day, by helping to round up the Yukaris and by using them to then subdue the Raenoks (by dousing the Raenoks with chocolate sauce, right after their espionage plans are revealed).

23. Revenge Of The Raenoks (Originally Aired 11/17/2000)

    When Booster is kidnapped by the Raenoks, in order to conduct a prisoner trade for Varg (XR is sent to guard Varg, who quickly escapes and takes XR to Raenok), Buzz & Mira fly off to save him w/ a newly developed cloaking device that can render 42 and/or its crew invisible. While attempting to sneak into the Raenok prison, Mira and Buzz spot Booster's folks, who heard about their son's capture and decided to attempt to save him. This allows the invisible Mira & Buzz to get through the first line of defense, while the capture of the Munchauser's provides a distraction. When they're attempting to figure out how to get through the second line of defense, Becky and her father, the Sheriff from Roswell, arrive (having also heard the news of Booster's capture). The capture of the Roswelleans provides yet another distraction. Finally, the LGMs also decide to help, which almost allows for Mira & Buzz to free Booster (...and XR, and Booster's parents, and the Roswelleans...), but they end up being discovered. Buzz ends up in club-duel with Varg in order to have he and the other captured folks go free. Only trouble is, the clubs are almost as large as Buzz is, so he is at a marked disadvantage, but he manages to win (in a fairly underhanded way...) by landing the cloaked 42 on Varg (...since it's invisible, it looks like Buzz managed to defeat Varg long enough for the outcome to be ruled in his favor.

24. Lone Wolf (Originally Aired 11/15/2000)

    At a trial, Team Lightyear seems unable to present the evidence to make charges stick. Buzz relates a story about him losing hope in the system 20 years ago. He had quit Star Command after one of his first missions (...so, if one graduates Star Command when one is a little under 20 years old, then that'd make Buzz a bit under 40 yrs old...) and his "bike" [very Lobo-esque looking] broke down on a distant arcadium gas-farming planet. He helped a widow, Zoey, and her son stand up against the local gas-baron, Vartkes. After the tale, he presents the disrupter rifle evidence to the judge and they win the case.

25. Eye Of The Tempest (Originally Aired 11/13/2000)

    Answering a distress call from a planetoid within ion storm, Buzz encounters Spiro Von Madman, and his daughter, Bonnie. Spiro Von Madman, previously known as Spiro Lupton when he worked with Star Command, was a scientist who had come up with the notion of equipping Space Rangers with a semi-organic energy-absorbing crystalline form, thus resulting in what he called a "cryborg" (...very much like the concept behind Star Trek's Borg, but with a crystalline basis), eliminating the need for the Pulsar 400 Envirosuit & Battle Armor that is standard issue for the Space Rangers. Spurned by Star Command, Spiro had gone off into seclusion to further his research. When Spiro had worked for Star Command, he and his daughter were acquaintances with Buzz, and it would seem that Bonnie has been carrying a torch for Buzz all these years. She helps him to escape her father's Cold Slab of Revenge, and to bring her father in. While in jail, Spiro sees Bonnie & Buzz walking together, which drives him into a mad rage. Sapping energy from the cell's television, he charges up his cryborged body and breaks out of jail. He becomes supercharged via the main energy plant on Capital Planet, and grows to enormous size (...one of the benefits of the cryborg process is that one can absorb most all energy sources in order to use the energy to soup up one's own power/growth/firepower...). When Bonnie realizes that her father has grown mad with power, she aids Team Lightyear in quelling his cryborg-powers, and he realizes the error of his ways.

26. Millennial Bugs (Originally Aired 11/20/2000)

    Zurg nabs an exhibit of an extinct species of large, Alien (as per the movies)-esque insects, planning to resurrect the species in order to help him in (...what else...) take over the galaxy. Dr. Ozma Furbanna is roped into helping Zurg revive Alien-style bugs, by having her scientific morals preyed upon. Zurg sics the bugs on Capital Planet. Before things can get too out of hand, Team Lightyear discovers that the bugs can be stopped by belly-tickling (...it over-rides their nervous system...), and with that they manage to save the day.

