WEP didn't pay very close attention to the episodes they were naming. Since the planet blew up last episode and it doesn't appear even ion flashbacks in this one, they named this episode "Goodbye, New World."
Goodbye, New World
In the Drule headquarters, Hazar is complaining that the supreme commond wants too much from him. Vicero Throk calls and yells at Hazar for blowing up the planet. Hazar says spies aboard the Explorer (?!) tell him the Voltron force are hanging out and listening to music. Maybe they'll get bored and go home.
On the Explorer, the team is listening to Sammy the cook play guitar.
We then cut back to Hazar and Malvor (who's actually Mongo in later episodes). Malvor demands to be put in charge.
Cliff tells the chef that he should go into show business. Jeff wonders where Crik is. He and Cinda wandered off earlier.
Crik and Cinda are on the bridge, while Sparks is doing . . . things. Newley is sure Hazar won't tangle with them after the last time.
Now Malvor gets his big entrance. After we've already met him. His chin is a little less prominent than when they remember to call him Mongo. Malvor has a plot to draw the Voltron Force into a sea of black holes with a false distress signal. This pleases Hazar, as he doesn't want a fair fight. The Galaxy Alliance always wins when the fight is fair.
Aboard the Explorer, Crik is standing in the lounge looking out the window. Jeff tells him he needs to chill out. Cliff laughs at this reversal. The rest of the team is looking out the window. Lisa points something out. <3<3<3 Then a crazy looking nebula thing which is apparently the sea of black holes appears.
Hawkins and Newley discuss this thing that may be concealing a planet. Then they receive a mayday from the black hole cluster. Hawkins deploys the Sea team. We get a truncated version of the launch sequence. Hawkins warns them to be alert (we need more lerts) and to stay in contact. They enter the crazy black hole and Shannon express doubts. Crik orders them to form the Aquafighter. This is the first of the subteam super ships we get to see.
On the Explorer, they keep losing track of the Sea Team on the radar. Hawkins is concerned. Crik can't find anything on the radar either, but he says they'll look as long as their fuel holds out. Suddenly, small points of light start following the Aquafighter. Apparently, they're making the Sea team accelerate. Hawkins orders them out of there.
Jeff is pacing and driving Cliff nuts. He's worried because they've never been up against a black hole before. Cliff assures him that coming up against firsts is sort of the nature of being explorers.
The Sea team discusses their fate. They were looking for a ship in distress--they found one, and they're in it. Electrical charges engulf the aquafighter, and their velocity drops off. Crik realizes the only way to get out is by going forward. The points of light reappear, then Zandi sees something up ahead. Crik advises Hawkins, but the reception is lost. Hawkins suspects a trap.
Crik thinks this is all like a nightmare he's had before. Then they see an asteroid at the end of the tunnel. The Aquafighter starts to orbit it, then a robeast rises from behind it. Malvor watches all of this on his screen. He orders the attack. The robeast opens the fighter and then points of light become fighters. Crik separates the team into their individual craft to present smaller targets.
Hawkins and Newley launch the rest of the Voltron force. The air and land teams fly through the black hole complex. The Sea team is evading the fighters. Crik tells Shannon to send an SOS, but the electrical interference is too much. Jeff and Cliff think they're nearing the Sea Team, while Zandi is taking fire and the team is trapped between the fighters and the robeast. Then the rest of the team sees and joins them.
Crik is fleeing the heavy weapons of the robeast, hemmed in by the fighters, when suddenly the fighters started exploding. The rest of the team has arrived. They form Voltron.
The robeast fires his earbeams. Voltron dodges and kicks him in the face. As its falling, the robeast throws him with go-go Gadget arms. Crik suggests they try to get out of the end of the funnel and lure the robeast away. As they approach the asteroid, they recognize one of Hazar's ships.
On his bridge, Malvor and his XO have some nonsensical dialogue that doesn't match what's happening in the footage, and then they see the Explorer on the screen.
