- [First season opening theme]
- Chorus: We're off to outer space / We're leaving Mother Earth / To save the human race / Our Star Blazers / Searching for a distant star / Heading off to Iscandar / Leaving all we love behind / Who knows what dangers we'll find? / We must be strong and brave / Our home we've got to save / If we don't in just one year / Mother Earth will disappear / Fighting with the Gamilons / We won't stop until we've won / Then we return and when we arrive / The Earth will survive with our Star Blazers!
- Mark Venture: But Doctor Sane, we don't know where we're going.
- Doctor Sane: Most people don't.
- Mark Venture: But I'm sure it's top secret and you shouldn't be here.
- Doctor Sane: Everybody's got to be someplace.
- [Season season opening theme]
- Chorus: We're off to outer space / We're leaving Mother Earth / To save the human race / Our Star Blazers / A cry for help, a desperate plight / Makes our Star Force reunite / As we rush to meet our fate / The Comet Empire awaits / We must be strong and brave / To stop its evil ways / If Zordar's plot should work / He'll destroy the universe / We'll fight the Comet Empire / Battle through the raging fire / Filled with the hope that Earth will survive / We'll keep peace alive with our Star Blazers!
- Pilot: A message from the Gamilon ship, sir: "Earth fleet, we advise you to surrender now." What shall I tell them?
- Captain Abraham Avatar: Tell them they're idiots!
- Pilot: What?
- Captain Abraham Avatar: I said - idiots!
- Pilot: This is the Earth flagship 225. Our answer: idiots! Over.
- Gamilon Leader Desslok: Go ahead. Fire it. Fire the gun. I've been most anxious to see what this great weapon of yours can do, so... fire the gun...
- IQ9: That's Doctor Sane. He's a little eccentric, about five degrees.
- Captain Abraham Avatar: Doctor Sane, would you mind leaving me alone for a while?
- [Doctor Sane hesitates, but then turns around and opens the cabin door to leave]
- Captain Abraham Avatar: Doctor Sane?
- [Doctor Sane stops in the doorway]
- Captain Abraham Avatar: Thank you.
- [Doctor Sane leaves and shuts the door behind him]
- Captain Abraham Avatar: [watching Earth from space] I cannot bear to see what has become of Earth. Once green and growing with blue lakes and silver streams, great rivers and mighty seas - now all gone. Only dead and burning desert left. Radiation everywhere.
- Narrator: In the year 2199, planet Earth was facing extinction. In the mid 21st century, the mysterious planet Gamilon, a planet outside our solar system, declared war on all of Earth. These evil marauders of space, known for their ruthless warfare throughout the galaxy, bombarded Earth with deadly planet bombs. The surface of Earth became unlivable. People could only survive by moving to underground cities, far below the Earth surface. There was no defence against the bombing. Nations of the world fought as one against the Gamilons, but one by one, Earth space fleets were defeated. The Gamilons demanded total surrender, but the Earth defence command refused, so the Gamilons continued their attack. Now another danger lurks: the deadly radiation pollution caused by the bombs covers the Earth, and soon even the underground cities will no longer be safe, as day by day the radiation sinks deeper into the Earth. Earth is now hopelessly contaminated. In a year's time, all lives on earth will be extinct. Now, one last desperate battle between the Earth defence fleet and the Gamilons is being fought near the planet Pluto. Earth has only one space battleship left, commanded by Captain Avatar.
- Captain Abraham Avatar: This battleship alone, against such an evil as the Gamilons, we stand between them and Earth. We must prevail. We are Earth's last defence. Here at Pluto, we must make our stand!
- [First lines of first season episodes]
- Narrator: In the year 2199, Earth was under severe attack from the mysterious planet Gamilon. Gamilon planet bombs covered the Earth with radioactive pollution, and as a result, in one year's time Earth will be unlivable. But on the planet Iscandar there is a machine that can remove the radioactivity. Queen Starsha offers it to the people of Earth. A team of Star Blazers called the Star Force undertakes the perilous journey. But can the Star Force travel 148,000 light years and back in just one Earth year?