This was the most expensive television show to produce at the time, costing over a million dollars to make each episode, which was one of the reasons it was canceled after only 13 episodes.
The actor playing the titular character based his performance on William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek (1966) of which he is a big fan.
A video game based on this series produced by Bug-Byte Software was released for the Commodore 64 platform in 1985.
The titular character was a hologram, but no CGI was used on the show, just traditional animation and editing techniques.
The star of the show was far less famous than his father.
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