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I saw the movie in Germany, in the late 90s or early 2000s.

It is live action, not animation. Practical effects, no CGI as far as I recall.

A starship is on its way to Earth. It is some kind of commercial transport ship, aesthetics and tech-level more "Alien" than "Star Trek".

Early in the movie, the ship is hit by a small asteroid, and critically damaged.

The ship's captain takes the only available rescue capsule, and arrives safely at Earth, reporting that the rest of the crew died in the accident.

The main part of the movie is about the rest of the crew (a small group, men and women, not more than 10, probably less) is trying to fix the ship to get home. In this process, most of the crew die one after another. The only particular one that I remember is a female crewmember who performs an EVA for repairs, and dies rather graphically when her space-suit is accidentally pierced by an antenna, and immediately decompresses.

In the end, only one male crewmember arrives at Earth, confronting the captain in front of running cameras about leaving his crew behind.

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This is Trapped in Space (1994), a TV-movie based on Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "Breaking Strain" (1949).

After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.

The film is almost entirely set aboard the Venture, a cargo ship headed for Venus with a crew of six (four men, two women and a dog). The aesthetic more closely resembles Alien than Star Trek, and human spaceships here are apparently limited to sub-light speeds.

About nine minutes in, the captain is alone on the bridge when he notices an asteroid on a collision course with the ship. Rather than alert the rest of the crew, he heads directly for the ship's lifeboat and abandons ship just before impact, leaving the others for dead.

The impact causes a hull breach and depletes the ship's oxygen reserves, leaving enough oxygen for only three of the five remaining crew members to make it to Venus alive. The impact also damages the ship's communications systems, so while they can still receive transmissions, they can no longer send them. They watch a news report in which the captain lies about having tried to save them before abandoning ship.

Soon after, other crew members start dying one-by-one, with the film leaving it ambiguous as to whether their deaths were by accident or design. As shown in the video clip below, a female crew member dies from explosive decompression when her spacesuit is pierced while she's attempting repairs on the ship's exterior. A male crew member was with her at the time and may or may not have been responsible for her death.

In the last fifteen minutes, the ship reaches Venus' orbit and is met by another ship from the planet's surface. When the ship is boarded by a search party including the captain, they find a surviving male crew member who punches the captain in the face and disputes what he told the authorities.

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