Dade identifies himself as "Crash Override".Īt school, Dade becomes part of a group of hackers: Ramon "The Phantom Phreak" Sanchez, Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein, Paul "Lord Nikon" Cook (named for his photographic memory), Joey Pardella (a novice hacker without an alias and the youngest member) and Kate "Acid Burn" Libby – the hacker who kicked him out of the TV network earlier. Another hacker ( handle "Acid Burn") counters Dade's attack. On his 18th birthday, he hacks into a local television station and changes the broadcast to an episode of The Outer Limits. He is banned from computers and touch-tone telephones until he is 18 years old. On August 10, 1988, 11-year-old Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy's family is fined $45,000 for his crashing of 1,507 computer systems causing a 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange.
For the writers, the appearance of the iconic ship is a nod to both previous Star Trek and to their work in DC Comics. “I remember a version where we had the vines covering over Rok-Tahk, kind of like how they covered her with the small, cute animals in, and they hid that way,” Shawna added.īoth writers were very impressed with how the shot evolved from animatics into the final product, especially given that what they originally had written in their script was merely: “They hide.” Check out an exclusive clip below from the episode:Īnother Easter Egg in the episode, in this case from Trek’s history, is the brief appearance of a downed Klingon Bird-of-Prey. “I believe that was maybe a director’s special there.”
“I wish we could take full credit for that,” Julie said. SYFY WIRE recently interviewed the writers of this exciting cliffhanger, sisters Julie and Shawna Benson, about how this nod to Jackson’s modern classic found its way into their episode and they were kind of just as surprised to see it as we were. “Terror Firma” picks up directly where the previous installment, “Starstruck,” left off - with Dal and his crew stranded on a “murder planet” trying to ingest them, which hologram Captain Janeway struggles to save their shiny starship from the planet’s unstoppable vines. Prodigy’s “Terror Firma” pays homage to the scene when our heroes Dal, Gwyn and the rest of the young and in-over-their-heads crew of the Protostar find similar cover on a sentient planet, under a thick collection of writhing vines, as they evade the sinister robot, Drednok.
The newest episode of Paramount + and Nickelodeon’s hit animated series Star Trek: Prodigy offers a not-so-subtle reference to an iconic shot from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - from the scene where Frodo (Elijah Wood), Sam (Sean Astin) and the rest of his Hobbit pals hide under a tree root to escape the clutches of an approaching Ring wraith. Star Trek and Lord of the Rings fans are getting a very, very mini-crossover of sorts this week.