I think the earliest episodes were around $60,000, which was pretty decent for a half hour show at the time.

And it's pretty hilarious in a weird, weird, way.

And it beat Star Trek flat when it came to female characters in command positions, including at least one General as I recall.

It's deliberately absurd and over the top — it's a homage to 1960s spy-fi and bad Italian knock-off movies. The second season (just started on SBS) is driven by 1980s schlock movies...sadly, it seems to have hit a sophomore slump.

On the other hand, the VFX in the sequence where Plastique explodes underwater were notably atrocious.

Estimates that I've seen for development costs before they got to Superman Returns have Warner Bros spending around $250 million. 10% of that went to Nicolas Cage for his pay or play deal on Superman Lives.

Actually, the giant crew thing has been pretty prevalent over the years, although these days it tends to be on an as-needed basis rather than the crew being studio employees assigned to productions. The giant credits roll-up at the end of movies dates from around Star Wars — yet another thing George Lucas gave us, and…

Starro has a hangover.

Yes. Martin Stein, played by Victor Garber.

Victor Garber is playing Stein.

They kept the dual aspect. Victor Garber is playing the other half, Professor Martin Stein.

probably....I remember Cullen took issue with it then, and it caused as much furur as Superman killing Zod.

Something about humans deserving to be eradicated iirc.

US/UK adaptation.

It gets downright misanthropic. I gave it a couple of episodes past the pilot and ended up buying the DVD set. It's cheerful in its meanness to the characters.

$68 million worldwide. And it was already paid for by the time it was released. That gross would handily cover whatever ads they bothered doing. Merchandising and home video would likely double the take (merchandising is what drives the Empire, not film rentals.)

Judged against the general run of Star Wars films, perhaps. In terms of the found money aspect of releasing a compilation of low-budgeted animated TV episodes, it did great business. It was essentially found money.

The insane part of this is that it really was a full set...they ended up with it becoming a massive vfx shot and painting out the majority of the original. They never did have more than a few live extras on the set, though.

He just has to be Commander Buzzkill.

This is just what happens when Worf launches a chili fart.