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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Booster, XR, Buzz Lightyear and Princess Mira Nova at the Star Command.
Genre Animated series
Starring Patrick Warburton
Stephen Furst
Larry Miller
Neil Flynn
Nicole Sullivan
Wayne Knight
Narrated by Gary Owens (Opening Narration)
Country of origin USA
No. of episodes 65
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ABC/ UPN
Original run October 14, 2000 – January 13, 2001
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a name of a Disney animated science fiction adventure show. It first aired in 2000 and features Buzz Lightyear, a character who first appeared in the feature film Toy Story.

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[edit] Story

The premise of the show is that, within the Toy Story universe, "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" is actually the TV show which inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy line, and namely, the creation of the Buzz Lightyear toy, as shown by the intro sequence, done by Pixar especially for the series. In this 3D CGI sequence, Buzz Lightyear along with the other toys is in Andy's room getting ready to watch the show on TV, which follows to the rest of the intro, several clips from the traditionally animated show itself.

The actual TV show follows the adventures of Buzz Lightyear and his Star Command cadet team as they struggle to keep justice in the galaxy, often thwarting the evil Emperor Zurg and other threats of the universe. The initial three episodes were originally released as "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins", a feature-length movie. The voice cast for the DTV-release had the original voice of Buzz, Tim Allen, but when the episodes were aired for television, Patrick Warburton, the series' regular voice of Buzz, redubbed all of Lightyear's dialogue to maintain continuity with the rest of the series. Many of the episodes were based or influenced by Star Trek: The Original Series, others were influenced by Star Wars.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Star Command

[edit] Team Lightyear

  • Captain Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen in The Adventure Begins, Patrick Warburton in the actual series): Famed "Space Ranger" known for heroism and bravery. Like his Toy Story incarnation, Buzz's personality is somewhat tightly wound, and he's quite a stickler for procedure. He attended PS -19^3 as a primary school.
  • Princess Mira Nova (Nicole Sullivan): A rookie ranger and heir to the Tangean throne, with her people's ability to walk through walls (called "ghosting") and read minds. She seems to have the most common sense of the group, and can at times be something of a smart-mouth.
  • Booster Sinclair Munchapper (Stephen Furst): A dinosaur-like former janitor from the agricultural planet of Jo-ad (a play on the name of the Joad family, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath), with a big appetite and lots of muscle power. Big-hearted, but somewhat simple-minded and not particularly brave -- but he worships and is in awe of Buzz Lightyear.
  • XR (Larry Miller and Neil Flynn): A short robot with many pop-out gadgets (like R2-D2), who can store objects in his chest cavity (like Bender). XR stands for experimental ranger, though he holds to the belief that it stands for experimental robot. He's somewhat neurotic, and gets blown up on nearly every mission he goes on. However, he can be rebuilt provided all of his parts are salvaged.
  • 42 (Joy Behar): Usually the name of Buzz Lightyear's ship, it gained A.I. from one of the encounters with the Valkyran Raiders and a new energy projector device inserted on the ship by the LGMs. 42 doesn't like what Buzz says about her and usually controls the ship herself. XR developed a crush on her. When the Valkyran Raiders were thwarted, 42's conscious was placed into a robot body and she now helps the LGMs.

[edit] Other Personnel

  • Commander Nebula (Adam Carolla): Their commander, missing a leg, which was replaced by a peg-leg-like plasma cannon. Rather angry. Hates to do paperwork and signs them without reading them. Considered to be a father by XR (The LGM's slipped in XR's construction request with the vacation request forms, knowing Nebula would sign it without even looking).
  • Ty Parsec (Steve Hytner): Ty is the infamous old comerade of Buzz Lightyear. The Space Ranger was transformed into the robotic Wirewolf on the planet of Canis Lunis, after being bitten by the villain, NOS-4-A2. Appeared in two episodes, with a cameo appearance in the episode War, Peace, and War.
  • Rocket Crocket (Phil LaMarr): Member of Star Command and leader of Team Rocket (not to be confused with the Team Rocket from Pokémon). He is Buzz's rival since their academy days.
  • LGMs, or Little Green Men (Patrick Warburton): The LGMs are small aliens who keep Star Command in shape (originally appeared as squeeze toy aliens in Toy Story).
  • Petra Hammerhold (Nikki Cox): Senator Hammerhold's daughter. She joined Star Command when her father forced her. Her boyfriend is Plasma Boy.
  • Plasma Boy (Michael Showalter): Petra's boyfriend who has a Plasma Monster form. Booster competed against him for Petra's affection. When Mira and XR fired a laser at his Plasma Monster form, he de-stabilized enough to the brink of explosion. He was prevented from explosion when Booster used his suit and Ion Stablization Matrix on him. He's now a member of Star Command.

