I've always hoped to see Michael Pare do well, after seeing him in the Greatest American Hero. I was glad that he got staring film roles in the 80s, most notably Eddie and the Cruisers, but since the 80s he career has petered out a bit.

Quite a while ago I had heard that he stared in a TV series called Starhunter. When I first started searching for this show, only a few episodes were released on a single DVD, which I bought with plans to buy subsequent DVDs when they were released and once I had collected he whole season, to watch the show. Subsequent DVDs were never released, so I waited several years in vain. Eventually they released the entire first season on DVD.

I enjoyed the series, though a lot of the episodes had plots that were lacking a bit and occasionally unclear. I liked that the series had two story arcs throughout the series, one about Dante (the captain) trying to find his son and another about the Divinity Cluster.

The characters were okay, with Percy stealing the show many times with her personality and performance.

Unfortunately, I never got a feeling for the ship, as it was always dark and never offered much to make you feel like it was a ship and not a set. I couldn't get a feel for the layout of the ship and while it was constantly referred to as being very large, I was never given that impression from what we were shown of it and a crew of only three.

In a strange way, I feel like the series is kind of a precursor to Firefly, with a captain, the female engineer Percy resembling Kaylee, in looks and her role and Luc resembling Zoe, as a female mercenary type. The only people missing from the core crew (of Firefly, as the rest were pretty much passengers) were Wash, the pilot and Jayne (who was not part of the original crew, in the Firefly history (if you recall from the flashback shown in Out of Gas)