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dragonfire5000
Since: Jan, 2001
3rd Mar, 2019 08:44:28 AM
This is the wrong place to ask. Ask in You Know That Show.
This show is NOT Hypernauts. There were more than three kids, but they did have gray and colored uniforms similar to the Hypernauts cast. No mechs though. Diverse cast made up of black, white and Asian, I think.
The episode I remember is one where these creatures like whales were being hunted because they contained a gas that people harvested to make their ships fly (they kind of stole this idea for an episode of Star Wars Rebels a few years ago). The kids compared the creatures to whales and remembered how people on earth used to think that whales weren’t intelligent. One of them remarks how that changed later on and how one of them’s dad (I think?) once had a whale lawyer.
At the end of the episode, the kids manage to save the creatures from being poached by showing that the gas that is inside of them is something they breathe in from steam vents on the surface of the planet. They tell the people of the planet they can harvest it the same way and not need to hunt the creatures anymore.
Also, at the beginning there was a necklace that one of the girl characters liked but couldn’t afford to buy from a shop on this planet. The boy she was with secretly bought the necklace for her and gave it her later in the episode.
The show was on Saturday mornings, maybe around 11 am circa 1995-97 I think. This was live-action mixed with crude CGI, but it was typical of the time period.
Can anyone tell me what this show is called? I have searched and searched and can’t find it!