Thursday, September 18, 2014

The Jupiter II Podship

==Jupiter II, Podship==

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|Series           = [[The Robinsons: Lost in Space]]
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|Only Appearance  = The Robinson's: Lost in Space - 2004 Unaired Pilot}}

The Jupiter II Podship, was one of many pods that were part of the Jupiter Mother-Ship in the unaired 2004, The Robinsons: Lost In Space. The Mother-Ship would make the journey to the planet, Nova, with a host of pods and space colonists.

Once at Nova, the pods would jettison from the Jupiter Mother-Ship, land on Nova, and then become the space colonists homes.

The Robinson family were assigned Podship II, which would eventually become the Jupiter II.

However, the Mother-Ship never reached Nova due to the fact that aliens attacked the Jupiter Mother-Ship as it was leaving our solar system.

As the Jupiter Mother-Ship was attacked, many of the space colonists escaped in their pods, including the Robinson Family in the Jupiter II.

The Jupiter II Podship is not seen until almost the very end of the episode. It appears quite different from the spacecraft in the original show. If appears to be made of a type of dark-gray metal, but the images are so poor that it's hard to tell. Much of the darkness of the ship could be due to battle scars from the alien attack.

The inside of the Jupiter (while still attached to the Mother-Ship) appeared mostly in shades of white. Although it might appeared to some to be rather spacious and comfortable, Judy thought the ship to be rather small. Judy compares her room to a walk-in-closet. Unlike other Jupiter II's, this one has a bathroom and toilet, athough the original Jupiter 2 did feature what was supposebly a bathroom area, athough it was never used or referenced in the show. It also had a viewport on the front top of the ship, which contained the controls and two pilot seats. The bedrooms are never seen...and it's unknown if there is more than one deck.

Although the Jupiter II Podship was actually meant to land on Nova, then provide a permanent home for the Robinsons, the ship is still very spaceworthy and capable of high speeds. The fastest speed intended for the ship is Mock Eight....however,,.with some fine tuning, the ship was able to reach warp speeds and capable of hyper-space.

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