27. XL (Originally Aired 10/4/2000)

    A rash of stolen technology leads Team Lightyear to discover that the proto-version of XR, XL, has been fixed up by Zurg and sent out to soup himself up and wreak revenge upon Star Command. When Buzz attempts to lure XL into a trap by using XR as "bait" Commander Nebula ends up kidnapped, instead.

    Tape 6

28. Strange Invasion (Originally Aired 10/15/2000)

    Team Lightyear ends up crashing on the distant planet Roswell. Roswell is populated by the typical Roswell-crash "greys"; the plot is much like the whole Roswell-incident, but in reverse, due to Mira and Buzz being the humanoid "aliens", and the natives being what we would consider aliens (but w/ an odd "Andy Griffith/Mayberry RFD" flair); Booster and XR have to save Buzz and Mira from the local military authorities, aided by the local sheriff (who is very Andy Griffith-like), and his daughter Becky (...who becomes fast friends with Booster, and calls him by the pet name, "Pickles".

29. Dirty Work (Originally Aired 10/30/2000)

    Cosmo gets K-3000 Uni-appliance for Cosmo's Diner (the diner that Team Lightyear seems to spend too much time at); the K-3000 Uni-appliance is an experimental device that absorbs one's kitchen appliances into itself, and is able to use them all due to its powerful, experimental energy source and its "liquid steel" structure (...possibly constructed of nanobots?...very much like a robotic shoggoth, from H.P.Lovecraft's stories...). NOS-4-A2 senses the power within the K-3000 when the courier delivering it passes close to the abandoned ship that he was residing in, trails after it, and takes control of the K-3000, all of Cosmo's restaurant equipment, and then all of Cosmo's Diner. Team Lightyear is in the process of returning Professor Triffid to his home planet, Rhizome, after a failed attempt on his part to convince Star Command to incorporate "organic vegetative technology" into their systems, when they receive the distress call from Cosmo. When their usual methods fail to defeat NOS-4-A2 (since, with the K-3000, he is able to not only take control of their weapons and Space Ranger Power Armor, but to also have it work against THEM...), Team Lightyear must work w/ Prof. Triffid and use his plant-tech to defeat NOS-4-A2.

30. The Torque Armada (Originally Aired 10/2/2000)

    Zurg gives Torque the cloning device that mostly serves to define Torque's character. Team Lightyear has to deal with him.

31. First Missions (Originally Aired 11/26/2000)

    Professor Reddschift, Mira, Booster, and XR are pinned down by Zurg's hornets, who are attempting to kidnap Prof. Reddschift. The Prof. is worried that Buzz won't be able to arrive in time to save him from capture. To try to buck up his spirits, Mira relates her first encounter with Buzz, back before she enlisted in Space Ranger Academy. King Nova had been nabbed by Zurg and his Hyper-Hornet in the midst of a conference attempting to convince Tangea to join the Galactic Alliance, but Mira & Buzz managed to defeat Zurg, save King Nova, and convince Tangea to join the Alliance (and Mira to join the Space Rangers). This proves to be less than impressive to Reddschift. Booster then relates HIS first run in with Buzz. Zurg had attempted to take over Jo-Ad with his Mega-Hornet, thus cutting off food supplies to most of the Galactic Alliance. But with Buzz's timely arrival, and with Booster's strength, they managed to stave off Zurg. Again, Reddschift isn't impressed. XR then tells HIS story. A few hours after being on-line, he was in the Star Command commissary, attempting to buy some lime sherbet. Shortly after discovering that they were out of lime sherbet, Buzz stepped forward and gave XR the lime sherbet that he had bought for himself (...NOTE: This is the only conflict I have found between the series and the movie. Buzz's first meeting with XR was when XR was first turned on. But this might be able to be written down to XR's faulty memory. If one watches the movie, one will know why XR acts so "odd"...). This act of generosity and sacrifice manages to finally convince Reddschift of Buzz's capability, but Zurg then appears in his Grande-Hornet (...this time, a very large power armor unit, not unlike something from Robotech or Macross...). Almost on cue, Buzz arrives in Star Command's latest LGM creation, the Vente Ranger (...also a very large power armor unit, resembling a cross between Star Command and the Iron Giant...). The two then battle it out, and Buzz prevails.

