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** Mihmiverse regular Michael Kaiser plays the body of A.D.A.M. as well as the Ominai and the Oculon.

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** Mihmiverse regular Michael Kaiser plays the body of A.D.A.M. as well as the Ominai and the largest Oculon.



** Elizabeth Kaiser, Stephanie Mihm's daughter, has a cameo as the Eh'donish girl who gives Captain Jackson some bread and one of the Oculons.

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** Elizabeth Kaiser, Stephanie Mihm's daughter, has a cameo as the Eh'donish girl who gives Captain Jackson some bread and plays one of the Oculons.



** Aliens that resemble the Bat Creature from ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' and ''Film//TheMonsterOfPhantomLake'' can be seen among the alien creatures in the BarFullOfAliens.

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** Aliens that resemble the Bat Creature from ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' and ''Film//TheMonsterOfPhantomLake'' ''Film/TheMonsterOfPhantomLake'' can be seen among the alien creatures in the BarFullOfAliens.
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* Oculothorax: The Oculons

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* Oculothorax: {{Oculothorax}}: The Oculons



* Robot: A.D.A.M.

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* Robot: {{Robot}}: A.D.A.M.
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** A.D.A.M. seems to be a tribute to NOMAD from [["The Changeling" Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling]]episode of the Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.

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** A.D.A.M. seems to be a tribute to NOMAD from [["The [[Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling "The Changeling" Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling]]episode ]]episode of the Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.
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* Hologram: Index, the interface for the super-computer A.D.A.M. built to manage the world of Eh'don.

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* Hologram: {{Hologram}}: Index, the interface for the super-computer A.D.A.M. built to manage the world of Eh'don.
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* CrazyCredits: No alien creatures of any kind were harmed in the making of this film. Except Michael Kaiser. He was unintentionally whacked on the head a couple of times. Sorry Michael.

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* CrazyCredits: CreditsGag: No alien creatures of any kind were harmed in the making of this film. Except Michael Kaiser. He was unintentionally whacked on the head a couple of times. Sorry Michael.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movies ends [[spoiler:with Captain Jackson going to track down Yureena Null and his father's star drive, having taken A.D.A.M.'s ship with his blessing and installing the voice modulator based on his mother on the ship.]]

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movies movie ends [[spoiler:with Captain Jackson going to track down Yureena Null and his father's star drive, having taken A.D.A.M.'s ship with his blessing and installing the voice modulator based on his mother on the ship.]]



* ToBeContinued: The movie ends with this, as [[spoliler: Captain Jackson goes to track down Yureena Null]].

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* ToBeContinued: The movie ends with this, as [[spoliler: Captain [[spoliler:Captain Jackson goes to track down Yureena Null]].
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** Even A.D.A.M. is a ManipulativeBastard, who uses Captain Jackson for his own ends. Granting those ends are saving the galaxy from The Ominai.

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** Even A.D.A.M. is a ManipulativeBastard, who uses Captain Jackson for his own ends. Granting ends, granting that those ends are saving his people and the galaxy from The Ominai.



* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movies ends [[with Captain Jackson going to track down Yureena Null and his father's star drive, having taken A.D.A.M.'s ship with his blessing and installing the voice modulator based on his mother on the ship.]]

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movies ends [[with [[spoiler:with Captain Jackson going to track down Yureena Null and his father's star drive, having taken A.D.A.M.'s ship with his blessing and installing the voice modulator based on his mother on the ship.]]



** Later, [[spoiler: A.D.A.M. himself after his physical form is destroyed.]]

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** Later, [[spoiler: A.[[spoiler:A.D.A.M. himself after his physical form is destroyed.]]

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** The Ominai are a race of religious fanatics out to take over the universe.
** Even A.D.A.M. is a ManipulativeBastard, who uses Captain Jackson for his own ends. Granting those ends are saving the galaxy from The Ominai.



