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* [[Fake Russian]]: Vlada Vana, from Czechoslovakia, playing Ivan, the former Soviet astronaut.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: This film had early appearances of:

* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The then-contemporary theme of Cold War nuclear panic definitely dates this film to before [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]], as does its treatment of then-emerging computer technology (to early in [[The Eighties]]). And of course there's the technology itself: dialing into remote systems with an acoustic-coupler modem looks positively quaint in the era of broadband internet, as do supercomputers with graphics that the most basic of modern PCs would put to shame (or even a computer of 1983). (The acoustic-coupler modem was already outdated in 1983. It was just there to be visually interesting.) The lax attitude to computer security is almost a textbook example of how ''not'' to do things these days, though to the irritation of IT people the world over, people still insist on writing down passwords to this day. And this being [[The Eighties]], there's the obligatory video arcade scene.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The original writer of the story said that he wanted Falken to be played by ''[[The Beatles|John Lennon]],'' and Lennon was reportedly interested in the role. Alas, of course, one Mark David Chapman ensured that this would never come to pass.

 

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