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Star Blazers - Quest For Iscandar 1x19 - Communication Satellite Duration: 21 min 50 s Frame rate: 23.976 FPS Subtitles by: DDDBBB Version: 1, 19DEC2025

♪ 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 ♪

For two months now, the Starforce has been out of visual communication with Earth.

And many of the crew worry about the fate of their families on Earth.

Homer, the communication officer, is sick with worry.

Take a deep breath, Homer.

Now open your mouth.

Wide.

Come on.

Well, there's nothing wrong here, Homer.

But I have a constant ringing in my ears.

You are pale, and you can't eat or sleep, huh?

... ...

Your pulse is slightly rapid, and blood pressure a little low.

I think you need a change of scenery.

What?

I see you haven't played one of your memory tapes of home lately.

We made these tapes for times like this.

For homesickness, I prescribe a visit to the Holography Room.

Give this to Nova.

Thank you, Dr. Sane.

You want to see your home during the winter?

I can understand that.

I miss the snowfall, too.

I'll set the machine for your hometown in the winter. Alright?

It'll be just like a visit home.

A visit home.

It will really cheer you up, Homer. You'll see.

3D Holography Treatment.

Start.

Mother!

Mother!

Mother!

It's different now!

It's all a lie! It's a fake!

It's not true!

It's not that way now!

It's not the way it is now!

Homer!

It's a lie!

Come on, fellows, out of the way.

Stand back, everybody!

Let the captain through!

I'm glad to see the captain's getting better.

Boy, look how anxious everybody is to finally get news from Earth.

How can we do it?

Yes, Earth is 70,000 light years away.

No one knows how it's possible.

Maybe Homer...

Hey, where is Homer?

He's in charge of communications. Maybe he knows.

This is Starforce.

Captain Avatar calling.

I want contact with Operations Headquarters in the Space Department in the United Nations.

U.N. Starforce Headquarters.

This is Starforce Headquarters U.N.

Captain Avatar, we're receiving you clearly.

You left Earth a hundred days ago.

What do you have to report on your Iscandar mission?

Earth is waiting for your news.

We do a space warp twice daily.

If our warping goes well, we'll be able to return to Earth in 158 days with the radiation-removing equipment.

Over.

We've much to thank you for.

Planet bombs no longer fall on Earth.

The Gamilon base on Pluto is finished.

But the radioactive pollution keeps spreading.

We are all now living in underground cities.

And while it's hard, we're managing.

We know we can hold on until you return from Iscandar.

Life on Earth depends on your success.

All of us in the Starforce look to our homes on Earth for courage.

We know it's there.

Goodbye.

You're all a bunch of idiots listening to that.

What's with you?

What's the matter?

What are you all doing here?

Do you like being fooled?

Don't you realize no one here knows anything at all about where we're going?

Captain, have you ever been to Iscandar?

Every space warp takes us further into the dark unknown.

We're on a fool's errand.

And Gamilon is waiting and waiting and waiting.

They know all about space.

They're playing with us.

They let us go a little ways and then pounce like a cat with a mouse.

You don't know how bad things are on Earth.

They won't tell you.

Homer, we all know conditions are difficult on Earth.

Is there something special you know that we don't?

Homer!

The man is sick.

See he's taken care of.

[crewman] Is he going to be all right?

The communication today with Earth was the best medicine I've had.

And I thought it was a good time to thank all of you for the excellent job you did while I was recovering.

Thanks to all of you.

We'll soon be at planet Balan, our halfway point.

With the help of Dr. Sane, I expect to be on the bridge for the rest of the mission.

So let's drink a toast to Earth.

Our once and soon to be again beautiful Earth.

To Earth!

To all your families on Earth.

And a toast to your good health, Captain.

Here's to the Captain!

Thank you.

I'm sorry Homer couldn't be with us tonight.

Yes, but he's better off resting in bed.

He seems to be under a lot of strain.

More than the rest of the crew.

Captain Avatar, may I ask a question?

Why not?

We all know Homer pretty well and his outburst this afternoon sort of bothers us.

He said things I'm sure he didn't mean.

But still, he did touch on what's worrying all of us.

Just what are our chances, really, of getting to Iscandar and returning to Earth with the Cosmo DNA?

Hey Venture, we're halfway there.

Why bring up that question now?

Don't tell me you don't have any doubts.

Haven't you wondered maybe just a little?

Well, some.

What about you, Nova?

Sandor?

Orion?

Dr. Sane?

All of you?

None of us are sure the mission will succeed.

We all have fears.

Homer just said what's been on all our minds.

Maybe he's more upset, but he did speak for a lot of us.

Venture!

Yes, sir?

We've come this far together.

It's true we don't know what lies ahead, but no one knows tomorrow.

There are no guarantees.

