Starhunter

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Starhunter was a Canadian (produced in Canada with co-producers in the United Kingdom and France. Special effects by "Das Werk" from Germany) science fiction television series that aired for two seasons, the first in 2001 and the second in 2003. In Canada the name of the series was changed in the second season to Starhunter 2300; in the United States, both seasons had the same series name.

Starhunter follows the exploits of the crew of a retired liner refitted to serve a bounty-hunting crew. The owning company's name "Trans-Utopia Cruiseship Lines," was painted on her side but has faded, leaving some letters readable while obliterating others. The letters that remain have become her nickname, so she is casually known as Trans Utopian or as Tulip.

In the first season, Tulip is owned by Rudolpho DeLuna, who has hired Dante Montana as a bounty hunter. Dante took the job to provide a means of traveling while also financing the search for his son, Travis, abducted a decade ago by a group of brigands. Aiding him are the ship's engineer, Percy Montana, his niece, and Lucrecia Scott, a former marine, added to the crew by DeLuna to keep Dante focused on the missions DeLuna gives him. When broadcast in Canada, each episode began with a message from DeLuna to Dante, outlining Dante's current assignment. In the United States, these monologs were removed.

In the second season, the show was restructured. Percy Montana emerged from hyperspace, unaged although fifteen years had passed in the outside universe. No other characters remained on the show except for DeLuna. He attempted to reassert his ownership of Tulip, but since he had collected the insurance on the ship's presumed loss, the insurance company now legally owned her. However, that was now out of business, so Percy claimed ownership by salvage. Travis Montana, Dante's son and Percy's cousin, joined the crew together with his sidekick, Marcus Fagen. DeLuna also joined, bringing along Callista Larkadia, another bounty hunter. Percy described the four as the "pretend cousin, big fat weasel, little buddy, [and] mystery slut."

The show was cancelled after the second season, leaving the story at a cliffhanger: In the season finale, Tulip is trapped in hyperspace. As the countdown to implement the crew's desperate measure to return to the normal universe reaches zero, the show cuts to black and the credits roll.

Contents

[edit] Cast

[edit] First season

[edit] Second season

  • Clive Robertson: Travis Montana
  • Tanya Allen: Percy Montana
  • Dawn Stern: Callista (Callie) Larkadia
  • Paul Fox: Marcus Fagen
  • Stephen Marcus: Rudolpho deLuna
  • Graham Harley: Caravaggio

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Season 1

1-1 1 November 2000 "The Divinity Cluster"
1-2 8 November 2000 "Trust"
1-3 15 November 2000 "Family Values"
1-4 22 November 2000 "Siren's Song"
1-5 29 November 2000 "The Man Who Sold the World"
1-6 6 December 2000 "Peer Pressure"
1-7 13 December 2000 "Frozen"
1-8 20 December 2000 "Past Lives"
1-9 27 December 2000 "Order"
1-10 3 January 2001 "Cell Game"
1-11 10 January 2001 "Black Light"
1-12 17 January 2001 "Goodbye, So Long"
1-13 24 January 2001 "The Most Wanted Man"
1-14 31 January 2001 "Half Dense Players"
1-15 7 February 2001 "Dark and Stormy Night"
1-16 14 February 2001 "Super Max"
1-17 21 February 2001 "A Twist in Time (1)"
1-18 28 February 2001 "Eat Sin (2)"
1-19 7 March 2001 "Bad Girls"
1-20 14 March 2001 "Bad Seed (1)"
1-21 21 March 2001 "Travis (2)"
1-22 28 March 2001 "Resurrection (3)"

[edit] Season 2

2-1 9 August 2003 "Rebirth"
2-2 16 August 2003 "Star Crossed"
2-3 23 August 2003 "Biocrime"
2-4 30 August 2003 "Chasing Janus"
2-5 6 September 2003 "Spaceman"
2-6 13 September 2003 "Becoming Shiva"
2-7 20 September 2003 "The Third Thing"
2-8 27 September 2003 "Torment"
2-9 4 October 2003 "Painless"
2-10 18 October 2003 "Skin Deep"
2-11 25 October 2003 "Supermax Redux"
2-12 1 November 2003 "Pandora's Box"
2-13 8 November 2003 "Stitch in Time"
2-14 15 November 2003 "The Prisoner"
2-15 14 February 2004 "Kate"
2-16 21 February 2004 "Rivals"
2-17 28 February 2004 "Heir and the Spare"
2-18 6 March 2004 "Just Politics"
2-19 13 March 2004 "Negative Energy"
2-20 20 March 2004 "License to Fill"
2-21 27 March 2004 "Hyperspace I"
2-22 3 April 2004 "Hyperspace II"

[edit] Additional Information

  • Season 2's theme song, Darker Star, was performed by Peter Gabriel. It is the instrumental version of the song Darkness from the 2002 album Up
  • As of 2006, Starhunter 2300 airs on A-Channel Victoria (a Canadian television station) from 7:30-8:30 AM every Monday morning.
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