Rocket to the Future, Part 2: Mission to Pluto
Fridays 6:01-6:05 p.m. on SPR News
It's "Rocket to the Future! Part 2"! In this weekly adventure serial we soar off to the space age future, 1993, with the officers and crew of the Earth Space Force! It's humanity's first mission to Pluto, but what with budget cuts and all, it's seriously underfunded!
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When Lt. Chesterfield discovers Cadet Cindy in the Knausgaard's engine room after the explosion, she has to flee and come up with rationalizations for pinning it on him. Meanwhile, fraudulent Martian Ambssador to Earth, Sammy Kahlua, prepares to face the space media...
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As Lt. Commander Fawna slaps Caddy Neddy Nemesis even more awake by the abandoned space warehouse, Lt. Chesterfield finds there are no space cookies in the Vanguard's sickbay!
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As embedded Space journalist Sparky McClean tries to figure out a way to beat Lt. Chesterfield at couple's therapy, Eugene 2000 pushes Lt. Commander Fawna through the space-continuum portal, and Commander Train and Cadet Cindy complete the scuttling of the Knausgaard!
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As Lt. Chesterfield and interim Captain Casey wait in the Vanguard's Sickbay for the release of an oxygen tank to keep Casey from, well, dying, Sparky McClean comes by to berate Chesterfield for his getting an advantage on her for their next couple's therapy.
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Commander Train, Cadet Cindy, and fraudulent Martian ambassador Sammy Kahlua gather to make their final sabotage plans, and Sammy has an extraordinary insight!
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After rescuing interim Captain Casey, Lt. Chesterfield blocked from boarding the rocket ship Vanguard by Dr. Springbok, who points out that neither Chesterfield nor Casey appears on the Vanguard's manifest.
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Cadet Neddy Nemesis is left behind near the abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of Luna Base 3, and no one seems to want to take him back to the space dock!
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Cadet Cindy and Sammy Kahlua discuss—in public—how to avoid talking in public about their secret mission in public, but they are interrupted...
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Dr. Springbok, the Vanguard's new doctor, bangs on the rocket's tail fins for attention. Then comes a series of mysterious communications...
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Fraudulent Martian ambassor to Earth, Sammy Kahlua, trips on his ambassadorial robes while he and Cadet Cindy try to begin their secret mission.