Trivia: When the Marines are suiting up to go hunt Jason, one of them asks "Who has the B.F.G.?", a blatant reference to graphically violent PC games "Quake" (1996) and "Doom" (1993) where the B.F.G. is the most powerful weapon available (the name stands for "Big F***ing Gun"). (00:38:00)
Trivia: When Brodsky is outside the spaceship, he is dressed like Dave from "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)" (01:16:10)
Trivia: In the scene where Jason kills the two people in the Virtual Reality game, the guy with a goatee and shaved head is the movie's writer. (00:37:10)
Trivia: Famed movie director David Cronenberg has a cameo as Wimmer, a higher-up at the Crystal Lake Research Facility at the start of the film. (He's the man who gives the speech about Jason's regenerative capabilities and is later speared through the back.) He agreed to appear in the film as a favor to the director, who had previously worked with him as a special effects artist on his movie "eXistenZ."
Answer: It's set nearly 500 years in the future. Naming conventions change.
Brian Katcher