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By pure coincidence, Bill "Will Robinson" Mumy of ''[[Lost in Space]]'' was one of the creators of this show. By less coincidence, [[Peter David]] is the other.
The characters were: are listed on [[/Characters|the characters subpage]].
* Harlan Band: The Hot Shot, All-American Earthling, defacto leader of the kids. He was skilled at gymnastics and martial arts. Played by Walter Jones, [[Hey, It's That Guy!|who played Zack]], the original Black Ranger on ''[[Power Rangers]].'' In the episode "All You Can Eaty," Harlan even tells Ms. Davenport and Suzee, he'll meet them back at "the command center." - known in all instances before as the com ''post''. Um, wrong show, Walter.
* Catalina (played by [[Jewel Staite]]): An [[Insufferable Genius]] with rainbow hair from Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Has the ability to produce supersonic screams. She has a friend named Suzee, who exists in another dimension. The other crew members think she doesn't exist and think she is just an "[[Imaginary Friend]]," at least at first. At the start of the second season, however, Catalina is transported to Suzee's dimension and Suzee comes to Catalina's (in the person of Rebecca Herbst, a few years before ''[[General Hospital]]'').
* Radu: A young man from Andromeda who possesses [[Super Strength]] (while being, in a reversion of the [[The Big Guy|associated trope]], short, slight, and not in the least bit imposing or aggressive) and super hearing. Because of their abilities, Andromedans were enslaved by an evil alien race called the Spung, the show's version of [[Star Trek]]'s Klingons. Has romantic feelings for Suzee. Radu faces prejudice from Harlan early in the series, due to the fact that Harlan's father was killed by Andromedans during a war.
* Bova: From Uranus, he has an antenna which creates electricity and a high metabolism. Really hates it when people make jokes about his home planet. [[The Eeyore|Perpetually depressed]], but in a "funny" way.
* Rosie Ianni: [[Genki Girl]] [[The Pollyanna|Pollyanna]] from Mercury who is hairless and has hot pinkish skin. She can create heat and always has a "sunny" attitude about everything.
* Thelma: The resident robot and [[Spaceship Girl|ship's avatar]]. She's [[Cloudcuckoolander|a little screwed up]], thanks to Harlan stepping on and cracking [[Personality Chip|her jewel]]. It's not clear how much of her personality was like that before the jewel cracking though.
* T.J. Davenport, one of the two teachers on board. [[Stop Having Fun Guy|Extremely uptight and straitlaced]]. Has a tendency to faint.
* Commander Seth Goddard, the second teacher: He is an officer (now busted of rank) who tries to whip the crew into shape.
The show later introduced:
* Elmira: [[Cute Monster Girl]]/[[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] member of the evil Spung species. {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Daughter]] of the team's [[Arch Nemesis]], Warlord Shank.}} [[Ascended Extra|Was going to be a main character]], [[Demoted to Extra|but the network kiboshed it]] and [[Executive Meddling|shoved in]] Suzee.
* Warlord Shank: [[Big Bad]] played by [[George Takei]].
* Suzee: Catalina's "imaginary" friend from season 1 was really an alien girl living in a different dimension. [[Teen Genius]], can perform [[Astral Projection]], can breathe any atmosphere, and all the boys like her.
There's also an entertaining [https://web.archive.org/web/20090524100332/http://community.livejournal.com/rigelianculture/88117.html pictorial series summary].
** In fact, Peter David knew that Jewel Staite had another commitment (to [[Flash Forward (TV series)|Flash Forward]]), so he wrote Suzee into the script as an "imaginary friend." When Jewel had to leave, all that had to be done was to switch 'em off et voila!
* [[Team Mom]]: Miss Davenport
* [[To the Batpole]]: The cast uses a network of unbelievably cool slide-like tubes to travel between areas of the ship. Thanks to [[ClarksClarke's Third Law|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.
* [[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 simply 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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