List of Voltron: Legendary Defender episodes
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The following is a list of episodes from the series Voltron: Legendary Defender. The first season was released on June 10, 2016. The first episode in Netflix is triple-length, creating a cumulative runtime for the season equal to the industry standard of 13 episodes, while other streaming services such as iTunes and Amazon have three separated episodes with the normal length of 23 minutes. The second season was released on January 20, 2017, the third season was released on August 4, 2017, and the fourth season was released on October 13, 2017. A fifth season was released on March 2, 2018, while the sixth season was released on June 15, 2018. A seventh season was released on August 10, 2018. The eighth and final season was released on December 14, 2018.
Tables
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
| North America | ||||
| 1 | 13 | June 10, 2016 (2016-06-10) | ||
| 2 | 13 | January 20, 2017 (2017-01-20) | ||
| 3 | 7 | August 4, 2017 (2017-08-04) | ||
| 4 | 6 | October 13, 2017 (2017-10-13) | ||
| 5 | 6 | March 2, 2018 (2018-03-02) | ||
| 6 | 7 | June 15, 2018 (2018-06-15) | ||
| 7 | 13 | August 10, 2018 (2018-08-10) | ||
| 8 | 13 | December 14, 2018 (2018-12-14) | ||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | |
| 1–3 | 1–3 | "The Rise of Voltron Part 1: The New Alliance Part 2: From Days of Long Ago Part 3: Defenders of the Universe" | Joaquim Dos Santos Lauren Montgomery Ki Hyun Ryu Eugene Lee Steve In-Chang Ahn | Tim Hedrick Joshua Hamilton May Chan | |
| An expedition on the moon Kerberos is attacked and the crew imprisoned by a hostile alien craft from the Galra Empire. On Earth, they are presumed dead. One year later on Earth, Garrison cadets Lance, Pidge and Hunk witness a vessel crash land and learn that it contains one of the missing expedition members, Shiro, who has been quarantined by offic | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Some Assembly Required" | Joaquim Dos Santos Lauren Montgomery Ki Hyun Ryu | Tim Hedrick | |
| When the Paladins are unable to form Voltron during a training session, Coran puts them through his own rigorous training in order to build a sense of brotherhood and trust between the Paladins. However, the Paladins fail miserably and are unable to connect. It is not until the Paladins engage in a food fight with Allura and Coran that they finally | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Return of the Gladiator" | Eugene Lee | Joshua Hamilton | |
| As the Castle of Lions prepare for departure, the team is met by the arrival of a local Arusian. Allura heads to meet the villagers along with Coran, Hunk, Keith and Lance while Pidge and Shiro tend to the rescued prisoners from the Galra battleship. From them, they learn that Shiro was a champion fighter in the gladiator ring that he and Pidge's b | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Fall of the Castle of Lions" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Tim Hedrick | |
| The team and Arusians celebrate Voltron's victory in the castle, but the festivities come to a halt when Pidge reveals her intentions to leave the team and search for her missing father and brother. As the team tries to convince Pidge to stay, Haxus, one of Sendak's soldiers, is able to sneak a bomb drone disguised as Rover into the castle, causing | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Tears of the Balmera" | Chris Palmer | Joshua Hamilton | |
| Hunk and Coran meet local Balmerans, Shay and Rax, who help them hide from the Galra. Shay admires the two and wants to help them, but Rax is cautious and insists they leave. Hunk and Coran are able to sneak past the Galra to find a crystal, but are captured and imprisoned. Shay helps them escape with the crystal, but is captured by the Galra after | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Taking Flight" | Eugene Lee | Tim Hedrick | |
| The team welcomes Lance back after a period in the healing pod before deciding on their next move. Hunk brings up the plight of Shay and her people; prompting them to launch a liberation mission. Pidge also finally gets a weight off her shoulders by revealing her gender to the rest of the group. On the way to the Balmera, the team stops to help two | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "Return to the Balmera" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | May Chan | |
