4. Season One, Episode Four - "The Missing Key"

Doom Log File Title: "Voltron on Arus"

Summary: After the robeast thrashes the lions and knocks out the pilots, Pidge gets back to the castle through the tunnels and finds out that the others got their asses kicked looking for him (sucks to be him!) Thinking the lions are wiped out and the pilots are goners, Yurak has the robeast take a snooze to recharge his energy before hitting the castle. Then the pilots wake up and head home with the lions where they find the missing key to the black lion, which was apparently swiped by a space rodent that's friends with Princess Allura. (If that was my castle, I'd be breaking out the mouse traps.) The five explorers get in the lions and take on the robeast and then form Voltron to ultimately defeat it. This is the first appearance of the Blazing Sword (henceforth known as the BS, because that's sure as hell what it is) and the first robeast of many to get sliced and diced by it.  The BS; excellent idea!  As we speak, I’m having Doom’s dictionaries updated so that at the entry for “BS”, there’s a picture of Voltron with that dreadful abomination of physics!!

Notable Doom Highlights: Yurak wasn't the type to crack jokes on duty usually, but he did make a sadly appropriate quip about the lions having nine lives. Zarkon informing Haggar that her cat has more brains than she does was another kicker that made it into the report that I got a laugh out of. (But don't tell her I said that, ok?)  If the cat could wear a helmet and carry a gun, he would have made commander.  Why Haggar never bothered to conjure a spell to make him do that, I’ll never know.  I tried asking, but she went into this whole two hour spiel about the nature of magic, I tuned her out and imagined I was soaking in a blood mineral bath on Tyrus.  That whole “old lonely lady loves her cats” crap has some truth to it after all.

Notes: Though it isn't evident in the footage, while reading Yurak's log of the events you get the sense that despite losing he took some satisfaction that Haggar's robeast didn't do any better than his robots did. All in all I say let this be a lesson to you; never settle for anything less than absolute proof that you've destroyed a giant robot the first time around, or it'll come back to bite you in the ass years later. A lesson painfully learned!

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