32. Gravitina (Originally Aired 10/3/2000)

    Gravitina (blue-ish skin, very large head, telekinetic control over gravity) decides to help Zurg wipe out Star Command. 'Tina pummels Star Command with meteors; 42 investigates; Tina falls for Buzz; they save Tina from falling into a sun.

33. Inside Job (Originally Aired 10/6/2000)

    Buzz is impressed by a new rookie, Flash Flemming, much to Booster's chagrin. When the planet Gargantia's ambassador, Ursona Major contacts Star Command in order to join, problems ensue. It turns out that there are rebels, who oppose the idea of Gargantia joining Star Command, and thus possibly losing their individuality, led planet-side by Tremendor and on-site by Monumentus. The new rookie, Flash, turns out to be actually about a half-dozen of the Gargantian Resistance rebels in a person-suit (...the natives of Gargantia stand about 6" tall.

    Tape 7

34. The Planet Destroyer (Originally Aired 10/9/2000)

    Zurg sends planets to other dimension, making it look like they've been destroyed; Mira's dad, King Nova, steps in and helps out w/ this phasing powers, and teaches Mira how to stick her hand into folks' brains and read them with a "mind-grope" kind've thing

35. Tag Team (Originally Aired 10/11/2000)

    After a run-in with Warp Darkmatter, the LGMs discover that there is an odd implanted device within Buzz. In contacting Warp, Buzz finds out that he, too, has a similar device within himself, and that both of them were implanted long before Warp even left Star Command. It turns out that the devices were planted by three Chlorm scientists, Era (who is studying "evil"), Eon (who is studying "good"), and Epoch (who seems to be studying insanity...), who realized Warp's potential for evil and wanted to see how the two test subjects would differ.

36. Stress Test (Originally Aired 10/22/2000)

    Buzz captures "Pen-like Activation Device" for Zurg's HYPER-DEATH RAY in a fairly accidental manner (Buzz thinks that it MUST be important and just LOOKS like a pen...everyone else thinks that it MUST be just a pen and that Buzz LOOKS to be going a little loopy...) ;Buzz is sent to Rhizome to work out overworking-stress w/ Prof. Triffid. Zurg goes to Rhizome to get a clear shot at Star Command with his HYPER-DEATH RAY, unaware that Buzz is there. Buzz channels his emotions and uses the Rhizome plant-tech to stop Zurg.

37. Mira's Wedding (Originally Aired 10/18/2000)

    Tangean noble Lord Angstrom tries to get Mira to wed Fop Doppler, a fairly minor member of the Tangean noble clique (and fairly snooty) so as to provide a distraction as a band of Tangean "Grounders" attack and allow for Lord Angstrom to overthrow Mira's father. The Grounders are a humanoid race that shares the planet Tangea with the race that Mira is native to. While the blue-skinned, svelte, and fairly bourgeois Tangeans ("Tangean Blue-bloods") have the psychic ability to phase through solid objects (...aka..."ghosting"...), the taupe-skinned, stocky, and fairly proletarian Tangeans ("Tangean Grounders") have the psychic ability to project focused force-blasts (...aka..."boom-boom"...). For some reason, the native psychic abilities of both Tangean races are nullified if either race is in close proximity to the other. Lord Angstrom's plot is foiled by Team Lightyear, and the arranged marriage of Mira and Fop is called off.

38. Panic on Bathos (Originally Aired 10/19/2000)

    The crystals for Crystallic Fusion Generators (the primary power source for almost all Galactic Alliance technology) are mined on the landless ocean planet Bathyos; an anti-air breather movement, hoping to cause an embargo that will force the Galactic Alliance to bow to the will of the Bathyosians, is lead by Gularis [Harvey Korman], a shark-esque big-wig native of Bathyos. The movement is taking terrorist actions, causing "accidents" to happen in the crystal mines, but Team Lightyear is called in as a safety measure, and they uncover Gularis' plans.

