Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

S01E10: Water, Water Everywhere

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?

Overview

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.

Episodes

S01E01 Freefall

August 30, 1999 21 min
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...

S01E02 Plasma Bugs of Navarone

August 31, 1999 21 min
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.

S01E03 Handle with Care

September 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.

S01E04 Stranded

September 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.

S01E05 Basic Training

September 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.

S01E06 Of Flesh and Steel

September 8, 1999
On a mission to capture an important mountain pass, Rico has trouble trusting the squad's newest member, a cyborg.

S01E07 Pluto and Beyond

September 21, 1999
Higgins summarizes the current state of the war on Pluto and Tophet in clips from previous episodes.

S01E08 Deep Trouble

September 22, 1999 21 min
When the Roughnecks go beneath the surface of Pluto to locate the Bug army's incubation center, Flores suffers from disabling claustrophobia.

S01E09 Swarm

September 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.

S01E10 Water, Water Everywhere

October 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...

S01E11 Search & Destroy

October 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?

S01E12 Sole Survivor

November 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.

S01E13 Missing in Action

November 11, 1999
Trying to locate two missing squads that seem to have vanished into thin air, the Roughnecks find themselves battling giant amphibious beetles.

S01E14 No Substitute

November 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.

S01E15 Hot Ice

November 25, 1999
Having crashed on a barren asteroid, the Roughnecks try to make their way to a crashed science vessel for help.

S01E16 Marauder

December 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.

S01E17 ...And Then There Were Two

December 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.

S01E18 Liquid Dreams

December 17, 1999
While a monsoon hits the Zegema Base hard, Rico floats unconscious in a regeneration tank, fighting his subconscious to stay alive.

S01E19 Heart

January 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.

S01E20 Propaganda Machine

January 14, 2000
Higgins is ordered to make a good Fed-Net report hiding the horrors of war and showing something positive about the bug campaign.

S01E21 The Inside Story

January 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...

S01E22 Captured

January 28, 2000
The Roughnecks are captured by the skinnies, and held for interrogation.

S01E23 Ice-Olation

February 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....

S01E24 Mixed Signals

February 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, while Gossard and others remain at the ship to try to...

S01E25 The Face of Truth

February 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...

S01E26 Betrayal

February 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...

S01E27 D-Day

February 17, 2000
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...

S01E28 Metamorphosis

February 18, 2000
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...

S01E29 Letters Home

February 21, 2000
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...

S01E30 Marooned

February 22, 2000
Rico is left floating in space after his pod malfunctions during a drop.

S01E31 The Mission

February 25, 2000
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...

S01E32 Among Us

March 3, 2000
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...

S01E33 Checkmate

March 6, 2000
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...

S01E34 The Ice Men Goeth

March 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.

S01E35 Requiem

March 13, 2000
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...

S01E36 Funeral for a Friend

March 14, 2000
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...

S01E37 Spirits of the Departed

March 15, 2000
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...

S01E38 Hide n' Seek

March 17, 2000
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...

S01E39 Trackers

March 28, 2000
The S.I.C.O.N. Fleet is hunting for the Bug Queen, after she escaped in a Transport Bug from Klendathu.

S01E40 Court-Martial of Lt. Razak

April 5, 2000
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...

Cast

Rider Strong
Rider Strong
Carl Jenkins (voice)
Irene Bedard
Irene Bedard
Miriam Redwing (voice)
Steve Staley
Steve Staley
T'Phai (voice)
James Horan
James Horan
Richard 'Doc' LeCroix (voice)
Nicholas Guest
Nicholas Guest
Zander Barcalow (voice)
David DeLuise
David DeLuise
Francis Brutto (voice)
E. G. Daily
E. G. Daily
Isabelle 'Dizzy' Flores (voice)
Rino Romano
Rino Romano
Johnnie Rico (voice)
Bill Fagerbakke
Bill Fagerbakke
Jeff Gossard (voice)
Alexander Polinsky
Alexander Polinsky
Robert Higgins (voice)
R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey
Sanchez (voice)

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