The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In the entertainment industry, this can manifest itself as calling a movie " Part 1 " once sequels are released or by slightly altering the title ( e. g. Star Wars: A New Hope or Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) to emphasize its connection with the sequel ( s ), or by referring to a television series as " the original ," as in Star Trek: The Original Series.

* The Atari home computer video game Star Raiders, first released in 1979, responds to unknown keyboard commands with the status message " WHAT ' S WRONG?

the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

* Lorne Peterson Star Wars Episodes 1-6, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ), where he is played by Alec Guinness and is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) from a group of Tusken Raiders.

In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, set 10 years later, Shmi is kidnapped by a group of Tusken Raiders.

The first issue of DC Graphic Novel featured an adaptation of the Star Raiders video game by Maggin and artist José Luis García-López.

* Howard Kazanjian, film producer: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ; former V. P.

Some examples of themes where Brickfilms were used for advertising include: Star Wars with Revenge of the Brick, Indiana Jones with Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick, Power Miners, Atlantis, most of Bionicles commercials and clips, and Lego Prince of Persia.

During his tenure at Paramount, the studio turned out such hit films as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, the Star Trek film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Beverly Hills Cop, and hit TV shows such as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Cheers and Family Ties.

Star Raiders is a video game for the Atari 8-bit family of computers, released in 1979 and programmed by Doug Neubauer.

While there had already been simple target-shooting games using this perspective, Star Raiders had considerably higher quality graphics and more complex game play.

Star Raiders was criticized at the time for violent gameplay.

The overall gameplay in Star Raiders is adapted from earlier text-based Star Trek computer games in which the player's ship maneuvers about a two-dimensional grid fighting a fleet of enemy spaceships.

In Star Raiders, this part of the game takes the form of a " Galactic Chart " display dividing the game's large-scale world into a grid of sectors, some of which are occupied by enemy ships or friendly " starbases ".

Instead of the multiple lives that were a common video-game convention, the Star Raiders ship has only one life, but is completely destroyed only if hit while its energy shields are lowered or destroyed ; otherwise it will sustain varying types of damage, which causes shields, engines, weapons or information displays to be destroyed or damaged.

All this lends Star Raiders a degree of complexity and a sense of player immersion that was rare in action games of the era.

One noteworthy flaw in Star Raiders is that it is possible for the player to avoid incoming objects, while stationary, simply by rotating the ship.

* Maury Markowitz's Star Raiders page with screenshots, technical details, extensive gameplay description, and pictures of Star Raiders successors

By the time the film " The Empire Strikes Back " was released in 1980 Star Wars fanzines had surpassed Star Trek zines in sales.

The following year, he released his second funk album, Star Turtle, which did not sell as well as previous albums, although it did reach No. 38 on the charts.

A new edition of Star HERO was released in 2011, and other planned releases include a second Advanced Player Guide, a steampunk sourcebook, and a Cthulu Mythos book.

He also released the four-CD box set, Star Time, featuring nearly all of Brown's hit recordings.

* 1977 – Star Wars ( retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981 ) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.

In 2006, Sixx published his diaries as a best selling novel: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, and in 2007 Sixx's side project band Sixx: A. M. released The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack as a musical parallel to the novel.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, released in 2011, became the world's ' Fastest-Growing MMO Ever ' after gaining 1 million subscribers within the first three days of its launch.

On September 8, 2012 Google released a doodle honoring the 46th anniversary of Star Trek TOS.

Although the series used more composers than any other Star Trek series ( Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, David Bell, Paul Baillargeon, Velton Ray Bunch, Brian Tyler, Mark McKenzie, John Frizzell and Kevin Kiner ), only McCarthy's score for the pilot has been released.

The fourth installment of the novel series is titled The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm, by Michael A. Martin was announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 154, released in trade paperback format on October 25 2011 and is the final novel in The Romulan War series, taking the story to the end of the Romulan War and the decommission of the Enterprise.

Star Trek: Nemesis was released after the conclusion of DS9.

Star Trek: Generations is a 1994 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures.

All the episodes of this series were novelized by Alan Dean Foster and released in ten volumes under the Star Trek Logs banner.

It was the last series of Paramount's Star Trek television franchise to be released to DVD.

Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures.

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Death Wish " Q pursues a rogue member of the Continuum, named Quinn, who has been inadvertently released from his asteroid prison by the crew of that ship, and who seeks asylum on the Voyager.

The last printed version of the Bright Star Catalogue was the 4th revised edition, released in 1982.

The movie, which was released in Japan on August 6, 1977, was edited down further and dubbed into English in 1978 ; entitled Space Cruiser Yamato or simply Space Cruiser, it was only given a limited theatrical release in Europe & Latin America, where it was called Patrulha Estelar ( Star Patrol ) or Astronave Intrepido ( Starship Intrepid ), though it was later released on video in most countries.

* In the video game Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds ( first released in 2001 ), selecting a Stormtrooper soldier ( Galactic Empire faction ) occasionally results in his reply " THX 1138 ready, sir!

DJ and Producer All Star Fresh Started as a Pro in 1979 made.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

Though mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", the Klingon language first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ).

*" Cricket Star " ( 1979, one sided flexi single recorded under Robert Calvert and the 1st XI )

The success in syndication of the original live action series and fan pressure for a Star Trek revival led to The Animated Series from 1973 – 1974, as the source of new adventures of the Enterprise crew, the next being the 1979 live-action feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Kirk orders McCoy's commission reactivated in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ); a resentful McCoy complains of being " drafted ".

The 1979 Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology describes this " first interstellar liner " as a Declaration-class ship launched in 2123.

The Star Trek Maps by New Eye Photography Editors, also published in 1979, listed this ship as a Fusion drive probe that was Earth's first attempt to explore another star system.

Having undergone an extensive rebuilding and refitting, the Enterprise then appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 ), before being destroyed in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 ).

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

: Nearby Star Data Published 1969 – 1978 ( 1979, W. Gliese and H. Jahreiß ).

Wargames also diversified in subject, with the first science-fiction wargame ( Galactic Warfare, published in the UK by Davco ) appearing in 1973 and one of the longest lasting and most successful ( Star Fleet Battles, published by Task Force Games ) appearing in 1979 ; and in size with both microgames such as Steve Jackson's Ogre, and " monster games " appearing during the decade.

Victory-class Star Destroyers appear as early as Brian Daley's 1979 book Han Solo's Revenge, and since then have appeared in Expanded Universe books and games.