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Star Cops on Big Finish
Star Cops on Big Finish
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Doctor Omega
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Their are two things that I do like about BIG FINISH... Firstly, filling in gaps - like the WHO stage shows and lost season 23 stories etc - and secondly giving second chances to concepts, such as STAR COPS that never had a fair shake the first time around.
I think that the BF run of STAR COPS could have a long run ahead of it.
I think that the BF run of STAR COPS could have a long run ahead of it.
Both CD box sets available.
EPISODE 1- ONE OF OUR COPS IS MISSING
Good first episode of Star Cops series 2.
Nathan, Devis and Kenzy all return. No reappearance of Krevenko, Theroux or Anna Shoun, in the case of the first two, the actors no longer with us, and I'm guessing Chris Boucher vetoed bringing back Anna, a character he didn't like.
The Collyer gang is a sort of 21st century Krays outfit ,who are smuggling stuff to the moon. Nathan is contacted by Brian Lincoln, last seen as Nathan's deputy in episode 1 of the tv series, who wants his help. Lincoln's man, officer Paul Bailey has gone undercover in the Collyer gang but has gone missing, last seen on the moon. Nathan investigates to see if the Collyer gang are using the moon for drug smuggling.
Meanwhile Devis is teaming up with Star Cop, Priya Basu a medic and Star Cop on the Indian space station investigating a space suit failure, and an air lock malfunction. Both Basu and Devis are in the running to be the new second in command replacing Theroux. Also we have a new Moonbase co ordinator, a woman called Shayla Moss, who reveals that a crank organisation called Mother Earth, opposed to humanity colonizing space is prepared to commit acts of violence to get their demands met.
The malfunctions are revealed to be Mother Earth acts, and Colin is caught in the airlock malfunction but is saved by Basu, earning her praise, and promotion to Chief Inspector, much to Colin's chagrin.
An enjoyable first episode, plenty of references to the tv series, and ending with Paul Bailey( Philip Olivier-.Hex from Big Finish Dr Who seventh Doctor range) joining the Star Cops as hot-headed young cop, pissed-off that his undercover work against the Collyers was accidentally blown by Nathan, and now can't work on Earth so accepts a Star Cop assignment.
Big surprise in this episode is that Kenzy is now a ground -sider living in Canberra and about to get married. Something tells me this will soon change.
Promising start for Star Cops unofficial series 2.
Good first episode of Star Cops series 2.
Nathan, Devis and Kenzy all return. No reappearance of Krevenko, Theroux or Anna Shoun, in the case of the first two, the actors no longer with us, and I'm guessing Chris Boucher vetoed bringing back Anna, a character he didn't like.
The Collyer gang is a sort of 21st century Krays outfit ,who are smuggling stuff to the moon. Nathan is contacted by Brian Lincoln, last seen as Nathan's deputy in episode 1 of the tv series, who wants his help. Lincoln's man, officer Paul Bailey has gone undercover in the Collyer gang but has gone missing, last seen on the moon. Nathan investigates to see if the Collyer gang are using the moon for drug smuggling.
Meanwhile Devis is teaming up with Star Cop, Priya Basu a medic and Star Cop on the Indian space station investigating a space suit failure, and an air lock malfunction. Both Basu and Devis are in the running to be the new second in command replacing Theroux. Also we have a new Moonbase co ordinator, a woman called Shayla Moss, who reveals that a crank organisation called Mother Earth, opposed to humanity colonizing space is prepared to commit acts of violence to get their demands met.
The malfunctions are revealed to be Mother Earth acts, and Colin is caught in the airlock malfunction but is saved by Basu, earning her praise, and promotion to Chief Inspector, much to Colin's chagrin.
An enjoyable first episode, plenty of references to the tv series, and ending with Paul Bailey( Philip Olivier-.Hex from Big Finish Dr Who seventh Doctor range) joining the Star Cops as hot-headed young cop, pissed-off that his undercover work against the Collyers was accidentally blown by Nathan, and now can't work on Earth so accepts a Star Cop assignment.
