Star Command (1996)

Country of Origin: USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 11 March 1996
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 97 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: High Command Productions
Executive Producer: Melinda M. Snodgrass
Producer: Artie Mandelberg
Line Producer: Hans-Erich Busch
Unit Manager: Antje Rabenalt
Production Coordinator: Gabriele Abshagen

SCRIPT
Script: Melinda M. Snodgrass

DIRECTION
Director: Jim Johnston
1st Assistant Director: David Tringham
2nd Assistant Director: Edda Fermann

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Achim Poulheim
Camera Operator: Peter Uhlig
Focus Puller: Hannes Hubach
Chief Lighting Technician: Heinz-Walter Rose
Key Grip: Trevor Watkins

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Edgar Burcksen
Assistant Editor: Marc Heijdeman

MUSIC
Music: Lee Holdridge
Music Editor: Mark Heyes

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Michael Bard
Sound Mixer: Axel Arft
Re-Recording Mixer: Manfred Arbter

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Hasso von Hugo
Hair: Susanne Bergner, Andrea Buchholz, Friderike Roessler
Costume Designer: Robert M. Moore
Costume Designer (Germany): Cordula Stummeyer
Wardrobe Master: Sibylle Adolph

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Encore Visual Effects
Special Effects Supervisor: Uli Nefzer
Robot Designers: Andreas Mattijat, Ralf Tillmann
Robot Construction: Andreas Mattijat, Ralf Tillmann, Udo Reitter
Technical Effects: Christian Wolters

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Rick Kerrigan
3D Animation Supervisor: Mark Kochinski
Lead Animator: Elliot Worman
3D Animators: Raymond Pettit, Tony Rizo, Brandon Smith, Martin Zboril
Lead Digital Compositor: Class Henke

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Heinz Röske
Art Director: Udo Scharnowski
Set Decorator: Bernhard Henrich
Property Master: Axel Kahnt
Stand-By Props: Axel Kahne

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Caroline Veyssičre
Assistant Accountant: Sonja Schwoll
Production Controller: Bill Wells
Transportation Coordinator: Jurgen Zeidler

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Armin Sauer

CASTING
Casting (Germany): Karin Beewen
Casting Associates: Peggy Ludford, Penny Ludford

CAST
Jay Underwood (Kenneth Oort)
Jennifer Bransford (Ali McGinty)
Chris Conrad (Tully Vallis)
Tembi Locke (Meg Dundee)
Kelly Hu (Yukiko Fujisaki)
Ivan Sergei (Phillip Jackson)
Eva Habermann (Johanna Pressler)
Morgan Fairchild (Commander Sigrid Ivarsdattar)
Chad Everett (Captain Shane Ridnaur)
Hans Martin Stier (Captain Elliot)
John Hadden (Gage Balfour)
Nigel Bennett (Cyno commander)
Michael Coatman (Cyno intelligence officer)
Jonathan Kinsler (Wa Thondu)
Nancy Buell (Admiral Cecilia Oort)
David Orth (mailman)
Joachim Schoenfeld (Cyno First Officer)
Rik Maverik (Governor of Meraz)
Matthew Burton (Captain Jacob Aaron)
Joseph Sumner (marine 1)
Michael Ozone (marine 2)
Emilio De Marchi (Cyno officer)
Francesca Tu (Mrs Fujisaki)
Nancy Cyer (woman commander)
Barbara Geiger (Cyno officer 1)
Kevin Davenport (Cyno officer 2)
Dennenesch Ninnig (Flag Captain)
Errol Shaker (Academy Commandant)
Erik Hansen (Edward Vallis)
Simon Newsby-Koschwitz (Trafalgar officer 1)

A group of inexperienced space cadets set out on their first actual space flight only to be attacked by enemy forces. With their base wiped out, the cadets are left alone to fight the enemy and hold them back until reinforcements arrive. But the enemy is more experienced, better equipped and more numerous than they are...

1996
March
11: USA - television broadcast (on UPN)

1998
April
5: UK - television broadcast (on The Sci-Fi Channel)

Comando estelar - Spanish title

MAGAZINES

Film-Echo / Filmwoche no.51/2/3 (23 December 1994) p.59 (Germany)
production details

Film-Echo / Filmwoche no.12 (24 March 1995) p.18 (Germany)
illustrated production notes

Screen International no.988 (16 December 1994) p.6 (UK)
production notes

Starburst no.214 (June 1996) p.48 p.48 (UK)
credits, review

space wars; spaceships; space travel; military; robots; space stations; suicide; torture; virtual reality