Pop Culture References

(The) Adventures of Pluto Nash

• Description on Undershirt -- "don't leave home without it"

Alien

• Facehugger and associated gear

All Your Base

• Move ZigZagger
• When capturing a base, events says: "All your base are belong to us."

Asterix the Gaul

• Description on Pickpocket Drone -- "Les gau,gau, les gau, gau, les gualois!"
• Lyceum Mission requiring [A38 pass card] -- The 12 works of Asterix, "l'hotel des fous"

Baby, It's Cold Outside

• Description on Death Heated Over -- "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Babylon 5

• Earthforce is the military branch of the Earthlings in Babylon 5.

Back to the Future

• Description on Flux Capacitor -- "1 point 21 gigawatts"

Dell

• Dall Computers Assembly Plant

Doom

• Description on BFD 9000 prototype -- "Yeah, this is on Big Freakin' Drone! Well, a prototype of a Big Freakin' Drone"

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

• Grinch Scoop

Dune

• Emperor Shaddam

Ender's Game Series

• Rackham is named after Mazer Rackham, a human fleet commander who won the war against formics in Ender's Game book series by Orson Scott Card.

Firefly

• Bonnet mission chain agents named after actors who appeared in Firefly
  • Ring World Administrator Jewel Staite (Kaylee)
  • Ring World Refugee Alan Tudyk (Wash)
• Engineer mission vendor for the Engineer Chain Transfer is "Engineer Kaylee Grand".

Futurama

• Description on Chronoton Radiation -- "What's this? Quantum particles of time? Oh my!"

(The) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy

• The End of the Universe
• Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- "Welcome to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The show will begin shortly.
• Description on Milli's Burger --
• Infinite Improbability Drive
• Description on Towel -- "More useful than you could ever imagine."

Ikea

• Description on Complicated Station Kit VII -- "From Ikea, come in 123812391289 pieces."
• Description on Iquea Workshop -- "Creating do-it yourself furniture since 2035."

(The) Increadible Hulk

• Guardian of the Lyceum shout -- "Don't make me angry - you wouldn't like me when I'm angry..."

I Shot the Sheriff

• Description on Constable Blockade -- "I shot the sherif!"

Le Pirate Maboule

• Roaming Pirate Maboule AI
• Maboule's Hideout

Red Dwarf

• Description on Paxian Spacesuit -- "It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere, I'm all alone, more or less..."
• Source of the Hop Drive, from The Golden Egg -- "it's a hopping drive invented by some 'super computer' by the name of Holly"

Richard I of England

• Description on Lion Heart -- "Coeur De Lion"

(The) Rocky Horror Picture Show

• Rocky Horror and Horrible Rocky

Shakespeare

• Description on Corundum Thorax -- "To Corundum or not to Corundum?"

(The) Simpsons

• Description on Sawed Off -- "Knock off a Quick-E-Mart near you"
• Description on Burns Plant -- "Excellent"

Snow White

• Description on Vanity Mirror -- "mirror mirror on the wall"

Song of the South

• Description on Enzyme Thrust -- "zipideedoodah"

Space Balls

• Barf character and something in throat gag in First Mate Mission
• Dark Helmet

Star Control

• Description on Radiation Cone -- "ode to the Umgah"
• Description on Vazaha Twit -- "ode to the Pkunk"
• Prism Missions mention SCII and Spati

Star Sonata

• Description on Vazaha Space Blue -- "Blend with the UI"
• Sonata Asylum in Lunacy

Star Trek

• Description on NCC-Bulk and NCC-Special -- "To Boldly Trade Where No Man Has Traded Before."
• Description on Beam Mastery -- "Scotty ain't got nuthin' on you."
• Cadet W. Crusher, and the Description on Crusher’s Special Modifications -- "If I energize the flow here, and reverse the power couplings here... I might just invert field density and overloader my systems!"
• Description on Transference Concentrator -- "More transference! I need more transference!"
• Beta Antares is the Federation Shipyard in the Antares sector.

Star Wars

• Harrison Solo Missions
• Palpatine and Deathstar in East Vindia Missions
• Paximinus Missions mention the Throne Wars (Clone Wars)
• Description on Death Striker: 'Personal ship of Dark "DS-61-3" Curse.'

Starship Troopers

• Earthforce Headquarter in Sol -- "Join Earthforce and save the Universe. Service guarantees citizenship. would you like to know more?"

Transformers

• Description on Energon -- "Energon is the primary source of power for the Transformers. using Energon, transformers live, power their machinery, and even craft weapons."

Wing Commander

• Zaphragi race is largerly based on the feline Kilrathi.

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