VOLTRON Lion Force Chronology

Compiled by Shannon Muir

SEASON ONE

Originally released in 1984-1985

SEASON ONE AT A GLANCE:

The Early Days With Sven
Changing of the Guard
Enter the Prince
New Allies and Old Friends
The Big Showdown

THE EARLY DAYS WITH SVEN

This is the time period when the Voltron Force is made up of the five Space Explorers from Galaxy Garrison.

KEITH, LANCE, SVEN, HUNK and PIDGE arrive to find Planet Arusin ruins. They are captured by ZARKON's forces (commanded by the arrogant COMMANDER YURAK) and taken to Planet Doom, but manage to escape. The explorers return to Arus and discover the legendary (but crumbling) Castle of Lions wherethey meet PRINCESS ALLURA, and her advisor, CORAN. Coran explains the history of Voltron and how the one robot was split into five lions.
After consulting with the magical spirit of Allura's father, KING ALFOR, they discover the hiding place for the five keys. To their dismay, the key for the Black Lion is missing -- and Voltron cannot be formed without that key.
Pidge goes out alone and must be rescued by his comrades, who pilot the four lions that can fly.
The SPACE MICE, who have been Allura's friends since childhood, are questioned about the location of the key. It turns out they thought it was pretty and took it to their nest for a good luck charm. The key is returned and Voltron lives again!
Allura learns from her father's spirit that he built a technologically advanced castle underground, and learns what is needed to bring it to the surface. So a new Castle of Lions, capable of defending itself, is born.
Sven gets into a one-on-one duel with the witch HAGGAR and is critically wounded. He must be taken to planet Ebb for specialized medical attention. The Voltron Force is now down to four.

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Allura struggles to be taken seriously as a member of the Voltron Force as they continue to face Commader Yurak.

Allura, intent on defending her people, tries to fly the Blue Lion without perrmission. Unknown to her, Allura's domineering NANNY has returned and is unhappy with the idea of her precious little girl risking her life in a lion. She tries to go to the village and recruit a "brave, intelligent man" for the job, but the village is attacked and Allura must fly with the boys and help them form Voltron. She remains a member of the team.
Prince Bokar of Senak rescues Allura from certain doom as a training session in Blue Lion goes bad. Everyone's charmed by Bokar except Lance, who can't convince the others Bokar is a phony until too late. Turns out Bokar is a Robeast in disguise!
A young boy named Jai escapes from his enslaved planet of Nemon to ask the Voltron Force for help. The figurehead ruler of Nemon is Tabor, who refers to King Zarkon as his Uncle but looks incredibly human [NOTE: must be related to LOTOR's mother, who was also human. I'll get back to that later.]
Hunk falls for a young girl named Twyla who has escaped from Zarkon. He later finds out she's a spy and her brother volunteered to become a Robeast, believing their cooperation would free their people. The Robeast is defeated and Twyla realizes too late her actions have been for naught.
A white lion comes to Allura claiming to be the spirit of her father reborn. Desperately wanting to believe the lion, Allura follows it right into a trap! It turns out the lion is really a Robeast in disguise, and Allura's loyal friends must rescue her.
A deadly red rain falls on Arus, forcing people to flee their homes. They're scooped up and captured by Zarkon, who holds them as hostages to get the Voltron Force to surrender. A young girl named Tammy escapes and is found by the Voltron Force, and it is only through her posing as Pidge in his spacesuit that they can save the day. [NOTE: interesting reference here -- at the end, Pidge says Tammy reminds him of his kid sister on Planet Terra. First, this is the only reference to any other sibling of Pidge. The other is that his home planet is named Balto... so what's his sister doing on Terra (which, by the way, is another name for Earth)?]
Allura gets a message by carrier hawk that her mother's sister, Queen Orla, is coming for a visit. Unknown to her, Haggar has kidnapped Orla and taken on her identity. Only the mice can see through Haggar's disguise, and go to great lengths to warn the Voltron Force. Haggar is revealed and the real Orla is rescued. [NOTE: If Allura rules all of Arus, where is Orla Queen of???]