39. The Beasts Of Karn (Originally Aired 10/10/2000)

    Dr. Ozma Furbanna is researching critters; Rentwhistle Swack is poaching; Booster gets poached

    Tape 8

40. The Taking Of PC-7 (Originally Aired 10/16/2000)

    Torque is taken to Penal Colony Seven by Booster and XR; he escapes from them and wrests control of the prison (with the aid of his many "clones"). At the same time, the President of the Galactic Alliance is being given a tour of PC-7 and being shown its high-tech security system. The security system proves to have some "bugs" when it determines that all non-secure persons in PC-7 MUST be escaped prisoners, thus it attempts to capture and subdue not only Torque (and his "clones"), but also the Galactic President, Booster, and XR. From orbit outside PC-7, Mira and Buzz attempt to help out, but the system interprets their actions as aid for the supposed "prison break" going on inside.

41. The Plasma Monster (Originally Aired 10/27/2000)

    Petra, a senator's daughter, is shipped off to Space Ranger Academy to keep her from Plasma Boy; Booster falls for her; both Petra and Plasma Boy end up in Space Academy.

42. Revenge Of The Monsters (Originally Aired 11/14/2000)

    After being bitten by NOS-4-A2 on the mysterious planet of Canis Lupis, Ranger Ty Parsec is transformed into a Wirewolf (...imagine a form of lycanthropy blended with either Star Trek's Borg techno-virus, or with Transformers' Key to Vector Sigma...) [this whole bit is shown in summary, as if it were reminding us of an earlier episode...except there IS no earlier episode about this as far as I can tell]. Even though the transformation only takes place when on or near Canis Lupus, Commander Nebula decides to boot Parsec from the Space Rangers for his own, and everyone else's, good. While this meeting is wrapping up, NOS-4-A2 and XL show up. They have a chunk of Canis Lupus, that causes Parsec to re-transform into a Wirewolf, and they kidnap the en-cursed Parsec. [...the "Monster"-bit in the title refers to how Parsec is pretty much a robotic werewolf, XL is pretty much a robotic Frankenstein's monster, and NOS-4-A2 is a robotic vampire...] With Parsec, they oust Zurg from Planet Z and take over (...transforming many of the Hornets into NOS-4-A2's dark minions, and turning all of Zurg's "Z" monograms over 90 degrees, thus making them all "N"s...standing for NOS-4-A2...). They design a cannon that can shoot the Wirewolf curse over galactic distances, and en-curse all of Capital Planet and Star Command. Team Lightyear convinces XL that NOS-4-A2 will consider him expendable before too long, and manage to get him to help them out. With XL's help, the cannon's powers are reversed, Parsec is returned to normal, and NOS-4-A2 is impaled on a spire, resulting in his explosive destruction. XL returns to work for Star Command, and is re-fitted as a photocopier.

43. At Large On A Small Planet (Originally Aired 11/23/2000)

    Ambassador Major (from Gargantia) attempts to open Pizza Planet franchise on Gargantia, but the Militants oppose it (as usual). Buzz and Booster have to reduce themselves to their size to help out, but the Militants get their hands on the size-changing device and make themselves "regular" size.

44. LARGE TARGET (Originally Aired 11/27/2000)

    Team Lightyear routinely busts some arms smugglers, who are working for Keno Kendrix (a Bathyosian night-club/casino owner on Mahambas 6, who is arranging some arms deals for Zurg...and who sounds a whole lot like Frank Sinatra...). After their successful mission, they co-incidentally set out for Mahambas 6 for some vacation-time. Due to a ban on robots in the casino, XR disguises himself as Booster in order to gamble; gamble he does, and pretty much cleans out the house, much to Keno's ire. Keno puts a bounty of 10,000,000 Uni-Bucks on Booster's head, which prompts Keno's bodyguards, Warp Darkmatter, Lardak Lurak, a handful of Gargantuan Militants, two Tangean Grounders, and a few other bounty hunters to try to gun down Booster. XR re-disguises himself as Booster and turns himself in. When Booster arrives to save XR, Keno (and all of the assorted riff-raff) decides to just wipe out the both of them. Piqued by the sound of gun-fire, Buzz steps in (with a triple sun-burnt Mira) to save Booster & XR. After a very jazzy firefight, they capture Keno.

