The Worst Episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

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6.9/10(34 votes)
#1 - Devolutionaries
S1:E3411/5/2000
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 Bin
Directors:Don MacKinnon, Chris Rutkowski
Writer:Doug Langdale
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Directors:Don MacKinnon, Chris Rutkowski
Writer:Doug Langdale
6.9/10(30 votes)
#2 - 42
S1:E621/13/2001
As an auto-piloted freighter is attempting to make a routine transport run, it is attacked by Valkyran raiders. At the same time, 42 is struck by a fairly massive energy jolt and develops her own personality.
Director:Don MacKinnon
Writers:John Behnke, Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey
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Director:Don MacKinnon
Writers:John Behnke, Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey
6.9/10(29 votes)
#3 - The Lightyear Factor
S1:E3011/1/2000
Zurg stumbles upon an alternate dimension where Buzz is evil (...possibly more evil than Zurg, himself...) and has taken over the universe. Zurg has Buzz, the evil one, capture Buzz, the good one, and trap him in the other dimension while they capture Star Command. Buzz's teammates (the good Buzz's, that is) venture into Zurg's Dreadnaught, thinking Buzz has gone insane, but, alas, are captured. Meanwhile, Buzz (the good one) is chased around by the alternate Mira and Booster (the bad ones). He gets a reprieve from the alternate Nebula (who isn't all that bad), who knows that Evil Buzz is working with Zurg. They team up in order to stop the bad guys. Team Lightyear is rescued, Star Command is saved, the Dreadnaught blows up, Zurg and his minions escape, and Evil Buzz is left floating out in space, ready for his revenge in ""Sunquake""...
Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Julia Lewald
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Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Julia Lewald
7.0/10(35 votes)
#4 - The Crawling Flesh
S1:E2710/29/2000
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.
Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Michael A. Medlock
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Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Michael A. Medlock
7.0/10(30 votes)
#5 - Eye of the Tempest
S1:E4211/13/2000
Answering a distress call from a planetoid within ion storm, Buzz encounters Spyro Von Madman, and his daughter, Bonnie. Professor Spyro Von Madman, previously known as Spyro Lepton 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, Spyro had gone off into seclusion to further his research. When Spyro 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, Spyro sees Bonnie & Buzz walking together
Director:Victor Cook
Writer:Robert Askin
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Director:Victor Cook
Writer:Robert Askin
7.1/10(35 votes)
#6 - Super Nova
S1:E2310/25/2000
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
Writers:John Behnke, Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey
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Director:Don MacKinnon
Writers:John Behnke, Jim Peterson, Rob Humphrey

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7.1/10(32 votes)
#7 - Root of Evil
S1:E2210/24/2000
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
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Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Brian Swenlin
7.1/10(31 votes)
#8 - The Shape Stealer
S1:E3711/8/2000
Zurg's latest creation, Project X, a Lurker-like blanket thing that wraps over one and takes control of one, is sent to destroy Buzz Lightyear, etc... The shape stealer first takes over Buzz's next door neighbor, Mr. Hayman, and tries to kill Buzz with hedge clippers, then when Buzz has to fly off to TradeWorld to deal with Lardak Lurdak (a petty criminal), it takes over Ed the Courier and flies off to catch up with him. Once on TradeWorld, the shape stealer takes over a Vulturan, then some piggy-looking bystander, and then a bus driver, all of whom attempt to stab, shoot, or run over Buzz. When the bus crashes, the shape stealer is nowhere to be seen. When Team Lightyear return to Star Command, the shape stealer proves to've been just biding its time. It takes over a LGM (who tries to shoot Buzz), then Booster (who tries to beat up Buzz), and then it just takes over Buzz himself...but without showing any signs of having done so. When Nebula locks Buzz into Star Command's Combat
Director:Don MacKinnon
Writers:Bill Motz, Bob Roth
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Director:Don MacKinnon
Writers:Bill Motz, Bob Roth
7.2/10(35 votes)
#9 - Dirty Work
S1:E2810/30/2000
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 vegegenetic technology"" into their systems, when they receive the distress call from Cosmo.