ENTER THE PRINCE

Zarkon's son Lotor returns from his conquests and takes over from the bumbling Commander Yurak... but can he do any better?

PRINCE LOTOR arrives home from his conquests just in time to replace the bumbling Yurak, who has tested Zarkon's patience once too often. Lotor suggests Yurak be made into the Robeast he will use to conquer Arus. The prince goes to Arus to challenge the Voltron Force, gets a good look at Allura , and instantly wants her for his own. Keith answers to Lotor's challenge for a duel, and is knocked unconscious. Luckily, he comes to just in time to do Yurak in.
Princess Allura still struggles to prove she truly can lead the Voltron Force. This time, she takes Black Lion without permission and her friends are mad... even Coran chews her out! Lotor sets up a base on Arus and issues an ultimatum of "your princess or your planet." Allura, losing her self-confidence, turns herself over to Lotor. Her friends rescue her and remind her even though she can't lead yet, she IS an important part of the team.
A green-skinned female Medusan named Anga is captured and turned into a Robeast. What they don't count on is her maternal instincts, which kick into full gear when she sees Pidge in his green spacesuit get hurt and is reminded of one of her own young. Pidge remembers the day his adoptive parents came to take him away, and similarly becomes attached to Anga like she's a substitute mom. Haggar comes and changes Anga back, and the ordeal has strained Anga. Still, she puts her life on the line to get Pidge back to his friends in time before a more powerful Robeast conquers Arus.
Planet Arus celebrates the legend of the Love Bridge, formed by the strong bond between two lovers in ancient warring kingdoms. Allura's cast as the lady in the revival, but who'll be her leading man? Keith bows out of the race, and the remaining three guys draw cards to see who's in luck...and it's HUNK! Lotor catches wind of the celebration and decides to crash it in order to catch Allura off guard. As usual, though, Lotor's attempt fails and the celebration continues.
Mysterious spores fall to Arus that bloom into beautiful but deceiving flowers, and even Princess Allura falls ill! Lance must take the Blue Lion to Planet Lyra (since the water lion can counteract Lyra's magnetic pull) to go get the antidote which is made from THEIR flowers. He is taken prisoner by the beautiful Farla, acting under orders from King Mag -- who is really a puppet for Lotor. Farla brings Lance to the castle, and he gets loose and fights Lotor. Lotor knocks him over the side of the castle and thinks Lance is finished. Meanwhile, Farla sees the Doom Soldiers destroying the precious Roses of Lyra after Lotor has gotten enough of the antidote for Allura and tries to stop them, but is injures. Lance intervenes, and she rewards him by giving him seedlings to plant his own Roses of Lyra. Lance makes it back just in time to fight off a Robeast, and even the weakened Allura risks all to save the day. Allura is healed, and together she and Lance take the remaining seedlings to replant on Lyra as Lance promised Farla he would do.
Zarkon has fallen very ill, and Haggar is very preoccupied with trying to heal him. Lotor hopes his father will pass away, and still wants to conquer Arus. Since Haggar is busy, he turns to a Doom scientist for a potion that makes trees into monsters. These tree beasts ravage Arus and Voltron must stop them. Not only does Lotor return to Doom in defeat, but he finds out Haggar has healed his father, so he still won't be King for a while!
After Nanny and Coran catch Allura swimming in a bikini with the boys, she's locked in her room for punishment. Unfortunately, this makes her an easy target for Lotor, who breaks into her room and nearly captures her! Allura is saved in the nick of time and Voltron is formed to drive the Doom forces away.
Haggar decides the next plan to invade Arus will be on a very small scale... small Robeasts, that is. An army of robotic mice infiltrate the Castle and cause all kinds of problems, which are blamed on Allura's friends the Space Mice. The Space Mice have to work to convince the Voltron Force that they are INNOCENT and help them defeat the robotic rodents.
