In our second of two episodes on Space Rangers, David and Eugene study The Replacements.
Episode Synopsis
The Rangers are attempting to rescue a hijacked transport, but they're hampered by budget cuts. Their stabilizers don't work, their boosters aren't there, and their shrowder, which is their version of cloaking device, stops working right when they need it. So they get to the transport and they're ambushed.
Doc is severely wounded, his arm blown off - just to remind you, his arm is mechanical - and they capture the guys, but one of them escapes by turning into globules of goo and like going through a wall or something.
Back at the base, everyone's pissed off about the budget cuts and they want to get information from the guy who they captured, but he doesn't want to give information ‘cause he says he'll be killed if he gives information. And then he is killed.
Boone gets in sort of a fight with Weiss, who is the guy that was in the credits that we mentioned earlier, that wasn't in the show last time, he's sort of a Colonel in intelligence and he's at the base and he's the Frank Burns character, except he's an authority.
He gives Boone, as a way of a peace offering, a synthetic artificial intelligence droid, which they dub Ringer, which they don't want. But as Doc is since serious wounded and has his spare arm being attached. And so they reluctantly accept him as the gift that he is. They try to capture the alien that murdered the guy in his cell but made it look like a suicide, but they fail cause their ship breaks down, even though Ringer has been ingratiating himself to the crew by fixing things and being just generally helpful - recalibrating guns, fixing stabilizes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
They know that this is some sort of drug smuggling thing, but they can't prove it. And they know who is the bad guy. It's somebody named, it's a guy named Isogol but they can't touch him, but they go up and talk to him and they end up doing like a dual fight with him, with swordy things. And then they go out to the ship again, cause they're crafty.
They find out that Ringer is actually the first of a wave to replace all of the Rangers and they get very, very collective bargainingly angry about this whole thing. I think they're going to form a union and, and go on strike if this is going to happen because of automation.
But then they go out on this final thing to the thing they discover where the drugs are being smuggled. But then the alien tries to attack them again. It looks like things are bad, but it's Ringer to the rescue. And then, oops, it's not Ringer to the rescue because of some little minor glitches. And then they save the day, but they can't capture Isogol because they didn't have any right to do it.
And the story ends happily with Ringer being put in a box and sent back to central.
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