Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles

  • Premiered: Aug 1999
  • Episodes: 40
  • Followers: 9
  • Ended
  • SYFY
  • Unknown
  • Action Adventure Animation Science-fiction

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Season 1
1x1
Freefall
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 30, 1999
Rookie troopers Rico, Flores and Jenkins journey to Pluto as part of Alpha Team ""Razak's Roughnecks"" on what is supposed to be a simple mop-up operation, but find a major threat to the research stations from plasma-shooting alien Bugs.
1x2
Plasma Bugs of Navarone
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 31, 1999
When the Roughnecks pick up a distress call from pilots Ibanez and Barcalow, who are under attack at a research outpost, Rico risks the safety of his own squad to save Carmen.
1x3
Handle With Care
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 01, 1999
The squad is assigned to assist intelligence officer Earle Walker in capturing a live Plasma Bug and bringing it back through enemy territory.
1x12
Stranded
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 02, 1999
As the war moves to the planet Tophet, the Roughnecks go after Razak and Higgins, who are trapped behind enemy lines and about to be blown up by their own air strike.
1x4
Basic Training
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 03, 1999
Rico has to train Higgins the reporter to defend himself in combat, as the Roughnecks try to defend themselves from new flying Bugs that seem impervious to laser fire.
1x13
Of Flesh and Steel
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 08, 1999
On a mission to capture an important mountain pass, Rico has trouble trusting the squad's newest member, a cyborg.
1x37
Pluto and Beyond
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1999
Higgins summarizes the current state of the war on Pluto and Tophet in clips from previous episodes.
1x5 Season finale
Deep Trouble
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 22, 1999
When the Roughnecks go beneath the surface of Pluto to locate the Bug army's incubation center, Flores suffers from disabling claustrophobia.
1x7
Swarm
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 30, 1999
The battle against the Bugs moves to the watery planet Hydora, where Rico and the Roughnecks again come to Carmen's rescue when she is stranded while evacuating wounded.
1x6
Water, Water Everywhere
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 12, 1999
The ""Transport"" Bug that was found bringing reinforcements and eggs to Pluto is followed back to the watery planet Hydora, where it releases barb-shooting flying bugs of a previously unknown type.
1x8
Search & Destroy
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 1999
Searching for the Rippler nest on Hydora, the Roughnecks come under heavy fire and Jenkins is severely wounded by an acid-tipped barb.
1x10
Sole Survivor
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 04, 1999
While trying to find out what happened to Lt. Ross, who was found wandering on Hydora with his memory gone and his entire squad missing, the Roughnecks are captured by the Bugs.
1x9
Missing in Action
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 11, 1999
Trying to locate two missing squads that seem to have vanished into thin air, the Roughnecks find themselves battling giant amphibious beetles.
1x16
No Substitute
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 1999
The Skinnies, formerly working for the Bugs, have changed sides but one of them meets considerable resistance when he joins the squad for its assault on Zegema Beach.
1x23
Hot Ice
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 25, 1999
Having crashed on a barren asteroid, the Roughnecks try to make their way to a crashed science vessel for help.
1x18
Marauder
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 03, 1999
As the squad tries to locate a brain bug on Tesca Nemerosa from underwater, Rico is trapped when his Marauder suit runs out of power.
1x17
...And Then There Were Two
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 09, 1999
Rico still doesn't trust T'Phai, but In the jungle on Tesca Nemerosa, they are forced to work together when the other squad members start disappearing.
1x19
Liquid Dreams
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 1999
While a monsoon hits the Zegema Base hard, Rico floats unconscious in a regeneration tank, fighting his subconscious to stay alive.
1x20
Heart
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 2000
Still in the tank, Rico grows increasingly angry and frustarted that no one is taking his claims that the bugs are coming seriously. Meanwhile, the squad is out to charting bug tunnels near the base.
1x38
Propaganda Machine
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 14, 2000
Higgins is ordered to make a good Fed-Net report hiding the horrors of war and showing something positive about the bug campaign.
1x24
The Inside Story
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 17, 2000
The Zephyr is still stuck on the ice asteroid. The Roughnecks are running low on ammunition and the Fireflies keep attacking. Gossard suggests they use the Toxin they've collected .. show full overview