Zarkon has recently invaded Planet Mora, where he testing out two new weapons... the Pulsar (Energy) Cannon and the Centipede Express. Voltron goes to Mora to check things out, and the rest of the robot hides in the asteriod belt while Keith and Lance use the head of the Green Lion to sneak down to the planet. Keith and Lance knock out a couple of security guards, and steal their costumes as disguises. They are caught planting bombs to blow up the Pulsar (Energy) Cannon by a slave who feels the success of the weapon is the only way to free his people, and was bitter that Voltron didn't save Mora before it was invaded. In the end, he sees that the Voltron Force really DO have Mora's best interests at heart, and turns the Pulsar (Energy) Cannon on the Centipede Express. Zarkon is driven from Mora, and the Pulsar (Energy) Cannon becomes controlled by the Galaxy Alliance.
Planet Arus is terrorized by an invisible Robeast, which overturns a carriage carrying Allura, Lance, Pidge, and Nanny. They stop the Robeast from taking the Princess, then struggle to reunite with their friends. After the Voltron Force gets together, it takes some quick thinking to figure out how to make this elusive enemy visible.
Pidge befriends three children who pretend to be searching for treasure. Together, they find a REAL old castle full of jewels... and terrifying skeleton guards! It turns out to be a trap by Haggar to lure the Voltron Force to their defeat... but as usual it fails.
Zarkon brings Princess Corral of Demos to Doom with plans to have her marry Lotor and add Demos to the Empire. Lotor refuses to marry Corral, obsessed with having Allura. Haggar helps Lotor create a painless blade that induces sleep, and when Allura is cut by it, everyone believes she is dead. Smart enough to realize it it probably an illusion by Haggar, the Space Explorers stage a funeral to bring Lotor and Haggar out into the open to revive Allura. Lotor hijacks the carriage carrying Allura's coffin, and it is onyl through Pidge's bravery that Allura is saved and reawakened. [NOTE: This is the ONLY episode where Voltron is NEVER formed, and is one of my personal favorites because of it. Also, Lotor has a VERY interesting dream in this episode, which seems to possibly reveal facts about who his mother is. Learn more about it here.]
A deadly space storm ravages Arus, and the people must go into hiding. Pidge meets up with a young boy who he thinks is stealing people's pets to eat them, but is really freeing it from a trap set by hungry Doom soldiers. Pidge helps the boy tend to his sick mother, but both are caught by Lotor's forces and chained to a giant bomb Lotor plans to detonate underground. The Voltron Force is warned about the plot in time, save Pidge and the boy, and send the bomb into space to form a new sun.
Arus will be host to a Space Olympics, and the men of the Voltron Force are pitching in to build a new stadium... along with some help from some young friends. One of the youngsters sees a work machine sabotaged, but no one believes him until the machine goes berzerk with a life of its own! Allura has to free the guys from being buried alive before Voltron can be formed to save the day... and the Olympics!
Planet Tyrus is the Doom Forces' favorite vacation spot, and is playing host to a fabulous birthday party for Lotor. A ship en route with gifts gets hit by asteroids, and when the Voltron Force goes to check and see about getting jewels stolen from Arus, they are forced to masquerade as guards and go along to Tyrus. There, they reveal their true identities. Lance has to escape from a pit full of cannibals, and only the quick thinking of a space mouse that stowed away saves Keith, Hunk, and Pidge from dying at the stake.
Zarkon and Lotor are caught up in a major dispute over who should be ruler of Doom. The Castle of Lions launches At-EASe (the Advanced Early Alarm System), but Lotor blows the satellites out of the sky. Haggar's latest Robeast badly damages the Blue Lion (as Voltron's leg) and injures the Princess' shoulder. The Voltron Force works hard to refine their skills and strenghten their abilities, and must save a town where a woman is giving birth to a child... who ends up being named Voltricia! [NOTE: is really a 2-part arc, but is never billed as such and the two episodes never aired close together. HATS OFF TO THE CARTOON NETWORK! After over 10 YEARS, I saw the two above listed episodes air back- to-back on September 23rd and 24th, 1997! I don't know what finally made it happen... but THANK YOU!]
