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Star Blazers - Quest For Iscandar 1x14 - Octopus Star Storm Duration: 22 min 31 s Frame rate: 23.976 FPS Subtitles by: DDDBBB Version: 1, 15DEC2025

♪ We're off to outer space We're leaving Mother Earth ♪

♪ To save the human race ...OUR STAR BLAZERS! ♪

♪ Searching for a distant star Heading off to Iscandar ♪

♪ Leaving all we left behind Who knows what dangers we'll find ♪

♪ We must be strong and brave Our home we got to save ♪

♪ If we don't in just one year Mother Earth will disappear ♪

♪ Fighting with the Gamilons We won't stop until we've won ♪

♪ Then we'll return and when we arrive the Earth will survive with ♪

♪ OUR STAR BLAZERS ♪

[Narrator] 2199, Earth was under severe attack from the mysterious planet Gamilon.

Gamilon planet bombs cover the Earth with radioactive pollution.

And as a result, in one year's time, Earth will be unlivable.

But on the planet Iscandar, there is a machine that can remove the radioactivity.

Queen Starsha offers it to the people of Earth.

A team of Starblazers called the Starforce undertakes the perilous journey.

But can the Starforce travel 148,000 light years and back in just one Earth year?

But other great dangers in outer space threaten the Star Force.

Huge primitive stars, swirling like gigantic octopi, create violent space storms and bring the Argo to a halt.

For three weeks now, the Star Force has been waiting for it to subside.

The crew is becoming restless.

Well, if you aren't going to move, it's my turn.

Checkmate.

Hey, wait a minute.

Too late, buddy.

I was just getting ready to make my move.

You know the name of the game, Wildstar.

If you don't move in two minutes, it's my turn.

Boy, some friend you are.

And you're always changing your mind.

That's not true.

You're a poor loser.

Come on!

I pick Ventress.

I bet on Wildstar.

Come on, hurry up!

Hey, you get it on!

Get it on!

[Avatar] All team members to the planning office.

On the double.

Scheduled mission conference at 0800.

You're lucky.

We're not finished.

We need a little excitement around here.

Hot shots.

While we're temporarily marooned in this

space storm, and since we have the time,

I think we should use it to review our situation.

Venture, will you start?

Yes, sir.

Here it is.

This is the Octopus Star Group.

It has more ways to stop us than an octopus has arms.

Right now, we're located here.

But I think there might be a way out here.

A channel between them.

One more problem is this black cloud holding this all together.

And we don't know how far it extends.

We're flying into a whole new area and we have to be careful.

But we also have to take chances.

We don't know what lies beyond that cloud.

It would take us 40 days to get around it.

We've already spent 21 days here, waiting for the storm to die down.

What makes you think that this storm is going to quit for your convenience, Venture?

Hey, we're all in this.

And we're sitting here in space while you can't make up your mind.

And what you call a channel, how do you know it really exists?

Or is it just in your head?

It's there.

Well, have you seen it for yourself?

No, but I'm sure it's there.

You're sure?

You're not playing space chess now where you push things on a board.

This is the Starforce.

One bad move and we've had it.

Okay, Hotshot, maybe you've got some bright ideas.

More time passes and still the Starforce cannot move.

Caught in the Octopus Starstorm.

Hey Wildstar! What do you think you're doing?

We're go to know about that channel, Conroy.

I'm gonna check it out.

You don't have clearance to take off from this storm.

It's dangerous.

Wildstar!

I'm alright.

We can't sit still forever.

Wildstar, come back.

If I find it, you can name it after me.

Call it the Wildstar Channel.

Wildstar, come back. You can't do that.

You can't do that.

You'll never make it against the wind.

Wildstar!

Here we go.

Oh, no.

The instruments are going crazy.

Wildstar!

Captain, here's Derek Wildstar.

Wildstar, what did you think you were going to accomplish?

You're going to scrub down the hangar deck.

What?

That's great!

You two, you were an accomplice.

Who, me?

It's your duty to prevent unauthorized flights.

You let him take off.

Oh, what lousy luck.

Come on, come on.

Hey, wait a minute.

You'll get your turn.

We're not through yet.

Listen, wise guy.

The captain stuck me with this job.

It's wall-to-wall punishment.

And we got it for letting you and Venture fight.

You're kidding.

Well, Wildstar, when you get in trouble, you sure take a lot of people with you.

Yeah, but that guy Venture sure got off scot-free.

Let's get at it.

Have a party?

I know there isn't anything to celebrate, but everyone's so on edge.

I think it will help.

They all try so hard to do a good job.

That's all Wildstar was trying to do, and everybody in the crew, too.

No, I don't think so.

Why not?

I know we've got a good crew.

A fine crew.

Oh?

But I'm worried about our food supply.

We've been here for three weeks, and we don't know when the storm will stop.

And we have to slip past the Octopus stars.

And even then, we don't know about food.

It's... -Yes?

It's better to have the crew snapping at each other instead of worrying where their next meal's coming from.

