Thanks to my little sister, I became thoroughly immersed in the lore of Rainbow Brite (as well as She-Ra, and less so, My Little Pony) The one episode (two episodes, really) that really stuck to me was the pilot, which was/were far darker and more foreboding than the actual series was—basically explaining how Rainbowland came to be transformed from a devastated wasteland ruled by a malevolent force into an Edenic paradise.

So, somehow my id completely incorporated this into my brain, and mashing it up with a little Robotech, came up with this scenario a long, long time ago:

Murky Dismal, Lurky, Wisp (who would later be apotheosed to Rainbow Brite) and a raven-haired woman wearing a headset (whom my subconscious decided to name Cassandra) were a starship crew sent to the planet that would become Rainbowland with the task to secure a landing site so the corporation they worked for could exploit its bountiful natural resources (never mind the forbidding landscape.) Murky, Lurky, and Wisp are meant to be the ground team, with the woman with the headset coordinating movements from low planetary orbit. Because of a shuttle mishap or transporter accident, Wisp gets separated and loses communication with the mothership, and ends up having to wander the land trying to survive, while Murky and Lurky find themselves captured (although with communication to the mothership still intact) and taken to the King of Shadows who rules the entire godforsaken planet and has subjugated the native population of sprites and humans. It had always been Murky’s and Lurky’s plan to double-cross the two women and gain glory for securing the planet for themselves, but they find themselves have to swear obeisance to the the King of Shadows whom they also plan to double-cross.

I wondered for the longest time where the woman with the headset came from. I had assumed she must be a character from Robotech that my brain had interpolated in my dream, but the only series I was really familiar with was the part that was derived from the Macross Saga, and the only major character who sort of resembled the woman was Miriya Parina Sterling, but she never really wore the same headset I was imagining.

Well, thanks to Netflix, which recently just put all 85 episodes of Robotech up for streaming, I finally figured out the woman in my dream mashup is Nova Satori from the part of the series derived from Southern Cross (which I really was never into and barely watched). And perhaps the reason why I confused her with Miriya Parina Sterling is the fact that the same actress voiced both characters.