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''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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'''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 Withwith That|and statistically several boys]]) liked him a ''lot'' better that way.
** 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 Thethe Body]].
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: Rosie
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Not only Catalina when she was sent to another dimension -- don't worry, we don't mean ''[[Never Say "Die"|that]]'' [[Never Say "Die"|sort of other dimension]]. Commander Goddard was crushed by the ship while taking off from the planet they'd been stranded on and put in some kind of [[Suspended Animation]] to heal for the series' duration. His only appearances afterwards were a minute or two of the others checking up on him.
** 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 [[Flash Forward 2009|the '09 series]]). Peter David knew this going in; thus the creation of Suzee.
** 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 [[Creator's Pet]] was that they had to cobble her character together at the last minute.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Harlan and Radu.
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: Bova
* [[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 Five|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 [[Complete Monster|monster]] would space a perfectly good Earth bear?" It turns out to have been an evil race called the [[J. Michael Straczynski|Straczyn]], who wanted to conquer the galaxy, but [[Take That|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 Five|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 ''[[Babylon Five5|Minbari]] flugel horn''.
* [[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 [[Clarks Third Law|TECHNOLOGY]], they can slide up just as easily as down.
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* [[Uranus Is Showing]]
{{quote| '''Bova''': I hate being from Uranus! I'm the [[Lampshade Hanging|butt]] of every joke!}}
* [[Wagon Train to Thethe Stars]]
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]
 
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