Considering that this was still in the days of ‘episodic’ television, and continuity was pretty random, I doubt they gave it any thought. Jupiter II just took off and went on its merry way.
Peter Packer wrote this story, one of 25 for the series. His last story was the penultimate show of the series “The Great Vegetable Rebellion,” featuring Cyrano Jones as a giant carrot, and the always fussy James Millhollin as a. . . purple llama? Well, half right.
“Moisture! I need moisture!”
Ahh, yes, the Cosmic Reset Button. I was precocious enough as a young Sci-Fi fan to coin that phrase (no, my family didn’t care, they just wanted me to shut up during Star Trek).
And the parallel between Allen and Lucas is spot-on. For all his “Let’s make three prequels to explain questionable backstories”, George ignored the implications of things like midichlorians or R2-D2 can… fly???
I’m givin’ her I got.
It’s pronounced “Vorlons”.
They’re cousins of the Voltones — you know, on out Ursa Major way. 
They should have had the Planet Express crew run across them in “Roswell That Ends Well”.
They were in suspended animation on the trip to Alpha Centauri when Dr. Smith and the robot screwed everything up. They should have just hid the ship somewhere in 1947 and got back into suspended animation and set the alarm for Oct. 17, 1997 – the day after they launched.
I agree it was very well done. But I would classify it more under psychological thriller than sci-fi. Or maybe Space Opera. I found it a little too creepy at times.
If they were smart, Dr. Smith would have died in an airlock-cleaning ‘accident’.
Is that any relation to the NCIS Wormhole that allows them to get to Virginia Beach from Quantico in 20 minutes — several times a day?