Big surprise in this episode is that Kenzy is now a ground -sider living in Canberra and about to get married. Something tells me this will soon change.
Promising start for Star Cops unofficial series 2.
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Doctor Omega
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I was going to say "Good to see (most of) the team back!"
But good to hear them back at least.
But good to hear them back at least.
EPISODE 2 - TRANQUILITY AND OTHER ILLUSIONS.
Another fine episode in which the Star Cops investigate a killing on the lunar surface at the Tranquillity crater site.
A rich investor planning to build a hotel on the site is murdered by having a rivet driven through his helmet.
Devis is caught up in a case of vendetta by the sister of a villain he put away. A female hitwoman has vanished and tensions between Nathan and new controller Shayla Moss, who thinks Nathan's job should be dealing with the press and he should leave police work to his team.
Nathan rallies against this and steps into Priya Basu's investigation on the tranquillity death ,causing tensions there too.
Also terror group Mother Earth threaten to blow up a construction site at outpost 19 where Star Cops are investigating. Colin's troubles and the death of Hughes the hotelier investor could be linked.
I'm really enjoying this Big Finish production, a worthy follow up to the TV show.
Nimmy March is Shayla Moss, Krevenko's successor.
Another fine episode in which the Star Cops investigate a killing on the lunar surface at the Tranquillity crater site.
A rich investor planning to build a hotel on the site is murdered by having a rivet driven through his helmet.
Devis is caught up in a case of vendetta by the sister of a villain he put away. A female hitwoman has vanished and tensions between Nathan and new controller Shayla Moss, who thinks Nathan's job should be dealing with the press and he should leave police work to his team.
Nathan rallies against this and steps into Priya Basu's investigation on the tranquillity death ,causing tensions there too.
Also terror group Mother Earth threaten to blow up a construction site at outpost 19 where Star Cops are investigating. Colin's troubles and the death of Hughes the hotelier investor could be linked.
I'm really enjoying this Big Finish production, a worthy follow up to the TV show.
Nimmy March is Shayla Moss, Krevenko's successor.
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EPISODE 3 - LOCKDOWN
People who didn't like the tv series because the Sci fi element was in the background wouldn't like this.
Set in Paris for the most part, Nathan, deputy Basu and Moonbase co ordinator Moss are attending a conference discussing the mounting problem of the Mother Earth group. In charge is Albie Royel a disagreeable gent, the designer of the security systems at the centre, who thinks Star Cops is redundant organization. He has developed a wonderful new hi tech security device to hopefully use on Moonbase.
Embarrassingly for him, Mother Earth has hacked into the conference building security systems and locked everyone in. Plus unconnected to this, a greedy businesswoman at the conference is after Royel's new device , whatever that is, and her cohorts have bombs planted.
Devis and Bailey left on Moonbase have to find out how someone listed as dead, due to an accident on the Indian space station the Sharma, is alive and well and in Paris planting the bombs.
No sign of Kenzy since episode 1, I await to see when she will return.
People who didn't like the tv series because the Sci fi element was in the background wouldn't like this.
Set in Paris for the most part, Nathan, deputy Basu and Moonbase co ordinator Moss are attending a conference discussing the mounting problem of the Mother Earth group. In charge is Albie Royel a disagreeable gent, the designer of the security systems at the centre, who thinks Star Cops is redundant organization. He has developed a wonderful new hi tech security device to hopefully use on Moonbase.
Embarrassingly for him, Mother Earth has hacked into the conference building security systems and locked everyone in. Plus unconnected to this, a greedy businesswoman at the conference is after Royel's new device , whatever that is, and her cohorts have bombs planted.
Devis and Bailey left on Moonbase have to find out how someone listed as dead, due to an accident on the Indian space station the Sharma, is alive and well and in Paris planting the bombs.