Director:Victor Cook
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, Bob Forward
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Director:Victor Cook
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, Bob Forward
7.2/10(27 votes)
#10 - Planet of the Lost
S1:E4511/16/2000
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 (gamma series construction robot), who built the robotic shriekers in order to strand organics on the planet, so that he could order THEM around as revenge for his time spent in forced labor (...as a stock-boy...). Team Lightyear shut down the subterranean shrieker construction plant that Flint had built, and defeat Flint, freeing the hapless castaways.
Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Jan Strnad
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Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Jan Strnad
7.3/10(31 votes)
#11 - The Yukari Imprint
S1:E3611/7/2000
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 Luma 9 Station. Booster is talked into purchasing a Yukari-pod; 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 Luma 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
Director:Victor Cook
Writer:Cade Chilcoat
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Director:Victor Cook
Writer:Cade Chilcoat
7.3/10(31 votes)
#12 - Lone Wolf
S1:E4411/15/2000
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.
Director:Denise Koyama
Writer:Eddie Guzelian
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Director:Denise Koyama
Writer:Eddie Guzelian
7.3/10(30 votes)
#13 - Enemy Without a Face
S1:E4711/18/2000
Team Lightyear get separated and meet up with the last Beletor and the last Krnozian, who're warring over possession of their home planet.
Director:Victor Cook
Writer:Elizabeth Stonecipher
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Director:Victor Cook
Writer:Elizabeth Stonecipher
7.4/10(40 votes)
#14 - The Beasts of Karn
S1:E810/10/2000
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
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton
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Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton
7.4/10(36 votes)
#15 - Strange Invasion
S1:E1310/15/2000
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
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Director:Don MacKinnon
Writer:Greg Johnson
7.4/10(32 votes)
#16 - Haunted Moon
S1:E3911/10/2000
Crew on asteroid attempting to deflect comet. Ghost on asteroid seems to be interfering with mission, uttering ""Enola Eno-No!!"" (...with silent ""e""s...). Asteroid crew runs off with 42, leaving Team Lightyear to solve the problem. 50 years ago, Wild Bill Cooley had attempted same mission, but ended up frozen in comet's tail. He was trying to tell them that it was a two-man mission to shunt the comet, but it was coming out in reverse (...IE: ""No-one Alone!!""...). Buzz thaws out Cooley and the two of them shunt the comet.
Director:Don MacKinnon
Writer:Mark Palmer
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Director:Don MacKinnon
Writer:Mark Palmer
7.4/10(29 votes)
#17 - Downloaded
S1:E2410/26/2000
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
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Director:Victor Cook
Writer:James W. Bates
7.5/10(32 votes)
#18 - Bunzel Fever
S1:E3211/3/2000
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
Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Jess Winfield, Elizabeth Stonecipher, Jules Dennis
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Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Jess Winfield, Elizabeth Stonecipher, Jules Dennis
7.5/10(31 votes)
#19 - Revenge of the Monsters
S1:E4311/14/2000
After being bitten by NOS-4-A2 on the mysterious planet of Canis Lupus, 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
Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Nick DuBois
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Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Nick DuBois
7.5/10(31 votes)
#20 - Revenge of the Raenoks
S1:E4611/17/2000
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
Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
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Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
7.5/10(29 votes)
#21 - Clone Rangers
S1:E3111/2/2000
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
Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Greg Weisman
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Director:Steve Loter
Writer:Greg Weisman
7.6/10(31 votes)
#22 - The Slayer
S1:E2910/31/2000
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 (...a la Buffy...). 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 (...including XR who, as usual, was an easy mark for NOS-4-A2...).
Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton
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Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton
7.6/10(32 votes)
#23 - Mira's Wedding
S1:E1610/18/2000
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
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Director:Don MacKinnon
Writer:Michael Price
7.6/10(32 votes)
#24 - Rookie of the Year
S1:E1910/21/2000
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
Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
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Director:Victor Cook
Writers:Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster
7.6/10(32 votes)
#25 - Wirewolf
S1:E2610/28/2000
While fighting NOS-4-A2 with Buzz, Space Ranger Ty Parsec gets bitten by an energy vampire and he turns into the Wirewolf.
Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, Richard Mueller
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Director:Steve Loter
Writers:Ken Koonce, Michael Merton, Richard Mueller