* AndTheAdventureContinues: The movies ends [[with Captain Jackson going to track down Yureena Null and his father's star drive, having taken A.D.A.M.'s ship with his blessing and installing the voice modulator based on his mother on the ship.]]



* CrazyCredits: No alien creatures of any kind were harmed in the making of this film. Except Michael Kaiser. He was unintentionally whacked on the head a couple of times. Sorry Michael.



* {{Homage}}: To TheFifties ScienceFiction.

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* Hologram: Index, the interface for the super-computer A.D.A.M. built to manage the world of Eh'don.
** Later, [[spoiler: A.D.A.M. himself after his physical form is destroyed.]]
* {{Homage}}: To TheFifties ScienceFiction.ScienceFiction in general.



* PerfectPacifistPeople: The new race of Eh'donians, created by A.D.A.M.
* ReversePolarity: A.D.A.M. tells Captain Jackson he will need to "reverse the polarity to the primary reactant chamber" at one point.



* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Ominai. They survived the destruction of Eh'don by being the one group who refused to take sides in the nuclear war that destroyed the planet. They formed a colony on a barren world, where they survived, but became embittered and came to view themselves as the chosen ones destined to take over the universe in a genocidal holy war.



** Mihmiverse regular Michael Cook provides the voice of the Rocket Command technician.

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** Mihmiverse regular Michael Cook provides the voice of the Rocket Command technician.technician and does a cameo as the alien smoking a water pipe in the BarFullOfAliens.


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** Elizabeth Kaiser, Stephanie Mihm's daughter, has a cameo as the Eh'donish girl who gives Captain Jackson some bread and one of the Oculons.
** Elliot Mihm, the director's son, has a cameo as the boy chased out of the BarFullOfAliens.
** Emma Danbury, Josh Craig's stepdaughter, appears as one of the Eh'donish girls.


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** Aliens that resemble the Bat Creature from ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' and ''Film//TheMonsterOfPhantomLake'' can be seen among the alien creatures in the BarFullOfAliens.


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** The Ominai technology resembles the Interocitor from ''Film/ThisIslandEarth''.
** As A.D.A.M. attempts to explain why it would be bad for The Ominai to complete their teleportation technology, Captain Jackson says he is fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing, in a nod to ''Film/Ghostbusters1984''.
** A.D.A.M. returns the voice-modulator based on his mother "[[Film/A New Hope for luck]]."
** A.D.A.M. later intercepts a message from a band of smugglers on the fifth planet of the [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathofKhan Ceti Alpha system]].


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* ToBeContinued: The movie ends with this, as [[spoliler: Captain Jackson goes to track down Yureena Null]].
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* FunWithAcroynms: The robotic probe A.D.A.M. - Autonomous Data Acquisition Module.

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* FunWithAcroynms: FunWithAcronyms: The robotic probe A.D.A.M. - Autonomous Data Acquisition Module.



** The Oculon make noises like The Sand People in ''Film//A New Hope''.

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** The Oculon make noises like The Sand People in ''Film//A ''Film/A New Hope''.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Only a last-minute save by stops Mike Jackson from flushing himself into space when he runs out of food and water.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Only a last-minute save by A.D.A.M. stops Mike Jackson from flushing himself into space when he runs out of food and water.



** Later, Mike Johnson travels to Krondor in search of a similar technology.



* NoTimeToExplain: A.D.A.M. is incredibly reluctant to speak plainly to Captain Jackson and keeps insisting on

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* NeuralImplanting: A.D.A.M. uses a knowledge transfer device to implant the knowledge of how to deactivate the electro-netic sensor net on Krondor into Captain Jackson's brain.
* NoTimeToExplain: A.D.A.M. is incredibly reluctant to speak incapable of speaking plainly to Captain Jackson and keeps insisting on Jackson.
* Oculothorax: The Oculons
* Robot: A.D.A.M.


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** This is also likely a nod to the forest moon of [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Endor]], as Captain Jackson has to go there to deactivate an energy shield.
** The Oculon make noises like The Sand People in ''Film//A New Hope''.
** With spherical heads with antenna and broad bodies, The Oculon resemble the Ro-Men from ''Film/RobotMonster''.
* SpacePirates: Yureena Null and her crew.