No sign of Kenzy since episode 1, I await to see when she will return.
EPISODE 4-THE THOUSAND TON BOMB.
Hooray, Kenzy is back, working as a security chief for one of the many politicians on board the biggest space station ever built, The Vasco De Gama, all celebrating the grand opening.
Mother Earth terror group plan to take over a nearby abandoned station and ram it into the Vasco.
Plenty of action as Devis and Basu try to rescue Paul Bailey who went undercover in the Mother Earth organization, and now finds himself on board the abandoned station as it is about to strike its target.
No surprise, thankfully as Kenzy ends up asking Nathan for her job back.
Hooray, Kenzy is back, working as a security chief for one of the many politicians on board the biggest space station ever built, The Vasco De Gama, all celebrating the grand opening.
Mother Earth terror group plan to take over a nearby abandoned station and ram it into the Vasco.
Plenty of action as Devis and Basu try to rescue Paul Bailey who went undercover in the Mother Earth organization, and now finds himself on board the abandoned station as it is about to strike its target.
No surprise, thankfully as Kenzy ends up asking Nathan for her job back.
EPISODE 5 -DEAD AND BURIED
Best episode so far, great having Kenzy back in the team.
Two cases that in the end converge.
Ben Alexander a multi millionaire is the first person to have a private residence built on the moon. A burglar breaks in and Alexander kills him in self defence, but when it transpires the burglar was a journalist who specializes in exposing corruption, Alexander is put under the microscope.
Meanwhile a facility on the moon that offers rich clientele the chance to be buried on the lunar surface is investigated when some of the people supposedly buried there are non existent identities, fake personae. So what's in the coffins?
Best episode so far, great having Kenzy back in the team.
Two cases that in the end converge.
Ben Alexander a multi millionaire is the first person to have a private residence built on the moon. A burglar breaks in and Alexander kills him in self defence, but when it transpires the burglar was a journalist who specializes in exposing corruption, Alexander is put under the microscope.
Meanwhile a facility on the moon that offers rich clientele the chance to be buried on the lunar surface is investigated when some of the people supposedly buried there are non existent identities, fake personae. So what's in the coffins?
1.6 The Killing Jar by John Dorney
The Charlie Chaplin is a second-hand space station operated as a space-tourism hub by entrepreneur Martin Thane. When Nathan receives reports that serious accidents and even a death have been caused by Thane flouting safety laws, he decides to investigate.
An accident investigation soon becomes a murder enquiry. And as the Star Cops hunt for the killer, the station becomes a death trap threatening everyone on board.
1.7 Moonshine by Roland Moore
A friend of Kenzy’s on the space station Coral Sea has been dismissed for possession of alcohol and sent back to Earth. She believes his claim that he was framed, and when she learns of his subsequent suicide she and Devis travel to Australia to investigate. A difficult enquiry is not helped when Kenzy’s former fiancé, a Police Superintendent, appears on the scene.
On Moonbase, Nathan is expecting an official visit from a powerful dignitary. So it’s not a good time for there to be a fatal incident that may be the work of Mother Earth...
1.8 Hostage by Andrew Smith
The Star Cops are under intense pressure in the face of continuing Mother Earth attacks. The very existence of the International Space Police Force is in jeopardy.
Kenzy and Priya are responding to a murderous Mother Earth explosion at a moon outpost when one of the workers, Mary Ward, takes a hostage and makes demands, accusing others of trying to kill her. She appears to have snapped under pressure.
As the crisis develops, dangerous secrets are revealed. Secrets that some will be prepared to kill for. And die for.
The Charlie Chaplin is a second-hand space station operated as a space-tourism hub by entrepreneur Martin Thane. When Nathan receives reports that serious accidents and even a death have been caused by Thane flouting safety laws, he decides to investigate.
An accident investigation soon becomes a murder enquiry. And as the Star Cops hunt for the killer, the station becomes a death trap threatening everyone on board.
