Line #18 ShoutOut/StarTrekOnline


1	{{Shout Out}}s in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''.
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3	* With the release of the ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock Excelsior]]'' comes a Transwarp drive. Activating it starts a countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2--- [[EpicFail clunk]] (Although the player is lucky -- that only happens ''sometimes''....)
4	* Nearly all the place- and ship-names in the Romulan storyline are references to Diane Duane's noncanon-but-popular Rihannsu novels.
5	* The "Frozen" featured mission is a one big shout out to ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', as it features a rebel base inside an Ice cave, and...
6	-->'''Reman RedShirt:''' The Tal Shiar have entered the base!
7	* Another reference to ''Empire Strikes Back'' in the episode "Home".
8	-->'''Loriss:''' This one goes here, that one goes there!
9	* The final boss of the Borg sector defense missions looks almost exactly like [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture V'Ger]]. Popular fanon theory says that V'Ger was enhanced by the Borg and sent back to Earth.
10	** The confirmation option Federation players click on when choosing to partake in these missions being one of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]]'s famous catch phrases.
11	* "The 2800" storyline happens to reflect upon another [[Series/TheFortyFourHundred story involving people vanishing and reappearing decades later.]] Also the final mission is named "Boldly They Rode", hearkening back to Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir quoting from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" before engaging the Dominion in [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine [=DS9=]]]: [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E06SacrificeOfAngels "Sacrifice of Angels"]].
12	* Some of the 29th century timeships introduced with the Temporal Lockboxes have the ability to "[[Series/SevenDays Backstep]]", rewinding time by [[Film/GalaxyQuest 13 seconds]].
13	* The ''Armitage''-class Escort Carrier, a refit of the ''Akira''-class heavy escort, [[Anime/ArmitageIII carries on]] its predecessor's tradition of [[Manga/{{Akira}} anime shout-out names]].
14	** Next came the ''[[Manga/BattleAngelAlita Alita]]'' class..
15	* The prototype anti-proton assault rifle looks like a modified neutrona wand from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', and even the same visual effects when using the alt-fire mode. Given that it's found when fighting the Devidians, there's not much of a surprise there... Combine it with the right Engineer kit (the one with a backpack that looks suspiciously similar to a proton pack) and you can roleplay as a Ghostbuster!
16	* One of the accolades Fed players could earn in the deleted mission "Rapier" is called "[[Film/TopGun Negative Ghostrider, the Pattern Is Full]]". Players earn it by buzzing [=DS9=] after exiting the wormhole.
17	* Taris' [[http://s733.photobucket.com/user/Wilv79/media/STO/screenshot_2013-04-21-20-04-36_zpsc1f37b4e.jpg.html Iconian Gate Control Room]] in the Hobus System looks alot like a gateroom from [[Series/StargateSG1 another series]]. Pretty much confirmed here[[http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=9775921&postcount=16]]. As forumite said commented on later in the thread, Nick Meyer said that all works of art are products of their time on the ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' commentary and that the same applies to STO.
18	* During the summer event on Risa, players can witness a [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine male Klingon (in a Starfleet uniform) arguing with a female Trill]]...
19	* In the torpedo room of a ship during "Smash and Grab", one of your officers comments that [[Film/TheHuntforRedOctober most things in the room don't react too well to weapons fire.]]
20	* In the Romulan mission "Tradecraft", the accolade for "telling" the Tal Shiar what you think of falsified information? [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine "It's a fake!"]]
21	* There's a [=DOFF=] character named Charles Xavier Brown. His quote? "Trust me, I've heard all the jokes. [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Football, beagles...]] can we talk about something else?" No word yet if he [[ComicBook/XMen runs a school]].
22	* In the Foundry editor, the caption for the NPC contact "Elachi Lieutenant Scanner 01" reads [[Series/DoctorWho "EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE."]]
23	* Similarly, some Temporal Lock Boxes have these beacon things that you can use to get time travel assignments for your [=DOFFs=]. One has your [=DOFFs=] [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 "Initiate a Lightning Storm above Ancient Time Travel Test Site"]], another has you advise an ancestor of an important diplomat not to go on the maiden voyage of an [[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic "unsinkable" ship]], and others reference various time travel issues throughout Star Trek. You'll get [=DOFFs=] that are also references, not only to Star Trek, but also to other time travelers, such as a Martha Jones Smith, whose [[Series/DoctorWho occupation is "Doctor", and her quote is "Let's hope this box is big enough for the both of us."]]
24	* A Fleet miner [=DOFF=] has a quote that he's "completed the entire [[Literature/StarTrekKlingonEmpire Battlecruiser Vengeance]] episodes!"
25	* In "A Step Between Stars", when you try to convince Dr. Cooper to join you and Tuvok in the spacesuits, you can tell him you can leave him with the Voth. When he starts to freak out, you reply [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} "Then, you can come with us if you want to live."]]
26	* One of the new weapons is the Tethered Quantum Mine Launcher. Now you, too, can proclaim "[[Film/GalaxyQuest My ship is dragging mines!]]"
27	* A new accolade in the remastered "Stop the Signal"? [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} "The Combination to the Luggage"]]
28	* The card for Veol, one of the Risian conn officer doffs available in the 2014 summer event, reads, [[Film/ANewHope "I've made the Tour the Galaxy run in under 1500 light-years."]]
29	* Before the episode was removed, the destruction of the USS ''Indianapolis'' in "The New Link" was likely a reference to the real-life sinking of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) American cruiser of the same name]] during WWII. Complete with awarding the "Sharks in the Water" accolade for rescuing the surviving crew from the True Way.
