Red Moon Rises Again/The Boy Denon and the Elk

The Red Moon Rises Again

The Alliance fleet is in deep space.  Hawkins looks out into the void ahead and broods about finding a planet despite constant fighting with the Drules.

In the Drule HQ, Borgam and Dorma discuss the position of the Voltron force and their weakened condition.  Hazar grudgingly gives him permission to attack.

Hawkins orders the fleet down to examine planet 71.  Jeff and Cliff burst onto the bridge and wonder why they're on guard duty.  Hawkins talks them down. 

A Drule fleet launches from the Drule HQ to planet 71.  The Drule Captain looks like Eddie Munster.  And, can we guess what Hazar is doing?  Yep, brooding.  Throk calls Hazar and demands to know why he hasn't found a suitable planet.  Hazar claims he's sent reinforcements to a new planet for investigation.

The land team approaches planet 71 and form the subunits.  They pass over grounded Allied ships under repair.  Hawkins tells Cliff to look for drinkable water on the planet.  Jeff and Crick are on the bridge.  Hawkins tells them to go in support.

The land team come on a waterfall.  They get out of their ships to test the water, and see a fawn drinking water.  Hutch goes to harass the fawn.  Suddenly, a feral boy dropkicks Hutch and carries the fawn off in his arms.  He tries to climb a cliff but falls.  Marvin and Hutch rescue the fawn and the boy.  Cinda checks the boy for injuries.  Cliff reports that there are humans on the planet to Hawkins.  Hawkins wants them to find out if the boy's people have information on the Drules.  As Cliff gets out of the ship, Cinda tell shim that the boy and the fawn have run off and the other three are chasing him.

The chase winds through the forest until a stag chases Hutch, Marvin and Murdock up trees.  Then Cliff appears and startles the stag by firing a shot in the air.  His sidearm is a different design.  The boy and his fawn gets to the village and warns the villagers to run away. 

The land team run through the forest and come upon the now-deserted village.  There are signs that they abandoned the village quite recently.  Then they see satellite antennae and solar panels on some of the house roofs.  Then Cliff sees tracks leading away from the village.  They track them into caves and see the boy with the fawn.  Hutch does some rock climbing, but then a rockslide slows him down.  They see the villagers looking down on them.  Cliff introduces himself, and the guy mentions Uvall-Eyebrows from the last planet settled by people of the red moon.  Everyone is now friends.

The Drule fleet under Eddie Munster approach the planet (which has rings--weird) and launches "stinger remote ships."  We get a sweet shot of the fighters launching from interior bays.  The land team is playing on the planet with the boy and the fawn and Cliff warns Hawkins that there may be Drules afoot.  Hawkins sends Jeff and Crick to guard the repired ships.

Cinda, the boy, and the fawn and being dragged in a sled over grass by the stag and see the air and sea teams fly overhead.  Then Jeff sees forty Drule ships in formation to attack the repair docks.  The land team launches, but Cinda, the boy, the fawn, and the stag are cut off y enemy fire.  The fawn is running around in the laser fire and is killed when the robeast explodes out of the ground.  Man, this episode must have been done by Disney.  Cinda wisely leaves the boy and the stag to run up to the robeast and gets in her ship.  She starts shooting at the robeast and calls Jeff for help.

Hawkins orders Jeff to concentrate on the robeast while his fleet hits the Drule fleet.  A second Drule fleet is coming in from behind as Jeff orders the formation of Voltron.  Voltron hits the robeast with the raybeam whip and the spinning laser blades.  The robeast leaps at Voltron and hits him with high voltage.

The Drule fleet takes heavy losses as Eddie Munster orders them to spread out and fight.  The boy and the stag watch as the robeast pummels Voltron, drawing a sword and backing him to the waterfall where they first found the fawn.  The stag jumps into the robeast cockpit and dies distracting the robeast.  Voltron cuts the robeast down at the knees with the spinning laser blades, then destroys him with the blazing sword.  Then he strikes a pose.

The boy is kneeling by the dead stag and crying.  Later, they stand over the graves for the animals and the chief tries to comfort him by telling him that they'll get better.  Well, whatever lands your kid in therapy, I guess.

