Of the second series, one of the genuinely interesting characters and episodes. Buck may be back for a second season but this show is only recognizable in name from the first. There quite clearly must be some interesting behind the scenes stories as to what happened. The original Glen Larson production crew is gone and a new one has taken over. The show has a had major overhaul and is unrecognizable from the first. In addition to Glen Larson departure or abandonment, the music has changed and was as significantly the cast and story. Dr. Huer and Theopolis have both been dropped and Twiki is back with a new voice actor disturbingly without this being explained in the plot. He not only has a new voice, but a personality and seems to have confusion and his identity. He is also soon to be replaced by Hawk as Buck's sidekick. Instead of Huer, we now get fat and boring Admiral Asimov, as executive officer the tolerable Dr. Goodfellow as chief medical scientist. The most annoying addition is the decision to make a new intellectual robot called Crichton ( I assume an homage to Jurassic Park author) who has to be the worst robot created on film. The show no longer takes place on Earth but on a spaceship called the Searcher. Buck and Wilma return but their mission is now to find missing colonies of man in space (read Star Trek). The show is now mostly polyester and disco free but is also boring and unentertaining. The earth defense star-fighter is rarely featured and Buck flies around in Space shuttle. Wilma's role is reduced to eye candy and she walks around in a demeaning Shirley temple sailor costume. These creative decisions seem to be the final nail in the coffin of Buck and co.
The season pilot opens with Hawk the Birdman returning from space to find his village of Bird People destroyed by humans. Him and his wife Koori are all that are left.He vows to kill all humans possible in his lifetime. Hawk is a humanoid descended from Birds but no longer has wings. He appears different from Humans in that he has feathers come out of his head instead of hair. Buck has been sent by the federation from to take Hawk in. Buck finds Hawk and tries to catch him by holding his wife Koori hostage. Hawk follows him in his own spaceship, probably one of the coolest spaceships in sci-fi, shaped like a Hawk, complete with retractable claws which he uses to hijack Bucks ship in midair, and harms his own wife who is on board. The story is continues in the next episode.
The season pilot opens with Hawk the Birdman returning from space to find his village of Bird People destroyed by humans. Him and his wife Koori are all that are left.He vows to kill all humans possible in his lifetime. Hawk is a humanoid descended from Birds but no longer has wings. He appears different from Humans in that he has feathers come out of his head instead of hair. Buck has been sent by the federation from to take Hawk in. Buck finds Hawk and tries to catch him by holding his wife Koori hostage. Hawk follows him in his own spaceship, probably one of the coolest spaceships in sci-fi, shaped like a Hawk, complete with retractable claws which he uses to hijack Bucks ship in midair, and harms his own wife who is on board. The story is continues in the next episode.
