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The exploits of the Mobile Infantry squad, "Razak's Roughnecks," during the SICON–Bugs War between a newly united humanity and an extraterrestrial race, known as the "Bugs," also sometimes referred to as Arachnids.

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    Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 13 - Missing in Action
    7.7/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Missing in Action

    S1:E13

    Trying to locate two missing squads that seem to have vanished into thin air, the Roughnecks find themselves battling giant amphibious beetles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 10 - Water, Water Everywhere
    7.6/10(32 votes)

    #2 - Water, Water Everywhere

    S1:E10

    The "Transport" Bug that was found bringing reinforcements and eggs to Pluto is followed back to the watery planet Hydora, where it releases barb-shooting flying bugs of a previously unknown type. Is this the bug home world?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 20 - Propaganda Machine
    7.6/10(29 votes)

    #3 - Propaganda Machine

    S1:E20

    Higgins is ordered to make a good Fed-Net report hiding the horrors of war and showing something positive about the bug campaign.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 37 - Spirits of the Departed
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #4 - Spirits of the Departed

    S1:E37

    As Rico Struggles with his promotion to Lt. as leader of the Roughnecks, after Razacks death, They are assigned to defend S.I.C.O.N. high Command in Honolulu. In Route to Honolulu they pick up Sgt. Brutto's son, Max, who has been assigned to the Roughnecks as per an arrangement made by Sgt. Brutto himself. The Roughnecks come under heavy attack by the bugs and are joined by Sgt. Zimm then forced into an outpost waiting for a pickup. During there struggle Rico looks to Zimm for intructions on what to do, as he is not sure of his command abilities, and assigns Zimm leader of the squad while Rico puts himself on gaurd duty. While on Gaurd Duty, Sgt. Zimm tells Rico the reason he was assigned to him back in Basic Training then to the Roughnecks is because Lt. Razak and Zimm were good friends and they knew Rico was born to be a leader so they made a deal. This gives Rico the confidence he needs and he again assumes command, ordering the Roughnecks to blow up the outposts generator,they hid

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Weisman

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  5. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 3 - Handle with Care
    7.4/10(48 votes)

    #5 - Handle with Care

    S1:E3

    The squad is assigned to assist intelligence officer Earle Walker in capturing a live Plasma Bug and bringing it back through enemy territory.

    Director:Sam Liu
    Writer:Duane Capizzi

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  6. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 6 - Of Flesh and Steel
    7.4/10(34 votes)

    #6 - Of Flesh and Steel

    S1:E6

    On a mission to capture an important mountain pass, Rico has trouble trusting the squad's newest member, a cyborg.

    Director:David Hartman
    Writer:Steven H. Berman

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  7. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 8 - Deep Trouble
    7.4/10(31 votes)

    #7 - Deep Trouble

    S1:E8

    When the Roughnecks go beneath the surface of Pluto to locate the Bug army's incubation center, Flores suffers from disabling claustrophobia.

    Director:David Hartman
    Writer:Steven H. Berman

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  8. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 31 - The Mission
    7.4/10(22 votes)

    #8 - The Mission

    S1:E31

    Higgins is on guard duty at a camp on Klendathu. Whilst in front of the gates he sees a trooper staggering along. As he talks to the trooper a new type of Bug, hence known as an Impostor Bug, bursts out of the suit. The Impostor is a Bug that approximates the size and shape of a human and is able to fit inside stolen power suits. As such they present a major threat to the security of S.I.C.O.N. forces. The troopers manage to kill the bug but not before it manages to drop Lt Razak and knock his helmet off. After the attack, the Roughnecks are ordered to rescue the crew of a downed transport ship. When they get to the crashed ships location they discover that the crew have been captured by Bugs. As the squad track them Bugs back to their nest Lt Razak collapses - it seems he has been infected by spores carried by the Impostor Bug. Doc and Flores go to find the fungus responsible so Doc can synthesise an antidote whilst the rest of the squad keep tracking the Bugs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 7 - Pluto and Beyond
    7.3/10(32 votes)

    #9 - Pluto and Beyond

    S1:E7

    Higgins summarizes the current state of the war on Pluto and Tophet in clips from previous episodes.

    Directors:Audu Paden, David Hartman, Sam Liu, Jay Oliva, Alan Caldwell, Sean Song
    Writer:Marsha Griffin

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  10. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 9 - Swarm
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #10 - Swarm

    S1:E9

    The battle against the Bugs moves to the watery planet Hydora, where Rico and the Roughnecks again come to Carmen's rescue when she is stranded while evacuating wounded.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  11. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 16 - Marauder
    7.3/10(29 votes)

    #11 - Marauder

    S1:E16

    As the squad tries to locate a brain bug on Tesca Nemerosa from underwater, Rico is trapped when his Marauder suit runs out of power.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  12. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 22 - Captured
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #12 - Captured

    S1:E22

    The Roughnecks are captured by the skinnies, and held for interrogation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 2 - Plasma Bugs of Navarone
    7.2/10(45 votes)

    #13 - Plasma Bugs of Navarone

    S1:E2

    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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  14. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 14 - No Substitute
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #14 - No Substitute

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 15 - Hot Ice
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Hot Ice

    S1:E15

    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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  16. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 18 - Liquid Dreams
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #16 - Liquid Dreams

    S1:E18

    While a monsoon hits the Zegema Base hard, Rico floats unconscious in a regeneration tank, fighting his subconscious to stay alive.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Weisman

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  17. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 24 - Mixed Signals
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #17 - Mixed Signals

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 27 - D-Day
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #18 - D-Day

    S1:E27

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 29 - Letters Home
    7.2/10(20 votes)

    #19 - Letters Home

    S1:E29

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 35 - Requiem
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #20 - Requiem

    S1:E35

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 11 - Search & Destroy
    7.1/10(29 votes)

    #21 - Search & Destroy

    S1:E11

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 21 - The Inside Story
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #22 - The Inside Story

    S1:E21

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 30 - Marooned
    7.1/10(21 votes)

    #23 - Marooned

    S1:E30

    Rico is left floating in space after his pod malfunctions during a drop.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 1 - Freefall
    7.0/10(67 votes)

    #24 - Freefall

    S1:E1

    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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  25. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 17 - ...And Then There Were Two
    7.0/10(28 votes)

    #25 - ...And Then There Were Two

    S1:E17

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Missing in Action" is the best rated episode of "Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles". It scored 7.7/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/11/1999. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Water, Water Everywhere".