Space Quest 5
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        Worf from Star Trek is sitting in the academy's classroom. However, he
has been renamed "Woof" and is described as the academy's ambu-jitsu champion.

        Elvis appears in the right half of the academy rotunda.

        Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi are fighting their famous lightsabre
battle in the academy hallway.

        In the academy's landing bay, there's a skull fighter from SQ3.

        The guards in the rotunda are playing games on their consoles.
Specifically, they're playing "Asteroids" and "Missile Command".

        In the Eureka's shuttle lab, there's a display above the teleporter.
The computer is playing an old (REAL old) game called Pong on it.

        The moon visible through the academy's rotunda windows is described as
"one of the nine moons of Nova", in reference to the Dynamix game Nova 9.

        The coordinates to Klorox are 90210 - the same as in that ridicilous
movie.

        The Tasmanian devil is in one of the cages at Genetix (then again, it
might be the Labion Terror Beast from SQ2).

        The Astro Chicken from Space Quest 3 has a quick appearance in the
Eureka's pod bay. There's a row of lockers to the far left. Open the leftmost
one and watch!

        The PacMan makes a quick appearance in the Goliath's ventilation
system. On level 8, find the intersection where you can go in all four
directions. Go left. Roger will come back, followed by the PacMan.

        Both Flash Gordon and Albert Einstein are mentioned on the academy's
grade machine. They both fail, too.

        The Millenium Falcon is disguised as the bridge simulator (check it
out when Roger walks away from the sim).

        Patrick Stewart (who plays Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek) plays the
mutated colonist at Klorox II.

        One of the ships in the academy's shuttle bay belongs to the Two Guys
from Andromeda (Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe).

        The main theme song, played during the introduction sequence, was made
out to be a spoof on the title song from Star Trek - The Original Series.

        The entire SpaceBar sequence is a spoof from Star Trek: The Trouble
with Tribbles.

        Captain Quirk has a Dynamix coffee cup. It's visible when the Eureka
intercepts the strange transmission.

        When Roger is taken to the Eureka, the game says that he "undergone an
extensive captain's training seminar on the planet Oakhurst". Oakhurst is, as
we all know, the seat of the Sierra On-Line HQ.

        The Galactic Inquirer is obviously a spoof on the National Inquirer.
(submitted by Eddie Moore)

        Spike is a face hugger from Ripley Scott's "Alien". He even has the
acid that eats through the ship's hull, just like in the movie. (submitted by
Eddie Moore).

        The Genetix logo is a parody of the Dynamix logo. (originally We Work
Hard so You Don't Have to) There's also an ad for Genetix in the manual,
which is a spoof on the BASF commercials. (submitted by Eddie Moore)

        The music during the trash pickup is the music from the opening
sequence in 2001.

        Cliffy's rescue at Thrakus is taken out from 2001. (submitted by Eddie
Moore)

        The robot flying around behind you while taking the exam is a white
probot from Star Wars. (submitted by Eddie Moore)

        In the Academy's hangar are some fighters Roger describes as "ships
from the colonial wars" (Colonial Fighters from "Battlestar Galactica).
(submitted by Eddie Moore)

        All the planets in Space Quest V are either parodies of something, or
just names that have been horribly misspelled.  Here's the most obvious...
        * Thrakus
                Mark Crowe told Troels, that Thrakus is not a spoof on anything.
                He just liked the sound of it.
        * Kiz Urazgubi
                Try "mispronouncing" it, and you'll come up with the
                colorful phrase: "Kiss your ass goodbye."
        * Lukaszuk II
                Mispronounce this and it'll become a very unsubtle
                greeting to the competitor, LucasArts.
                It might also be a reference to two employees at Dynamix,
                named Piotr (credited "Peter" in 1992) and Darek Lukaszuk.
        * Gingivitis
                A disease.
        * Monostadt VII
                This is a treatment for women's vaginal yeast infections.
        * Klorox II
                A cleaning fluid.
        * Gangularis
                Also a disease.
        * Commodore LXIV
                If I were to tell you that LXIV is the Roman numeral
                equivelent to 64, what ancient home computer would you be
                thinking of then?
        * Peeyu
                An utterance of disgust, often used in combination with
                horrible smells.  "Pee-yuu, that STINKS!"
        * Spittoonie
                In the Old West, a "spitoon" was the little bucket in which
                guys would spit in their tobacco.
                It might also be a spoof on Luke Skywalker's home planet,
                which was called Tattoine.