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* SurveillanceDrone: A.D.A.M. was originally one of these, meant to scout nearby worlds for intelligent life.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: A.D.A.M.'s transit beam.

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* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: A.D.A.M. returned to Eh'don to discover that his creators had destroyed themselves in a nuclear war.



* DrivenToSuicide: Only a last-minute save by stops Mike Jackson from flushing himself into space when he runs out of food and water.



* FunWithAcroynms: The robotic probe A.D.A.M. - Autonomous Data Acquisition Module.



* MadeASlave: Captain Jackson is abducted with the intention of selling him into slavery.

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** A.D.A.M. seems to be a tribute to NOMAD from [["The Changeling" Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling]]episode of the Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.
* HumanAliens: The people of planet Eh'don and whatever species Yureena Null is.
* LEGOGenetics: A.D.A.M. was able to reconstitute the people of Eh'don and made some improvements, removing the aggression that led to the species destroying themselves with a nuclear war. Unfortunately, this created a species that was entirely dependent on A.D.A.M. as their caretaker.
* MadeASlave: Captain Jackson is abducted by Yureena Null with the intention of selling him into slavery.


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* NoTimeToExplain: A.D.A.M. is incredibly reluctant to speak plainly to Captain Jackson and keeps insisting on


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** A.D.A.M.'s original prime directive was to [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and civilizations."]]
** A.D.A.M. makes reference to the forest moon of [[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Krondor]].
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* MyGreatestFailure: Captain Jackson blames himself for Lt. Elliot refusing to return to Earth far more than anyone else did after ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'' and his own self-hatred for driving away his friends and loved ones.
* {{Nepotism}}: It is revealed that the only reason Mike Jackson was selected to lead the first mission to Mars in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'' is because his father was the Commander of the space program.


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** Mihmiverse regular M. Scott Taulman plays the role of Gustav - an astronaut and former best friend to Captain Mike Jackson.


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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Gustav and Captain Mike Johnson. Apparently Gustav was jealous that Mike was selected to lead the first mission to Mars in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'' over him and the only reason Mike got the job was because of {{Nepotism}}.

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* HeroicBSOD: Captain Jackson has one after several days in the escape pod, talking to the voice modulator from the E.S.S. Venture as if it were his mother and complaining about how everyone who ever loved him abandoned him after the events of ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars''.



* MasochistsMeal: Captain Jackson describes the emergency rations he finds in his escape pod as having the consistency and taste of wet cardboard.



** Mike Jackson makes reference to having an ex-wife.

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** Mike Jackson makes reference to having an ex-wife.ex-wife who left him. Presumably from the shame of his being drummed out of the service and all but disowned by his father.
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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].

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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].
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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in [[Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].

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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in [[Film/Spaceballs [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].
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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in ''Film/Spaceballs''.

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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in ''Film/Spaceballs''.[[Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].
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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in [[Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].

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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in [[Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].''Film/Spaceballs''.
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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in Film/Spaceballs.

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** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in Film/Spaceballs.[[Film/Spaceballs Spaceballs]].



* WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.

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* WorthlessYellowRocks: *WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.
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** Yureena Null's ship is The Aeon Eagle - "[[Film/ANewHopeone of only two ships to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs]]."

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** Yureena Null's ship is The Aeon Eagle - "[[Film/ANewHopeone "[[Film/ANewHope one of only two ships to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs]]."



* WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.

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* WorthlessYellowRocks: *WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Yureena Null makes reference to selling Captain Jackson to "a collector of sorts" who is very rich and has a menagerie of one-of-a-kind species. Four years after this movie was released, GuardiansOfTheGalaxy comes out...



* WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.

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* WorthlessYellowRocks: *WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.

