Star Wars and Star Trek permeate this episode, so a sample will have to suffice:
- The opening sequence, before the title comes on, is derived from the recent incarnations of Star Trek (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager).
- The sequence right after the title is from any of the Star Wars films.
- The wormhole is right out of Deep Space Nine. So is the warping movement the Marklar ship experiences in the worm hole.
- That the planet the boys see upon coming out of the wormhole is green is a feature from the original Star Trek series. But its cloud cover is identical to that of Earth's when the Marklar came to make first contact.
- The Marklar ship turns out to have a computer with a female voice, just like the Enterprise ships and Voyager do.
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The use of "Marklar" here is not as extensive as the use of "Smurf" in The Smurfs. "Smurf" was used as noun, adjective (smurfy), and verb (smurfed, smurfing, have/will smurf), but "marklar" is used only as a noun.
Well, we have names for some of Marvin's family now: Marvin's father is David, one of his brothers is Joshua, and the family name is Clickclickderk.
While Cartman and Sally talk, the men at the helm are either Marklar (when the camera is behind them) or something else (when the camera is before them).
After Cartman presses the red button again to open the wormhole, Kenny is back in the Marklar ship. Then he's seen no longer.
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