Nadira was seen watching an episode of Saban's short lived Masked Rider TV series. Prince Dex/Masked Rider previously guest starred in three episodes of Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, which served as a pilot/introduction to Masked Rider's spin-off show.
When Eric gets hit with the energy blast on the quantum controller box, you can obviously see the sentai version of his counterpart then reversing back and forth between sentai and American footages.
In the beginning of the episode, the archeological dig features a researcher named Doctor Hammond, where they find something believed to be over 150,000,000 years old. This was an obvious reference to Jurassic Park.