The Best Episodes of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1
Every episode of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1!
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.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles" season 1 is "Freefall", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Duane Capizzi. "Freefall" aired on 8/30/1999 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Plasma Bugs of Navarone".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Freefall
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/30/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Duane Capizzi
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#2 - Plasma Bugs of Navarone
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/31/1999
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: N/A
Writer: Tom Pugsley, Greg Klein
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#3 - Handle with Care
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/1/1999
The squad is assigned to assist intelligence officer Earle Walker in capturing a live Plasma Bug and bringing it back through enemy territory.
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#4 - Basic Training
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/3/1999
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.
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#5 - Deep Trouble
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/22/1999
When the Roughnecks go beneath the surface of Pluto to locate the Bug army's incubation center, Flores suffers from disabling claustrophobia.
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#6 - Water, Water Everywhere
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1999
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?
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#7 - Swarm
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1999
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: N/A
Writer: Dan Gordon
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#8 - Search & Destroy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1999
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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#9 - Missing in Action
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1999
Trying to locate two missing squads that seem to have vanished into thin air, the Roughnecks find themselves battling giant amphibious beetles.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Sole Survivor
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1999
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jules Dennis
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#11 - Betrayal
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/2000
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: N/A
Writer: Greg Klein
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#12 - Stranded
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/2/1999
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.
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Writer: N/A
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#13 - Of Flesh and Steel
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/8/1999
On a mission to capture an important mountain pass, Rico has trouble trusting the squad's newest member, a cyborg.
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#14 - Captured
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/2000
The Roughnecks are captured by the skinnies, and held for interrogation.
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#15 - The Face of Truth
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2000
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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#16 - No Substitute
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/19/1999
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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Writer: N/A
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#17 - ...And Then There Were Two
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/9/1999
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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#18 - Marauder
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/3/1999
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: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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#19 - Liquid Dreams
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/17/1999
While a monsoon hits the Zegema Base hard, Rico floats unconscious in a regeneration tank, fighting his subconscious to stay alive.
Director: N/A
Writer: Greg Weisman
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#20 - Heart
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/3/2000
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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#21 - Ice-Olation
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/2000
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: N/A
Writer: Peter Gaffney
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#22 - Mixed Signals
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/2000
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 (to their surprise, since it was supposed to be found on another asteroid entirely), 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, fire-breathing bugs that the Roughnecks accidentally brought to the asteroid as eggs. The collection team fights Leeches, aggressive amorphous blobs, inside a cave; in the aftermath of the battle they discover that the Leeches are the source of the Toxin B-3. But while collecting them the team finds itself at the mercy of a hurricane-force wind coming from inside the cave. The wind blows Carmen away, and the team fears for her life. The episode climaxes in a massive battle with the Firefries around the ship. When it's over, Gossard is able to send an SOS, and Carmen returns. It looks like help is on the way. (from pazs
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#23 - Hot Ice
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/25/1999
Having crashed on a barren asteroid, the Roughnecks try to make their way to a crashed science vessel for help.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steve Cuden
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#24 - The Inside Story
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1/17/2000
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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#25 - The Ice Men Goeth
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/2000
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. The way to the oxygen is down a shaft. Flores and Doc enter a strange portal in the side of the shaft but Brutto has a bad fall. Rico rescues Brutto and returns him to the ship then returns with Higgins to find Doc & Flores. These have been swept away in one of the Bugs arteries. Rico has to leave Higgins but finds Flores and Doc OK. Razak goes looking for them and finds Higgins who is suffering from lack of air in his suit. Air is now being pumped into the ship. Back at the ship, Zander is getting madder. Gossard gets the idea of using the Firefries as a fuel source from listening to him The rest of the squad return to the ship just prior to take off. Zander has been restrained but somehow escapes and attempts to sabotage the ship but the squad stop him. As they prepare to launch he escapes again and triggers the self-de
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