[edit] The Villains

  • Evil Emperor Zurg (Wayne Knight): Main villain of the series. Rules his own evil empire on Planet Z, and wants to rule the entire galaxy. Most of his subjects are robots. His feet double as rockets and he can transform his arms into a variety of energy weapons. Despite being fairly campy (often breaking the seriousness of otherwise purely evil statements), he's widely considered the most evil person in the galaxy, especially by the other villains.
  • Brain Pods (Various Voices for each one): Cybernetic brains in mobile jars who serve Zurg as scientists and researchers. Although they take pride in their creations, they secretly harbor a desire to escape from Zurg's control (which two have succeeded in doing).
  • Grubs (Frank Welker): Zurg's equivalents to the LGMs of Star Command (though far less competent), more technicians and mechanics than the Brain Pods. Like the Brain Pods, the Grubs work for Zurg against their will, and also desire freedom.
  • Hornets: The Hornets are Zurg's robotic foot soldiers, extremely expendable (similar to battle droids from Star Wars), lousy shots, and always get vaporized in mass numbers by Lightyear's team. Hornets come in different models outside of the lesser models used.
  • Warp Darkmatter (also known as Agent Z) (Diedrich Bader): Buzz's one time partner, but now a recurring villain. Lost his right arm after being buried in an avalanche by Zurg on a routine mission with Buzz, now works as a mercenary in Zurg's employ.
  • Gravitina (Kerri Kenney-Silver): A large-headed female villain with mental control over gravity. One of Zurg's allies. In love with Buzz.
  • "NOS-4-A2" (Craig Ferguson): NOS-4-A2 is a robotic Vampire created by Zurg, capable of draining any system or entity driven by electrical power, as well as turning living organisms into robots. He is the one whose responsible for biting Ty Parsec resulting in the Space Ranger turning into Wirewolf. His name is a pun on the term Nosferatu.
  • Torque (Brad Garrett): Minor alien villain who committed crimes of terrorism, smuggling, arson, and unpaid parking tickets. After being freed from a prison transport by Zurg and his Hornets, the Grubs implanted a cell-separation device upon his chest which allows Torque to have the ability to create duplicate versions of himself.
  • XL (Bobcat Goldthwait): Earlier version of XR, which was shut down due to his villainous attitude. When he was reactivated by Zurg, XL became larger and more powerful due to his rebuilding himself with stolen robot parts. Also has a red (As opposed to XR's yellow) head. He later redeems himself and reconciliates with XR (his "younger brother") and is converted into an office managing robot capable of photocopying, collating, and other office related functions. Both XR and XL refer to the commander as "Dad" and after XL's conversion, the two of them annoy him to no ends with their ideas for family activities.
  • Evil Buzz Lightyear (Patrick Warburton): A ruthless, pure evil version of Buzz Lightyear from an alternate reality which he conquered. He was his reality's ruler, head of a vast evil empire, and was very cruel and cunning, manipulating Zurg and Gravitina (who adored him) to his own wicked ends. He is the exact opposite of Buzz in personality and demeanor, wears a modified uniform in colors similar to Zurg's, and has a goatee (a reference to Star Trek).
  • Gargantian Militants: Tiny beings who hide in robotic exosuits disguised as allies of their enemies like they did when getting into Star Command as a ranger. The Gargantian Militants hate commercial places on their planets. They are led by Tremendor (Kevin Michael Richardson). Another known Gargantian Militant is Monumentus (Charles Fleischer) whom is Tremendor's second-in-command. Immensitor and Behemor (both also voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) are also members of the Gargantian Militants.
  • Tangean Grounders: Ground-dwellers of Tangea. They can explode things with their minds. Grounder Clay (Jess Harnell) and Grounder Marl (John Kassir) are examples of Grounders that live on Tangea. A Tangean Grounder and bounty hunter named Romac (David James Elliott), who was Mira's ex-boyfriend, was hired by Zurg to obtain Brain Pod #57.
  • Rentwhistle Swack (French Stewart): A con man who was first seen poaching creatures on Karn. Booster arrested him once prior to this event. He later was Norbert Q. Klerm's "agent/booker/tour guide" when Norbert was making Buzz and Zurg fight each other.
  • Crumford Lorak (Jon Favreau): Resident of Trade World who is a known scam artist and a stool pigeon for Star Command if the price is right. Crumford is in fact one of the Space Rangers best and Worst Assets when it came to gathering info on major bad guys. The only time when Lumford went bigtime was when he impersonated Senator Banda of Bathyos in order to give information of the Galactic Alliance to the Raenok leader, Varg.
  • Smeego (Phil LaMarr): A fidgety small time crook and acquaintance of Torque. He can sometimes be found on Trade World.
  • Roswellean Major (Peter MacNicol): A member of Planet Roswell's military who captured Team Lightyear in hopes to dissect them. After they got away, he was demoted to Private by his General. He later sided with Zurg in his domination of Roswell which is thwarted by Buzz and Booster.
