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The unique thing about “Star Wars: Visions” is that the animated anthology series can get away with things that other “Star Wars” projects cannot. For example, it\u00a0would be difficult for “The Mandalorian” to include an episode featuring a musical number like “Visions” season 1’s “Tatooine Rhapsody.”<\/a> Similarly, it’s difficult to imagine “Ahsoka” handling X-wing pilots the way Aardman Animations does with the “Visions” season 2 episode “I Am Your Mother.”<\/a>\u00a0But that’s what’s so great about the show. Usually, tongue-in-cheek Easter eggs are shoved into the background (like when the\u00a0Sankara Stones from “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” made an appearance on “Andor”<\/a>), assuming they’re going to be used at all. “Visions,” on the other hand, can put them front and center in ways you’d never see coming in a million years.<\/p>\n That’s\u00a0exactly what happens in season 3’s “The Lost Ones.” As the episode opens, we’re greeted by the sight of a person in a radiation suit extracting some sort of liquid we learn to be concentrated carbonite gas from a stone. They press a button on a corded device, which causes a mechanical device to clamp down harder on the rock, and the process continues. It might not immediately seem like a laugh out loud moment, but it is. You see, this is actually a Darth Vader cameo; it’s just not the Vader that initially comes to mind. Rather, this is Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, as seen in 1985’s “Back to the Future.”<\/p>\n