Coran and Nanny discuss plans to for Princess Allura to marry. The space explorers feel rather unwanted (no thanks to Nanny) and storm to Castle Control. There they pick up on a distress call from Planet Balto, Pidge's home world. Coran forbids them to take the lions so far away (presumably Balto is in the NEAR universe, not the far) and goes so far as to have the space explorers placed under house arrest. That doesn't go over well, and the boys rebel and take off without permission. Allura, knowing she will be needed, finally convinces Coran to let her go. Balto turns out to be levelled, but apparently many people escaped in ships. In the end, Balto explodes and Pidge, not knowing where his family has gone, is made an honorary citizen of Arus.
The Voltron Force come to a planet inhabited by small cuddly creatures called Sandpeople, who are being enslaved by Zarkon. One in particular befriends Allura, and she gives it her bracelet and nicknames him Sandy. Sandy is later turned into a Robeast and forced to battle Voltron. Sandy is defeated but not destroyed, he barely survives.
When Princess Allura crash-lands after a training exercise, she's rescued by a handsome stranger. He introduces himself as Garrett, a man who's family was originally from Arus but escaped when Zarkon invaded. He's invited back to the castle, and Coran is reminded that his own missing son would be Garrett's age. Many years before, he sent his wife Leda and their child away during a battle with Zarkon, but not before giving the baby a pendant with the Royal Seal. He later sees a scar on Garrett's arm that reminds him that his own child was injured in the same place. And when Garrett reveals the pendant without thinking, Coran believes he has found his long lost son. But that is not to be. Garrett turns out to be a clone synthesized on Doom and sent to trick his way into the castle. After making Coran too ill to work and taking his "father's" place, Garrett orders the Pulsar (Energy) cannon to be stolen from Mora to be used against Voltron, and the Force is pressed into having to disconnect the robot and pretend to be blasted apart. Allura awakens in the care of Runan, a mountain man who tells Allura how he helped the real Leda and Garrett escape to another dimension. Armed with the truth, the Voltron Force returns to stop Garrett... who ultimately is stopped by Coran, who stun-guns him and later has his impostor son imprisoned.
Princess Allura's judo lessons are interrupted not only by an upset Nanny and Coran, but by a new Robeast which is drying up all the water on Arus. The Voltron Force must figure out a way to find water, otherwise the Blue Lion cannot be launched.
Lotor has a "new and improved" version of himself cloned in order to defeat the Voltron force. The Lotor clone challenges Keith to a duel, but when the clone begins to get insolent, it becomes apparent to Keith what's going on and he figures out a way to vanquish the clone.
Haggar takes yet another shot at infiltrating Arus with tiny Robeasts... this time its in the form of seemigly harmless tadpoles that become an ugly army of three-eyed frogs. Not only do the frogs wreck a home of some children Pidge has befriended, they overwhelm their father's sailing ship and Voltron must rescue him.
Voltron comes to planet Bravura, which is inhabited by nomadic tribes. With the help of some of the natives, they fight off Zarkon's attempts to conquer the planet.
The Voltron Force answers a call to arrive for a celebration on the desert planet Yadl, unaware that Doom forces have since captured the planet and are setting a trap. Voltron ends up coming face to face with a Robeast that looks like... VOLTRON! It takes quick thinking for Voltron to defeat itself!
The Space Mice want in on defending the universe... so Pidge helps build them the Mouse Plane. At first it all seems cute but impractical, but the little Space Mice prove they can be quite a match for Haggar's Blue Cat with firepower behind them!
A rogue mercenary cuts a deal with Zarkon to do in the Voltron Force. Using his cunning skills, he leads them into a trap... but they're even more cunning and turn the tables on him.
Haggar creates a robotic army of Red Berets, who take Arus citizens hostage and trick the Black Lion into a trap that threatens to leave Keith stuck in his lion forever. As usual, they find a way to free Keith and the day is saved.