| Allura, Coran and the Paladins return to the Balmera to free the natives, but must hold back their firepower so as not to hurt the Balmera. Shiro and Pidge scout for Galran forces, who are strangely absent, while Lance and Keith work to disable a Galran fleet of ships. Hunk searches for the prisons and is able to find Shay's family, including her b | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "Rebirth" | Chris Palmer | Joshua Hamilton | |
| The Paladins scramble to battle the new Robeast, whose omni-directional view and multi-firing ability make it difficult for Voltron to counter, forcing them to retreat to the tunnels below and regroup. They learn that the Balmera is dying and unless they leave, everything on the Balmera will die as well. Though the Balmerans are reluctant to leave | |||||
| 11 | 11 | "Crystal Venom" | Eugene Lee | May Chan | |
| As Allura recovers, she spends her time enjoying the company of her father's artificial intelligence. With Sendak in custody, they decide to draw out his memories in order to learn information about Zarkon and the Galra empire. While waiting, the Castle begins displaying strange behavior: Hunk and Pidge are attacked by malfunctioning kitchen equipm | |||||
| 12 | 12 | "Collection and Extraction" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Tim Hedrick | |
| While combing through Sendak's memories, the team discovers the location of a secret Galran transport hub. Allura joins the Paladins in infiltrating the station in order to extract information, but find nothing useful. When another ship arrives, Allura decides to infiltrate the ship herself to extract its information by making use of her Altean abi | |||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Black Paladin" | Chris Palmer | Joshua Hamilton | |
| With Allura's capture, the Paladins are quick to mount a rescue mission. When they arrive, Zarkon activates a particle barrier, trapping them inside. Voltron is quick to destroy most of the Galran forces, but are forcibly separated somehow by Zarkon and Haggar. The Paladins scramble to rescue Allura while Shiro is suddenly ejected from the Black Li | |||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | |
| 14 | 1 | "Across the Universe" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | May Chan | |
| The lions fall out of the wormhole in different places, while Coran and Allura are trapped in a seemingly endless time loop that makes Coran younger and the mice into different creatures. Meanwhile, Zarkon seeks to uncover the person responsible for the Paladins' escape. Pidge exits the corrupted wormhole in a junk nebula with debris from various a | |||||
| 15 | 2 | "The Depths" | Eugene Lee | Joshua Hamilton | |
| Hunk and Lance crash-land underwater and follow a mermaid to a civilization whose queen promises to keep them safe and help find the others. While resting, Lance is kidnapped by a trio of mer-people who believe the queen to be mind-controlling the populace. Only after freeing Hunk of the control and capturing the queen do they realize that the quee | |||||
| 16 | 3 | "Shiro's Escape" | Chris Palmer | Tim Hedrick | |
| Following the team's reformation after the corrupted wormhole jump, Shiro is in a recovery pod and vividly dreams of the day he escaped. A Galra scientist named Ulaz released Shiro, and instructed him to get back to Earth and find Voltron. Shiro also relates that not all Galra are evil, as a Galra was the previous Black Paladin of Voltron. Finding | |||||
| 17 | 4 | "Greening the Cube" | Eugene Lee | Lars Kenseth | |
| While making repairs to the Castle, the Paladins encounter unusual spongy spores that lead them to a planet of brilliant engineers — the Olkari. When landing, Team Voltron meet the Olkari people in the forest, where they adapted from machine- to nature-based technologies. When rescuing the Olkarian king Lubos, Team Voltron find he willingly sold ou | |||||
| 18 | 5 | "Eye of the Storm" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Joshua Hamilton | |
| Exhausted after a battle, the crew must spring back into action when Zarkon's forces track them down. Though they manage to escape, their wormhole generator begins malfunctioning while in slipstream because of broken teludav lenses. Coran gets a case of the Slipperies, an Altean flu which causes profuse sweating all over. When Team Voltron attempt | |||||
| 19 | 6 | "The Ark of Taujeer" | Chris Palmer | Mark Bemesderfer | |
