Wing Commander Academy

Season

1996

USA

6.8

TV-Y7

The dramatic adventures of a group of space cadets on the Terran carrier Tiger's Claw in total war against a hostile, alien, lion-looking warrior race, the Kilrathi.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Red and Blue

To test their skills, Commodore Tolwyn splits the new cadets into the Blue Team led by the promising Christopher 'Maverick' Blair and the Red Team led by the hotheaded Todd 'Maniac' Marshall, but a traitor tries to sabotage the war games.

S1 • E2

The Last One Left

Maverick and Maniac are captured by Daimon Karnes (voiced by Ron Perlman), a missing legendary space fighter pilot who became disillusioned with the war and turned to piracy.

S1 • E3

The Most Delicate Instrument

Cadets Maverick, Maniac, Payback and Blizzard become consumed with paranoia and put both themselves and their ship, the Tiger's Claw, in grave danger. Archer is forced to take Blizzard, who's secretly in love with her, down for good.

S1 • E4

Word of Honor

During a skirmish, Maverick and his bloodthirsty wingman, Hector 'Grunt' Paz, end up on a hostile planet along with the Kilrathi they were trying to shoot down. The two species are forced to work together to survive, but can they?

S1 • E5

Lords of the Sky

Maverick and Maniac crash-land on a planet of savage primitive humanoids who worship the Kilrathi as the lords of the sky.

S1 • E6

Chain of Command

Commodore Tolwyn and his old friend Admiral Bergstrom disagree over whose strategy has the best chance of outsmarting the Kilrathi, who outnumber their forces. Bergstrom pulls rank and puts many lives on the line if she's wrong.

S1 • E7

Expendable

When Maverick and Payback's exploratory mission goes wrong, they must keep it together to escape the Kilrathi space and make it back to Tiger's Claw alive.

S1 • E8

Recreation

Maverick must save a pacifist planet sustained by an alien orb, when The Warrior King, a dimension-hopping guardian of the orb, wants it back to save his own world. The Kilrathi also want it. Part 4 of 4 of the Warrior King crossover.

S1 • E9

Walking Wounded

Saddened, Archer remembers Blizzard. Maverick, Maniac, Grunt and Hyena are sent to rescue a hospital ship from the Kilrathi. Maniac becomes trapped there. Commodore Tolwyn personally joins the dogfight.

S1 • E10

On Both Your Houses

Maverick, Archer and Maniac are sent to check up on the Confederation's bio-research station on an alien planet. However, a downed Kilrathi pilot hides there, and the seductive Dr. Sing who runs the station makes Archer suspicious.

S1 • E11

Invisible Enemy

After the Terrans suffers unusually high losses in dogfights, Maverick and Maniac begin suspecting that the Kilrathi may have a new stealth fighter (called Strakha) whose deadly pilot is overly eager to prove himself to his superiors.

S1 • E12

Price of Victory

Maverick is shot down over an ice planet and Princess Zukara, the vain sister of the leader of the Kilrathi forces, Prince Thrakhath, wants his head. Her honorable subordinate Bokh offers Maverick a deal he can't refuse, which backfires.

S1 • E13

Glory of Sivar

Commodore Tolwyn sends Maverick and Grunt to an alien planet enslaved and prepared for elimination by the Kilrathi to start an uprising. However, what he doesn't tell them is that the real mission is a suicide run on Thrakhath's ship.