Episodes

The ongoing war between the Galaxy Alliance and the Drule Empire is established here. The Stellar Ship Explorer finds a new world. Drule Commander Quark is introduced ||

The Alliance starts building on the new world. Quark launches another attack and another robeast. ||

Jeff gets into a scuffle with another officer who was bullying Chip. Jeff gets a black eye from the bully, and a lecture from Cliff. Quark launches an all-out assault on the new planet and destroys it. ||

The Sea Team gets caught up in a black hole. Drule Commander Malvor is also introduced. ||

The Explorer encounters another planet. The Land Team explores it and discovers that someone is "seeding" the planet with vegetation in order to jump-start its evolution. That "someone" turns out to be the Drules. Malvor attacks, but eventually Hawkins withdraws when he realizes that the planet belongs to the Drules, who obviously found it first. ||

Drule Commander Mongo is introduced. After having a nightmare about being caught in a meteor storm himself, he tries to lure the Explorer to a "planet of meteors". ||

In an attempt to establish peaceful relations w/ the Drules, Galaxy Garrison orders the VV force to not form Voltron under any circumstances and sends a backup fleet led by the ill-fated Captain Kio. ||

The Explorer finds a fleet of ruined "ghost" ships on a mysterious new planet. It turns out to be a Drule trap: Once the Explorer lands on the planet to investigate, it becomes infected with metal-eating microbes. ||

On another strange planet, Modock is attacked by bats and stricken gravely ill ||

The Explorer takes in a young Drule named Sandu when his ship crashes, stirring up mixed feelings among the crew. ||

The VV Force explores a world that brings back some hard childhood memories involving Wolo's brother and himself. ||

Broka's Comet passes by, leaving different effects in its wake. Some become dizzy and sick; others, including Cmdre. Steele on Earth, become irrational. After the comet passes, Drule Captain Nerok tries to fool the VV Force with a fake comet. Also in this ep: A robeast blasts VV's right arm off, forcing them to reattach; and Hazar makes his first peaceful overture to the Alliance. ||

Mongo is defeated by an Alliance support fleet and defects in disgrace, and Hazar is courtmartialed as a result. ||

The Drules send a bogus distress call in order to lure the VV Force to a planet with an energy-sapping aura. The Air Team becomes trapped on the planet when they go to investigate. Also, Lisa gets knocked out, forcing VV to form without his right leg! ||

Jeff tries to convince Nefra, the queen of a planet whose males were all taken captive by the Drules, that his people are friendly. Not so easy, considering that Nefra believes that the VV force are Drules themselves, and then the real Drules come along and make things worse. ||

VV and the Explorer rescues slaves from the planet Vasamir after they revolt against their Drule captors. ||

The Drules knock out an energy station essential to VV's operation, leaving Earth wide open for a daring Drule raid. ||