| On the ravaged planet of Taujeer, Galra commander Morvok strips the planet of resources and prevents the citizens' escape. Allura and Keith, who also believes himself to be the means of Zarkon's tracking, go off on a separate mission to learn how Zarkon is actually locating them; and on their isolated trip debate whether any Galra people are even f | |||||
| 20 | 7 | "Space Mall" | Eugene Lee | Tim Hedrick | |
| Shiro attempts to create a deeper bond with the Black Lion, while Coran takes the others to a swap meet, where they have some strange adventures. After Coran details his time in the swap meets as edgy and filled with space pirates, they arrive and find it to resemble an average mall on Earth. Varkon, a bumbling mall rent-a-cop, sees the four Paladi | |||||
| 21 | 8 | "The Blade of Marmora" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Mark Bemesderfer | |
| When Team Voltron reaches the headquarters of the Blade of Marmora, they find it located in a safe spot between two black holes and a blue Supergiant star. Keith and Shiro travel to the Marmorans' base in an effort to align with the Blade of Marmora, led by Kolivan and his lieutenant, Antok. But Keith's possession of one of their blades causes imme | |||||
| 22 | 9 | "The Belly of the Weblum" | Chris Palmer | Joshua Hamilton | |
| The Paladins split up to gather resources for a showdown with Zarkon. Hunk and Keith -the latter dealing with the fact that Allura now views him with contempt since learning he was part Galran- travel into the belly of the planet-devouring creature known as a Weblum for scaultrite, a material needed in wormhole generators. While there, they see tha | |||||
| 23 | 10 | "Escape from Beta Traz" | Eugene Lee | Mitch Iverson | |
| By the information provided by the Blade of Marmora, Lance, Pidge and Shiro infiltrate a facility to free the only prisoner of the Galra Space Station Beta Traz. Upon successful infiltration, Pidge locates two cells instead of the one they were informed of. Pidge stays in the Main Command Center, but Lance and Shiro must reach and connect to the is | |||||
| 24 | 11 | "Stayin' Alive" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | May Chan | |
| Allura travels to the Balmera to acquire a powerful crystal. When she is about to leave with the crystal, the panoptic Ro-Beast from their last encounter prompts her to call on the Paladins for help. The creature, now merged with part of the encasing crystal it was once in, makes its way to the Castle as Allura goes skyward to protect the Balmera. | |||||
| 25 | 12 | "Best Laid Plans" | Chris Palmer | Joshua Hamilton | |
| After acquiring the teludav from Olkari, the team prepares to launch the operation to defeat Zarkon and bring peace to the universe. When the Marmorans haven't heard from Thace, they urge a delay in action, while Allura argues they continue. Keith plans to infiltrate the main ship of the Galran Fleet, but before he leaves, Allura stops him to apolo | |||||
| 26 | 13 | "Blackout" | Eugene Lee | Tim Hedrick | |
| The Paladins fight to systematically destroy the base to prevent Zarkon's return. As Zarkon himself goes to battle Voltron, Haggar and her Druids go to protect their emperor as he readies his armor, which untested could kill him as well as Voltron. Before Zarkon can do anything, Haggar uses her dark magic to forcefully remove the Quintessence from | |||||
| No. overall | No. If series | Title | Directed by | Written by | |
| 27 | 1 | "Changing of the Guard" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Tim Hedrick | |
| The Paladins must adjust to using only their lions until they can figure out a new means to form Voltron. As they free the people of Puiga, Zarkon's son Lotor takes over the empire in his place, and covertly begins a nefarious plan. | |||||
| 28 | 2 | "Red Paladin" | Chris Palmer | May Chan | |
| Team Voltron shuffle who now pilots which Lions: Keith takes the Black Lion, Lance takes over for Keith's Red Lion, and Allura is chosen by the Blue Lion. Lotor traps the Paladins over Puiga to study their team dynamic after Zarkon's defeat, and pulls out of battle after learning what he wants to know. | |||||
| 29 | 3 | "The Hunted" | Eugene Lee | Joshua Hamilton | |
| Keith, in burning pursuit of Lotor, is easily tricked into following the prince to a storm planet where their sensors malfunction. Keith's blind pursuit causes everyone to separate, but Allura syncs with the Blue Lion and outmaneuvers Lotor to escape and form Voltron. Keith, now focused on his new responsibilities as leader, allows Lotor to escape | |||||
