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A phantom menace also means an unknown evil. In the film, two major unknown evils include: 1) Senator Palpatine hiding his Sith Lord and (later) Galactic Emperor persona and. 2) young Anakin (later to become Darth Vader). Darth Maul could even be considered a phantom menace because no one knows who he is and where he came from.
At the end of the Phantom Menace, at the celebration on Naboo, Boss Nass (if memory serves), holds aloft a great, glowing orb. I remember reading at the time that Lucas had some great significance assigned to the orb, and that he would address it later in the trilogy. To my recollection, he never did.
The script is not explicit on their purpose :. INT. THEED - POWER GENERATOR ELECRIC BEAM - HALLWAY The SITH LORD, followed by QUI-GON, enters a long hallway filled with a series of deadly rays that go on and off in a pulsing pattern that shoots down the corridor every minute or so.
TL;DR: No, Darth Plagueis did not appear in Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The character of Darth Plagueis simply did not exist until his creation for the Episode III script, and even then the mention was merely a plot device with which. Palpatine could lure Anakin towards the Dark Side of the Force, knowing full well of his concerns over ...
That said, if you can stand repeated viewings of the non-combat, non-podrace parts of The Phantom Menace you'll notice that the false Queen says as little as possible, and tends to be non-commital. She also has a noticable pause before she responds to questions or statements that she wouldn't encounter in the normal course of her duties.
@Xantec, that's confirmed by Weird Al's "The Saga Begins," a.k.a. "everything you need to know about The Phantom Menace in 5 minutes and 27 seconds". – cjm Commented Nov 12, 2011 at 20:24
According to Wikipedia, quoting Jonathan L. Bowen's Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace (2005), George Lucas has stated that the title is a reference to Palpatine hiding his true identity as an evil Sith Lord behind the facade of a well-intentioned public servant.
In the image below, we can see ET's species at the bottom left. Is the species at the top right of the image known in Star Wars lore?
We had planned to release my "Running With Scissors" album the month after "Phantom Menace" came out. But because of the lead time involved in recording, mixing, pressing, and physically getting an album out in the stores, I had to write "The Saga Begins" about two months before the movie came out.
In Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the Trade Federation blockades Naboo at the start of the film. The opening crawl says the reason for this is due to taxes the Republic is charging. The opening crawl says the reason for this is due to taxes the Republic is charging.