Attached Link: Starlost

I'd forgotten about Starlost, but it wasn't on very long to be memorable. It was developed by Harlan Ellison, whose creative career in the last decade seems to be more devoted to suing anybody who makes a movie that remotely used an element that could have come from one of his tales. Ellison successfully sued for the Terminator series as being based on his Outer Limits episode, Soldier, because it involved a soldier traveling back in time. Luckily, for Harlan, HG Welles isn't around to ask him where he got the time travel idea. The Starlost ship owes a lot to Silent Running. I don't recall liking Starlost. I wanted to because there wasn't much TV scifi back then, but it was so dreadfully boring. The concept was fine, but it was badly executed.

Even cooler trivia about Battlestar Galactica was using stock footage from Earthquake to show Cylon ships ravaging earth. A Cyclon ship comes swooping down, shooting rays, and a clever cut shows the rays hitting a building being demolished from Earthquake footage. As clunky as it sounds, it was very impressive.

Black Hole was after Star Wars, but the ship's design is more like the spindly Silent Running without the biospheres.

I don't recall the Darkstar ship as being big. Then, everybody's helping me remember shows and films I'd forgotten about, so I'm not going to count too heavily on my memory there.

Speaking of taking geekdom to new levels, there's an easter egg on the Aliens DVD showing a guy that created a poweloader costume for a Halloween contest. On a whim, he went to James Cameron's office and, without an appointment, put the costume on in the parking lot and was hired on the spot

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