NEW ALLIES AND OLD FRIENDS

This is the time period when the Voltron Force meet Princess Romelle and Prince Bandor of Pollux, and reunite with their friend Sven.

Zarkon is approached by a new ally... King Coba of Planet POLLUX, Planet Arus' evil twin world. Apparently the very first king of Arus had two sons, one peaceloving and one warlike. The warlike son was banished to Pollux before the old king passed away, and his descendants still carry the grudge. Coba has three children: Prince Avok, PRINCE BANDOR, and PRINCESS ROMELLE. Avok volunteers to become a Robeast so that their old enemy will finally be defeated. Lotor falls for Romelle, entranced because she looks similar to Allura, and has her accompany him everywhere. The Voltron Force catches wind of this and goes to Pollux to talk peace. They get through to Princess Romelle and Prince Bandor is uncertain, but it's too late... Avok is already a Robeast ready to wreak havoc. Voltron fights Avok, who ends up very wounded and swims out to sea to escape. An angry Lotor takes Romelle as his hostage and Coba disappears. Pollux is won over to the side of good.
Lotor takes Romelle back to Planet Doom. After having his way with her, he tosses her in with other female slaves. Together they scheme to steal a slave ship, and end up crashing on the ice planet Neeve. The Voltron Force and Bandor go to rescue them, but Lotor is on his way too. Lotor ends up getting away with Romelle but is later forced to return her.
Romelle's freedom doesn't last long as Lotor has captured her yet again. This time, she's tied up in the control room as Lotor and Haggar go in search of the Omega Comet -- a comet that has the magnetic attraction of a black hole. Haggar puts magic rings around the comet and directs it towards Arus. Voltron is sent into action to stop the comet. Romelle is tricked into sending the Voltron Force a "secret attack plan" that turns out to be a trap -- it weakens Voltron's defenses and leaves the robot stuck on the Omega Comet! Prince Bandor comes with his fleet to help, and ultimately is forced to used the full strength of his fleet to blast the comet off course... risking the lives of the Voltron Force! Apparently dead, the Voltron Force come to the edge of the Known Universe, where the spirit of Eternal Happiness offers two choices: cross over with her into a new place where they will be happy forever, or be fully healed but never be able to come to the new place. They choose to be healed and return to save Arus.
Meanwhile, an enraged Lotor has taken Romelle back to Doom. When she refuses to marry him, he has her cast into the Pit of Skulls. There she is rescued by a man claiming to be wild and crazy, who doesn't even know his own name. But in time (presumably from things Allura told her) Romelle recognizes him as Sven! Sven denies his identity as first, shamed by his defeat by Haggar and his subsequent inability to defend Planet Ebb (where he was hospitalized) from Zarkon. When they saw he was too injured to work, Sven was left without food or water. He saw a vision of himself as he used to be and realized he could never be that proud man again... so instead of fighting his way out to rejoin the Voltron Force, he hid in the caves in denial. Romelle talks him into helping her get to the surface, and later to help her steal a slave ship to escape. Romelle's efforts help Sven find a purpose again, and he remains on Planet Pollux with her.
Sven disguises as a Robeast candidate to infiltrate a shipment of Robeasts being taken to satellite Nuclon to form a Robeast Army. Through Romelle, he passes on information to help Voltron find the factory satellite and take it out before the Army can be created,

THE BIG SHOWDOWN

An alliance of planets in the Denubian Galaxy join forces to free the slaves from Planet Doom. NOTE: THESE EVENTS OCCUR IN A FOUR-EPISODE ARC, BUT I AM BREAKING THE WHOLE ARC DOWN SCENE BY SCENE.

