There is approximately zero content of this movie for me to reblog so I guess I’m doing it myself. I just watched and very much enjoyed this 1996 movie called Star Command (subtitled ‘In the Fold’) and I’m just gonna talk about it for a second here.
While obviously a Star Trek knockoff, I hesitate to use that term considering the negative connotation, because it’s genuinely very good and I think it justifies its existence. It uses the borrowed future-space-navy concept in an interesting way and I think there’s a very solid cast of characters. It follows academy cadets who are newly posted to a small vessel for training and suddenly find themselves in an emergency having to navigate doing everything on their own without the help of their superiors. The conflicts they get wrapped up in make for interesting character beats for everybody, and they all feel real and defined from one another. The standout for me (and not just because I already like him) is Jay Underwood, whose character grows from a soft-spoken ensign who was barely passing with C grades to the natural leader who is best suited among the group to make the hard choices and take care of the others.
There are a lot of nice team moments, mixed with some interesting darker moments as well. It’s just a really neat story of young adults proving themselves through hardship while wrapped in a sci-fi setting, and the main actors all do a great job (and I have to mention the robot with a fun personality). I am once again recommending that people go watch a random B movie I discovered.
Cast: Jay Underwood, Jennifer Bransford, Chris Conrad, Tembi Locke, Kelly Hu, Ivan Sergei, Eva Habermann, Morgan Fairchild, and Chad Everett
