Beside his work on Star Trek, Palinski worked as costumer on the comic adaptation Masters of the Universe (1987, along with Allan A. Apone and Carol Kunz), the comedy How I Got Into College (1989, with Pamela Berggren and Phyllis Corcoran-Woods), the science fiction sequels Back to the Future Part II (1989, with David S. Powell) and Back to the Future Part III (1990), the adventure Far and Away (1992), the comedy House Arrest (1996, with Leslie Miller), the crime comedy Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), and the television series The Comeback (2005, with Phyllis Corcoran-Woods) and Comanche Moon (2008, with Sonny Merritt).