7.3/1057 votes#1 - The Torque Armada
Season 1 Episode 1 - 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.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Gary Sperling
- 7.5/1037 votes
#2 - Gravitina
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2000
Gravitina decides to help Zurg wipe out Star Command.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Tad Stones, Kevin Hopps
- 7.6/1037 votes
#3 - XL
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2000
A rash of stolen technology leads Team Lightyear to discover that XL, the proto-version of XR, 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.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Rick Gitelson
- 7.6/1033 votes
#4 - Little Secrets
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2000
After an inspection of the planet Rhizome's bio-defenses, Team Lightyear are all given energy plants by Professor Triffid. Booster picks up a red one instead of a white one. The plant is slowly taking over the ship and then Star Command itself. XR has begun to give unauthorized tours for Buzz Lightyear fans behind everyone's backs.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Nick DuBois
- 7.5/1037 votes
#5 - Inside Job
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2000
Buzz is impressed by rookie Flash Flemming, much to Booster's chagrin. Gargantia's ambassador Ursona Major contacts Star Command in order to join. But it turns out that there are rebels, who oppose the idea of Gargantia joining Star Command and thus possibly losing their individuality.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
- 7.5/1035 votes
#6 - NOS-4-A2
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/2000
Warp Darkmatter hijacks a cargo ship which is carrying NOS-4-A2's coffin and Team Lightyear comes to stop them.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Michael A. Medlock
- 7.6/1032 votes
#7 - The Planet Destroyer
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2000
Buzz and Mira are chasing after Lardak for counterfeiting and when they are taking him back to 42, they see Trade World being destroyed. Zurg contacts the Galactic Alliance and tells them to surrender or more planets will be destroyed.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: John Behnke, Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey
- 7.0/1032 votes
#8 - The Beasts of Karn
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/10/2000
Scientist Ozma Furbanna asks for help to stop the poaching of native animals on the planet Karn. Mistaking him for a rare species, the poachers kidnap Booster.
Director: Steve Loter
Writer: Michael Merton, Ken Koonce
- 7.6/1028 votes
#9 - Tag Team
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/2000
Warp Darkmatter and Buzz find out that there is an odd implanted device within both of them. So they work together to discover who gave them the implants.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Greg Johnson
- 7.4/1029 votes
#10 - The Main Event
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/12/2000
Buzz and XR respond to an emergency distress from Sentilla looking for a downed cargo ship of Hyper Bombs.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Gary Sperling
- 7.3/1030 votes
#11 - The Return of XL
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/13/2000
XL has found that the primary difference between he and XR is that XR has a component called an AFD, so he kidnaps XR and removes his AFD.
Director: Steve Loter
Writer: Cade Chilcoat
- 7.2/1027 votes
#12 - Lost in Time
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/14/2000
When Buzz is pulled into a black hole, Zurg tricks him into revealing all of his secrets in his latest attempt to destroy Star Command.
Director: Steve Loter
- 7.1/1029 votes
#13 - Strange Invasion
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/15/2000
Buzz and Mira crash on the distant planet Roswell. Booster and XR have to save them from the local military authorities, aided by the local sheriff and his daughter.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Greg Johnson
- 7.4/1025 votes
#14 - The Taking of PC-7
Season 1 Episode 14 - 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.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Kevin Hopps
- 7.6/1029 votes
#15 - Mindwarp
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/17/2000
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.
Director: Steve Loter
Writer: Elizabeth Stonecipher
- 7.1/1024 votes
#16 - Mira's Wedding
Season 1 Episode 16 - 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. In hopes of avoiding marriage, Mira invokes a law requiring Fop to submit to a ""Challenge of Worth"". She selects Ranger Academy basic training
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Michael Price
- 7.3/1026 votes
#17 - Panic on Bathyos
Season 1 Episode 17 - 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, 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.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Cade Chilcoat
- 7.3/1027 votes
#18 - Shiv Katall
Season 1 Episode 18 - 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.
Director: Victor Cook
- 7.2/1026 votes
#19 - Rookie of the Year
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 10/21/2000
Mira, Booster, and XR are all nominated for the Rookie of the Year award. The three compete with each other to impress Buzz, which Zurg uses to steal a new matter transporter.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
- 7.3/1027 votes
#20 - Stress Test
Season 1 Episode 20 - 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 with Tubunch. 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.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Mark Palmer
- 7.6/1030 votes
#21 - A Zoo Out There
Season 1 Episode 21 - 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
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Drew Daywalt, David Schneider
- 6.5/1025 votes
#22 - Root of Evil
Season 1 Episode 22 - 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).
Director: Steve Loter
Writer: Brian Swenlin
- 6.6/1028 votes
#23 - Super Nova
Season 1 Episode 23 - 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"".
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: John Behnke, Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey
- 7.0/1023 votes
#24 - Downloaded
Season 1 Episode 24 - 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.
Director: Victor Cook
Writer: James W. Bates
- 7.2/1026 votes
#25 - The Plasma Monster
Season 1 Episode 25 - 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.
Director: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Michael A. Medlock
The Best Episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Season 1
Every episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Torque Armada" is the best rated episode of "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Don MacKinnon and written by Gary Sperling, it aired on 10/2/2000. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Gravitina".