Considered the best episode of the animated Star Trek, “Yesteryear” by D.C. Fontana was about Spock going back in time to give his younger self wisdom.

However, Fontana, when writing for Land of the Lost reused this exact same premise in “Elsewhen,” where a future, all grown up version of Holly goes back in time to advise her younger self in a key crisis. It’s another example of how Land of the Lost (a much, much better show than Generation X’s misleading cheesy collective memory of it would have you believe) was a sister show to the original Star Trek. Among other things, the pilot episodes of Land of the Lost were written by Next Generation co-creator and original series writer David Gerrold.

Erica Hagen played the grown-up Holly in this episode. Later, she would play a phantasm of Will and Holly’s mother (in the only episode she is ever discussed), implying that Holly grows up to be physically identical to her mother.

“I fly for the glory of Ra. The sun is my strength, the sky is my home.” - Jeff Parker in “Future Quest” (2016). A prayer to the Egyptian gods he is the last remaining worshipper of, given just before flight by habit, by Ray Randall, aka Birdman.

Hey, what are those blue windows under the movie Enterprise, anyway?

The best look that you have at them is in the “vanity shot” in Star Trek the Motion Picture, where the camera rotates around and goes below the engineering section.

The answer is that they are the USS Enterprise’s arboretum or botanical gardens, a huge cathedral ceiling section of the ship containing tall trees and a botanical garden (the “shapes” in the windows are pine and oak and other trees). Psychologically, the purpose of the arboretum was recreation, and a relief from the stifling monotony and claustrophobia of shipboard life in space. But the arboretum served other functions, like oxygen generation and botanical research. The arboretum was clearly identified in Mr. Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise by Pocket Books.

From the tech manuals, we learn the arboretum has a snack bar and a pool for tropical fish.

The pre-refit original series Enterprise also had an arboretum that was seen on a few episodes, as did the Next Generation Enterprise.

Note: information and schematics only accessible to Senior Judges and above.

“The Invaders” (1967). In this paranoid series that took inspiration from Hitchcock, an architect discovers an invasion in progress of aliens that can assume human form. Firmly within the sixties’ obsession with shows about heroic drifters on the run from the law or mysterious enemies, it was created to replace The Fugitive in its time slot, though other examples of this kind of show from this era are the Immortal (about a man with a blood type that makes him immortal fleeing from those that seek to steal his blood to live forever), or Coronet Blue (a series about an amnesiac hunted by mysterious spies).

“Drifter” shows continued to be popular well into the 1970s.

One notable episode of Season 2 of “The Invaders” featured reliable tv day player, Gene Hackman, as a possessed alien invader:

Other guest stars included Joanne Lindville, Peter Graves, Ed Asner, Burgess Meredith, Diana Muldaur, and Jack Lord.

Thom Christopher as Buck Rogers’ brooding, loner, intense best friend and sidekick, Hawk of the Bird People (1979).

The character was created for the show’s retooled second season, which was more Star Trek-like, about Buck leading a voyage to discover forgotten human colonies. Since Spock was a breakout character of Star Trek, it was felt something similar was needed for the series, with Buck Rogers having an alien best friend.

The Bird People were the race who built the Easter Island heads, which showed creator Glen Larson’s fascination with von Daniken and Ancient Aliens, a concept he developed better with his other show, Battlestar Galactica.

I think he isn’t better remembered because the slashfic writers of the era, who were growing obsessed with Blake’s 7, along with the Luke/Leia and Han/Leia shipping wars, did not embrace him. This was possibly due to the lack of chemistry, friendship or otherwise, between Gil Gerard and Thom Christopher. It sounds like I’m trying to be funny, but I’m not….that’s really the reason.

This 1990-1991 season basketball card for Mark Jackson became notable when it was discovered in 2018 by journalist Steven Zurance that Lyle and Eric Menendez, two brothers put on trial for the murder of their parents, were spotted in the front row of the audience on the card.

It is believed the Menendez Brothers got tickets to see the Knicks in Madison Square Garden as a spending spree after the insurance payout of the murder of their parents.

Subway Sandwiches, and their pitchman, disgraced sex criminal Jared Fogle, did a promotion in 2010 for “Land of the Lost.”

Jon Pertwee and William Hartnell in “Will Any Gentlemen….” (1953).

Created by Alan Grant.

Actress Rosamund Kwan is not only of Manchu ethnicity, but descended from a noble clan who often married into the imperial family. Her last name, Guan or Kwan (關) is a Chinese variation of the Manchu clan name Gūwalgiya, who were of the White Banner (Manchu society was divided into eight military-social banners). Her clan can be traced to the 12th Century and the Jin Dynasty, and one of her ancestors was Fiongdon, one of the Five Companions of Nurhaci, founder of the Manchu Dynasty. Fiongdon, who had the Mongol title of jargūci (lawgiver), fell out of favor for attempting to cast spells on his enemies. Another of her relatives, Ronglu, was Chief of the Grand Council under the Empress Dowager, and was the grandfather of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, an automobile driving homosexual eccentric.

Though one of the five main ethnic groups of China represented on the five stars of the Chinese flag, most Manchu since the fall of the imperial age have blended into Chinese culture and do not speak their own language, though there is presently a revival of Manchu culture and language in China. Even in the imperial age, Manchu preferred to write in Chinese.

“Alligator 2” (1991)

Ballestar.