Star Crossed

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Star Crossed is the 34th episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. It first aired on November 9, 2000.

Summary

Zurg hires the bounty hunter Romac to retrieve 57 before the Brain Pod reaches Star Command. However, it turns out that Romac is Mira's ex-boyfriend.

Plot

The episode starts on Planet Z with a grub fretting about how to tell Zurg about Brain Pod 57 defecting to Star Command. When Zurg finds out he panics and asks for Shiv Katall. The grub tentatively reminds Zurg that Shiv Katall was Buzz Lightyear in disguise, and after almost being squeezed to death by a furious Zurg reminding it to never mention Shiv Katall to him again, the grub suggests a promising new bounty hunter rumoured to be better than Shiv Katall. Tossing the grub aside, Zurg demands that the bounty hunter be brought to him.

Zurg meets with the bounty hunter at his launch bay, who arrives in a small personal shuttle. A grub reveals his name to be Romac, and Zurg comments that the name sounds Volturan before discovering that he is a Tangean Grounder.

Romac's first appearance.

Upon hearing this, Zurg protests that he doesn't speak the language, and the grub with him offers to use its portable translator to attempt communication. Romac emerges at that point, dressed in blue leathers and a helmet obscuring his face. Zurg is hardly impressed, commenting on his tacky outfit, his primitive origins, and even wondering if he bathes. The grub greets him, but Romac remains silent. Dismayed that he doesn't appear to even understand his own language, Zurg instructs the grub to tell him that he has a job for him. The grub attempts communication once more, but Romac replies in flawless Basic to "skip the boom-booms" as he fires a mental pulse at the grub before asking about the job. Unperturbed, Zurg tells him he'll pay him three million unibucks for his services. Grabbing Zurg's fingers in a tight grip, Romac responds that he'll do it for ten in advance. Zurg concedes without protest because of time constraints and summons the grub forward with a briefcase filled with crisp money rolls. He instructs Romac to "go fetch" 57 and Romac promises to do so, saying, "I never quit a job 'til it's finished. Never."

Under cover on Tradeworld in a seedy hotel, Buzz reviews his team's tasks in protecting the defected 57. Mira has already checked the hotel's perimeters, Booster has set up computer surveillance on all exits and entrances, but XR protests at there being no mints on the pillows, a broken ice machine, and the cable being out. 57 finds the opportunity to protest at sitting around in a hotel room and suggests they leave immediately, but Buzz stops him and reminds him that by now Zurg has hired someone to locate him. He has Mira and XR take the first watch, with him and Booster to relieve them at midnight before they set off at six in the morning to deliver 57 to a Star Command debriefing unit. Before leaving, he reminds him that no phone calls or loud noises are allowed and they are not to leave the room. 57 wonders sarcastically at this being freedom.

Mira's first encounter with trouble is a delivery boy from Pizza Planet. It turns out that 57 had ordered pizza because they never had the chance to eat pizza on Planet Z and takes delight at the anchovies as he samples a bite and even licks his "lips" afterwards.

The trouble is just starting.

Mira is about to scold him but is interrupted by the pizza boy who asks for eight unibucks for the pizza. Though put off at first, Mira pays by swiping her card through the boy's card reader and sends him off before turning on 57 and reminding them that this is a covert operation and that they shouldn't be attracting attention. But XR too has vanished, and it turns out that he's been telling high tales to a cleaning maid in the corridor who bids him farewell with a wave and a, "Goodbye, Commander," as Mira tows XR away. Back in the room, Mira reminds them that they have to stay low and that anyone could be a Zurg agent. XR comments that even she could be an agent, eyeing her suspiciously. Sighing, Mira tells them she'll check things outside and that they better stay in the room.

However, when Mira returns,

First Appearances

Romac
Brain Pod 57

Quotes

"I never quit a job 'til it's finished. Never." -- Romac

Trivia

Under construction.

Voice Actors

Patrick Warburton as Buzz Lightyear
Stephen Furst as Booster
Nicole Sullivan as Mira Nova
Jeremy Piven as Brain Pod #57
Frank Welker as Grub
John Kassir as Marl
Wayne Knight as Zurg
Grey DeLisle as Alien Beauty and Alien Maid
Neil Flynn as XR
David James Elliot as Romac

Production Details

Executive Producers: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley, Tad Stones
Director: Victor Cook
Story Editor: Kevin Hopps
Written By: Greg Weisman

Voice Casting and Dialogue Director: Jamie Thomason

Storyboard: Denise Koyama, Carin-Anne Greco, David Bullock
Timing Directors: Burt Medall, Dale Case
Sheet Timing: Dale Case, Burt Medall, John Ahern
Supervising Character Design: Greg Guler
Character Design: Dana Landsberg

Additional Character Design: Kenny Thompkins
Key Location Design: Simon Rodgers, Latchezar Gouchev, Teresa Wellins
Prop Design: Chuck Puntuvatana, Tom Foxmarnick

Lead Background Paint: Donna Prince
Key Background Stylist: Tom Cain
Color Key Stylist: Sharon Scott
Storyboard Revisions: Alan Wright
Additional Storyboard By: Lonnie Lloyd, David Prince
Continuity Coordinator: Jungja Kim-Wolf

Associate Producer: Natasha Kopp
Creative Consultant from Pixar: Jeff Pidgeon
Digital Color Correction: Don Devine, Adam Chase, Christopher Staples
Scanner: Adam Chase

CGI Main Title: Pixar Animation Studios

Music By: Adam Berry
Main Title Theme By: Adam Berry

Animation Production By: Hanna Animation Co., Ltd.
Director: Young-Sang Yoon
Backgrounds: Young-Ku Kim, Woo-Sang Yun
Camera: Chul-Kyu Lim

Animators: Jung-Tak Kim, Eun-Young Byun, Kuen-Sik Song, Sung-Chui Lee, Jung-Hee Jung, Ae-Kyoung Choi

Supervising Film Editor: John Royer
First Assistant Film Editor: Jennifer Harrison
Pre-Production Dialogue Editor: Monte Bramer
Track Reading: Skip Craig
Post Production Manager: Steven J. Arenas
Post Production Supervisor: Rachel Pusateri
Audio Supervisor: Victor Garcia
Post Production Coordinator: Mark Allen Bollinger

Sound Design: Paca Thomas
Dialogue Editor: Robbi Smith
Music Editor: Marc S. Perlman, M.P.S.E.
Foley: Phyllis Ginter, Kris Daly
Digital Audio Transfer: J. Lampinen

Re-Recording Mixers: James, C. Hodson, C.A.S, Melissa Ellis, Fil Brown, Ray Leonard, Michael Beiriger
Supervising Music Editor: Dominick Certo
On-Line Editor: Keith Cook

Production Coordinators: Chris Versage, John Paul Catapano
Script Coordinator: Dawn T. Connors
Production Associate: Carin Cobrae
Production Secretaries: Linda DeLizza, Jessica Farley
Talent Coordinator: David H. Wright III
Production Accountant: Ron J. Earhart

Produced By: Walt Disney Television Animation