Galaxy Garrison is informed that Princess Allura is calling a meeting of all planets in the Denubian Galaxy to discuss plans to form a united from against Zarkon. We also learn from this conversation that Zarkon is an outlaw of the Drule Empire (but, as we learn later, a tolerated outlaw).
After the meeting, Coran and the four space explorers discuss Allura's safety. Coran volunteers to fly, but the offer is rejected. They decide perhaps finding and training a subsitute to replace Allura would be best. Coran and Keith continue the discussion privately, Coran tries to figure up an excuse to get Allura away from Arus, but Keith realizes she'd see through any attempt to protect her and that they must count on vigilance to succeed.
Zarkon requests support troops from planet Drule but is denied. He and Haggar then watch their staged assasination of the ambassador from Planet Olion, pulled off using synthesized clones. Their hope is to dampen conference morale. Then a robeast is sent to attack the Castle of Lions.
The Voltron Force meets to organize their strategy. Lance is particularly bitter about the apparent assasination of the Olion ambassador. Taking Allura aside, Keith reminds Allura of Zarkon's direct threat to Voltron and makes sure she really wants to put her life on the line. When she reassures him she's sure of herself, Keith rewards Allura by letting her pilot the Black Lion. Unfortunately Black Lion has been sabotaged, and Allura loses control and must be rescued. She is knocked out after a crash and dreams of Voltron being crushed if she were to lead.
Allura awakens, afraid and disoriented. Her father appears to her and tells her to flee the castle to escape Lotor and go into hiding. [NOTE: based on what later happens, I personally believe Alfor's appearance is really a Haggar trick to drive Allura to Lotor. Alfor would NEVER encourage Allura to be a coward!]
From his bedroom window, Keith sees Allura fleeing the castle and follows her. Allura runs all night without rest, and finally is cornered by Lotor. All seems lost until Keith intervenes. He successfully protects the Princess, but Lotor gives him a nasty slice across his chest and an unconscious Keith is laid up at the Castle of Lions.
Allura, wanting to prove herself again, takes off in Black Lion alone when the Robeast comes to Arus. She of course cannot do it alone and Lance, Hunk, and Pidge prepare to fly and help her. Bandor comes in and demands to pilot one of the Lions to help save the day, but Keith awakens. Despite his pain, he gets into Blue Lion and they form Voltron. The Robeast is vanquished and the plans get underway.
Lotor reminisces about the Energy (Pulsar) Cannon and how it was captured by Alliance forces. His thoughts are interrupted by his arrest! It seems Daddy is tired of all his son's failures in battle and must be punished like any other soldier that fails. Haggar tries to defend Lotor, but has no success. Zarkon announces an upcoming court-martial for his son and has Lotor dragged off to prison. Zarkon also reveals his plans to destroy the Energy (Pulsar) Cannon, which he knows has been moved to Arus.
Meanwhile, on planet Drule, Marshal Kezor addresses the council and informs them of Lotor's imprisonment. He suggests since Zarkon has done even less than Lotor maybe HE should be disposed of!
On Arus, plans to attack Doom are discussed, including how the Energy (Pulsar) Cannon will be used to counteract the charged particles protecting Planet Doom that would otherwise hurt Voltron. To make sure the people of Arus are safe in case the planet comes under attack, they are brought to the Castle which we learn can also become the FLYING FORTRESS.
Zarkon attacks the Energy (Pulsar) Cannon with his ship, shooting only at the base in hopes of forcing it to fall off the ledge into the canyon below. Lance tries to go alone to the Cannon to fire it on Zarkon's ship, but he's injured and Keith must help him. The only thing that keeps Zarkon from blowing the Cannon off the cliff is the revelation and intervention of the Fortress.
Nerok reports to Marshal Kezor that Zarkon has failed to destroy the Cannon. Kezor decides that Zarkon truly is the incompetent one and that Zarkon is using his son as a "fall guy." He decides to help Lotor gain the throne.
Drule Empire spies planted within the Doom ranks free Lotor from prison. They capture Zarkon and Lotor declares himself King. Zarkon is forced to pilot a giant Robeast that is the spitting image of himself. If Zarkon wins the Drule Empire will forgive him -- if not, then that is his fate! Lotor believes Voltron won't dare attack Doom.
Voltron makes sure the Cannon is stable once again then heads for Doom. Allura discovers to her surprise that the Space Mice have snuck aboard again! The Cannon is fired from Arus at Doom and the field around Doom is destroyed. Lotor is enraged!