Yes.

I understand, sir.

Orion? -Huh?

Oh, it's you, Sparks.

You're working awfully late, sir.

I know, but some fine day we'll need these engines.

And they'd better be ready.

Oh, how long can we drift like this, doing nothing?

Hmm...

We're so far behind schedule now that even if

we do get the Cosmo DNA, it'll be too late to save Earth.

Hmm...

If we turn back now, we'd maybe save some people.

You know, find another planet where we could live.

You really think so?

Yes, I think so.

We'd be better off staying in our own galactic system.

There are plenty of planets here, and I'll bet we could find a good one if we looked.

You might be right, Sparks.

Uh, maybe you can suggest it to the captain.

He'll listen to you, won't he?

Hmm...

Doubt it.

Venture?

Are you having a problem sleeping, too?

Oh, I can't sleep.

I keep wondering.

Is there a channel out there?

What do you mean, Venture?

You were so sure the other day at the meeting.

I know that, but...

But if you weren't sure, why are we waiting here?

We could have been halfway around the black cloud.

No.

I know there's a channel out there.

I'm sure of it.

Well, now we can both get some sleep.

Good night.

Oh, no!

No!

Oh, it was a dream.

A nightmare.

You're late, Wildstar.

I know.

What?

It's cleared up.

The storm's over.

At last.

Hey, take a look.

Yeah?

A Gamilon ship.

I knew it.

It's been hiding behind those storm clouds just waiting for us.

We can't let it delay us now.

Captain Avatar, let me bring it down.

Not this time, Wildstar.

It's more important to get out of here.

Oh.

Wildstar, we don't have time for useless battles.

[crewman] Which way did it go?

[Eager] It flew into the Octopus Star Center.

Amazing.

Maybe there is a channel.

I knew it.

Okay.

Wildstar, check it out.

Yes, sir.

Just what he's been waiting for.

Hey.

This looks like it.

Some kind of an opening or a channel.

I'm going in to check it out.

This is it.

I'm sure it's got to be.

From now on, it will be called the Wildstar Channel.

Oh, lost contact.

Starforce, Starforce.

I'd better get back with the good news.

What does he think he's doing?

He's heading back.

Starforce, this is Wildstar calling.

I discovered the channel.

Congratulations.

Good job.

Way to go, Wildstar.

Now we can move out of here.

Reporting back, sir.

The channel's there, all right.

Well done.

It was there, and we can get through it.

How long is the channel?

How long?

Oh, I don't know.

What do you mean, you don't know?

Didn't you confirm that we can go all the way through?

Oh.

Then we're not sure if it's a channel or not, are we?

There might not be any way out.

A dead end.

Captain?

Venture, forget it.

It's good to be careful, but we can't wait to get 100% intelligence.

We have to act now.

All hands take position.

[alarms]

Nova?

Yes?

You still want to have that party?

What?

By the time we find our way through the Octopus Channel, we can celebrate.

Oh, great.

Hey, Venture, come over here.

What do you want?

We've got something to settle.

What is it, Wildstar?

Because I didn't check it out, the Starforce might meet with a disaster in the channel.

Is that what you're thinking, Venture?

I'll get us through.

Well, Venture, before you get too busy trying to be a big hero, I want to get something settled with you.

What's your hurry?

I'll get us through, okay, because I've got the best reason in the world.

I'm going to knock some sense into you just as soon as we get through.

You've had it coming for a long time, and you're going to get it.

...

Stop it, you two!

What do you think you're doing?

And at a time like this?

[Avatar] All engines, full speed ahead.

All engines, full speed ahead.

Oh, look at it.

The storm's starting up again.

I can't depend on the automatic pilot.

I've got to switch over to manual.

All right, Venture.

Looks like it's all going to be in your hands.

Activate the wings.

Roger.

Activating the wings now.

[Venture] It's getting wild!

[Wildstar] Can you control it?

It's like a bucking bronco!

[Venture] It's pulling us in!

If we can just hang on!

We did it! We did it!

We did it! We did it, Venture!

We did it! We made it!

We made it!

Just look at them.

I bet they can't remember what they were fighting about.

The Star Force is now free to continue on to Iscandar.

Back on Earth, life is becoming more difficult day by day.

As the effects of radiation seep down into the Earth.

The Star Force flies on in the vast space outside our galaxy.

Will they make it back to Earth in time?

Hurry, Star Force.

The human race has only 280 days left.

♪ We're off in outer space Protecting Mother Earth ♪

♪ To save the human race ...OUR STAR BLAZERS! ♪

♪ Danger lurking everywhere But we know we got to dare ♪

♪ Evil men with evil schemes They can't destroy all our dreams ♪

♪ We must be strong and brave Our home we got to save ♪

♪ We must make the fighting cease So Mother Earth will be at peace ♪

♪ Through all the fire and the smoke We will never give up hope ♪

♪ If we can win the Earth will survive We'll keep peace alive with ♪

♪ OUR STAR BLAZERS ♪