  • Raenoks: The Raenoks are the fiercest aliens in the Galaxy. Varg (Kevin Michael Richardson) is the ambassador of the Raenoks and the supreme commander of the Raenok military. Kleev (Clancy Brown) is the leader of the Raenoks and Minister of schemes and treachery.
  • Norbert Q. Klerm (Mitchell Whitfield): The rich and ruthless head of the business company "Compu-klerm." Bears an uncanny resemblance to Bill Gates. He brainwashed Buzz into thinking he was a Compu-klerm employee named "Flip Faxtoner", and occasionally picked Buzz's brain with a large helmet for combat data to use in his battle robots. His plans were ultimately thwarted by Buzz when he came to his senses.
  • Professor Spyro Von Madman (Ryan Stiles): Spyro Lepton is a former Star Command scientist whose banned experiments lead to his transformation into a Cryborg, a being with crystalline basis. He gets powerful by feeding off electricity. After years of plotting revenge on Buzz Lightyear and a messy rampage on Capital Planet, he was restored to normal by his daughter Bonnie Lepton (Tara Strong). He has supposedly reformed.
  • Lord Angstrom (David Warner): Lord of Tangea, former royal Chancellor and King Nova's closest advisor, before he worked with the Tangean Grounders to overthrow King Nova.
  • Minister Gularis (Harvey Korman): A shark-like Bathyosian minister and leader of the Bathyosian Council who is secretly head of the B.A.R.R. (Bathyosians Against Air-Breathers) movement. He wears a device with mechanical arms on him. He planned to use a Tritum Missile that would turn any planet's atmosphere to match Bathyos. It took Buzz Lightyear and Offficer Panchex to thwart his plans.
  • Chlorm Scientists: Era (Jonathan Harris), Eon (Bill Mumy), and Epoch (Frank Welker) are Chlorm scientists who implanted devices into Buzz and Warp Darkmatter to study good and evil. Buzz and Warp thwarted them. They later kidnapped Galactic Alliance senators for their zoos which Team Lightyear thwarted.
  • The Heed: A race of supposedly semi-omnipetent beings who in fact had an ulterior motive, that of conquering the galaxy (Much Like Star Trek: The Next Generation's Borg). A Heed named Guzelian (Eric Idle) used the Grubs and the LGM's to trick the galaxy that he was spreading Galactic Peace to hide his intentions. He didn't fool Buzz or Zurg as they teamed up to stop the Heed even when the Heed's plans were exposed.
  • Vartkes (Ricardo Montalbán): 20 Years Ago, a temporary-resigned Buzz Lightyear took on Vartkes on a planet. Vartkes is a gas baron who tried to take over a cloud farm owned by a woman named Zoey. He tried to get her to sell her farm. When Zoey tried to take on him, Vartkes surrounded them with his robots until Buzz arrived. With a Puffer named Little Joe, he was able to take down Vartkes and his goons.
  • Flint (Mark Hamill): An android stockboy who got tired of his forced labor and planned revenge. He created manta ray-like shriekers to attack ships resulting in castaways on the planet his shriekers were built. He portrayed himself to be the leader of the village where the castaways resided until he was exposed and defeated by Team Lightyear.
  • Smoltz (Wallace Langham): He's from the same alien race as the Madame President. He was a turn-coat working for Zurg when the Madame President's transport crashed on Karn. When Zurg and his hornets drove away some Karnian creatures, he revealed his true intentions and the reason why Mira Nova was picked for that mission. When Team Lightyear rescued Mira and the Madame President, Smoltz and Zurg pursued them before being chased away by a mother Narlzak and her young.
  • Keno Kentrix (Jess Harnell): A Bathyosian casino owner on Mahambas 6 whose behind the weapons smuggling. When XR heads into Keno's casino disguised as Booster (since Robots aren't allowed in his casino) and makes a pass at Keno's girl, Keno place a bounty on Booster's head. When XR admits to Keno, he and the bounty hunters attack until they are thwarted by Buzz and Keno is arrested.
  • Valkyran Raiders: Brun, Sig, and Hilda (all three are voiced by Tress MacNeille) are female space pirates who attack freighters in search of cargo to use for trade and personal use. The mothership of the valkyran raiders uses a cloaking device, much like the Romulans use in most Star Trek Episodes.
  • Shiv Katall (Patrick Warburton): A mysterious soldier of fortune/mercenary/hitman/bounty hunter usually hired by Zurg to eliminate Brain Pods and Grubs who get up enough guts to defect from Zurg. He is secretly a covert identity adopted by Buzz Lightyear, and before Buzz, Commander Nebula. Unfortunately, that identity was compromised due to the actions of Mira, Booster and XR. However in a later episode the evil Buzz Lightyear used the Shiv Katall guise in order to acquire parts for a base station he was building near Capital Planet's sun, in order for him and Gravitina to use it to produce 'Sunquakes' that were targets towards Capital Planet to hold the planet and Star Command hostage.
  • Natron (Diedrich Bader): An ancient evil space mummy. In his time, he ruled the universe as an ultimate "invincible" evil. Defeated and imprisoned by "The Protector," he vowed to once again rule the universe, and is awakened by the LGMs on Planet X thousands of years later.
  • Team Lightyear Clones: Created by Zurg to thwart the real Team Lightyear. However, due to Zurg's impatience, they were child versions of the originals. Their distilled evil was 12, one point short of Zurg's 13. Wanting to have a robot similar to XR, the children create X-Treme.