| 30 | 4 | "Hole in the Sky" | Chris Palmer | Tim Hedrick | |
| The team comes across an Altean vessel lodged in a spatial anomaly and pass through it to study. Upon crossing, they find themselves in an alternate universe where the Alteans defeated the Galra 10,000 years ago and have conquered the known universe to "bring peace". They learn that a comet with multi-dimensional properties is made of the same mate | |||||
| 31 | 5 | "The Journey" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Joshua Hamilton | |
| Shiro wakes up with longer hair & facial hair in a Galra cruiser and escapes. Unbeknownst to him, the commander speaks of an "Operation: KURON" where they let him escape. Shiro then lands on an ice planet and meets two rebels who give him a shuttle. Shiro uses the shuttle to stealthily re-board the cruiser and makes his way to Voltron. After a week | |||||
| 32 | 6 | "Tailing a Comet" | Chris Palmer | Mitch Iverson | |
| Lotor's four Generals attack a Galra base to steal a Teludav lens (from episode "Blackout") and the team barely survive a battle with Lotor's forces, where Keith realizes one of the generals is the Galra that was trapped in the Weblum. When Keith is confronted with the difficult choice of pursuing Lotor or destroying the Teludav, he tricks Lotor's | |||||
| 33 | 7 | "The Legend Begins" | Eugene Lee | Tim Hedrick | |
| At the Castle, Coran explains to everyone the true origin of Voltron and the Paladins: King Alfor and Zarkon, despite differences between their peoples, worked united in the defense of their kingdoms. When celebrating a battle victory on Zarkon's homeworld of Daibazaal, a comet lands not far from them made from multi-dimensional properties, which A | |||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | |
| 34 | 1 | "Code of Honor" | Eugene Lee | Tim Hedrick | |
| Keith continues his training with the Blade of Marmora by accompanying them on intelligence missions, in the process neglecting his duties as the leader of Voltron. When Kolivan reveals that the Galra most likely have a secret supply chain of a new form of Quintessence, Keith joins the mission to infiltrate one of the Galra supply vessels. The Blad | |||||
| 35 | 2 | "Reunion" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Mitch Iverson | |
| Pidge has a flashback of Matt coming to comfort her after a rough day at school. On Olkarion, Pidge leaves the team to pursue a lead on Matt. She meets with an arms dealer to negotiate the information, but has to force it from him when he tries to capture her for the bounty he'd get. A hooded figure asks where the "boy" went, and the arms dealer re | |||||
| 36 | 3 | "Black Site" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Tim Hedrick | |
| Emperor Zarkon has fully revived and reclaims the Galra throne. Zarkon relieves Prince Lotor of duty while Haggar, still suspicious of Lotor, keeps an eye on him. Meanwhile, Matt meets the Paladins and Coran and finishes Pidge's Galra tracking system with intelligence he collected while working with the rebels. While spying on Lotor, Haggar learns | |||||
| 37 | 4 | "The Voltron Show!" | Chris Palmer | Joshua Hamilton | |
| Shiro tasks Coran with organizing promotional Voltron appearances to bolster public support for Voltron and the rebel cause. After organizing a terrible show to hospital patients, Coran quietly buys an illegal mental enhancement pill from one of the patients. The team expresses doubts in Coran's ability to manage Voltron appearances after he botche | |||||
| 38 | 5 | "Begin the Blitz" | Eugene Lee | Rocco Pucillo | |
| With the coalition against Zarkon sufficiently large, the Blade of Marmora and Shiro construct a plan to reclaim one third of the Galra Empire by taking down the Galra-occupied planet Naxzela. Prince Lotor leads his generals to the remains of Daizabaal, where he has secretly erected a gate around the inter-reality rift where his mother had worked. | |||||
| 39 | 6 | "A New Defender" | Steve In-Chang Ahn | Tim Hedrick | |
| The coalition's success is abruptly interrupted when an incoming Galra cruiser remotely disables the Galra technology they were using. Lotor is spotted by the Empire in deep space and is pursued by Zarkon's fleet, only narrowly escaping. Haggar, focused on stopping the coalition's tirade, begins a ritual that traps Voltron on Naxzela's surface by m | |||||
References
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