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Space Cases

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91 feature instances
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Space Cases	type	TVTItem
Space Cases	label	Space Cases
Space Cases	page	SpaceCases
Space Cases	comment	A live-action science fiction show for children that aired on Nickelodeon from 1996-1998. It told the story of a group of Starcademy students from different planets who sneaked aboard a mysterious space ship called The Christa. After two of their teachers come looking for them, the ship takes off with all of them aboard, right through a white hole that drops them off over 7 years from home. They become Lost in Space......and by pure coincidence, Bill "Will Robinson" Mumy was one of the creators of this show. By less coincidence, Peter David is the other.Has a Character Sheet.
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Space Cases	processingComment	Dropped link to LesMiserables: Not a Feature - ITEM
Space Cases	processingComment	Dropped link to LostInSpace: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Space Cases / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Space Cases / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: For the cadets it's justified as they are all classmates and a teacher speaking half a dozen languages would be inefficient. On the other hand, there's no excuse for the Spung or the other aliens in the far reaches of the universe knowing English.
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Space Cases / int_1195fbb6	type	Solar System Neighbors
Space Cases / int_1195fbb6	comment	Solar System Neighbors: The inhabitants of Saturn, Mercury, and Uranus, who are all descended from a common humanoid ancestor who colonized all three planets.
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Space Cases / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Space Cases / int_17ce80aa	comment	Supplemental information places the series in 2261, which would indeed be just under 400 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Space Cases / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Space Cases / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the first episode.
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Space Cases / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Space Cases / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: In "Both Sides Now," Radu gets turned into a human. So many girls (and statistically several boys) liked him a lot better that way.
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Space Cases / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Space Cases / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Rosie can shoot fire from her hands and mouth because she is a living star.
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Space Cases / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
Space Cases / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The theme song was a duet with Walter Jones and Lisa La Shawn.
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Space Cases / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Space Cases / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: In the episode "It's My Birthday, Too (Yeah!)", the cadets have to make family trees, but Radu is stymied by the fact that Andromedans were born in group hatcheries with no family ties while enslaved by the Spung. He first tries making up a pretend family, but when that gets exposed, he eventually decides that the cadets and teachers have become as good as family, with a little help from Thelma.
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Space Cases / int_2272f09c	type	Personality Swap
Space Cases / int_2272f09c	comment	Personality Swap: "Both Sides Now" because The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body.
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Space Cases / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Space Cases / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In the first episode, after being told the class' field test is canceled. Later in the same episode, after getting pulled into the space rip, with Goddard stuck with the cadets.
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Space Cases / int_257a52ac	type	Trapped on the Astral Plane
Space Cases / int_257a52ac	comment	Trapped on the Astral Plane: In the episode "Nowhere Man", Harlan is accidentally blasted into another dimension, becoming incapable of interacting with the physical world or being seen by his teammates. His plight isn't discovered until Radu's superhuman hearing picks up his pleas for help. The other kids ultimate find a way to restore him. At the end of the first season, Catalina is shunted off into another reality in an explosion. As a side-effect, her friend Suzie, previously believed to be imaginary, ends up physically manifesting aboard the Christa.
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Space Cases / int_2ea916dc	type	To the Batpole!
Space Cases / int_2ea916dc	comment	To the Batpole!: The cast uses a network of unbelievably cool slide-like tubes to travel between areas of the ship. Thanks to TECHNOLOGY they can slide up just as easily as down. One episode even had the ship malfunctioning so two of them got stuck in the tubes all day.
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Space Cases / int_32c94ad9	type	Troublesome Pet
Space Cases / int_32c94ad9	comment	Troublesome Pet: In "All You Can Eaty", Rosie gets a new pet named Eaty, who is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, devouring everything it can get its hands on, including parts of the Christa.
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Space Cases / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Space Cases / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Goddard's "space pirate story." It was what busted his rank, put him on thin ice with the brass and "almost started a war." Reaver—said space pirate—feels that he owes Goddard some payback for what happened.
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Space Cases / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Space Cases / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: In "The Sporting Kind" the crew get trapped by bracelets that prove resistant to the group's assorted superpowers...until Rosie just slips hers off.
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Space Cases / int_3e01fd7	type	Arrow Catch
Space Cases / int_3e01fd7	comment	Arrow Catch: In the episode "King of the Hill", Thelma catches an arrow right before it hits Harlan.