1.7 Moonshine by Roland Moore
A friend of Kenzy’s on the space station Coral Sea has been dismissed for possession of alcohol and sent back to Earth. She believes his claim that he was framed, and when she learns of his subsequent suicide she and Devis travel to Australia to investigate. A difficult enquiry is not helped when Kenzy’s former fiancé, a Police Superintendent, appears on the scene.
On Moonbase, Nathan is expecting an official visit from a powerful dignitary. So it’s not a good time for there to be a fatal incident that may be the work of Mother Earth...
1.8 Hostage by Andrew Smith
The Star Cops are under intense pressure in the face of continuing Mother Earth attacks. The very existence of the International Space Police Force is in jeopardy.
Kenzy and Priya are responding to a murderous Mother Earth explosion at a moon outpost when one of the workers, Mary Ward, takes a hostage and makes demands, accusing others of trying to kill her. She appears to have snapped under pressure.
As the crisis develops, dangerous secrets are revealed. Secrets that some will be prepared to kill for. And die for.
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Doctor Omega
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A third series of Star Cops , second on Big Finish, titled Mars and comprising of six stories. The final episode of the tv series had Nathan wanting to expand the Star Cops influence to the Martian colonies, so nice to see Big Finish following that idea up.
I can understand people's wariness about Big Finish re inventing or re interpreting classic Sci fi like Dr Who or Blake's 7, but their Star Cops series are excellent and seamlessly carry on where the TV show left off. Six episodes comprises the second BF series mostly set on Mars.
2.1 The New World by Andrew Smith
Nathan, Devis and Kenzy arrive on Mars after a six-month journey from Earth. They’ve come to set up a Star Cop base, but Mars is a very different environment from the one they’re used to on the Moon. They have their work cut out to convince some colonists of the need for law enforcement. They have no powers, no guns, and few friends.
Nathan sees an opportunity to prove their worth when there are reports of water thefts and disorder at a colony near Olympus Mons. He and Kenzy are invited to investigate, unofficially. Then a body is discovered, and the Star Cops have to work fast to prevent tensions escalating into further violence.
2.2 The Shadow of This Red Rock by Una McCormack
Nathan and Kenzy find themselves marooned in the Martian desert with a prisoner whose friends will soon arrive to attempt a violent rescue. Help arrives in the form of a reclusive colonist. Soon they’re all being chased across the desert by the prisoner’s friends, who seem able to anticipate every effort to shake them off.
Meanwhile, Devis has his own troubles. An attempt to come to his friends’ rescue goes wrong, and he finds himself at the mercy of colonists who hold his life in their hands.
Matters will come to a head in a perilous stand-off on the four-mile-high cliffs of the Mariner Valley canyon.
2.3 Whatever Happened to Gary Rice? by Guy Adams
After the Star Cops receive a cryptic message about a man who may once have worked at a colony in the Argyre Basin, they make their way there to investigate. They find a co-operative community that thrives by growing an organic food source, which it sells to other colonies. But no-one seems to remember the man the Star Cops are looking for.
Nathan visits a neighbouring scientific research base, where nutritionist Dr Julienne Grainger has information that may resolve the mystery of the missing colonist.
As the Star Cops get closer to discovering the truth, there are those who are prepared to kill to keep it secret.
2.4 Bodies of Evidence by Andrew Smith
On the moon, shortly before Nathan, Kenzy and Devis leave for Mars, disaster strikes when the shuttle Ganymede crash lands on the lunar surface.
The tragedy becomes something more sinister when Priya finds dismembered bodies hidden in the shuttle. But attempts to investigate are obstructed by higher authorities on Earth.
Before Nathan departs for Mars, he instructs Priya and Paul to investigate the crash, in defiance of his superiors’ orders. If they don’t find the evidence they need, it could be the end of all their careers.