    Tape 9

45. The Crawling Flesh (Originally Aired 1/13/2001)

    Zurg hits Mira & Buzz with gas that melts & melds them into a shoggoth-like creature, then sends them on their way back to Star Command; Mira/Buzz accidentally infect all of Star Command upon their return.

46. Mindwarp (Originally Aired 1/13/2001)

    Compu-klerm Co. brainwashes Buzz into thinking that he is an office clerk. Buzz's combat skills are downloaded into the Klerm Slambots, which Team Lightyear then have to fight to save Buzz.

47. The Starthought ( Originally Aired 11/19/2000

    While Team Lightyear is conducting mock-combat training with Team Rocket (...headed by Rocket Crocket...), Crocket goads Mira into getting herself tagged. King Nova presents Mira with an invention of his, the Starthought; a small spacecraft guided by one's thoughts. Mira has doubts about it until she realizes that it'd really bother Crocket to see her zipping around in such a spiffy ship. While testing the Starthought, Mira runs into some tourists, who are actually Warp Darkmatter, along with one of Zurg's Brain Pods & a Grub, on a reconnaissance mission to scope out any new Star Command developments. Zurg sets up a fake raid on a Gulgarian mining outpost, in order to lure Mira, and the Starthought, into his clutches.

48. Nos-4-a2 ( Originally Aired 10/08/2000 )

    Zurg lets Buzz capture NOS-4-A2's coffin; NOS takes over XR and Star Command; XR proves his mettle.

49. Ancient Evil ( Originally Aired 1/06/2001 )

    While on an archeological expedition, studying "Planet X", the LGMs stumble upon the quasi-Egyptian resting place of an ancient powerful being called Natron. When Natron awakens, he freezes the LGMs in some sort of stasis field, and drains Warp's life-force in order to soup himself up to a state closer to his former glory. This results in Warp aging into a wizened old man. Warp is helping Team Lightyear since the only way that he can regain his proper age is if Natron is defeated. They manage to reverse the process that Natron used to drain the life (and age) from Warp, thus fixing up Warp and returning Natron to his previous comatose state.

50. Planet of the Lost ( Released on November 16, 2000 )

    Ship 42 scopes out area where ships have vanished. Upon scanning the planet, they detect large amounts of technology on the planet, but upon landing it seems quite barren. Flying manta-like shriekers attack Team Lightyear's technology, leaving them stranded and defenseless. Roaming the countryside, they encounter a man named Flint who runs a town of castaways from spaceship-wrecks. Upon investigation, Flint turns out to be a renegade work robot. Team Lightyear shut down the subterranean shrieker construction plant that Flint had built, and defeat Flint, freeing the hapless castaways.

51. Conspiracy ( Released on November 21, 2000 )

    Gargantian Militants suit themselves up in a Buzz suit (a la Pinky & the Brain) to make it look like he attempted to kill the Galactic Alliance President. When Buzz has a sanity exam, they also pose in a psychiatrist suit, at his hearing they pose as the judge, in the prison-ship to PC-7 they pose as a trouble-making prisoner that allows Buzz to escape to TradeWorld, on TradeWorld they pose as Crumford Lorak to sell out Buzz's location to those that have grudges against Buzz.

52. The Slayer ( Released on October 31, 2000 )

    After investigating a rash of robo-homocides, Team Lightyear discover that NOS-4-A2's loose on TradeWorld with a self-appointed "slayer" on his floating tail -- Savy SL-2, a human orphan that was adopted by a robot couple. NOS-4-A2 had "vamped" her adoptive parents, so she decided to step in as a vigilante vampire-robot-slayer. With her assistance, they hunt down NOS-4-A2, fight his horde of enslaved robots, and defeat him, freeing those robots that were in the grip of his dark forces

    Still Need

53. Little secrets
54. The Main Event
55. Lost In Time
56. Rookie of the Year
57. The Shape Stealer
58. Haunted Moon
59. Sunquake
60. War and Peace and War
61. The Return of XL