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Space Cases / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Space Cases / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: The Spung are all evil, with the exception of Elmira.
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Space Cases / int_4bf3d8d7	type	Personality Powers
Space Cases / int_4bf3d8d7	comment	Personality Powers: Rosie is a cheerful and sunny and is a sun.
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Space Cases / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Space Cases / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Bova can shot lightening from his antena.
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Space Cases / int_508ef715	type	The Bridge
Space Cases / int_508ef715	comment	The Bridge
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Space Cases / int_54fdbff5	type	The Eeyore
Space Cases / int_54fdbff5	comment	The Eeyore: Bova is, as the song goes 'cloudy'.
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Space Cases / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Space Cases / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Harlan to Radu. The best part is Harlan is the token black guy. Radu to Elmira. Slightly more understandable since her race enslaved his but he gets over it.
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Space Cases / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Space Cases / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: The Crista is part machine and part organic matter.
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Space Cases / int_5b6e57e	type	Required Secondary Powers
Space Cases / int_5b6e57e	comment	Required Secondary Powers: Nodded at in one episode where they come across a hatch and Radu tries punching it, assuming his Super-Strength would break it. He ends up hurting himself, as like anyone else if the object you punch has no give all that force is returned back into you.
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Space Cases / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Space Cases / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Warlord Shank's tranq darts both play this straight and avert this depending on the targets size. Catalina (a fairly slender girl) is immediately out before she even hits the ground, while Radu (who's much bulkier than her) doesn't even notice he's been hit and is perfectly fine for about 30 seconds before he suddenly passes out. Harlan (who's well built and athletic, but not to the point of an Andromedan) immediately feels the effects and falls to his knees but takes a short while to actually pass out.
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Space Cases / int_5d38d1cb	type	StarTrekShake
Space Cases / int_5d38d1cb	comment	Star Trek Shake: Lampshade Hanging: everyone BUT Radu is getting knocked around, quite dramatically so, but Radu is standing completely still. This one is justified. Radu has super strength and super hearing, since balance is established in the ears, those two traits would generate a great sense of balance.
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Space Cases / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Space Cases / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: The episode titled "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Court."
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Space Cases / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Space Cases / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bova, and a creature that the crew once took in as a pet.
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Space Cases / int_624cfcbf	type	The Other Marty
Space Cases / int_624cfcbf	comment	Likewise, part of the genesis of the "Davenport is trapped in the ship's computer" plot came from the fact that her original actress from the pilot was pregnant, and, rather than explain the baby bump, this was going to be an ongoing part of the series. With the recast, it got changed to a single episode plot instead of an ongoing one.
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Space Cases / int_6258e5f3	type	Physical Attribute Swap
Space Cases / int_6258e5f3	comment	Physical Attribute Swap: One episode has the various people on the Christa swapping races with each other after each character complains someone else on the ship has it easier. The swaps also swap most of the character's hair styles as well. In addition it proves that the really happy and really pessimistic ones are that way by genetics.
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Space Cases / int_626d5022	type	Birthday Buddies
Space Cases / int_626d5022	comment	Birthday Buddies: In "It's My Birthday, Too, Yeah", Radu lies and claims that he shares a birthday with Bova, because his species don't actually have birthdays and he's never had a birthday party.
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Space Cases / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Space Cases / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: All Uranians (in fitting with their Eeyore-like dispositions).
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Space Cases / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Space Cases / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Harlan 'leaps before he looks'.
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Space Cases / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
Space Cases / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Shut Up, Kirk!:
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Space Cases / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Space Cases / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Catalina in the first season finale. This was a case of Executive Meddling. Catalina was supposed to die, and be replaced by the recurring character Elmira. Nick thought that she was too alien, and they were forced into Catalina trading places with Suzee.
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Space Cases / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Space Cases / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Catalina was sent to another dimension and Commander Goddard was crushed by the ship while taking off from the planet they'd been stranded on used some Human Popsicle process to heal. His healing completed in the penultimate episode and was present for both it and the finale. He makes up for his absence by single-handedly saving the crew from the Doppelganger.
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Space Cases / int_781f2467	type	Shooting Superman
Space Cases / int_781f2467	comment	Shooting Superman: At one point Bova is zapped with an electricity-based weapon. He refers to the 3,000 volts it outputs as 'baby food' and zaps the wielder right back.
