[2] An audio-only sequel, Starship: Requiem, was included as a perk for fans who contributed to Firebringer's funding and was intended to be released on Christmas of 2016 but was delayed until February 2018.
His friend Roach comes to find him for the job assigning ceremony and voices his dislike for Bug's constant talk of Starship Rangers.
Shortly after, Bug runs into Bugette, a caterpillar assigned with carrying an egg sac until it hatches.
She meets what she believes to be the planet's indigenous life, but she is chased by the Mosquito siblings and captured by some of the hive's "mammal wranglers."
The Starship Rangers remaining on the ship, including formerly tough Commander Up, second-in-command tomboy Taz, brainy Specs, mellow Krayonder, and the sweet and simple Tootsie Noodles, receive a distress signal that February is in danger.
Bug doesn't adapt well to his first day of being an egg planter, hesitant to accept his mundane job ("Life").
Up and the other Rangers find their way to where February's communication device's signal is coming from and encounter some of the bug inhabitants of Bug-World.
Because of this, the Overqueen lets Bug live, but forbids him from ever leaving the hive or making contact with humans again (or singing).
Pincer reveals he has obtained a "brain leech" indigenous to the bug world, which allows two creatures to become psychically linked, and a cryotube containing a brain dead human body, recovered from the crashed starship, and proposes that Bug can take control of this body.
Bug eagerly agrees, not knowing that Pincer intends to eat their brains and let the Mosquitos suck their blood ("Kick It Up a Notch").
Tootsie confesses his feelings for Mega-Girl, while Bug struggles to tell February the truth about himself ("The Way I Do").
Junior removes her inhibitor chip, causing her to regain her suppressed feeling of lethal aggression towards humans.
February suddenly has the idea that Bug must have brought her to Bug-World to take her to his crashed starship to obtain its warp crystals.
February pieces together Junior's plan in a moment of clarity, and the duo rushes back to the ship to warn the other Rangers.
Tootsie's showing of affection causes her to overcome her programming and download emotion software, allowing them to be together.
Tootsie and Mega-Girl get married, and humans, bugs, and machines all learn to live together in harmony ("Beauty (Reprise)").
Holmes makes a cameo appearance as the Starship captain in a video that Bug watches during the musical.
A number of other StarKid members also have uncredited cameos in the opening video portion of Starship, including Chris Allen, Tyler Brunsman, Richard Campbell, Britney Coleman, Arielle Goldman, Devin Lytle, Lily Marks, Nicholas Joseph Strauss-Matathia, and Brian Rosenthal.
Because Starship was staged in Chicago and not in Michigan, many StarKid members who had yet to graduate were only able to make video appearances, such as those above.
[6] [full citation needed] This was the first StarKid Production in which Darren Criss did not make an appearance (he was filming Glee at the time of the production); his absence is referenced when February and Commander Up quipped "The Galactic League of Extraterrestrial Exploration wants to capture the bugs so they can make their own twisted abominations" "Damn that G.L.E.E.!
Brian Holden as the villain Junior also wears Criss's signature pink Wayfarer sunglasses.
The original concept for the show came from StarKid ensemble member Joe Walker, who suggested to Criss a musical parody of Starship Troopers.
Incidentally, Criss was originally meant to play the part of Tootsie Noodles before becoming occupied by Glee.
The group put an edited version of the musical up on YouTube on April 30, 2011, cutting an estimated hour of run time.
A cast recording of the production was released on April 30, 2011, alongside the YouTube premiere of the musical, through iTunes and Amazon.com.