We know we've been entrusted with the life of Earth.

Only the Starforce can save Earth.

To do that, we must believe in a future for all of us.

To do our job today.

If we don't, we are lost.

Earth is lost.

General, the relay satellite is working.

There was a transmission from the Starforce to Earth today.

Good.

It means my plan is working perfectly.

We will destroy their morale.

The more they learn how bad conditions on Earth are, the more they will be discouraged.

Since they have been beyond the range of visual communication,

they know little of what is happening there now.

With the help of our secret relay satellite, they are able to learn how bad things are. He he.

Excellent.

And the Starforce doesn't know Gamilon has this base on Balan.

They innocently think of it as a halfway point to Iscandar.

We will prepare a surprise welcome for them.

They don't realize how easy they are to manipulate.

One of the crew members has been talking directly to his family.

That's it! Bad news will destroy the Starforce!

I have to see what is happening on Earth.

Oh, Homer.

I'll take over.

Are you alright?

I'm not sick, if that's what you mean.

Well then, Homer, it's all yours.

This is Starforce. This is Starforce.

Is that you, Homer?

Mother, you hear me?

Homer, are you sure it's alright for you to call us so often?

It's alright. No one knows I'm doing it.

I located the special frequency. How is father now?

He's very sick.

What?

Your father's been working too hard.

He's helped build so many underground cities.

I think he caught some new virus.

A lot of people have it.

Mother.

I worry about him so much.

He misses you.

We both miss you.

When are you coming back?

We need you.

Every night your father looks up at the stars.

When will this horrible thing be over?

Mother.

What, dear?

Who is that?

It's Homer.

He's calling us from the Starforce.

Father.

You get back here.

Your mother needs you.

Father.

Father. Father.

Well, this explains a lot.

All this time you've been talking to Earth on your own.

What's wrong with that?

I have a right to know how my mother and father are.

Sure. I know it's against the rules.

But my father's sick! It's not hurting anyone.

That's not true Homer. Look what it's doing to you.

You can't work. You're half sick.

We depend on you.

Okay, Wildstar. Report me to the captain.

I don't care what you do to me.

I don't want to do that, Homer.

You're all a bunch of cold-blooded robots.

Do this. Do that.

You don't care what happens to YOUR family.

Well, I care about mine.

Get out of my way.

Homer. Stop.

Venture. We've got to get back to Earth.

Turn around. It's not too late yet.

Please! I've been talking to Earth. My family.

My father's sick. My mother. She cried.

Look. I'm begging you.

We're never going to make it. Turn back.

We'll go back after we complete our mission.

All life on Earth depends on the Starforce.

Oh, no!

Hey, Homer.

Venture. Did Homer come down here?

Yeah. He took the other elevator.

What's the matter with that guy?

I don't know what it is. He's sick.

I've got to get him to a doctor.

What?

Who's that?

Hey, is that you, Homer?

Yes, this is Duty Officer Conroy. Oh, Wildstar.

Homer? -That's right. Homer.

He's acting crazy.

What?

He's heading for the space suit lockers.

We've got to stop him.

We'd better get over to the space suit area right away.

Yeah. Let's go.

Daddy! Mommy! I'm coming home!

Black Tiger Team, this is Wildstar.

If you spot Homer, contact SP-03 immediately.

Over.

Huh?

What's this?

Antenna?

It's a relay satellite. But it's not ours.

How did it get here?

Gamilons?

I've got to warn the Starforce!

The Gamilons have been listening into all our ship-to-Earth communications.

I've got to get back to the Starforce! But where is it?

Starforce!

I've got to warn the Starforce about this relay satellite!

I've got to get back! I've got to get back!

I've got to get back!

I've got to get back!

What is that?

Hey!

Here I am! Here I am!

Starforce! Starforce!

This is Wildstar. I think I've found Homer.

I'm over here!

Can you see me?

Over here! Hey!

Homer, are you all right?

Wildstar!

This is a Gamilon relay satellite.

We've got to destroy it!

Roger.

Homer, think you can hit it?

Uh-huh.

NOW!

That's the end of communication with Earth for a while.

Our next message will be on our way home with good news from Iscandar.

You're right.

We all believe that. That's the kind of message Earth needs.

Hey, look at that!

All your friends were in the search party looking for you.

I can't believe it.

After all the trouble I caused everybody.

This is Wildstar here.

Gamilon relay satellite is destroyed and Homer is safe and sound.

We're coming in.

Roll out the red carpet.

Over.

The Starforce flies on to Iscandar.

Next stop is planet Balan.

Where unknown to the Starforce, the Gamilons await them.

Can the Starforce survive the mighty power of Gamilon?

They must, if the human race is to survive.

Hurry, Starforce.

♪ 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 ♪