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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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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 33 - Checkmate
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E33

    Lt Razak is called to a mission briefing to find it being given by Sky Marshall Sanchez himself. The Sky Marshall tells the assembled officers about the of the Bug Queen. He then assigns Alpha and Echo squads the mission of locating and destroying the Queen. One bit of seemingly good news is the return of Carl to the squad. But the Roughnecks are dismayed to find an apparent change in his personality. Carl guides the roughnecks to the queens lair but is captured by Bugs enroute losing his helmet in the process. The Roughnecks find the Queen but she is holding Carl as a shield and Rico is unable to pull the trigger on his friend. In the fire fight the Queen drops Carl and Rico returns his helmet. The squad give chase to the Queen but are unable to stop her escaping on a Transport Bug - enroute to Earth!!!!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 38 - Hide n' Seek
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E38

    A massive bug mound has appeared outside of Buenos Aires. S.I.C.O.N. thinks the Bugs are going to assault the city again so they try to bomb the mound from the air. Plasma Tanker Bugs shot the planes down though and, because they keep changing location the air attacks are unable to neutralize them. So the Roughnecks are sent in with four other squads to locate and destroy the Tanker Bugs so the mound can be bombed to destruction. The squads dig in and hide whilst s decoy force lures the Warrior Bugs defending the Tankers away. Rico's group is almost detected by a Bug but Carl is able to mentally change its view and thus save the group. As the squads move in at night the game is given away by a trooper from another squad who launches a grenade at some Bugs. However this turns out to have a positive effect as all the Tanker Bugs start to fire all at once believing it's another aerial attack thus revealing all their positions simultaneously. The squads launch a missi

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 39 - Trackers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E39

    The S.I.C.O.N. Fleet is hunting for the Bug Queen, after she escaped in a Transport Bug from Klendathu.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jules Dennis

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  4. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 40 - Court-Martial of Lt. Razak
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    S1:E40

    The Roughnecks are about to be dropped on Klendathu into a hot LZ. Lt Razak tells Carmen to clear the LZ as he thinks it's too dangerous for the squad to land. Carman tells him INTEL in the form of Lt Walker ordered no weapons to be used, stealth drop only. Lt Razak overrides her and the LZ is cleared by bombs. As soon as Lt Walker finds out he tells Lt Razak that 6 squads were in that area under General Redwing but they'd lost radio contact. Lt Razak asks why he wasn't told and Walker tells him it was a covert op. on a need to know basis - and Razak didn't need to know. Back at the base Lt Razak faces a court of inquiry with Walker as prosecutor. Lt Walker charges Razak with endangering the squad and wrecking S.I.C.O.N. equipment needlessly, using troopers evidence and flash backs as proof. As the hearing goes on a swarm of bugs attacks the base prompting Lt Walker to exclaim there was a traitor in their midst feeding information to the Bugs and he points at LT Razak

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 36 - Funeral for a Friend
    6.5/10(26 votes)

    S1:E36

    General Redwing has ordered the Roughnecks to be split up as she does not have a spare Lt to assign to them. They are given time, though, to time to honour Lt Razak's Last Will so they got to spread his ashes over Luna Lake in Colorado. They are joined by General Redwing and by Sgt. Brutto who is now in a wheel-chair and who doubts his own worth. The squad come across a Bug operation and try to withdraw but General Redwing and Higgins are captured. They are threatened by a Brain Bug and Rico knows he ought to order General Redwing's death. However, by using the spare fuel cells from Sgt Brutto's wheel chair Gossard and Doc blow the mountain according to Rico's plan. Sgt Brutto uses his wheel chair to swoop in and save the hostages whilst the bugs are distracted. Afterwards General Redwing tells Rico he should have had her killed. Rico tells her that was plan ""B"". General Redwing realizes the squad is too valuable to split up so she offers Rico a battlefield prom

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Weisman

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  6. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 25 - The Face of Truth
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    S1:E25

    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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 5 - Basic Training
    6.8/10(40 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Sam Liu
    Writer:Michael L. Kramer

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  8. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 4 - Stranded
    6.9/10(41 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Jay Oliva
    Writers:Marsha Griffin, Jennifer Levin

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  9. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 12 - Sole Survivor
    6.9/10(29 votes)

    S1:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Jules Dennis

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  10. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 19 - Heart
    6.9/10(29 votes)

    S1:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 23 - Ice-Olation
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Peter Gaffney

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  12. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 26 - Betrayal
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    S1:E26

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Greg Klein

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  13. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 32 - Among Us
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    S1:E32

    All S.I.C.O.N. forces revert to peace status after the Bug Queen has apparently been destroyed. Carl, though, keeps insisting the Queen is still very much alive and on the earth - somewhere. After another argument General Redwing sends him on leave to cool down. Meanwhile the roughnecks are reassigned - to the moons of Jupiter to repair the radio telescopes. Rico believes Carl is right and manages to convince Lt Razak too. Razak cuts through the red tape and gets Gossard to review satellite imagery of the earth before and after the Queens assumed arrival. Gossard finds an new, unexplained, hot spot near to Little Butte, North Dakota. The roughnecks divert their shuttle there without formal authorization but the town seems to be normal - until they realize the towns- people all look alike and sound alike. A s soon as they realize this they are attacked by the residents. The Roughnecks manage to capture a resident and get back to the ship. As they take off the r

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jules Dennis

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  14. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 34 - The Ice Men Goeth
    6.9/10(25 votes)

    S1:E34

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 1 - Freefall
    7.0/10(66 votes)

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

    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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  17. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 28 - Metamorphosis
    7.0/10(24 votes)

    S1:E28

    The Valley Forge is enroute to their next campaign, a long trip. The Roughnecks drew the watch as most of the ship's crew is in stasis. Doc is suddenly attacked by Zander who has mutated into a new form of Bug. Zander escapes and runs amok in the ship, letting samples of other Bug types free to keep the Roughnecks busy whilst it heads for the bridge. There it captures Carmen and the Commander and, to stop the Roughnecks from interfering, kills power to the stasis tubes. Gossard manages to restore power to the tubes whilst Rico and Brutto go outside the Valley Forge to the emergency air lock on the bridge. As they enter the Sander Bug notices them and closes the door trapping Brutto in the process and damaging his legs. The rest of the team arrive and Zander escapes in a life-pod to the planet he was trying to crash the Valley Forge onto. Carmen manages to avoid the crash causing the Commander to withdraw earlier comments about automated pilots. The planet is t

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Tom Pugsley, Greg Klein

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

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

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

    S1:E30

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Season 1 Episode 2 - Plasma Bugs of Navarone
    7.2/10(44 votes)

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

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

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

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

    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
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Checkmate" is the worst rated episode of "Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/6/2000. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hide n' Seek".