That's not so hard, is it?' The crowd enjoyed the clips, applauding both the footage and the panel, which included Johnson, Holden, Mark Stern (SCI FI Channel's Executive Vice President of Programming), and Peter Hume (Executive Producer). In a nod to the Queen song, Flash says at one point to Dale, 'All I have to do is save the universe.
Zarkov (Jody Racicot) and Dale ( Gina Holden) use the vortex to travel to Mongo themselves, where they face the dictator Ming (John Ralston), and learn what a threat he can be. Backed by the Queen 'Flash Gordon' song, a montage of clips from the series was shown, in which we see that Flash ( Eric Johnson) has believed his father died years before, only to learn that he has instead been sent through a dimensional vortex to the planet Mongo.