Star Truck

     Star Truck

          Outline of a video series

 

          Rosanne in space. It’s a working-class space freighter family.

          Intro sequence:

          “We can’t all be heros. We can’t all be leaders. We can’t all save the day. Somebody has to live the day. Somebody has to haul that load. Somebody has to do the work.”

          A family business, with dad captain and wife and sullen teenage son and smart teenage daughter aboard.

          Scary aliens and space travails as usual; but also space bureaucrats, and seeing Federation officers from the taxpayer’s point of view.

         

 

 

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