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** Another ship is the ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Smaug,]]'' named after the dragon from ''The Hobbit.''

** When Kirk is going over some of the officers participating in the war, he mentions that he used to work on a ship with [[Airplane!|Ted Stryker and Buck Murdock]], and even mentions Stryker's [[Visual Pun|Drinking]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Problem.]]

** One of Captain Acaltha's crew has a liking for late 20th and early 21st century pop culture. Among other things, he quotes ''[[Zero Wing]]'' ("We get signal!") on the bridge and makes more than a few jokes that would be incredibly obscure.

** One of Captain Acaltha's crew has a liking for late 20th and early 21st century pop culture. Among other things, he quotes ''[[Zero Wing]]'' ("We get signal!") on the bridge and makes more than a few jokes that would be incredibly obscure for the era.

*** When they use a quirk of Minbari ship architecture to broacast music and sounds directly into the ships, one of the pieces he selects is [[/Undocumented Features|the theme song from]] ''[[Kingyo Chuihou|Goldfish Warning]]''.

*** When they use a quirk of Minbari ship architecture to broacast music and sounds directly into the ships, one of the pieces he selects is [[Undocumented Features|the theme song from]] ''[[Kingyo Chuihou|Goldfish Warning]]''.

** Another of Acaltha's command staff is Aya Nakajima from the 1991 ''Star Trek'' fan manga ''[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trekker Star Trekker]''.

** An embedded reporter from the Earth Alliance has [[WKRP in Cincinnati|Bailey Quarters]] as his cameraman.