Regular 'Star-Ship' Guys
01/09/2000 . Source: Stephen Hunt 

With all the TV and offline media properties making the jump to the Web, it is reassuring to see that this can sometimes be a two way street now that the Icebox site's star web-served cartoon series Starship Regulars is making the leap to the googlebox (that's TV to you).

With all the TV and offline media properties making the jump to the Web, it is reassuring to see that this can sometimes be a two way street now that the Icebox site's star web-served cartoon series Starship Regulars is making the leap to the googlebox (that's TV to you).

Not only as a cartoon, mind, but as real actor-driven series.

This web-based cartoon was created by one Rob LaZebnik, and features the soap-like lives of the ordinary grunts who don't make it onto the command deck - the sewage engineers, chefs, and deck cleaners.

Less you think this is some web-only hack work, it should be pointed out that Rob LaZebnik is listed as a producer on the Simpsons Toon.

It is a little ironic given that the Simpsons got is break as two minute teasers on the Tracy Ullman Show, and South Park's start as a digital Xmas cards. Basically, the series is a piss-take (read : satire, for our more sophisticated viewers) in the same mould as GalaxyQuest.

In the 24th century, one starship's Captain and his officers struggle to prevent inter-galactic war.

This is not their story. This is the adventure of the ship's grunt soldiers and overworked crew - the Starship Regulars.

The current episode is called War (running time 3 minutes).

Any Starship crew can handle shots from neutron torpedoes. Shots of Quartec, an alien whiskey, are another matter entirely.

You'll need the Flash 4.0 plug-in installed to watch this baby. You can see Starship Regulars over here.