Whose World Is It?/Impending Crisis of the Inhabitable Planet

Whose World Is It?/

The Drules have the Earth fleet under surveillance.  At the same time, the sea team is watching the Drule fleet.  On the Explorer bridge, they express concern that things are too quiet.  Down on the lounge, Hutch is going nuts, Cliff and Ginger are mostly ignoring him.  Cliff is then called to the data analysis room.  Cliff goes to see what the data on the planet says.  Hutch recalls that the Drules have already blown up planets before.

Professor Page, Cliff, Jeff, and Hawkins look at slides of all the Drule data.  And we get dumb dialogue about the Drule's plan for conquest.

Lisa tells Crick that the Drules are sending communications to the orbital fleet.  Valen decides to take matters into his own hands.

Hawkins calls Newley and apprises him of the situation.  They see another Drule fleet in orbit.  Newley orders them to battle stations as the ships begin descent.  There is no movement from the Drules. 

The Voltron force watches Newley's fleet make the splashdown from the lounge.  The sea team is still watching the Drules.  Meanwhile, Hazar is trying to convince Valen to negotiate.  Valen resists, and Hazar hangs up on him.  Then a radar operator detects the sea team.  Valen launches chariot fighters to bomb them.  This is kinda awesome, this fight scene.  Lisa says the Drules have the same right to the planet as the Earth fleet--and then all Hell breaks loose.  The Drules use depth charges and the Aquafighter tries to reach the surface.  Then Valen launches torpedoes from the capital ships.  The charioteers launch their second wave.

There's an artistic transition as Ginger drops a cherry into her drink that matches the depth charges from just a frame before.  Cinda has a feeling--and then Hawkins scrambles the rest of the teams.  They form the subunits as the Explorer launches. 

The Sea Team finally makes it to the surface, bit the charioteers rake them with energy weapons.  They submerge again.  The rest of the team joins the battle.  The combine forces are able to drive off the bombers.  Valen calls for the robeast, but Hazar denies him.  Valen claims the Earth forces started it, but Hazar orders the fighting to end.   Valen recalls all his units and prepares the fleet to launch.  He plans a feigned retreat.

The three Voltron teams link up, but Jeff leads them back to the Explorer.  Then Drule reinforcements and a robeast arrive.  The teams separate and form Voltron.  The robeast tackles them and they end up underwater.  Voltron misses with the Raybeam Whip and the robeast forms atomic fireballs between its hands and blows Voltraon around while nuking a lot of fish. 

Valen begins to gloat, and launches his fleet after the Galaxy Garrison forces.  Captain Noran protests; he only wanted to launch the robeast to rescue Drule troops, not to start a full-scale battle.

Dead fish are floating all around Voltron while he dodges another pitch from the robeast.  A porpoise goes crazy and rams the next atom ball, sending the robeast flying back.  We get a shot of the porpoise again.  Whew!  It's still alive!  Now Voltron and the robeast face of and Voltron forms the blazing sword.  Ginger urges Jeff to lead the robeast out of the sea.

Valen's forces are moving in on the Earth forces.  Hawkins sees them over the horizon.  Newley is eager to meet them head-on, but Hawkins wants them to avoid a full-scale battle.

Voltron and the robeast are now fighting in a shallow lagoon at night.  The robeast disarms Voltron with annihilation discs it shoots from its hands.  Voltron throws solar combat spears at it, and the two robots race to the sword.  The robeast tries to form another atom ball, bu voltron gets to his sword and sends the atom ball back, destroying the robeast. 

Valen is preparing to fight, but Noran convinces him to grudgingly withhold from battle.  Hawkins calls Voltron to a halt.  Hawkins requests to speak to the Drule commander.  Noran comes on, and they try to arrange talks directly with Hazar.  Noran orders the fleet to withdraw.  The Alliance fleet waits out the night.  Jeff and Lisa have a moment in the lounge.  Jeff thinks it's a trick, but Lisa is all for trying again.  And Optimus Prime tells us it's to be continued.  Again.  This doesn't happen much in Voltron.