2.5 Human Kind by Helen Goldwyn
A scared medic, on the run from her colony, seeks the help of the Star Cops. She offers information about a crime, but she demands legal immunity, and guarantees for her safety before she’ll talk.
A visitor from Earth seems particularly determined to stop the Star Cops gaining a foothold on Mars and calls a meeting of colony leaders in an attempt to end their efforts once and for all.
When one of his officers is kidnapped, Nathan begins to wonder who he can trust on this planet.
2.6 The Highest Ground by Andrew Smith
The conspiracy is revealed, and its leader is desperate to silence the Star Cops.
An armed squad closes in on Nathan, his officers and their Martian allies, leading to a siege in the shadow of Olympus Mons, the highest mountain in the solar system. And a violent confrontation on its slopes.
It’s time for some to decide where their loyalties truly lie before it’s too late...
2.1 The New World by Andrew Smith
Nathan, Devis and Kenzy arrive on Mars after a six-month journey from Earth. They’ve come to set up a Star Cop base, but Mars is a very different environment from the one they’re used to on the Moon. They have their work cut out to convince some colonists of the need for law enforcement. They have no powers, no guns, and few friends.
Nathan sees an opportunity to prove their worth when there are reports of water thefts and disorder at a colony near Olympus Mons. He and Kenzy are invited to investigate, unofficially. Then a body is discovered, and the Star Cops have to work fast to prevent tensions escalating into further violence.
2.2 The Shadow of This Red Rock by Una McCormack
Nathan and Kenzy find themselves marooned in the Martian desert with a prisoner whose friends will soon arrive to attempt a violent rescue. Help arrives in the form of a reclusive colonist. Soon they’re all being chased across the desert by the prisoner’s friends, who seem able to anticipate every effort to shake them off.
Meanwhile, Devis has his own troubles. An attempt to come to his friends’ rescue goes wrong, and he finds himself at the mercy of colonists who hold his life in their hands.
Matters will come to a head in a perilous stand-off on the four-mile-high cliffs of the Mariner Valley canyon.
2.3 Whatever Happened to Gary Rice? by Guy Adams
After the Star Cops receive a cryptic message about a man who may once have worked at a colony in the Argyre Basin, they make their way there to investigate. They find a co-operative community that thrives by growing an organic food source, which it sells to other colonies. But no-one seems to remember the man the Star Cops are looking for.
Nathan visits a neighbouring scientific research base, where nutritionist Dr Julienne Grainger has information that may resolve the mystery of the missing colonist.
As the Star Cops get closer to discovering the truth, there are those who are prepared to kill to keep it secret.
2.4 Bodies of Evidence by Andrew Smith
On the moon, shortly before Nathan, Kenzy and Devis leave for Mars, disaster strikes when the shuttle Ganymede crash lands on the lunar surface.
The tragedy becomes something more sinister when Priya finds dismembered bodies hidden in the shuttle. But attempts to investigate are obstructed by higher authorities on Earth.
Before Nathan departs for Mars, he instructs Priya and Paul to investigate the crash, in defiance of his superiors’ orders. If they don’t find the evidence they need, it could be the end of all their careers.
2.5 Human Kind by Helen Goldwyn
A scared medic, on the run from her colony, seeks the help of the Star Cops. She offers information about a crime, but she demands legal immunity, and guarantees for her safety before she’ll talk.
A visitor from Earth seems particularly determined to stop the Star Cops gaining a foothold on Mars and calls a meeting of colony leaders in an attempt to end their efforts once and for all.
When one of his officers is kidnapped, Nathan begins to wonder who he can trust on this planet.
2.6 The Highest Ground by Andrew Smith
The conspiracy is revealed, and its leader is desperate to silence the Star Cops.
An armed squad closes in on Nathan, his officers and their Martian allies, leading to a siege in the shadow of Olympus Mons, the highest mountain in the solar system. And a violent confrontation on its slopes.
It’s time for some to decide where their loyalties truly lie before it’s too late...