While a student at Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois in the mid-1980s, a chance introduction to acid house pioneer DJ Pierre gave the then 15-year-old Stallings his break, and under the patronage and guidance of Pierre, he released his first single, " Phantasy Girl ," in 1987.

While the first four games in the series are set in the planetary system of Algol, the later online games, Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe, are set in other galaxies, with no canonical link to the original series, but rather only features the recurrence of common themes, enemies, and the primary antagonist, Dark Force.

Worf was the only character to be a regular in more than one live-action Star Trek series ( While Miles O ' Brien was featured in both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, he was not a regular cast member in the former series ).

While not explicitly stated in the series, Chakotay's official biography on the official Star Trek website also states that he was Ro Laren's instructor at Advanced Tactical Training.

While Harding won the war of words and made the Marion Daily Star one of the most popular newspapers in the county, the battle took a toll on his health.

While praising the film's first two hours as " compelling ", the Toronto Star remarked, " But when Cameron takes the adventure to the next step, deep into the heart of fantasy, it all becomes one great big deja boo.

While no prosecution for a violation of the Prime Directive was ever seen in a Star Trek episode or film, Picard's nine documented violations are held as evidence against him during a witchhunt investigation in " The Drumhead.

While the Xbox and GameCube versions also received generally positive reviews ( the Xbox version was described as " truly fantastic " and " the best Star Wars experience on the Xbox " and the GameCube version as " worth spending time with "), their aggregated scores were not as strong as the PC and Macintosh versions '.

While the first draft of The Star Wars includes a tall, grim general named Darth Vader, the character came closer in line with his final depiction in the second revision.

While with the Cavs, he was the 2003 – 04 Rookie of the Year, a 2 time NBA MVP ( 2009 and 2010 ), a 6 time NBA All Star, and the team's all-time leading scorer.

While the Xerox Star series was a relative commercial success, it came too late.

While attempting to stop the group, Mario is joined by Mallow, a cloud boy who thinks he is a tadpole ; Geno, a doll possessed by a celestial spirit from the Star Road ; Bowser, whose armies have deserted him out of fear of the Smithy Gang ; and Princess Toadstool, who was lost in the turmoil that occurred when the Smithy Gang arrived.

While coordinating closed captioning for the Oscars award show in 1982, Dr. Okrand met the producer for the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

* While not much is known about them, the Ancient Humanoids from Star Trek have manipulated the course of biological evolution across the entire galaxy millions of years ago.

While it is not part of an alliance, the airline has codeshares with Oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam members, as well as interline agreements with Aer Arann, JetBlue Airways and United Airlines.

While they " tolerate " the existence of the Star Sapphires, they have made it clear that they are going to exterminate the Red Lantern Corps.

While on the one hand it is true that products like Fist of the North Star are released and licensed in America, only part of the series is available.

While The Dosadi Experiment is not exactly a sequel to Whipping Star, it takes place in the same imaginary universe and has the same main character, Jorj X. McKie.

While not expensive for a Hollywood production, this would have presented a risk due to Star Trek films ' niche audience and lower international appeal.

While Star Trek in general features few overt references to religion, there is a clear recognition that a laying aside of past hurts is necessary for peace, similar to the concept of shalom in Judaism.

While the producers had begun work on the film anticipating it as the last film, by the premiere it was obvious the film would make money and that a Star Trek VII would soon be in the works.

While the ZX and Star Force series were not yet conceived when the source book was published, Capcom is explicit within the games themselves regarding their placement in the timeline ( s ).

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

While Bainton states that the identity of the Silver Star, which was reported to have been involved in the failed rescue attempt, has been established with some certainty, the lack of information on the sunken ship itself has given rise to suspicion about the origins and credibility of the account.

While both the new plot and character offered interesting possibilities, the producers felt that their vision for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was put off-course for almost one year.

While Brunel was building the broad-gauge Great Western Railway, Lardner carried out some experiments with the company ’ s flagship locomotive, North Star.

** While it is not guaranteed that John will like Star Wars, we can tell from information about him that he probably will.

While their coordinate distance ( comoving distance ) remains constant, the physical distance between two such comoving points expands proportionally with the scale factor of the Universe.

While this might suggest that the Earth is at the center of the Universe, the Copernican principle requires us to interpret it as evidence for the evolution of the Universe with time: this distant light has taken most of the age of the Universe to reach and shows us the Universe when it was young.

While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, several of their characters and the Fourth World mythos have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe.

While the Marvel Universe is presumably as large as the non-fictional universe comic book readers inhabit, for all intents and purposes the Local Group is the universe ; practically all action takes place in it.

While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.

While Scrooge finds himself surrounded by an extended family ( see The Clan McDuck, Duck family and Coot Kin ) and a large number of allies and rivals ( see Scrooge McDuck Universe ), Flintheart lives a life of solitude and seems to have no family, friends or for that matter rivals except Scrooge himself.

While the bulk of the stories took place within the continuity of the series ( circa JLA # 76 – 113 ) some of the stories take place outside of regular DC Universe canon.

While the band retained their roots in funk and ska, the 1993 album Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe included songs with hard rock, punk, and heavy metal elements.

While Zarniwoop attempts to impress upon the Ruler of the Universe the reality and the weight of his position, Trillian and Zaphod sneak out and fly the Heart of Gold away.

While rotoscoping is generally known to bring a sense of realism to larger budget animated films, the American animation company Filmation, known for its budget-cutting limited TV animation, was also notable for its heavy usage of rotoscope to good effect in series such as Flash Gordon, Blackstar, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

While at the library one day, Miaka and Yui encounter a strange book known as The Universe of the Four Gods.

While not effectively part of the Marvel Universe, issue # 4's cover was a parody of the cover to Fantastic Four issue # 1.

While signed to Columbia by Dr. George Butler, she released an influential CD " Trust the Universe " which was unique in featuring a jazz A side with Charnette Moffett and Al Foster and an electric jazz B side with Lenny White and Victor Bailey.

While generally only vaguely aware of the Astral Umbra, the Tempest, and the Deep Umbra ( and totally ignorant of the Near Universe ), shapeshifters know the Spiritual Umbra better than anyone else, and many treat it like a second home.

While quintessence has been proposed as an explanation of the acceleration of the Universe, it does not actually address the cosmological constant hierarchy problem in the technical sense of addressing the large quantum corrections.

While the majority of the Thunderbolts have yet to appear in the MC2 Universe, Jolt appeared as an Avenger before the current team assembled in A-Next # 1.

While the Noon Universe shares many utopian qualities with the early Star Trek universe ( such as world peace and high standards of living ), it has its share of problems and internal conflicts.

While these works were not the first in the " Magic Universe " or " Warlock " series, they marked a turning point after the 1973 oil crisis and Niven's subsequent transformation of the series into an allegory for a modern-day energy crisis ; the novella was also the first work longer than a short story.

While trying to discover the secret of universal creation, Krona destroys entire universes, eventually arriving in the Marvel Universe.

While the characters may bear resemblance to their normal Marvel Universe counterparts, they differ in many aspects.

While the first series focused on the Batman and Superman families, the second features other characters from the DC Universe, especially from the Justice Society and Justice League.