[edit] Galactic Alliance

[edit] Other Characters

  • Becky (Russi Taylor): A little alien girl from the planet Roswell. She befriended Booster (who she calls Pickles) when Team Lightyear's ship crashed on her planet. Her father is the Sheriff (Stephen Root) of her town.
  • Brent Starkisser (Corey Burton): The Galaxy's reporter.
  • Cosmo (Paul Rugg): An alien that owns and runs the diner that Team Lightyear eats at. He has a mechanical arm as well as a foreign accent.
  • Dr. Animus (Tony Jay): The Galaxy's therapist.
  • Dr. Ozma Furbanna (Linda Hamilton): Lead (and only) naturalist on planet Karn. She favors all animals (even the lethal carnivores) and hates to have them hurt; no matter what. Has a crush on Buzz (won't admit it, though), and vice-versa. Zurg once used her help to hatch the Millennial Bugs where Zurg will use them on Capital Planet.
  • Ed (Paul Rugg): A courier who somehow always knows how to track down Buzz Lightyear.
  • Professor Triffid (Joel Murray): A scientist from Rhizome. He cares a lot for the plants there.

[edit] Planets and Moons

There are many planets in this series. Among these planets are:

  • Bathyos: A water planet.
  • Beta Bayou: A bottom-feeder hunter that Rentwhistle Swack rendezvous with is from this planet.
  • Binipinardia: A planet that contained a de-evolution gas.
  • Canis Lunis: A planet where Ty Parsec was turned into Wirewolf by NOS-4-A2.
  • Capital Planet: The Galactic Alliance members meet here.
  • Gargantia: A planet inhabited by tiny aliens.
  • Jo-Ad: An agricultural planet which is Booster's home planet.
  • Karn: A planet that serves as a creature reserve. Dr. Ozma Furbanna works here.
  • Mahamba 6: A resort planet.
  • North Polaris: Santa Claus's planet, populated by "Elf-G-M"s. The galaxy's version of the North Pole.
  • Olur 5: Zurg used this planet to hatch the Millennial Bugs in one of his plans to attack Capital Planet.
  • PC-7: A prison planet.
  • Planet of Widows and Orphans:
  • Planet X: A somewhat desert-like planet with no name or life. Home of an ancient city and the temple containing Natron.
  • Planet Z: Zurg's planet where his home base is located.
  • Porcelon: A planet where it's inhabitants look like large toilets.
  • Raenok: The Raenok's self-titled planet.
  • Rexon 5:
  • Rhizome: A vegetation planet which is Professor Triffid's home world.
  • Roswell: A planet similar to Roswell, New Mexico.
  • Sands de Solay: A resort moon. Destroyed by an out-of-control freight ship.
  • Sentilla 6: A stormy planet with lava rivers.
  • Shragorak: Senator Aarrfvox's home planet.
  • Sitka 7: A ski resort planet
  • Tangea: Mira's home planet.
  • Trade World: A commercial-oriented world where lesser bad guys hang out.
  • Verdentia: A peaceful planet.