Voltron is about to flee when the robeast catches him with rocket ropes. It starts to drag him back. Voltron does a flip and cuts the ropes with wing beam. The robeast launches its arms again, then latches on to Voltron and starts roasting him with microwaves. Crik tells Jeff to reverse the polarity. Whatever that means. Then they form blazing sword, cut the Gadget arms, and dispose of the robeast.
Jeff and Crik discuss Crik's sixth sense, then Hawkins calls them and tells them to meet at the planet ahead. Voltron and the Explorer approach the planet together.
Rescue Mission to Hell
None of the weird intercutting that happens in Voltron is in the beginning of this episode. Oh, no. We go right to the Rugger Guard and the team hanging out in the lounge while the ship's cook plays the show's themesong in a bizarre-as-hell- Hawaian yukeleli arangement. Keats and Kirigas trade meaningful looks. Keats goes out into the corridor to look out the observation window. Kirigas joins him and they talk about premonitions Keats has been having. The song ends, the team applauds, and then Aki wonders what's up with the two Miran team members.
Keats and Kirigas are on the bridge, and they, Asimov, and Ise are standing over the radar operator, who sees nothing at the coordinates they suggested.
In the Galveston frontline base, our new aggressor captain makes his grand entrance (it works better here, when his entrance against the brilliant background is THE FIRST WE SEE OF HIM). Teles shows him the image of the ship that destroyed the Rackal fleet. The captain, Drake, is amazed that just one ship could do it. Teles tells him that their strength is the battle machines the ship carries. Drake assures him that he has a cunning plan that cannot fail. In the past, interaction between black holes created a tempestuous area that he will lure the invader ship into.
Aboard the Rugger Guard, Keats is gazing out the lounge windows again. Aki tells him to calm down, and Walter makes fun of them. The rest of the team team is also looking out the windows. Kagas sees something, and then it appears again. The radar operator says planet four of their target system is on the other end of the disturbance. Asimov suggests they go around--they shouldn't risk Dairugger. The radio operator picks up a distress signal. Asimov debates with himself whether they should respond, though it may be the mysterious attackers, and he and Ise finall agree to send the Sea Rugger team.
Keats orders them to link up into Sea Rugger for safety. The radar on the Rugger Guard bridge fails. Ise contacts the Sea Rugger, and Keats tells them that successive energy shocks are causing power loss. Cruz sees shining objects behind them that are visible in moments of stability.
Aki's anxiety is making Walter nuts. He tells Aki that this job would have been too delicate for him. Kaga and Karateya notice that the path in the anomaly is getting narrower as they continue forward. Then they drift off center and are hit by a destructive shockwave. They're down by 20% of their energy reserves. One more severe shock wave, and they seem to lessen. Keats contacts the Rugger Gaurd and tells them that they're near the end, but they don't see the distressed ship. Keats suddenly sees that their power is down to 68%. Keats detects a disturbance in space. They near the entrance, and find the source of the distress signal behind a meteroid. Then a battle machine appears. Keats tries to pull back, but enemy fighters are behind them.
Drake and his XO Roche discuss the gullibility of this new foe, dispite their advanced technology. Then Drake orders the attack.
Keats has the Sea rugger disengage. Ise deploys the Aki and Walter teams. The Sea team is hard pressed by being surrounded and outnumbered. Keats has them try to ram it. Aki is telling the Rugger Guard that he's seen nothing that resembles the see team, when they see the fight ahead. It looks like the end for the sea team, and then the rest of the Ruggers show up.
They form Dairugger, and the fight goes mostly as in Voltron. Aki is about to form Rugger sword, but Keats tells him to get out of range of the energy-draining anomaly. They see Drake's flagship ahead. Drake and Roche are watching the fight, and see the Rugger Guard approaching. They chose to withdraw. The battle machine snares Dairugger as he chases Drake. Then the microwaves happen, and then the good guys win.
Today's pirate notes: Drake is named for Francis Drake, who you've probably at least heard of. He was a British privateer who was knighted for his sanctioned piracy in 1581. Roche, Drake's XO, is named after Roche Braziliano, a Dutch pirate who disappeared in 1671.
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