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Space Cases / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Space Cases / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Part of the reason Catalina had to be written out was because Jewel Staite had a commitment to the Disney Channel/Family Channel (CA) series Flash Forward (1996). Peter David knew this going in; thus the creation/reveal of Suzee. Likewise, part of the genesis of the "Davenport is trapped in the ship's computer" plot came from the fact that her original actress from the pilot was pregnant, and, rather than explain the baby bump, this was going to be an ongoing part of the series. With the recast, it got changed to a single episode plot instead of an ongoing one.
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Space Cases / int_7950239f	type	Humanity Ensues
Space Cases / int_7950239f	comment	Humanity Ensues: During the Physical Attribute Swap episode, Thelma was switched with Suzee and became... whatever Suzee is. She was upset about this since the combination of new emotions and being mentally cut off from Christa was too much for her to
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Space Cases / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
Space Cases / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Court" is a "Rashomon"-Style episode in which the crew try to determine who is at fault for an accident.
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Space Cases / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Space Cases / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: The original Season 1 intro (before Nickelodeon decided to go back and redub it with a brand new one) featured this narration, with music by Gary Stockdale:
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Space Cases / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Space Cases / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Harlan does this to Radu, rather a lot. Given that we've seen what he's capable of when an alien virus drives him over the edge, it's a damn good thing for Harlan's welfare that Radu's a harmless, socially-awkward, somewhat klutzy sweetheart rather than the violent savage Harlan seems to think all his species are.
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Space Cases / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Space Cases / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Harlan (hotblooded and aggressive) and Radu (calm headed and shy).
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Space Cases / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Space Cases / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Radu/Elmira (Andromedan/Spung), Harlan/Catalina (human/Saturnian), Suzee/everyone (who knows/everything)
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Space Cases / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Space Cases / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: After Suzee and Catalina settled into their respective new homes, the entire subplot of returning them to their original dimensions was dropped completely.
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Space Cases / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Space Cases / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: "There was a class of misfit kids from all around the place."
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Space Cases / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Space Cases / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Harlan hates all Andromedans for the death of his father, while Radu hates all Spung for enslaving his race. Elmira notes in "Spung at Heart" that both are afraid of their prejudices being proven wrong.
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Space Cases / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Space Cases / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In "Spung at Heart", Elmira is looking into each cadet's future, when she's on Catalina, "No one can see who's coming here, but Catalina disappears." Due to the season 1 finale, that has two meanings.
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Space Cases / int_a1588c2a	type	Living Ship
Space Cases / int_a1588c2a	comment	Living Ship
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Space Cases / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
Space Cases / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: The episode "The Impossible Dream" opens with Catalina dreaming that she and her friends are all in a medieval court.
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Space Cases / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
Space Cases / int_a8c6a317	comment	Super-Strength: Radu, as seen in the song, is "really super strong".
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Space Cases / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Space Cases / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: "Davenport and Goddard do the best they can." Since the Christa won't respond to their commands, they really are.
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Space Cases / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Space Cases / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Bova and Rosie; the cloudy boy and the sunny girl.
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Space Cases / int_aba02558	type	Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday
Space Cases / int_aba02558	comment	Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: In "It's My Birthday, Too (Yeah!)", it's revealed that Radu doesn't know his birthday because those of his kind are born in hatcheries, and he lies that it's his birthday so he can have his first party.
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Space Cases / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Space Cases / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most episode titles in Season 1 are a riff on a popular song from the 60s or 70s. This occasionally shows up in season 2 as well: "Both Sides Now" is a Joni Mitchell song.
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Space Cases / int_aeb9527	type	Data Crystal
Space Cases / int_aeb9527	comment	Data Crystal: The Crista's consoles, the fact that Thelma's crystal is cracked helps explain her loopiness.
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Space Cases / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
Space Cases / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: As quoted above. In the first season the original opening theme was orchestral, with a narrator (Harlan Ellison) giving a preamble, and the theme tune was used over the closing credits. The closing theme moved to the opening in the second season, re-recorded to fit Catalina's replacement and new descriptions of the characters. It was further re-recorded for first season episodes after the series ended, but with Catalina featured in, and a new opening sequence was created, according to Wikipedia, making the original opening a truer example of Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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Space Cases / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Space Cases / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Rosie is a living, humanoid, star. Naturally, she has a great deal of energy and cheer.