Lotor crowns himself King, and announces that Zarkon will be sent to fight Voltron.
We find out Romelle and Sven are leading a group of saboteurs to destroy Haggar's lab, but Allura can't get through to her cousin. Haggar is warned the saboteurs are on their way. Sven and Romelle can't find the prisoners they were supposed to rescue from the lab! They set off bombs and destroy the lab.
Zarkon's Robeast and Voltron go head to head as Haggar calls to the evil spirits for guidance. The Blazing Sword breaks and Voltron takes an ax hit right in the chest! All seems lost until Alfor's image appears to the Voltron Force, as it was programmed to do in times of crisis. Allura is instructed to place her key upon the Great Seal of Arus on Voltron's chest, and the Mice oblige. This creates a great surge of energy that zaps Zarkon and re-fuses the Blazing Sword! Zarkon's Robeast is destroyed, but not before he can get out in an escape ship and go into hiding. [NOTE: Please don't ask what happened to the Lion Key... I don't know.]
Galaxy Garrison receives news the struggle is going well. Commander Steele shares the good word with the council (which is oddly minus Space Marshal Graham), but also reminds them Lotor is still a threat.
Haggar cries over the loss of the Zarkon Robeast and vows to avenge the insult.
Meanwhile, on Drule, Hazar speaks to the Council and is accused of being a sentimentalist when he says that he feels Zarkon controlling the Denubian Galaxy instead of them is all right as long as someone associated with the Drule Empire controls it. Hazar is crushed when he learns of Zarkon's defeat by Voltron.
Lotor attacks Voltron with his own giant gun, and traps Voltron by launching robot-guided neutron missiles that completely surround the giant robot. However, something happens that Lotor doesn't expect... Haggar begins destroying the missiles, bitter because Lotor let his father be defeated! Lotor tries to stop her, but she escapes from him.
As Voltron splits back into the five indivdual lions, Lotor goes to the throne room and raises a new defense tower from under Doom's surface. The Voltron Force continue their goal, which is to get inside Castle Doom and free the slaves held there.
Sven and Romelle climb up to Castle Doom, while Coran and Bandor decide more assistance is needed and launch the Fortress.
Voltron is re-formed again, and Allura remembers all the people Lotor has hurt... Father... Mother... Sven... and Nanny. [NOTE: Not quite sure how Nanny figures into all this...]
Sven and Romelle come under attack but are rescued by the Mouse Plane. Sven saves Romelle from being shot at and must bandage her knee as the Flying Fortress arrives.
Voltron defeats Castle Doom's defenses, and Lotor's sunjects beg for surrender, but he refuses. He wants war and glory! The robot soldiers rebel and Lotor "kills" them.
Sven insists he has a score to settle with Lotor for everything the Prince did to him and Romelle. Romelle begs Sven not to go, but when she realizes she can't succeed, gives him her dagger. As he bids her farwell and runs off, her brother Bandor and the Voltron Force arrive. Romelle tells them Sven went to Castle Doom alone.
Sven thinks he's killed Lotor on his throne but it turns out to be a robotic fake. Lotor holds Sven at swordpoint as the Voltron Force enter, then takes Sven as his hostage when the throne becomes an elevator taking them to the top of the tower and Lotor's giant gun.
Lotor now orders Voltron to be brought before his gun to be melted down in order to spare Sven's life. Sven begs his friends not to give in but they do. The Mouse Plane sneaks away unnoticed and attacks Lotor from behind, distracting him. This allows Sven to plunge the dagger into the gun controls and destroy it as Lotor comes lunging at him shouting, "INFIDEL!" The blast causes Sven and Lotor to fall together into the moat surrounding the now-exploding Castle Doom. Sven is returned to Pollux to heal, and we learn Lotor also survived that fall. Lotor vows his revenge.
A party is held back on Planet Arus to celebrate, and Coran gives a speech... but the Voltron Force doesn't show up! They're taking a nap in the country, wondering if they'll get called back to join the other Voltron Force now that the Denubian Galaxy is safe.
On the Stellar Ship Explorer, Chip gets a letter from his brother Pidge, letting him know that all the Denubian bad guys have been defeated and maybe they might see each other again if their Voltron Force isn't sent to another troubled spot. Voltron Vehicle Leader Jeff points out they must always expect that, because they are a part of Voltron, Defender of the Universe.

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