Philip Akin

General Torvek plants a "bug" on the mining ship Go Placid which causes machinery to malfunction causing little irritating mishaps and some big dangerous accidents. Torvek's plans to cause dissension amongst the men works and the ship looks ripe for picking since Dark needs the ore for fuel. Slim, Dash, and Crowbar with the guidance of Champ O'Ryan, a former worker on a mining ship who wants to forget his past, arrive to help. Champ rejects the...

Slim gets stuck in charge of a training mission and amongst the six cadets are a couple of pranksters. Hatch sets up a phony Shadowbat and sounds the alarm which infuriates Slim. He puts Hatch under arrest and this distracts his attention long enough for a real Shadowbat to get close. As they are on a training ship they have no real weapons to fight with and are virtually defenseless. Slim fakes a surrender and gives Hatch a chance to prove himself...

Emperor Daark stumbles across plans for controlling electromagnetic pulses and immediately puts it into use. Slim, testing the new Microfighter, barely escapes a crash when the EMP causes the ship to malfunction. Next, Daark uses the EMP on Mars dooming the domed cities to a dark, airless atmosphere.

The new defense satellite aides the StarCom vehicles in repulsing an attack by General Vondar, Unfortunately it malfunctions and fires on its own men. Crowbar goes against regulations and shuts down the system for repairs, leaving Saturn Ring Station vulnerable. Before Crowbar can complete the repairs, Vondar, Malvanna, and Torvek attack, crippling the station allowing them to steal the satellite, which continues to malfunction and firing at random....

Slim, Dash, and Crowbar experience a few diversions while trying to deliver a new security computer modem to researchers on Ganymede Colony. Malvanna plants a cyberbug in Crowbar which enables her to see and hear everything Crowbar does. StarCom joins a supply convoy hoping to mask the importance of their mission but things keep going wrong hindering their journey until, oddly enough, the security system shuts down right after Crowbar says how it...

Torvek is massing drones on Io, the volcanic moon, for an all-out surprise attack on StarCom. Suspecting this, StarCom is forced to set up a base on Europa, the frozen moon, where a young scientist has just discovered what he believes to be an intelligent life form. Dash, Crowbar, and Slim decide to hit Io in a surprise attack in order to protect the explorations on Europa, but Torvek's massive forces catch them unaware.

An archeological dig on Mars is interrupted by a sandstorm and upon returning to base, Slim's niece and nephew and Lt. Bob Anders are reported missing. Caught in the sandstorm, they end up in the ancient city the archeologists were looking for. Dash, Slim, Crowbar, and Consuela discover the city and are lowered into it by mysterious power.

Rob Lowe stars as prosecutor Jeff Ashton in this riveting, true-life drama based on the high-profile murder trial that captivated, shocked and enraged the American public. Seen from Ashton's perspective, Prosecuting Casey Anthony takes you behind the scenes of the complex--and ultimately flawed--investigation surrounding the tragic death of two-year old Caylee Anthony, followed by the controversial trial that resulted in her mother's acquittal.