[edit] Episodes

01 - 10/02/00 - "The Torque Armada"
02 - 10/03/00 - "Gravitina"
03 - 10/04/00 - "XL"
04 - 10/05/00 - "Little Secrets"
05 - 10/06/00 - "Inside Job"
06 - 10/08/00 - "NOS-4-A2"
07 - 10/09/00 - "The Planet Destroyer"
08 - 10/10/00 - "The Beasts of Karn"
09 - 10/11/00 - "Tag Team"
10 - 10/12/00 - "The Main Event"
11 - 10/13/00 - "The Return of XL"
12 - 10/15/00 - "Strange Invasion"
13 - 10/16/00 - "The Taking of PC-7"
14 - 10/17/00 - "Mindwarp"
15 - 10/18/00 - "Mira's Wedding"
16 - 10/19/00 - "Panic on Bathyos"
17 - 10/20/00 - "Shiv Katall"
18 - 10/22/00 - "Stress Test"
19 - 10/23/00 - "A Zoo Out There"
20 - 10/24/00 - "Root of Evil"
21 - 10/25/00 - "Super Nova" *
22 - 10/26/00 - "Downloaded"
23 - 10/27/00 - "The Plasma Monster"
24 - 10/29/00 - "The Crawling Flesh"
25 - 10/30/00 - "Dirty Work"
26 - 10/31/00 - "The Slayer"
27 - 11/01/00 - "The Lightyear Factor"
28 - 11/02/00 - "Clone Rangers"
29 - 11/03/00 - "Bunzel Fever"
30 - 11/05/00 - "Develoutionaries"
31 - 11/06/00 - "Head Case"
32 - 11/07/00 - "The Yukari Imprint"
33 - 11/08/00 - "The Shape Stealer"
34 - 11/09/00 - "Star Crossed"
35 - 11/10/00 - "Haunted Moon"
36 - 11/12/00 - "Stranger Invasion"
37 - 11/13/00 - "Eye of the Tempest"
38 - 11/14/00 - "Revenge of the Monsters"
39 - 11/15/00 - "Lone Wolf"
40 - 11/16/00 - "Planet of the Lost"
41 - 11/17/00 - "Revenge of the Raenoks"
42 - 11/19/00 - "The Starthought"
43 - 11/20/00 - "Millennial Bugs"
44 - 11/21/00 - "Conspiracy"
45 - 11/23/00 - "At Large on a Small Planet"
46 - 11/24/00 - "Sunquake"
47 - 11/26/00 - "First Missions"
48 - 11/27/00 - "Large Target"
49 - 11/29/00 - "War, Peace and War"
50 - 12/14/00 - "Lost in Time"
51 - 12/21/00 - "Rookie of the Year"
52 - 12/28/00 - "Wirewolf"
53 - 1/04/01 - "The Rescue Mission"
54 - 1/11/01 - "Star Smasher"
55 - 1/18/01 - "Enemy Without a Face"
56 - 1/25/01 - "Good Ol' Buzz"
57 - 2/02/01 - "Return to Karn"
58 - 2/09/01 - "Speed Trap"
59 - 2/16/01 - "Holiday Time"
60 - 2/23/01 - "Opposites Attract"
61 - 3/06/01 - "Ancient Evil"
62 - 3/13/01 - "42"

[edit] Opening Scene Variations

Pixar created more than one opening sequence for the show. Among them:

  • Buzz lands next to the television, ready to watch the show (most common scene).
  • Buzz smacks into the television and slides down.
  • Buzz lands on Bullseye and then falls off.
  • Zurg stands next to where Buzz lands and fires at the television screen.
  • Buzz lands and is pushed off the desk by Wheezy (riding RC).
  • Buzz lands and strikes a Disco pose.
  • Buzz lands and opens his wings, knocking down everyone behind him.

[edit] Cultural References

  • Buzz's ship is named Star Cruiser 42,
  • The green of the Space Rangers’ enviro-suits and Zurg’s obsession with the color purple may be a tribute to the good Green Government and evil Purple Empire featured in the classic novel The Legion of Space.
  • In the episode Stranger Invasion, Buzz Lightyear and the Evil Emperor Zurg engage in what seems like a lightsaber battle, in which Zurg distracts Buzz by claiming he's his father.
  • The episode Strange Invasion, is a spoof of the Roswell Incident right down to the alien autopsy film and the "weather balloon coverup". Also keeping in line with the Roswell Incident, the planet they crash on is called "Roswell" and it bears a strong resemblance to the American Southwest and the Grays.
  • The "Rosewellian" characters on the episode Strange Invasion, the sheriff and the barber, for example are spoofs of Sheriff Andy Taylor and Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show.

[edit] References to Toy Story

  • In one episode, one of the characters is seen ordering food from Pizza Planet, which appeared as an actual space-themed restaurant in Toy Story.

[edit] External links


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