The BEST episodes of Starhunter
Every episode of Starhunter ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Starhunter!
Starhunter follows the exploits of the crew of the spaceship Trans Utopian (The Tulip) , a former luxury liner that has been refitted to serve a bounty-hunting crew. Leading the crew during the first season is Dante Montana (Michael Paré), who became a bounty hunter in order to search for his son, Travis, who was abducted ten years earlier by a group of Raiders. During the raid, Dante's wife, Penny, was killed. The Raiders are a group of genetically enhanced former-soldiers who were rendered sterile, and must abduct children to increase their numbers. Percy Montana (Tanya Allen) is Dante's niece, and the ship's engineer. Dante adopted her when her parents were killed during the raid where Dante lost his wife and son. Rounding out the crew is Lucrecia Scott (Claudette Roche). Luc, a former marine, was placed aboard the ship by Rudolpho DeLuna (Stephen Marcus), the ship's owner, to look out for his interests.
#1 - Past Lives
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/20/2000
Rudolpho instructs the crew to pick up a murder suspect who turns out to be Luc's ex-husband, Eric. Eric has escaped from an Orchard medical facility where he was injected with an experimental antibody that has killed all previous recipients in 48 hours.
#2 - Bad Seed (1)
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/2001
Dante is kidnapped by Tosca, an Orchard agent who plans to use Dante to find Travis, who she believes is the key to The Divinity Cluster. During the kidnapping, Caravaggio is infected with a virus that gives him a second, evil personality. The Tulip is boarded by Navarre, a rogue Orchard scientist who wants to help Luc rescue Dante. While Percy is trying to save the ship from self-destruction by Caravaggio, The Tulip is again boarded - this time by Salomea, a Raider who claims she is working for Travis.
#3 - Star Crossed
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/16/2003
Travis and Callie are hired by the Jupiter Federation to arrest Dakkota 79, a Raider leader on the verge of starting a war with the Verran Clan. Dakkota's girlfriend, Cira, may hold be a link to Travis' past. Rudolpho's inquiries into a possible bounty on Travis leads to complications, both with an old business associate, and with his new crewmates.
#4 - Family Values
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/15/2000
While hunting a pair of con artists on Mars, Dante and Luc encounter a Raider with a boy who may be Dante's kidnapped son. Percy becomes trapped in Dante's VR device, which simulates his dead wife, Penny.
#5 - The Divinity Cluster
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/2000
Dante is reunited with MacDuff, an old friend who is dying from cancer. Luc's father, Darius, asks her to capture a geneticist who may hold the key to an alien gene known as ""The Divinity Cluster"".
#6 - Chasing Janus
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/30/2003
Travis and Callie's plans to capture ""low-level smuggler"" Strasser turn bad when Strasser recognizes her. Callie is injured, and the crew attempts to keep her alive with a damaged cryonic chamber. The Tulip sets course for Mars in hopes that Callie's estranged father, Janus, has her ""blank"" - a clone kept in stasis, and used for organ replacement.
#7 - Hyperspace II
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/2004
The ship's crew is trapped in separate folds of space-time. Meanwhile, Travis learns more about the Divinity Cluster.
#8 - Spaceman
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/6/2003
While exploring an uncharted debris field, the Tulip discovers a sarcophagus floating in space. Mishkin, the sarcophagus' lone occupant, spreads a disease among the crew that makes Rudolpho and Marcus question their positions aboard the ship.
#9 - Becoming Shiva
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/13/2003
A Terran terrorist group protesting the ecological disastors that have plagued Earth are suddenly put on the map when thier methods of only targeting buildings and space structures accidently takes lives.
#10 - The Third Thing
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/20/2003
The crew of the holovision reality series, ""The Third Thing"", follow the crew of the Tulip. Marcus, wanting more hands-on experience, is given the job of capturing a petty criminal.
#11 - Torment
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/27/2003
Travis and his crew must rescue a man's parents who were kidnapped 50 years earlier, but are have only aged 8 months due to time dilation. Rudolpho is forced to bring his rebellious teenage daughter, Serena, aboard the ship.
#12 - Painless
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/4/2003
The son of Roan Gerick, a family friend of the Montana family, is killed by Anestha, a new street drug the turns pain into pleasure. Travis hunts for Bliss, the leader of the narcotics ring, against Rudolpho's better judgement.
#13 - Skin Deep
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/2003
Callie's reunion with Lena Bannen, an old friend, is interrupted when a rival bounty hunter attempts to arrest Lena for murder. Percy and Marcus try to find an antimatter stabilizer for the hyperdrive, and are forced to do some bonding when they become stranded in Syn City.
#14 - Supermax Redux
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/25/2003
While transporting Quigley, a prisioner who appears to be quite insane, the crew save the lives of an old nemesis, Max, and his associates. Max offers to share a stash of Onmium, a mineral rarer than diamonds and worth billions of credits.
#15 - Pandora's Box
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/1/2003
The Tulip experiences a power drain that leaves them at half power. Unaware that the problem is caused by an experiment conducted by Keres Station, a science research facility, Travis accepts an assignment from their head scientist, Dr. Schofield. He must capture Alrick Quennell, a Raider, and retreive a box containing the deadly Tethys Virus that Quennel stole from the station.
#16 - Stitch in Time
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/8/2003
While transporting Ritson, a deserter from the Jupiter Federation Elite Forces, The Tulip answers a distress call from Galentis, a mining platform on the asteroid Ida - a mining platform that should not be there. And for some reason, Percy isn't quite herself.
#17 - The Prisoner
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/15/2003
Travis and Callie pick up Jane Doe, a psychiatric patient with amnesia, who apparently remembers Travis and wants him dead. Marcus finds himself attracted to Dr. Alora Kir, Doe's psychiatrist. The new incarnation of the Orchard, and their leader, Tristan Catchpole, set their sights on Travis, who may have one of his Divinity Cluster genes already activated.
#18 - Kate
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/2004
The Tulip's collision with a mine leaves the ship floating in space, vulnerable to attack. Percy, unhappy with Caravaggio's recent performance, creates an female AI with more emotion and intuition, but Kate very quickly develops too much independance.
#19 - Rivals
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/2004
Callie's irritation with the Tulip's ongoing technical problems is aggravated when the stylish Seattle and its debonair captain rescue the crew from a problem it can't handle.
#20 - The Heir and the Spare
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/2004
A con man preying on older women has a mysterious link to Marcus' genes. Meanwhile, Percy is going through some mental difficulties.
#21 - Just Politics
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/2004
Rudolpho is suspicious of a trade minister the Tulip has been hired to transport to the Manheim Asteroid Belt to clinch a deal.
#22 - Negative Energy
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/2004
Marcus believes he can convert the ship's hyper drive to use negative energy instead of anti-matter, but will need Durenium to produce it. Marcus attempts to find an old contract who may be be able to put him in contact with a seller of this rare and illegal element. Executive Chief Inspector Tibbit boards The Tulip to make sure that engines are in proper working order before granting Caravaggio's application for a change in power source.
#23 - License to Fill
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/2004
A vengeful bureaucrat has the Tulip crew court-martialed for a license violation.
#24 - Hyperspace I
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/2004
Marcus finds an obscure scientist whose theories may hold the secret to getting the Tulip into hyperspace.
#25 - The Most Wanted Man
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/2001
Every bounty hunter and law enforcement officer in the solar system seems to be after Harman, a former associate of Darius who may be the ""Rosetta Stone"" for the Divinity Cluster. Harman has developed superhuman speed, and refuses to talk to anyone but Darius. Dante's and Percy's suspicions of Luc come to a head when she helps Harman escape from The Tulip.