A Temporary Truce/A Momentary Truce

A Temporary Truce

In a weird nebula, Drule forces are on a training exercise.  Lenny Weinrib's Lotor voice is horribly pitch-shifted down to make him sound different.  As Zabar, he criticises the pilot Sandu's ability.  Then Sandu crashes into the two other fighters and spirals out of control.

The Explorer bridge crew detects the Drule fighter and warns the Voltron force where they're on the planet exploring things.  The fighter crashes, and Ginger, Jeff and Cliff find the injured pilot and get him to sickbay.

In sickbay, Dr. Page, Debbie, and the three Voltron pilots are standing over the unconscious pilot and have some dumb dialogue.

At the Drule base, Hazar is dipleased that Zabar has lost a pilot.  Brak enters with more missing pilot news; he's crabby because Zabar got command and he didn't.  Hazar calls him a fool.

Professor Page and Hawkins look over the boy's chart when he regains consciousness and asks where he is in perfect English.  Hawkis starts talking to him.  He gets his name, Sandu, and find out that he crashed in a training exercise (after Hawkins insults him by suggesting that he ran away).  Then he pours him hot chocolate (!?).  Hawkins tells him he wants peace between the two sides.  And then WEP realizes they have more footage than they have dialogue, and they create dumb filler nonsense about Sandu joining Voltron and Page blathers on about how awesome Voltron is.  If he won't join Voltron, maybe he'll join them for lunch.

Hawkins takes him down to the lounge for more dumb dialogue, then Shannon has a freakout because his brother is a prisoner on planet Doom.

Then Zabar hears that Sandu is aboard the Explorer.  He decides to get rid of the "captured" pilot by trickery.

Shannon is still freaking out.  Then he and Sandu become friends.  Um, after Hawkins punches him.  He gets away with punching subordinates a lot.  Oh, yeah, and Cliff, Crik, and Jeff all try to go make friends with him in the observation hallway.

Zabar tells his crew all the horrible things he's going to do to Sandu.

Hawkins informs the Galaxy Garrison that they have a member of the Drule empire.  Commodore Steele decides to treat him as an envoy of peace.

Hawkins tells Newley that he has the authority now to make decisions about Sandu.  They're both agreed to send him back to the Drules.  Newley orders that his fighter be repaired.  The repair crew refuses.  Then the Voltron force volunteers to go.  They try to fix the fighter.  Hilarity ensues.  But not before Hutch and Marvin teach Sandu how to play cards and Sandu makes friends with Shannon, who is sulking in the corner.

Zabar's fleet approaches and he contacts the Explorer.  They agree that Sandu will be returned to his fleet.  Sandu launches, Zabar's crew refuses to fire, so he does it him self.  Sandu crashes, Shannon gets angsty, and then the dialogue tells us that Sandu totally didn't die.

A Momentary Truce

So did the ADV translator name this episode "momentary" instead of "temporary" just to make the names different?

We open on the same nebula as in Voltron.  The battle sound effects are much more prominent.  The Galveston commander is not impressed with the fighter pilots' skill.  He says they've gotten rusty since the survey for new planets has begun.  Then the ships crash and one spins off toward the Rugger Guard's survey planet.

The Rugger teams are studying the ruins somehow when the ship crashes.  Aki, Walter and Patty find the pilot and bring him to sickbay.  In sickbay they speculate somewhat about his origins.

Drake reports to Teles that the movements of the Earth fleet are at a standstill.  Barataria comes to complain to Teles that Gramont is wasting time with training exercises.  He wants them to attack the survey force.  Teles says the planet is useless, and that as long as the survey force doesn't leave, they can keep them contained.

On the Rugger Guard, Ise interviews Shim.  It doesn't go so well at first, but Shim can apparently speak Japanese.  First Ise insults him by suggesting that he ran away.  Then he embarasses him by asking him if he was in combat.  Search actually has to pull him back somewhat.  When Shim explains that he was in an accident, Ise comiserates--he had a similar experience in training.  He pours Shim coffee.  Then he tells Shim that they want to join forces for exploration.  Ise asks him where the home planet is--Shim says he has fought in so many places since joining the fleet that he has no idea where the homeworld is.  Search laughs and tells Ise that the kid got him.  Then Shim asks him if he is to be executed.  Ise is taken aback, and invites him to lunch.

Izumo has his freakout as in Voltron. 

Gramont's troops have not found Shim's fighter.  Gramont assumes that Shim has been picked up by the Earth survey force, and has spilled secrent--he must be killed.

Izumo insinuates that Shim may have killed some of their friends.  Ise punches him and tells him that maybe he's killed some of Shim's friends.  Then Shim grabs a knife and tries to stab himself, but Aki stops him.  Shim runs, and Aki tells Izumo that it's all his fault.  Out in the window corridor, Aki, eats and Walter make friendly overtures to him. 

On Gramont's ship, all the bridge crew are sitting at their consoles, ruminating about the fact they have to go execute one of their own.  Gramont seems to like this idea.

Asimov and Ise agree that Shim is to be sent back to the Galveston empire.  They take responsibility for it in light of the communications disruption after the space fortress raid.  The work crew assigned to repair Shim's fighter has refused to repair it.

In the lounge, Shim and Nagato are playing cards, while Izu (distinct from Ise and Izumo) is backseat driving.  Shim sees Izumo sulking by himself, and he goes to shake hands.  The crew cheers, and then they hear Ise clapping.  He says he wishes the rest of the galaxy were like them.  He turns to leave.  Izumo asks him what's going to happen to Shim.  Ise says they're sending him back, but the crew sent to repair Shim's fighter is refusing.  Izumo convinces the team to help.

They work on the machine, and through their incompetence convince the repair crew to take over for them.

Gramont's fleet approaches the planet and the Rugger Guard.  He hails the Earth Survey Force and requests the return of their pilot.  Ise and Asimov try to compell him to show mercy to Shim and take news of a desire for peace to his superiors.  Gramont agrees, but as soon as the call is over, he tells his crew to kill Shim.

On the planet, the repair crew is finishing up repairs.  The Gramont fleet appears over the horizon.  He gets in his ship to leave, and Izumo suddenly tells him not to leave.

The bridge crew of Gramont's ship refuse to fire.

Izumo starts running after Shim's fighter.

Gramont fires on him.  He crashes.  Izumo runs to the wreck.  Shim is wounded but alive, but decides to stay with his fighter and die when its fuel explodes. because now he has no home and can't live with the survey force.  Izumo cusses out Galveston for killing their own.