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Commander James Hawkins is in charge of the Galaxy Alliance stellar ship S.S. Explorer and commands the Vehicle Voltron. His orders were to find habitable planets for the Galaxy Alliance's overpopulated worlds. He and his friend Captain Newley have explored many different planets on several adventures with the Vehicle Force.
Personality[]
Despite being a respected commander, Hawkins unfortunately has an anti-heroic side to him: in “Help not Wanted”, he refuses to be flexible and backpedal on his order not to use Voltron when negotiating fails and the support fleet was being attacked by Mongo’s forces. The fleet crew could have died if Voltron hadn’t saved the day, but Hawkins was rather vindictive about the explorers’ well-intentioned disobedience, and though the “specially prepared meal” Hawkins makes the captains eat turned out to be ordinary butterscotch, to Jeff’s relief, it was still a pretty jerk-like way to punish them, let alone do at all, as the captains could have gotten mild food poisoning.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe cartoon continuity[]
Vehicle Force sub-series[]
He commands the Explorer and everyone on it, including the Vehicle Force. Hawkins works closely with Captain Newley.
Devil's Due Publishing comics continuity[]
Hawkins collects five military misfits for a top-secret mission. [1]
Notes[]
- In the original Armored Fleet Dairugger XIV, Ise Shinji (Commander Hawkins) was ranked Captain and executive officer aboard ship with Admiral Dick Asimov (Captain Newley) as his overall superior officer. The dialogue for the English language Voltron adaptation indicated that Hawkins outranked Newley. However, the animation in several cases gave clear indication of their former ranks. In some scenes, Asimov's lines were given to Hawkins.
- Hawkins name is derived from the protagonist of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island.
- Hawkins voice actor, Peter Cullen, also did the opening narration for the Defender of the Universe series.