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Space Cases / int_b7024e52	type	Delirious Misidentification
Space Cases / int_b7024e52	comment	Delirious Misidentification: One episode saw Radu and Bova trapped on a shuttle and running out of oxygen. Suffering from oxygen starvation, Radu starts hallucinating that Bova is Suzee, who's back on the ship.
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Space Cases / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
Space Cases / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: The Christa, which works only for the kids, defends herself when she thinks she's being invaded, and is alive... sort of...
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Space Cases / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
Space Cases / int_b7e74b77	comment	Five-Token Band: IN SPACE! There's a Mercurian, a Uranian, a Titanian (who gets replaced by whatever Suzee is in Season 2), an Andromedan and the human is an African-American. A pretty diverse group.
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Space Cases / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Space Cases / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: Harlan is given a potion by a tribe of aliens who think he's their king to allow him to understand them. Not only was language never an issue before or after but language poses no problem for the others when they show up to rescue him.
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Space Cases / int_c008e0d9	type	Sons of Slaves
Space Cases / int_c008e0d9	comment	Sons of Slaves: The Andromedans were enslaved by the Spung during the Spung war with Earth. Basically, the Spung captured the Andromedans' eggs, containing their offspring, and held their hatchery ship hostage, forcing the adults to fight the humans in the war against Earth.
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Space Cases / int_c0d6d1a	type	Loud of War
Space Cases / int_c0d6d1a	comment	Loud of War: Done by the evil twins in The Trouble with Doubles.
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Space Cases / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Space Cases / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Thelma stood for Techno Human EmuLating MAchine.
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Space Cases / int_c2c1f8d2	type	Exactly Exty Years Ago
Space Cases / int_c2c1f8d2	comment	Exactly Exty Years Ago: The series never gives an exact date, but judging from Harlan's comments, his ancestors were slaves almost exactly 400 years ago. (Which would put the series somewhere in the 2200's, possibly the early 2300 depending on what direction Harlan rounds in.) Supplemental information places the series in 2261, which would indeed be just under 400 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Space Cases / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Space Cases / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Andromedans are born in hatcheries and raised without a family. The Christa's crew is Radu's first experience of what families are like. Too bad it's a dysfunctional one.
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Space Cases / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Space Cases / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Paul Boretski as Commander Seth Goddard.
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Space Cases / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Space Cases / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ship is named for Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher who was killed in the Challenger explosion. Also, a few of the kids' names reference famous sci-fi writers; Harlan Band = Harlan Ellison; Bova = Ben Bova. This one takes some setup: one of the (very few) changes that J. Michael Straczynski wrote into Peter David's episode "There All the Honor Lies" of Babylon 5 involved a bear getting thrown out an airlock. See, JMS hates cute, the bear was a gift from Peter to JMS... it was inevitable. Fast-forward to Space Cases. In the second episode, the kids find a teddy bear floating in space, leading one to ask, "What kind of dope would toss a perfectly good Earth bear into space?" It turns out to have been an evil race called the Straczyn, who wanted to conquer the galaxy, but didn't have the budget, so they tried for shoestring bio-warfare, booby-trapping the bear. There's also a game called Minbar chess. Being a former cast member of Babylon 5, Mumy also added a little B5 shout out. In the episode The Trouble with Doubles, there's a scene where the evil twins are tormenting their nice counterparts by playing annoying and loud music into the room they're trapped in. In a line of dialogue, it is revealed that the instrument being played is called a Minbari flugel horn. In one first season episode, Catalina finds herself wrongfully imprisoned. Her prison number? 24601. Commander Seth Goddard is no doubt named after producer Bill Mumy's own son, Seth Mumy, as well as Mark Goddard, the actor who played Major Don West on Lost in Space which Bill Mumy stared in as a child. In the episode where Bill Mumy and Mark Hamill play two silver skinned aliens, the robot from Lost in Space can be seen in the background of their ship. The Christa's crashing in the 2nd season premiere was based on the Enterprise-D crashing in Star Trek: Generations, although unlike the Enterprise, the Christa was able to be repaired. In the first episode, after getting sucked into the space rip, a distraught Davenport said they're "lost in space". Bova is named after science fiction writer Ben Bova. It's revealed in "Long Distance Calls" that his father (played by Peter David) is named Benn.
