Chrysta - Golden spaceship with
retractable wings and a beak like nose seen on the children's science
fictions series SPACE CASES/NIK/1996-97. On the premiere episode "We
Got To Get Out Of This Place" curious space cadets wandered onto a
alien starship adrift in space. The craft's design was organically based
with warm walls and honeycombed jump tubes that program the crew's
destination throughout the ship.
While tinkering with the ship's controls,
the Chrysta took off through a black hole and deposited our Space Cases on
the other side of the universe. Even though the ship had ion drive with
solar cells and hyper-drive processors for faster that light travel, it
would still take the ship 7 years 4 months and 22 days to return to Earth
sans a black hole.
Ship members included Jewel Straite as Cadet Catalina
"Cat" from Saturn who had an invisible friend named Suzie
(played by Becky Herbst); Paige Christina as Cadet Rosie Ianni from the
Mercury Colony; Rahi Azizi as Cadet Bova from Uranus with a chicken bone
shaped tuning fork on his forehead: Kristian Ayre as Radu from Andromeda
and Water Jones as Cadet Harland Band.
The cadets also discovered an
awkward android named THELMA [Techno Human Emulating Machine] (played by Anik Matern) with a cracked gem in her helmet.
The only two adult members
of the crew were Space Academy instructors Commander Seth Goddard (Paul Boretski) and T.J. Davenport (Cary Lawrence) who also got trapped onboard
the Chrysta. Unfortunately, for them, the ship's controls only responded
to the younger cadet's orders.