More stock footage. Blah blah blah fillin' time.

The Boy Denon and the Elk

The Rugger Guard and fleet are in flight.  Ise is brooding on the bridge, marvelling at the beauty of outer space and the futility of war with Galveston.

At the Galveston HQ, Teles is brooding, too.  Sirk tells Raucher that the Earth fleet is anchored near the unexplored zone.  Raucher wants to send Butler's fleet after them.  Teles grudgingly allows it.

The Earth fleet goes to full power on final approach to a planet.  Aki and Walter want to know why they're taking time guarding damaged ships while they should be making for the Galveston homeworld.  Ise says they must guard the ships because they have more firepower than the main part of the second Earth fleet.

Butler's fleet moves into position, and Butler still looks like Eddie Munster.  Meanwhile, Teles does what he always does, stares out the windows of his HQ and broods.  He gets a call from Caponero, who starts yelling at him.  Teles says he will have good new soon, about possibly finding a maybe suitable planet.  Probably.  Caponero agrees to pass it on to Corsair.

Ise deploys the Land Rugger to survey the planet.  The repair crews are working on the grounded ships, and Walter reports back to Ise.  Ise sends them to look for drinking water.  Ise puts Aki and Keats on standby.  Walter sees a waterfall and orders them to land for a qater quality test.  While Izu is testing the quality, Kirigas sees a fawn.  Nagato goes and harasses it and gets kicked by a human boy.  The boy climbs up the rock wall and then falls off.  Nagato and Izu rescue the boy and the fawn, and Kirigas gives him first aid.

Walter reports to Ise that this planet is inhabited.  Ise orders them to find the others.  The boy has run off, though, with the other three (minus Kirigas and Walter) chasing him.  Walter goes, presumably to make sure those idiots don't hurt themselves.  He ends up having to resuce them from the Stag.  Meanwhile, the boy reaches his village and warns everyone away. 

The team reaches the village, but it's deserted.  They see evidence that it was deserted in a hurry, and they see antennae and solar panels.  They then see footprints, which they follow into a ravine, and see the boy on the cliff ahead.  Nagato goes after him, but a rockslide chases them off.  Humans appear at the top of the cliff, and Walter tells them that they're the Earth Survey Team.  The old man says Dahl told them about him.

In the village hut, the old guy says he is Denon, the boy's grandfather, and that they have had no other contact with humans since their migration.

Bulter sends fighters out in a scouting party.

On the planet, Kirigas plays with Denon, the stag, and the fawn, while the others pick fruit and Walter contacts Ise.  He warns them of a potential approach by Galveston.  He sends Aki and Keats to gaurd the grounded ships.

Bulter gets word of the grounded ships, and prepares his attack plan. 

Kirigas and Denon are ferrying the fruit somewhere in a stag-pulled sled.  They see the air and sea teams fly overhead.  Aki sees nothing at first, but then the Galveston ships move in and attack the grounded ships.  The land team takes off, but Kirigas is still on the surface.  The fighting rages, and Kirigas and Denon take cover in caves.  The fawn is killed by the battle attacker emerging from the ground.  Denon and the Stag run to the dead fawn, and Kirigas runs to her ship, distracting the battle attacker.  She calls Aki just as the Rugger Guard and escort arrive to engage the first Galveston fleet.  A second Galveston fleet arrives, and Ise ordes the fleet to climb and circle around behind this new fleet.

Dairugger is formed, and they have a rough time against this battle attacker.  The Rugger Guard and escorts have encircled Butler's fleet.  Ise orders them to cut off all ships and destroy them.

When the battle attacker throws Dairugger down and draws an energy sword, the stag leaps through the battle attacker's cockpit, immobilizing it for a moment.  That is long enough for them to form the Kilders/Space Cutters and cut it off at the knees, and then finish it off with the Dairugger sword.

Denon grieves for the loss of his pets.  Kirigas is grief-stricken that the animals died because they were here, but Nagato and Aki point out that Galveston would be their to plunder the planet's resources eventually.

The fleet leaves the planet.