Backlander

Backlander in Timespace Vortex

Zeta Point is actually a Timeship called the Backlander or Backland (Buckland in the Japanese version) that had been shared by the Alpha Gang and Rex's family. It is powered by the seven stones found in a digsite in the future that formed after the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Period.

Anime

Original Series

Prior to the start of the series Dr. Z and Seth ejected Rex's family from the stasis chambers they had been resting in, with his parents disappearing and Rex along with Jonathan going to the present day. Near the series end, Seth blows the cover by flying the Backlander over to Japan after activating it and removing the disguise.

Mesozoic Meltdown

In the second series, it served a much more detailed role, the D-Team/Alpha Gang used it to chase after the Spectral Space Pirates to save the D-Team's Parents. However when Rex and his family first tried to go back to their time period the engine was damaged by the pirates. When time traveling there was barely any control for going to a specific time, so the Pterosaur guided it to the time periods and locations where the Space Pirates were. This was later repaired by Reese and Johnathan when the D-Team went back to the present.

When Seth took the Backlander to destroy the Dark Pterosaur, it destroyed the engine, so when Rex left with the dinosaurs and his parents, they had to leave the Backlander behind and took the Spectral Space Pirates' time machine instead. They could not return to get it because the Spectral Space Pirates' time machine had a damaged engine too, so it could only take one more trip, and that was to their home time, 2126 AD.

Functions

Screens that appear in the Backlander after arriving in Ancient Persia

It is noted that the Backlander doesn't have any weapons, unlike the Space Pirates' ship. The Backlander can also cause earthquakes with it's sound waves it can also has a cloaking device for it to stay hidden.

The Backlander can also fix things messed up by the dinosaurs (or anything that changed since it arrived in that time period), as shown in the last episode of the first series. Jonathan fixed the Sphinx (Spiny), the Leaning Tower of Pisa (Pachycephalosaurus), the Great Wall of China (Carcharodontosaurus), the Sagrada Familia (Allosaurus) and the D-Team's home city (Black Tyrannosaurus). It also repaired the damage to Ancient Rome in episode 2 and put out the fire started in episode 26. In the series finale, the Backlander also repaired all the damages that the Spectral Space Pirates and the Dark Pterosaur did to Earth.

Name

• In the Japanese version, it was called Buckland, named after the British paleontologist William Buckland. How the dub named it "Backlander" is unknown (maybe it was because it sounded similar, and it could travel the 'back lands' (which also sounds interesting) of time and space?).
• In the later Mesozoic Meltdown episodes, it is called simply the "Backland".