1. Disordered
2. Lucy In The Sky
3. Kill Jill
4. Reboot
5. Plug And Play
6. Lock, Choc And Flying Hogs

Humanity has all but taken over the galaxy by suppressing its emotions. One race still fights and during a battle, the Reptids go back in time to threaten Earth's past. The dreadnought Nemesis also makes the time trip, but a bomb leaves the entire crew at the mercy of magnified emotions they are ill-equipped to deal with.

Oh dear. Science fiction and comedy, bedfellows that are almost never happy ones and STARHYKE is no exception, if this first episode is anything to go by. It's a set up episode, so there is a lot of plot to get in, much of which is rendered almost incomprehensible by the speed at which it is delivered. What would have been nice would have been if there had been a few jokes shoehorned in there as well.

Alien farting is the depths to which this opening episode descends and there isn't much better as the cast are all required to overact like idiots by the sudden imposition of emotions. This might have made for a funny idea, but not here.

Danny John Jules gets away with a cameo appearance and then it is left to Claudia Christian (yes, she from BABYLON 5) to carry the rest of the episode and she tries valiantly, but was probably wondering if this really was how far she had fallen.

With everything else being so awful, it comes as a nice respite that the special effects are pretty good. The alien make up is nothing special but the shots of space and spaceships are all uniformly excellent and the sets are pretty impressive. If only the same attention had been paid to the script.