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Space Cases / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Space Cases / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: A variation of it in the first episode. Commander Goddard was demoted to teacher following a "space pirate" incident (see Noodle Incident). After the Christa was sent seven-light years from the academy, he said he was three weeks away from having his career as an academy teacher be over and return to space with a crew, and now he stuck in a strange alien ship... out in space with a crew.
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Space Cases / int_ca063422	type	Disease Bleach
Space Cases / int_ca063422	comment	Disease Bleach: Actually happens to Christa itself in the season 2 premiere as it's organic like exterior is burnt by the atmosphere of the planet as they crash leaving it a dull metallic color. This is actually a permanent change as even when they repair the ship and leave the planet the color damage remains for the rest of the show.
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Space Cases / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Space Cases / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Expect everything Thelma does to be off-the-wall and of marginal usefulness. Catalina appears to be one at first, habitually talking to her imaginary friend Suzee. It turns out Suzee is real but from another dimension.
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Space Cases / int_d1e7f24a	type	Big "SHUT UP!"
Space Cases / int_d1e7f24a	comment	Big "SHUT UP!": In the first episode Goddard shouts "QUIET!!!" while everyone is panicking after learning it'll take seven years to get back to the academy.
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Space Cases / int_d7b63718	type	Space Cadet Academy
Space Cases / int_d7b63718	comment	Space Cadet Academy: The Starcademy that the teachers and cadets start out from. We also meet the principal of the school in "Long Distance Calls".
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Space Cases / int_ddfb4e53	type	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
Space Cases / int_ddfb4e53	comment	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: While Suzee can read minds, she is very reluctant to do so as she regards it as violating someone's privacy.
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Space Cases / int_de36f5c6	type	Curse of Babel
Space Cases / int_de36f5c6	comment	Curse of Babel: Catalina is the only one who knows why the ship is under attack in the same episode that she loses her voice from practicing her sonic scream powers.
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Space Cases / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
Space Cases / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: In the Personality Swap episode, the perks Radu gains of being human are is bossing everyone around and acting like you're better than everyone else, so also Humans Are Bastards.
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Space Cases / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Space Cases / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Court" is a "Rashomon"-Style episode in which the crew try to determine who is at fault for an accident. "The Impossible Dram" is heavily inspired by Don Quixote, as Catalina aids a self-styled knight-errant in hunting a dragon that is supposedly hidden aboard the Christa.
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Space Cases / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Space Cases / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: They take it a step further and have Rainbow-Hair aliens.
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Space Cases / int_ea9f0351	type	My Brain Is Big
Space Cases / int_ea9f0351	comment	My Brain Is Big: Davenport says almost this exact line when her head swells to 19 times its size and she develops Psychic Powers that can (seemingly) bend the laws of metaphysics. In actuality she figures out how to access the ship's morphing abilities.
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Space Cases / int_ee34467c	type	Wagon Train to the Stars
Space Cases / int_ee34467c	comment	Wagon Train to the Stars: The Crista travels to many planets on its trip home.
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Space Cases / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
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Space Cases / int_f4aeb714	comment	Human Aliens: Most aliens the crew encounters are Ambiguously Human, except for the living ship, its builders, and the Spung.
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Space Cases / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Space Cases / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Miss Davenport takes over the role of mothering the children once they are stranded.
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Space Cases / int_fb9e2ffd	type	Team Pet
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Space Cases / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Space Cases / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Radu is one of the nicest, most gentle characters on the show, but in the second episode, he is infected with a virus that causes hallucinations and paranoia, resulting in him lashing out at what he believes to be hostile aliens impersonating his friends and manages to inflict some serious damage on Thelma. As Goddard notes, you really do not want to try and fight an Andromedan.
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Space Cases / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Space Cases / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Radu's strength seemed to fluctuate from one episode to the next. Usually it was mentioned how he needed to be extremely careful to avoid hurting people. However, on several occasions, when Radu had this particular Restraining Bolt removed (evil Doppleganger, when he infected with an alien virus, etc.,) he and Harlan would fight and somehow Harlan wouldn't be liquified in the process.
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Space Cases / int_feb72f62	type	Literal Genie
Space Cases / int_feb72f62	comment	Literal Genie: Thelma takes commands so literally, she won't warn you that the ship's been delivered a death threat if it requires deviation from the schedule.
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