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The good news is the E.S.S. Venture doesn't blow up when the drive is activated. The bad news is that Captain Jackson overshoots the projected target of Jupiter and is stranded in an uncharted section of outer space outside of clear radio contact with Earth. Thus begins a space [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]] (not [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey THAT]] one!) as Captain Jackson encounters various strange new life forms as he tries to make his way home.

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The good news is the E.S.S. Venture doesn't blow up when the drive is activated. The bad news is that Captain Jackson overshoots the projected target of Jupiter and is stranded in an uncharted section of outer space outside of clear radio contact with Earth. Thus begins a space [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]] (not [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey THAT]] one!) as Captain Jackson encounters various strange new life forms as he tries to make his way home.back home to Earth.



* AliensSpeakingEnglish: As in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', there are no language barriers between the aliens and Captain Jackson.
* BarFullOfAliens: Captain Jackson goes to one.

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* AliensAreBastards: Several examples.
** The alien bartender gives Captain Jackson a particularly strong liquor to amuse himself by watching his reaction as he first drinks it.
** Yureena Null pretends to be a mechanic only to scrap The Venture and try to sell Captain Jackson into slavery.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: As in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', there are no language barriers between the humanoid aliens and Captain Jackson.
* BarFullOfAliens: Captain Jackson goes to one. one in search of help (and a drink) after his ship crashes.
* BorrowedBiometricBypass: Captain Jackson has to use the hand of one of Yureena Null's henchmen to open the hatchway to the escape pods on the Aeon Eagle.
* TheCaptain: Captain Mike Jackson.
* TheCollector: Captain Jackson is nearly sold to one of these, who apparently collects rare species.



* HilariousInHindsight: Yureena Null makes reference to selling Captain Jackson to "a collector of sorts" who is very rich and has a menagerie of one-of-a-kind species. Four years after this movie was released, GuardiansOfTheGalaxy comes out...



* MadeASlave: Captain Jackson is abducted with the intention of selling him into slavery.



* StarfishAliens: An alien with a star-fish shaped head and a single eye can be seen in the BarFullOfAliens.

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** Captain Jackson's fighting-style involves a lot of moves borrowed from [[TheKirk Captain Kirk]].
** Yureena Null's ship is The Aeon Eagle - "[[Film/ANewHopeone of only two ships to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs]]."
** Captain Jackson will tap his forehead and say "Think Think Think" like Disney's version of Franchise/WinnieThePooh when he needs to come up with a plan.
** The scene in which Captain Jackson mockingly waves at Yureena Null through the escape pod porthole as he escapes from her ship seems to be a nod to the similar scenes involving the escape pods in Film/Spaceballs.
* StarfishAliens: An alien with a star-fish starfish shaped head and a single eye can be seen in the BarFullOfAliens.BarFullOfAliens.
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Yureena Null, yes? Nearly everything she says is phrased like a question, yes?



** By 1992, Phantom Lake is apparently clean enough to fish in, after having spawned multiple MuckMonster beasties in TheFifties.

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** By 1992, Phantom Lake is apparently clean enough to fish in, after having spawned multiple MuckMonster beasties in TheFifties.TheFifties.
** Mike Jackson makes reference to having an ex-wife.
*WorthlessYellowRocks: According to Yureena Null, gold is one of the most common elements in the quadrant into which Captain Jackson traveled. This is why she laughs when Captain Jackson says the most valuable part of his ship is the gold in the couplings.

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The good news is the E.S.S. Venture doesn't blow up when the drive is activated. The bad news is that Captain Jackson overshoots the projected target of Jupiter and is stranded in an uncharted section of outer space outside of clear radio contact with Earth. Thus begins a space [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]] (not [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey THAT]] one!) as Captain Jackson encounters strange new life forms as he tries to make his way home.

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The good news is the E.S.S. Venture doesn't blow up when the drive is activated. The bad news is that Captain Jackson overshoots the projected target of Jupiter and is stranded in an uncharted section of outer space outside of clear radio contact with Earth. Thus begins a space [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]] (not [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey THAT]] one!) as Captain Jackson encounters various strange new life forms as he tries to make his way home.


