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Space Cadet
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For the Robert A. Heinlein novel, see Space Cadet Heinlein. For the virtual pinball table, see Full Tilt! Pinball. For the science fiction timeline, see Space Cadet Rvbomally. And for those of you who came here looking for the term's idiomatic meaning, that's a Cloudcuckoolander. A Discredited Trope from the early Pulp Magazine days of media science fiction (peaked in the 1950's in movie serials and TV shows), involving a hero who was part of an organization that handles law and order in outer space, much like in a Western... in space. Frequently the titular Space Cadet was a child or teen who was a new recruit or a sidekick to an older hero. May be the equivalent of Walking the Earth with isolated outposts and frontier planets; especially strange when the Kid Hero seems not to have a family at home. His training place would be the Space Cadet Academy. His great goal in life is to someday become Captain Space, Defender of Earth!. These days you're more likely to see Space Police. |
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The Star Kingdom: Stephanie Harrington and several of her friends are Probationary Rangers with the Sphynxian Forestry Service. Sort of a Reconstruction of the trope, as Stephanie was made the first such Probationary Ranger to justify the Forestry Service keeping tabs on her to keep her out of trouble. | |
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Commando Cody. | |
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In the story record for Atari's Asteroids, the first act consists of space patrolman Jim Stanton doing a lot of Expo Speak banter with an eager young space cadet. Oddly, the cadet vanishes from the story after the second act for no obvious reason. | |
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The first of The Ship Who... stories was published in 1961. The partnered brainships and brawns in the Courier Service are not specifically associated with law and order, but fly between colonies making vital deliveries, transporting personnel to emergencies, trying to evacuate endangered colonists, and along the way encounter some of the kinds of things Space Cadets have to address, usually while complaining that they are not "spacerangers". | |
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Buck Rogers, especially in the comic strip and movie serial, where the kid sidekick Buddy was added. | |
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Porky Pig's title in the Looney Tunes short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (and the series based on it) is actually Eager Young Space Cadet. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Quality of Mercy", Bree Tristan tells Major John Skokes that she is a cadet 2nd class who was assigned to Europa base and that she was captured by the aliens while on a training mission with her instructor Commander Hartley. In the final scene, it is revealed that Tristan is in fact an alien in disguise. It is not made clear whether Tristan was a real person whose identity the alien assumed or whether she was merely a creation of the aliens. In the sequel "The Light Brigade", the cadet (also played by Wil Wheaton) was assigned to the Light Brigade during its mission to destroy the aliens' homeworld with a subatomic bomb due to the influence of his father, a member of the UNDF Council. He wanted to be one of the 600 heroes who would save Earth from the aliens. It doesn't go according to plan. |
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Sylvia Tilly in Star Trek: Discovery is introduced as an Academy cadet on field duty before her Rank Up to Ensign. | |
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Nyota Uhura appears in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a cadet, unsure if she even wants to continue serving on the Enterprise. | |
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Sasami was cast as this in the Tenchi Muyo! OVA special Mihoshi's Space Police Adventure. Of course, that's not all she was there for... | |
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AAA was visited by "Los Cadetes del Espacio" tecnico stable in the 1990s. Abismo Negro, Maniaco, Mosco de la Merced, Histeria and March-1 got together and formed Los Rudos de la Galaxia in an attempt to get rid of them. | |
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Son of Cliché with their sci-fi spoof "Dave Hollis: Space Cadet". The underlying but underdeveloped theme of the last living human lost in space was later re-used; many of the gags from SoC were later recycled into Red Dwarf. | |
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Space Cadet Happy from Space Patrol (US) although he was more like a Number Two. Some of the Chex commercials, however, followed this trope a little better, with kids dreaming about being on the Space Patrol. | |
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The Space Knights from Doraemon: Nobita's Drifts in the Universe, young teenage pilots who forms the backbone of defense for the Milky Way Drifting Fleet. | |
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What Jim becomes in Treasure Planet. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The elite cadet group "Red Squad" is something of a Deconstruction of the trope — especially in the episode "Valiant", which shows what happens when a group of cocky cadets get to fly their own ship without adult supervision. They attack a Dominion battleship and get blasted to hell. Nog becomes a cadet in Season 3 before his Rank Up to Ensign. |
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Space Cadet: By Robert A. Heinlein. Notably interesting for being perhaps the Ur-Example, and showing what modern readers will easily recognize as a cell phone in the opening pages. It inspired the creation of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. His earlier story Misfit also fits the trope, and makes the inspiration from the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps more explicit. |
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Star Trek: Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation represents the best example in the franchise. As a child prodigy, he represented an Audience Surrogate for a young viewer and could be considered a "sidekick" to Picard. Later in the series, Wesley became a literal cadet in Starfleet. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The elite cadet group "Red Squad" is something of a Deconstruction of the trope — especially in the episode "Valiant", which shows what happens when a group of cocky cadets get to fly their own ship without adult supervision. They attack a Dominion battleship and get blasted to hell. Nog becomes a cadet in Season 3 before his Rank Up to Ensign. Star Trek: Voyager: Icheb becomes a long-range version (as in 30,000 light years from Starfleet Academy) in Season 7, being instructed by the command staff of Voyager. The Show Within a Show The Adventures of Captain Proton has Buster Kincaid, though in the novelization he's a Tagalong Reporter. Sylvia Tilly in Star Trek: Discovery is introduced as an Academy cadet on field duty before her Rank Up to Ensign. Nyota Uhura appears in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a cadet, unsure if she even wants to continue serving on the Enterprise. |
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Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story is an homage/parody of this trope. He later received his own spinoff TV series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, in which he plays the trope straight. | |
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The Video Ranger from Captain Video and his Video Rangers | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Icheb becomes a long-range version (as in 30,000 light years from Starfleet Academy) in Season 7, being instructed by the command staff of Voyager. The Show Within a Show The Adventures of Captain Proton has Buster Kincaid, though in the novelization he's a Tagalong Reporter. |
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The Last Starfighter is about an Earth teen who gets recruited by aliens for this sort of organization. | |
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Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation represents the best example in the franchise. As a child prodigy, he represented an Audience Surrogate for a young viewer and could be considered a "sidekick" to Picard. Later in the series, Wesley became a literal cadet in Starfleet. | |
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