that Laura is an "immortal phoenix" in human form and is nearly at the end of her 100-year lifespan, as she is granted in this storyline. To make a successful completion of the reincarnation process, she must bring another person—her son—into the fire with her. The character of Laura the phoenix is reincarnated a few times into the plotlines of the series. In the 1897 flashback, Barnabas Collins recognizes her as the first wife of his uncle Jeremiah; she died in 1785. Returning in 1897, she is revealed as a worshipper of the god Ra, which may explain the lack of survivors of those she brings into the fire with her, reframing her victims as a divine sacrifice for favor and power rather than as companions for eternity. In the television series Charmed, a line of power-binding witches are called "The Phoenix". They share the same ability to rise from their ashes. In season 6 of Supernatural, Sam and Dean travel back in time to recover the ashes of a phoenix to kill the season's antagonist Eve. In this instance, the phoenix appears human and is able to burn a person to death merely by touching them, in the end, he is killed by Dean using the Colt. In the British football-based show Fantasy Football League, there was a regular feature called Phoenix from the Flames in which comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner recreated a famous footballing moment. In the anime Battle of the Planets (1978) (the American dub of Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman), the main ship of the G-Force team is named Phoenix. It is an amphibious craft capable of flying, underwater travel and minor spaceflight, and serves as a travelling dock for each of the team members' individual vehicles. Of particular relevance is the Fiery Phoenix mode in which the ship takes the form of a giant, flaming bird with tremendous destructive potential. In the short-lived (4 episodes) sci-fi television series The Phoenix (1982), Judson Scott played a fugitive ancient astronaut named Bennu (the Egyptian name for the Phoenix) who used the sun's rays to charge a phoenix-emblazoned medallion that provided special powers he used to save those he befriended on his journeys. In the Star Trek universe, Phoenix is the name given to the first man-made spacecraft to travel faster than light. It is named Phoenix because in the Star Trek timeline, the Earth was still