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97.89.55.123
Since: Dec, 1969
rngwrldngnr
Since: Nov, 2010
EricaB
Since: Apr, 2011
rngwrldngnr
Since: Nov, 2010
Medinoc
(Before Recorded History)
2011-08-28 13:19:14
The second one has the kind of devices that could show up in Bugs, but I remember no such episode.
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122.60.240.83
Since: Dec, 1969
Sylvanestra
Since: Dec, 1969

I'm actually thinking of two different shows:
The first was in the early to mid 90s. It may have been a made for TV movie, but at the time I had been under the impression it was a pilot. It featured a group of space cadets who had just graduated from their military academy and are sent out on a training cruise. Somehow, they end up stumbling upon a secret attacking force from another government (also human or at least humanoid) that had been in a cold war like conflict with the protagonists government for some time. They are attacked by the enemy fleet and heavily damaged before they can escape. All the actual officers are killed in the process, and the cadets have to make do on their own. They end up using a bunch of tricks to slowly winnow down the aggressors. I vaguely remember projecting false images of ships in the clouds of a gas giant and destroying a ship by blowing up a few asteroids near it (it may have been material from the gas giants rings). At some point, one of the main characters ends up being court-marshaled by the rest and is found guilty. The decision is made by placing black or white balls into a tall container, which is dumped out on the table at the end. He ends up hanging himself. At least once in the show, a body is disposed of by being disintegrated, and then I believe flushed out into space. The show ends when somehow or another, the good fleet ends up driving off the attackers, I believe just as the protagonists are about to do a kamikaze attack. Also, I don't know if this would be helpful, but at least in Minneapolis, the show wasn't aired on time because the preceding sports event (basket ball I think), ran over time.
I remember much less about the second show. I think it was mid or late 90s and followed a pair of spies, I believe male and female. I know there were at least 2 episodes, but I believe the show was cancelled fairly quickly. There was a plot about a neutron bomb about the size of a suitcase; if I'm not mistaken, it actually looked like a briefcase, but could extend wings and fly around by remote. There was also two spider like devices. The first is used for hacking into computers, the second, made with information stolen by the first, is actually able to take information directly from the brain. I also remember a scene, I believe from either then end of the first episode or beginning of the second that involved at least one of the protagonists hanging from a rope either attached to or very near the head of the statue of liberty.
Any help on either case would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Edited by rngwrldngnr