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** Yureena Null refers to the BarFullOfAliens as "[[Film/ANewHope a wretched hive of scum and villany]]."
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* RubberForeheadAliens: All the aliens that aren't puppets or don't look like ordinary humans.
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** Mrs. Saint Marie-Jackson from ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld'' and ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' is confirmed to have died sometime between 1987 and 1992 and to have devoted her life to cleaning up Phantom Lake.
** By 1992, Phantom Lake is apparently clean enough to fish in, after having spawned multiple MuckMonsters in TheFifties.

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** Mrs. Saint Marie-Jackson from ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld'' and ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' is confirmed to have died sometime between 1987 and 1992 and to have devoted her life to cleaning up Phantom Lake.
Lake. Her dying wish was for her husband to try and reconcile with their son.
** By 1992, Phantom Lake is apparently clean enough to fish in, after having spawned multiple MuckMonsters MuckMonster beasties in TheFifties.
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{{Homage}}: To TheFifties ScienceFiction.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The E.S.S. Venture is powered by a FTL star drive.

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{{Homage}}: To TheFifties ScienceFiction.
* FasterThanLightTravel: The E.S.S. Venture is powered by a FTL star drive.
* {{Homage}}: To TheFifties ScienceFiction.
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* BarFullOfAliens: Captain Jackson goes to one.


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* CreatorCameo: Christopher R. Mihm provides the voice of A.D.A.M. and has a cameo in the BarFullOfAliens as the man in the bathrobe with the towel.


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** Christopher R. Mihm's cameo in the BarFullOfAliens seems to be a nod to Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy (man in a bathrobe and sleeping clothes, carrying a towel.)
* StarfishAliens: An alien with a star-fish shaped head and a single eye can be seen in the BarFullOfAliens.
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* AliensSpeakEnglish: As in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', there are no language barriers between the aliens and Captain Jackson.

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* AliensSpeakEnglish: AliensSpeakingEnglish: As in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', there are no language barriers between the aliens and Captain Jackson.
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''Destination: Outer Space'' was the fifth film by Creator/ChristopherRMihm and the fifth film in The Franchise/{{Mihmiverse}} SharedUniverse. A direct follow-up to ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', the film continues the story of Mike Johnson.

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''Destination: Outer Space'' was the fifth film by Creator/ChristopherRMihm and the fifth film in The Franchise/{{Mihmiverse}} SharedUniverse. A direct follow-up to ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', the film continues the story of Captain Mike Johnson.

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Set in 1992, five years after the events of ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', Mike Johnson is spending his days drinking and feeling sorry for himself, having apparently been CourtMartialed

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Set in 1992, five years after the events of ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', Former Captain Mike Johnson Jackson is spending his days drinking and feeling sorry for himself, having apparently been CourtMartialed
CourtMartialed after the events of the earlier film. Luckily, his father, who originally led the railroading against him, had a change of heart and pulled some strings to get Mike reinstated. Unluckily, it was as the test pilot of the E.S.S. Venture - an experimental new spaceship with a [[FasterThanLightTravel faster-than-light]] speed star drive they aren't sure will work safely.

The good news is the E.S.S. Venture doesn't blow up when the drive is activated. The bad news is that Captain Jackson overshoots the projected target of Jupiter and is stranded in an uncharted section of outer space outside of clear radio contact with Earth. Thus begins a space [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odyssey]] (not [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey THAT]] one!) as Captain Jackson encounters strange new life forms as he tries to make his way home.



* TheAlcoholic: Mike Johnson.
* AliensSpeakEnglish: As in ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', there are no language barriers between the aliens and Captain Jackson.



** It seems Rocket Command didn't take it well when the first manned mission to Mars came back a man short because one of their astronauts
* DrowningMySorrows: As the movie opens, Mike Johnson is such a drunken wretch he tries to open a beer bottle with his teeth after his bottle opener falls out of his reach while he's in the middle of drinking and fishing, because he is too drunk to stand up and pick it up.

