 During the opening credits, we hear alien lyrics being sung: "E take  nas naj...nah sus gah nilpa." This is actually the names of produces  Kenneth Johnsons wife and daughter (Katie Johnson and Susan Appling  Johnson) sung backwards. In fact, most of the alien language was, in  fact, backwards English, which helped to keep gramatical rules  intact. Other inspiration for the language came from Russian, as  well as nonsensical and made