Impending Crisis of the Inhabitable Planet

Galveston orbital surveillance ships report no movement back to Juxon's main fleet.  Meanwhile, Keats and the sea team are performing their own surveillance of the Galveston ships, also reporting no movement.  Ise and Aki decide to take this lull as an opportunity to review the data they collected frm the Galveston base.

Nagato is arguing with Walter and Patty over fighting Galveston.  Then Walter is called to the analysis lab.

Search, Ise, Aki, and then Walter are watching a slide show of images taken by the Galveston survey team.  They wonder if the Galveston fleet on the southern continent is waiting for reinforcements.

Keats detects transmissions between the grounded and orbiting Galveston fleets.  Juxon, meanwhile, finds out that the Earth fleet is moving in.  Asimov orders his fleet to fight Galveston if the orbital ships try to stop them.  The two fleet pass by each other without incident.

The Rugger crews watch Asimov's fleet land.  There is a lot of tension in the lounge. 

Sea Rugger is still monitoring the Galveston forces and record another transmission.  Juxon is reporting the arrival of Asimov's sizable fleet.  Teles tells him that he is sending Nolan to negotiate, and tells him not to fight.  Juxon needs a new battle attacker.  Then they pick up the Sea Rugger and he deploys bombers.

Keats sees the ships launch, and Kaga reminds him that Galveston found the ship first.  Keats' concern is that Galveston will use this planet as a base for galactic conquest.  Then they get hit by depth charges.  Juxon launches torpedoes from his capital ships.  The Sea Rugger tries to surface, but the charioteers launch the second salvo, and we make the transition with Patty dropping a cherry in her drink.  And the Rugger teams get the order to scramble.  Ise launches the Rugger Guard.  The Rugger teams combine into their subunits.

The sea rugger finally surfaces, and the charioteers hit them with beam weapons.  Keats orders them to dive again, and the charioteers launch more depth charges.  Ise tells Aki not to escalate hostilities.  Then they destroy all the charioteers and let the Sea Rugger surface.

Teles orders Juxon to cease hostilities.  Juxon protests, but Teles hangs up on him.  Juxon orders the fleet to lift off.  The land survey force is recalled.

Keats rams some last charioteers, and then Aki orders them to withdraw.  Just then, a Galveston support fleet arrives and a battle attacker swoops down at the Rugger teams.  They separate and form Dairugger.

Dairugger tackles the battle attacker, and they crash into the ocean amidst the Galveston fleet.  The battle attacker begins pummeling Dairugger and the surrounding environment with atomic baseballs.  Juxon is impressed by Nolan's battle attacker.  He then gives the order to lift off and attack the Earth fleet.  Nolan orders him to stop, and he says he launched the battle attacker only to stop the slaughter of Galveston troops, but now he says Juxon is going too far.

Aki decides they need to get Dairugger out of the ocean, but the battle attacker throws another plasma ball that kills a porpoise.  The porpoise's mate charges the battle attacker alongside Dairugger and detonates the plasma ball too close to the battle attacker, knocking both mecha off balance.  Aki decindes to avenge both porpoises and forms the Dairugger sword, charging the battle attacker.  Walter and Patty urge him to leave the ocean, so he takes flight and the battle attacker follows.

The Rugger Guard sees the Galveston fleet approaching.  Asimov volunteers his forces, but Ise insists they avoid combat.  Asimov agrees.

Dairugger and the battle attacker are apparently fighting on the planet's night side.  The battle attacker can apparently use the same system that creates the plasma balls to fire lower-level blasts.  The battle attacker tries to fire one final plasma ball, but Dairugger stabs it with the sword.

Juxon's fleet is ready to attack the lone Rugger Guard, but Nolan convinces him to let him try negotiations.  Then Dairugger arrives, and Ise holds him back.  Dairugger looks at the massed fleet facing off with the single Alliance fleet.

Ise contacts Nolan, and tells him he would like to have Asimov meet with Teles.  Nolan orders the fleet to withdraw to the continent.

That night, the Alliance fleet rests in the harbor, and Kaga and Aki discuss the potential for another backstabbing.  Kaga is far more optimistic on their chances for a peaceful settlement.