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** It seems Rocket Command (and Commander Jackson in particular) didn't take it well when the first manned mission to Mars came back a man short because one of their astronauts
an alien prophecy and someone (i.e. Captain Mike Jackson) had to take the blame for it.
* DrowningMySorrows: As the movie opens, Mike Johnson is such a drunken wretch he tries to open a beer bottle with his teeth after his bottle opener falls out of his reach while he's in the middle of drinking and fishing, because he is too drunk to stand up and pick it up.



* FasterThanLightTravel: The E.S.S. Venture is powered by a FTL star drive.



-->'''Gustav:''' "Now, you look here, you drunk, miserable, failure - I don't care if I've known you my entire life! I don't care if our dads are best friends!"

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-->'''Gustav:''' "Now, you look here, you drunk, miserable, miserable failure - I don't care if I've known you my entire life! I don't care if our dads are best friends!"



** Mihmiverse regular Josh Craig reprises his roles as Commander Jackson and Captain Mike Jackson.
** Mihmiverse regular Michael Kaiser plays the body of A.D.A.M. as well as the Ominai and the Oculon.
** Mihmiverse regular Michael Cook provides the voice of the Rocket Command technician.
** Mihmiverse regular Shannon Mc Donough provides the voice for the E.S.S. Venture computer. In a nod to her role as Mrs. Saint Marie-Jackson, a disoriented Captain Jackson says "Mom?" when the computer first speaks.
** Stephanie Mihm, the director's wife, plays the role of Index.



** Josh Craig also reprises the role of Mike Jackson's father, Commander Jackson, in voice-over.



** Mrs. Saint Marie-Jackson from ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld'' and ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' is confirmred to have died sometime before 1992 and to have devoted her life to cleaning up Phantom Lake.

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** Mrs. Saint Marie-Jackson from ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld'' and ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' is confirmred confirmed to have died sometime before between 1987 and 1992 and to have devoted her life to cleaning up Phantom Lake.
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''Destination: Outer Space'' was the fifth film by Creator/ChristopherRMihm and the fifth film in The Franchise/{{Mihmiverse}} SharedUniverse. A direct follow-up to ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', the film continues the story of Mike Johnson.

Set in 1992, five years after the events of ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars'', Mike Johnson is spending his days drinking and feeling sorry for himself, having apparently been CourtMartialed

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!!This film provides examples of:

* CourtMartialed: What apparently happened to Mike Johnson after the events of ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars''.
** It seems Rocket Command didn't take it well when the first manned mission to Mars came back a man short because one of their astronauts
* DrowningMySorrows: As the movie opens, Mike Johnson is such a drunken wretch he tries to open a beer bottle with his teeth after his bottle opener falls out of his reach while he's in the middle of drinking and fishing, because he is too drunk to stand up and pick it up.
{{Homage}}: To TheFifties ScienceFiction.
* MrExposition: Gustav.
-->'''Gustav:''' "Now, you look here, you drunk, miserable, failure - I don't care if I've known you my entire life! I don't care if our dads are best friends!"
* ShoutOut: Several.
* TheVerse:
** Josh Craig reprises his role as Mike Jackson, five years after the events of ''Film/CaveWomenOnMars''.
** Mike Johnson's former best friend is revealed to be a government agent Gustav, who is the spitting image of Canoe Cop Sven from ''Film/TheMonsterOfPhantomLake'' and ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld''.
** Gustav says his father and Professor Jackson from ''Film/TheMonsterOfPhantomLake'' and ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld'' are best friends.
** Mrs. Saint Marie-Jackson from ''Film/ItCameFromAnotherWorld'' and ''Film/TerrorFromBeneathTheEarth'' is confirmred to have died sometime before 1992 and to have devoted her life to cleaning up Phantom Lake.
** By 1992, Phantom Lake is apparently clean enough to fish in, after having spawned multiple MuckMonsters in TheFifties.

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