It's the twenty-fourth and a half century, and Earth's Galactic Protectorate has a new secret weapon...a frozen duck. After 351 years as a duck-sicle, Duck Dodgers has returned to room temperature and gotten himself a large space ship, a crew and more responsibility than he deserves. This is a duck with lots of luck. In a startling case of résumé padding, Duck has convinced the people in charge of defending Earth that he was one of the planet's leading space explorers and a true hero. In fact, he is a lazy coward with an inflated ego. Still, Duck's creative deceit has worked; he has been given a starship and a crew, in the form of an Eager Young Space Cadet, played by Porky Pig. Wherever he goes, Duck Dodgers has an amazing ability to make any mission far more difficult than it needs to be.