Travis Montana is lost back in time and hyperspace (yay!)  Lucretia is missing without a mention (meh.) Percy has emerged from hyperspace 15 years later, still alive (boo!) and Travis Montana has been been genetically resequenced and is now a “successful” bounty hunter.  Yes, it’s time for a rebirth to the Starhunter saga.  Kenneth and Eugene discuss the series two Starhunter Redux  premiere, Rebirth.

Episode Synopsis

Year is 2300 and bounty hunter Travis Montana is hanging out with his cohort, Marcus when gets a headache and he has a vision of the Trans-Utopian coming out of a wormhole.

Meanwhile, Percy and the Trans-Utopian are coming out of a hyperspace wormhole.  Carravagio gets a brief facelift, but finally settles on some clothes instead.  Looking at the clock, Percy realizes that it is the future and heads for a space dock.

Flashback time as we meet Zavras, the mustache-twirling villain of the piece, he’s a raider, and when fellow Raider, Travis Montana betrayed their clan, he thought he’d killed him, but since he didn’t, it’s his life’s mission to do so – because he’s got nothing better to do.  And if he can’t track him down, he’ll make Travis come to him.

Travis has had another headache and, although done offscreen, he explains to his cohort that he time travels, it’s a thing he never bothered to mention.  No biggie, though, back to the job at hand: Arresting a perp because they’re bounty hunters.  It’s what they do.  They also snatch the bounty right out from under Callie, another bounty hunter.  She’s not happy with that.

Rudolfo shows up tray to claim the Trans-Utopian, he’s fallen upon hard times and wants to get back into the highly-lucrative bounty hunter game.  His efforts to convince Percy that the Trans-Utopian are his fail.  Rudolfo was paid off by the insurance company and Percy claims it by right of legitimate salvage.  He offers her a deal to lease the ship from her.  She agrees.

Zavras destroys a research lab because Travis had a friend on it, then sits back to wait.

Callie, a bounty hunter, applies for and gets employment with Rudolfo.

Travis learns of the Trans-Utopian and visits Percy, claiming the ship as his by right of being Dante’s son.  Percy, who met Travis Montana very recently in her timeline, doesn’t seem to remember that, but since Travis cannot provide documentation, she doesn’t accept his claim at face value.  He also wants to lease the ship, so she arranges for him and Rudolfo to be in a surprise bidding war at the Trans-Utopian’s airlock.

When an immediately bidding war doesn’t materialize, Percy locks them out and decides to leave.  They break in before she can take off.

Travis proposes a deal: they all work together on a provisional basis tracking down the perpetrators of the research lab destruction because… that’s what bounty hunters do?  Investigate crimes, identify suspects and bring them to justice?  Apparently bounty hunting has changed in the 24th century.

There are unresolved problems with the Trans-Utopian and they must work together as a more-or-less cohesive team to survive.  Travis, it seems, is a natural-born leader, and he begins to act as the leader of the group.

Percy chafes at this, and when Travis take the shuttle to investigate, she balks, re-taking command of the ship and making to abandon him and Callie.  But Zavras arrives, and the Trans-Utopian and the shuttle work together to fight him off.

Later, Zavras’ second in command sets up an obvious trap from Travis, which he walks into and, with the help of his new friends, they walk out of again.

But, they don’t get any bounty, so they’re stuck with their trial partnership for the next exciting episode of Starhunter Redux.