1x14
Captured
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 28, 2000
The Roughnecks are captured by the skinnies, and held for interrogation.
1x21
Ice-Olation
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 08, 2000
Returning from a combat mission in a retrieval ship, the Zephyr, the Roughnecks are re-routed to an asteroid to join scientists from another ship, the Sequoia, in a quest for a .. show full overview
1x15
The Face of Truth
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 2000
The capture of the ""skinny"" Colonel T'Phai reveals that the entire race are being mentally controlled by the bugs. They now have a chance to free the planet... If they're not taken over by the bugs themselves.
1x22
Mixed Signals
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 15, 2000
The Zephyr remains crash-landed on a frozen asteroid. A team is sent out to collect Toxin B-3, a potent bio-weapon that they've found here (to their surprise, since it was supposed to be .. show full overview
1x11
Betrayal
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 16, 2000
Arriving on the planet of Tophet, the Roughnecks are surprised to meet an advanced indigenous species. They claim the bugs came, but couldn't adapt to their climate and died... But where are all the corpses then?
1x27
D-Day
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 17, 2000
S.I.C.O.N. prepares for the D-Day invasion of the bug home planet of Klendathu. During the build-up Flores gets an M.I.A. notice from telling her. that her brother, Eddie is MIA - .. show full overview
1x26
Metamorphosis
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 2000
The Valley Forge is enroute to their next campaign, a long trip. The Roughnecks drew the watch as most of the ship's crew is in stasis. Doc is suddenly attacked by Zander who has .. show full overview
1x29
Letters Home
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 2000
The Roughnecks are dug in on Klendathu and are facing an inevitable Bug attack. High Command order them to hold the position at all costs. Higgins finds an unfinished letter home an .. show full overview
1x39
Marooned
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 22, 2000
Rico is left floating in space after his pod malfunctions during a drop.
1x28
The Mission
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 25, 2000
Higgins is on guard duty at a camp on Klendathu. Whilst in front of the gates he sees a trooper staggering along. As he talks to the trooper a new type of Bug, hence known as an .. show full overview
1x32
Among Us
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 03, 2000
All S.I.C.O.N. forces revert to peace status after the Bug Queen has apparently been destroyed. Carl, though, keeps insisting the Queen is still very much alive and on the earth - .. show full overview
1x30
Checkmate
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 06, 2000
Lt Razak is called to a mission briefing to find it being given by Sky Marshall Sanchez himself. The Sky Marshall tells the assembled officers about the of the Bug Queen. He then assigns .. show full overview
1x25
The Ice Men Goeth
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 09, 2000
The Zephyr is trapped inside a giant Bug. Razak sends out a team to try and retrieve oxygen from the location found by Doc and Brutto. The way to the oxygen is down a shaft. .. show full overview
1x34
Requiem
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 13, 2000
S.I.C.O.N has discovered that there is a vast network of Bug tunnels and colonies beneath the city of San Francisco. S.I.C.O.N. decides the only way to ensure victory is to hit the .. show full overview
1x35
Funeral for a Friend
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 14, 2000
General Redwing has ordered the Roughnecks to be split up as she does not have a spare Lt to assign to them. They are given time, though, to time to honour Lt Razak's Last Will so they .. show full overview
1x36
Spirits of the Departed
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 15, 2000
As Rico Struggles with his promotion to Lt. as leader of the Roughnecks, after Razacks death, They are assigned to defend S.I.C.O.N. high Command in Honolulu. In Route to Honolulu they .. show full overview
1x33
Hide n' Seek
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 17, 2000
A massive bug mound has appeared outside of Buenos Aires. S.I.C.O.N. thinks the Bugs are going to assault the city again so they try to bomb the mound from the air. Plasma Tanker .. show full overview
1x31
Trackers
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 28, 2000
The S.I.C.O.N. Fleet is hunting for the Bug Queen, after she escaped in a Transport Bug from Klendathu. Whilst in transit the Roughnecks get a mail delivery and find out Higgins had a .. show full overview
1x40 Show finale
Court-Martial of Lt. Razak
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 05, 2000
The Roughnecks are about to be dropped on Klendathu into a hot LZ. Lt Razak tells Carmen to clear the LZ as he thinks it's too dangerous for the squad to land. Carman tells him INTEL .. show full overview

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