The film focused more on Michael's backstory than the original did, devoting the first half of the film to Michael's childhood.

The episode " Metamorphosis ", also from the original series, establishes a backstory for the invention of warp drive on Earth, stating that Zefram Cochrane discovered the ' space warp '.

During this episode, some of the unpleasant backstory of Ro's original childhood is revealed.

It details upon the backstory of the " Matrix " universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.

Dondi's original backstory describes him as a five-year-old World War II orphan of Italian descent.

Lucas brought to Foster the original screenplay, after which Foster fleshed out the backstory of time, place, planets, races, history and technology in such detail that it became canonical for all subsequent Star Wars novels.

Besides the obvious Americanization of the original Japanese characters ' names, some changes include a change in a character's backstory, new characters and other information that was never seen in both the anime and the manga.

The Tremere backstory is heavily based on Ars Magica, and the original House Tremere appeared as a Hermetic house in that game system.

Lucas claims that he first designed a backstory which preceded the original film trilogy — the events surrounding the Clone Wars era.

Other changes included the removal of virtually the entire Dhaos backstory, changing the names of every playable character, and abandoning sprite artist Yoshiaki Inagaki's original character designs in favor of redesigns from manga artist Kōsuke Fujishima.

In Wells's original story, Gottfried Plattner is given a full backstory including ancestry and occupation.

The backstory is set between the end of the original line and the start of the new Japanese release, covering the Zoidians ' efforts to rebuild after the meteor disaster and the conflicts that come with it.

The Mattel company developed the original He-Man action figure in 1981 ; the franchise backstory was conceived by the Filmation animation studio.

His personality and backstory are the same as in the original books, however.

The team and its administrator Amanda Waller were introduced in the Legends mini-series, with the original Squad's backstory fleshed out further in Secret Origins ( vol.

The canonical vision of Robotech includes the three sections of the original series, the feature film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles ( 2006 ), and the Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles comics that were released to provide a sanctioned backstory to the 2006 film.

The earliest storybooks and much of the original backstory were written by Donald F. Glut.

The story for Metroid: Zero Mission was rewritten to explore Samus Aran's backstory more than in the original Metroid.

In medias res should not be confused with a self-contained story that later has a prequel, although either a prequel or the techniques accompanying in medias res, such as flashback or exposition may help to explain the original story's context and backstory.

In the series ' backstory he is the nephew of the original Iron Chef Chairman, Takeshi Kaga ; the actors hold no relation in real life.

In this novel, Chaz's backstory explains that his original ambition was to go to medical school and become a radiologist, which struck him as an appealing way to become wealthy without " interacting with actual sick people ," and leave him plenty of leisure time to maintain his sex life.

The original release included a feelie poster with a timeline of the history of Zork up until the events of the game, with pictures and short descriptions of major events, including the backstory of some of the characters ; this encompasses all released Zork games except Return to Zork, which takes place 580 years after Grand Inquisitor.

With the heavy line-up changes in the early-to-mid 2000s which left only two of the original members remaining, The Aquabats eventually phased the Aquabania elements out of their backstory, reestablishing themselves as a group of freelance superheroes of indeterminate origin who travel the countryside, fighting evil and " destroying boredom ".

However, the format differs considerably ; in the original Extreme Makeover, for instance, participants were not necessarily chosen based on any recent hardship, whereas the family's backstory is an important component of Home Edition.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period Of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation To A March.

The only other works at least technically original were dreary farces -- Send Me No Flowers ( closed ), Under The Yum-Yum Tree, Critic's Choice.

Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

This fiery swath was actually only a belt of minor planets, almost like the asteroid belt in the original Solar System.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

This version includes only two verses, the second of which returns to Bates ' original intention ( see below ).

One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

Anarcho-capitalist libertarians believe that the only just, and / or most economically beneficial, way to acquire property is through voluntary trade, gift, or labor-based original appropriation, rather than through aggression or fraud.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

* Documents of the Arian Controversy ( 2007, German and original languages only, Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2007 )

There were probably another three stanzas in the original poem but only nine letters of them remain.

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

A cappella has been used as the sole orchestration for original works of Musical Theater that have had commercial runs Off-Broadway ( theaters in New York City with 99 to 500 seats ) only three times.

Additional cast included Chip Zien, Ken Page, and Harvey Evans, the only original cast member to reprise his role.

Strictly speaking, the ' Accrington Pals ' battalion is properly known as the ' 11th East Lancashire Regiment ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington.

Due to logging and land use changes the forest proper is only a fraction of its original size.

In the first episode of Daria, she and her family move from Beavis and Butt-Head's hometown of Highland to Lawndale — the only references to the original show is a single mention of Highland in the first episode, with Daria saying Lawndale can't be a second Highland " unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too ".

However, the original accounts mention only a light in the sky, without specifying the moon.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.