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Starship Troopers - 1997 | Enhanced Script Presentation


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Obstacle Course: the recruits tumble down the difficult course. At the head of the pack , breathing hard, Johnny and Ace race.

Johnny: Forget about it, Ace. You don't stand a chance.

Ace: What makes you even think you're going to make squad leader, Rico?

Johnny: Something I've got you don't.

Ace: You rich kids... are all the same.

Johnny: It isn't about that. It's about who's best.

They come to a trap, prepare to leap.

Dizzy: Hey!

Dizzy swoops in from behind, knocking Johnny and Ace into the mud. They watch, chagrined, as Dizzy reaches the end of the course effortlessly.


Combat knife practice: Zim watches the recruits practicing throwing knives.

Zim: First squad!

Ace steps up, throws his knife and it bounces off the target.

Ace: Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway?... All you gotta do is push a button. Sir.

Zim: Cease fire! (to Ace) Put your hand on that wall, Trooper! . . . . . Put your hand on that wall!

Ace obeys. Zim yanks the knife out of the post. Zim throws, impaling Ace's hand to the wall.

Ace (groaning): AWK!

Zim: The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand. . . . . MEDIC!


Showers - Both men and women shower together.

Kitten: Well, we all have one thing in common. We were all stupid enough to sign up for Mobile Infantry. Breckinridge, what's your excuse?

Breckinridge: Well, my family's all farmers. I hate farming. Mobile Infantry? It's like pure picnic by comparison.

Kitten: All right, so they grow 'em big and dumb on the farm planet, huh?

Man: And pretty!

Woman: I like big.

Kitten: Djana'd, what about you?

Djana'D: I'm going in for politics. And, you know, you gotta be a citizen for that. So here I am.


Kitten: Ah, you some responsibility.

Djana'D: Yeah.

Kitten: Shujumi! C'mon, let's keep it going.

Shujumi: I got into Harvard, but my father says forget it. It's gonna cost an arm and a leg, you know? So, if I serve, Federation pays my way! Ha-ha!

Katrina: I want to have babies. It's a lot easier to get a licence if you serve, so . . .

Ace: I'm going career. Officer's training. All the way.

Kitten: Ah, future Sky Marshall. All right, Rico, your turn.

Johnny: Who asked you to be so nosy?


Kitten: What, I'm the bad guy? I'm gonna be a writer. A writer's got a right to be nosy.

Dizzy joins them in the showers.

Kitten: Hey, Flores, you know Rico from Buenos Aires. What's his story?

Dizzy: Oh, uh . . . He's here because of a girl.

Others (cheering, catcalls): Oh, Rico! Lover boy!

Kitten: He's gettin' me excited! He's gonna blow!

Disgusted by smiling, Johnny leaves the showers. Djana'D smacks his butt as he exits.

Kitten (to Dizzy): Is it you?

Dizzy smiles and just shrugs.


Barracks - Johnny pans the barracks with a little handcam, neat bunks in a row, other recruits lounging around in their skivvies.

Johnny: This is where we live. Not much, but it's home. Right there, that's my bunk, where I dream about you every night. Boot's pretty tough. Sometimes I think I won't make it. But then I think about what you're doing, and I try harder.

Ace, Kitten Smith, Shujumi and Breckinridge dance around and moon the camera. Hooting and hollering. Farting noise.

Johnny: Do you mind?

Johnny moves the camera away from the guys.

Others: We try harder, baby! We try harder!

Johnny: Who knows? They might even make me squad leader.

The barracks lights go out. Ace plays Taps on the violin. Johnny lowers his voice.


Johnny: Uh-oh. Well, I better pack it in.

Katrina walks by, mugs into frame, begins to sing, badly.

Katrina (singing): "I love you Carmen."

Johnny: Write me!

Katrina (singing): "I love you."

Johnny: I'm gonna kill you guys!

Ace, Katrina, and the other guys peer into the camera, giggling, delighted with themselves.


Tereshkova Flight Academy: Carmen watches the end of Johnny's letter. Katrina continues to sing.

Johnny: Bye! Write me!

The letter ends. Carmen smiles. Lt. Stack Lumbreiser comes racing in the room.

Stack: Orbit in five, Ibanez! First one there gets to fly.

Grinning, Carmen grabs her duffel, takes off after her.

Boarding Corridor: Carmen and Stack race for the hatch past other recruits.

Boat Cycle: Carmen gets there first, jumps into the pilot seat. Stack takes second seat.

Carmen: Locking it down.


Two late Cadets duck in through the closing hatch door.

Late Cadet: Wait! Wait! Oh no, not Ibanez again, she's crazy!

Carmen: Ready, go!

Lunar Orbit: the boat streaks upward from the lunar floor past orbiting platforms.

Carmen: Yeah!

Stack: Deploying wings.

Boat - Lunar Orbit: Carmen blasts past a Destroyer orbiting in dock, zips between Corvettes and other slower fleet traffic in the crowded space lanes of Luna. The two late Cadets are terrified.

Stack: How come you're in such a good mood, huh?


Carmen: 'Cause today I get to fly that.

She points. Now visible from behind a host of smaller ships, is the Starship Rodger Young.

Starship Rodger Young - Command and Control Cycle: Carmen arrives on the bridge, dark, cramped, all-business. She salutes the instructor, Captain Deladier, 40s.

Carmen: Pilot Trainee Ibanez reporting for duty, ma'am.

Deladier: Take the number two chair, Ibanez.

Carmen: Yes, ma'am!

Carmen turns for her station. Carmen logs on. The ship recognizes her as a pilot trainee.

Carmen: Identify.


Computer: Ibanez, T-three-two-five-A, clear.

She turns to the number one chair and is surprised to see Zander, now a 2nd Lieutenant.

Carmen (laughs): What are you doing here?

Zander: I'm the guy who's gonna teach you to fly this crate.

Carmen: Ah. Assistant insructor. Should I call you "sir"?

Zander: Only when I give you an order.

Deladier: Prepare for departure.

Carmen and Zander go to work.



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Resources: imdb.com, imsdb.com
Screenplay by Edward Neumeier. Based on the novel by Robert Heinlein




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