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{{quote|''"Once upon a time in a school in outer space,
''There was a class of misfit kids from all around the place.
''They snuck aboard a mystery ship,
''Which soon slipped through a spacial rip,
''And now they're stuck on a long strange trip."''|The [[Expository Theme Tune|Theme Song]]}}
The short description: ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' [[Spinoff Babies|as teenagers]].
The long description: A live-action science fiction show for children that aired on [[Nickelodeon]]. 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.
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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.
There's also an entertaining [https://web.archive.org/web/20090524100332/http://community.livejournal.com/rigelianculture/88117.html pictorial series summary].▼
▲There's also an entertaining [http://community.livejournal.com/rigelianculture/88117.html pictorial series summary].
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: "Davenport and Goddard do the best they can."
** Since the Christa won't respond to their commands, they really are.
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]
* [[
* [[And Starring]]: Paul Boretski as Commander Seth Goddard
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Radu in the second episode, albeit virus-induced.
* [[The Bridge]]
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Harlan does this to Radu, rather a lot. Given that we've [[Beware the Nice Ones|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 [[Actual Pacifist|harmless]], [[Adorkable|socially-awkward]], [[Dojikko|somewhat klutzy]] [[The Woobie|sweetheart]] rather than the [[The Brute|violent savage]] Harlan seems to think all his species are.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Thelma, expect everything she does to be [[Hilarity Ensues|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 actually real.
* [[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.
* [[Data Crystal]]
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Nicely averted by the actors who played Catalina, Bova, and Rosie, all of whom were 13-14 during the first season. Radu and Suzee were borderline; both actors were 19-20 during the second season. Played deadly straight with Walter Emanuel Jones who, several years earlier, had been too old for his role in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and, well, hadn't gotten any younger since.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Rosee says that on Mercury, they always look on the sunny side of the street and both sides are the sunny side. Well; not at ''once'', but you do got to give her credit that she knew Mercury wasn't Tidally locked.
* [[Disney Death]]: Catalina in the first season finale.
** This was actually 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 having Catalina trade places with Suzee. Other examples of Nick's meddling was moving Davenport and Goddard into the background in season 2.
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* [[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. He gets over it.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Harlan, in his own mind at least ("Thinks he knows it all"/"Leaps before he looks").
** [[The Lancer]]: Bova ("Acts like nothing's funny")
** [[The Smart Guy]]:
*** Season 1: Catalina ("Talking to the wall")
*** Season 2: Suzee ("Smarter than a million books")
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** [[The Chick]]: Rosie ("Cheery, bright, and sunny")
*** By role: If Harlan is [[The Hero]], Radu fits the role of [[The Lancer]] as Harlan's foil and rival. Likewise, Catalina is [[The Chick]], as [[The Hero]]'s love interest. Bova and Rosie don't work out as [[The Smart Guy]] and [[The Big Guy]] in a reasonable way, but they're paired with each other in the way that [[The Smart Guy]] and [[The Big Guy]] often are.
* [[Five
* [[Genki Girl]]: Rosie
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Commander Goddard
* [[Hot
* [[Human Aliens]]
* [[Humans Are Special]]: In the [[Personality Swap]] episode, the perks Radu gains of being human are getting to boss everyone around and act like you're better than everyone else, so also [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]].
* [[Humanity Ensues]]: During the [[Freaky Friday]] 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 handle.
* [[I Ate What?]]: A comedic example, though we never find out what the mystery substance is. The ''Christa'' is stranded on a planet and three of the cast are sitting around a fire, where the following exchange occurs.
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'''Bova:''' Don't know. I found it over there. On the ground.
'''Harlan:''' ... Why are you cooking something that's not even ''food''?
'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Bova]]:''' Why are you ''eating'' something that's not even food? }}
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode title in Season 1 is a riff on a popular song from the 50's or 60's.
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* [[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.
* [[Living Ship]]
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'''Goddard''': Our ship is part machine, and part living matter. }}
* [[Loud of War]]: Done by the evil twins in ''The Trouble with Doubles''.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: In "Both Sides Now," Radu gets turned into a human. So many girls ([[Not That There's Anything Wrong
** And [[Fan Girl|some of us]] like him anyway.
* [[My Brain Is Big]]: Davenport says almost this exact line when her head swells to 19 times its size and she develops [[Psychic Powers]] enough to (seemingly) bend the laws of metaphysics. In actuality she just figures out how to access the ship's "[[Clark Third Law|morphing abilities]]," which supposedly makes more sense but really doesn't...
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* [[Organic Technology]]
* [[Personality Powers]]
* [[Personality Swap]]: "Both Sides Now" because [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
* [[Playing
* [[Put
** Goddard was actually healed by the penultimate episode and was present for the it and the finale. He makes up for his absence by single handedly saving the crew from the Doppleganger.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]
* [[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 (TV series)|Flash Forward]]'' (no relation to [[
** Actually, he originally envisioned having Catalina stay dead and have Elmira take her place on the Christa. However, Nickelodeon intervened and squashed that. Some believe this is why Suzee was so much of a [[
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Harlan and Radu.
* [[Reverse the Polarity]]: Not only could Rosie and Bova expel massive amounts of heat and electricity, they could also absorb it as well if the ship was overheated or overloaded.
* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: They even take it a step further and have Rainbow-Hair aliens.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Bova
* [[Shout
** 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 ''[[
** Being a former cast member of ''[[
* [[Star Trek Shake]]: [[Lampshade Hanging]]: everyone BUT Radu is getting knocked around, quite dramatically so, but Radu is standing completely still.
** This one is actually justified in-show. Radu has super strength and super hearing, since balance is established in the ears, those two traits would justify a great sense of balance.
* [[Super Strength]]: Radu
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Suzee
** 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 [[
** 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.
* [[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. [[Fantastic Racism|Too bad it's a kind of dysfunctional one.]]
* [[Uranus Is Showing]]
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* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]
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