30	* Bug Hunt is entirely a reference to the film version of Film/StarshipTroopers, complete with the ensign NPC being an {{Expy}} of Johnny Rico, served on the USS Buenos Aires, repeatedly quotes the films ("Medic!" "The only good bug is a dead bug!"), and includes the dialogue option "I would like to know more."
31	* The accolade rewarded for defeating [[spoiler:[=VanZyl=]]] within thirty seconds in "Uneasy Allies" is called [[Series/{{Firefly}} "Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal!]]"
32	* The Herald ships first seen inside the Andromeda Dyson sphere in "Uneasy Allies" look a lot like the Aparoids from ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault''.
33	* "Delta Flight" has [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tom Paris]] making references to ''Film/IndependenceDay'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and ''Series/MissionImpossible'', among others.
34	* Season 10 added loading screens with UsefulNotes/WorldWarII style propaganda posters including an Orion verson of Rosie the Riveter.
35	* One of ships in "Delta Flight" is named the U.S.S. ''[[Creator/TerryPratchett Pratchett]]''.
36	* The 2015 Risian Lohlunaut Festival pets, the Lunarian Carucal, look remarkably like either a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Eevee]] or [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]]. There's also the Klingon Targ Hog Superior Mini-Powerboard, which seems to resemble [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII a certain Bulldog Hoverboard]].
37	** The "Future Flyer" hoverboard, released on October 21, 2015 is an even more explicit reference to ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII.''
38	* A decorative piece that closely resembles a [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Flux Capacitor]] is present in a [[spoiler: Krenim]] temporal research facility.
39	** Temporal Agent Crey has noted "unauthorized uses of crude flux capacitance technology throughout the late 20th century". According to him, the destruction of the time travel device in the 20th century sent two things forward in time, plans for the Hoverboard, and what is implied to be the Gray's Sports Almanac.
40	* Shon quotes from ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_%28poem%29 The Charge of the Light Brigade]]'' right before the ''Enterprise''-F makes its final stand against the Iconians in "Midnight". Also serves as a CallBack to ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'''s "Sacrifice of Angels", in which Miles O'Brien did the same thing.
41	* "The Breach" has you leading a small fleet of ships into the [[BigDumbObject Voth Fortress Ship]], destroying the reactor, and then outrunning the explosion as you escape the hull. [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sound familiar]]?
42	* The Season 11 premier episode "Sunrise" had quite a few references to [[Series/DoctorWho another sci-fi franchise]], particularly the part where the player beams aboard Kal Dano's timeship.
43	* Starfleet Captains wearing the Oddessy uniform are entitled to have white shoulders on their uniform, much like the [[Literature/HonorHarrington Royal Manticoran Navy's]] White Berets.
44	* The Assimilated Snowmen in [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Q's Winter Wonderland]] will occasionally declare "[[ShoutoutToShakespeare This is the Winter]] [[Theatre/RichardIII of your discontent!]]"
45	* The final act of "Vorgon Conclusions" has you fight your way through a Starfleet Intelligence cache full of many of the [[Website/SCPFoundation anomalous artifacts and technology they've found over the centuries]]. The objects in question range from dangerous alien devices like [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E8TheBattle Bok's thought-maker]], to [[Film/StarTrek2009 the black box from the USS ''Kelvin'']], to... a bottle of [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family Chateau Picard]].
46	* The sub-mission ''The Unmitigated Gaul'' has a dilemma where the player must choose a single group of civilians to save. This is a reference to an [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E11LatentImage episode]] where the Doctor ended up [[HeroicBSOD emotionally paralyzed]] for weeks over having to choose between two patients to save. The Doctor's commentary is eerily similar to that episode.
47	* In the Na'kuhl red alert mission, the player has to rescue a number of civilian freighters that are under attack. Your NPC contact for the mission start is the captain of the freighter [[TabletopGame/{{Traveller}} Beowolf]].
48	* In 'Survivor', you find a record from a Tal Shiar prisoner. Their prisoner ID number? [[Theatre/LesMiserables 24601.]]
49	* For Halloween 2017, the rewards for completing the special mission "Hearts and Minds" was an emote called "Zombie Dance" that had the player-character start dancing to Music/MichaelJackson's ''Thriller''.
50	* The rogue hologram in 'What Lies Beneath' was named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein Gein]].
51	* The mission "Quark's Lucky Seven" is an apparent parody of ''Film/OceansEleven''.
52	* One of the open missions on Kobali Prime is called [[Music/TheBuggles "Kobali Killed The Vaadwaur Comm"]].
53	* During the intro quests for a Discovery-era Starfleet character, three of the cadets on the bridge - two of whom you meet at the Academy beforehand - are named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band) Peart, Lifeson and Lee]].
54	* In the 'One Night In Bozeman' patrol, one of the tasks is to erase the memories of some civilians that you save from being assimilated by the Borg. The interaction is called [[Film/MenInBlack Neuralyze Memories]].
55	* In "The Centre Cannot Hold", Ganbral of House K'lek calls the PlayerCharacter an [[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E03BornToThePurple "assassin of joy"]].
56	* In ''Manhunt'', several of the prisoners on Rura Penthe (Vrenn and Klimor to name two) are named after Klingon characters in ''Literature/TheFinalReflection''.
57	* The 'Operation Wolf' task force operation has the players defend a trio of exocomps as they hack (a simulated version of) the Terran Empire's version of Earth Spacedock. These exocomps bear the names [[Film/{{Hackers}} Acid Burn, Zero Cool, and Cereal Killer]].
58	* ''Manhunt'' ends with a Klingon Bird of Prey performing a BigDamnGunship rescue by decloaking just above your party and blasting the enemy; not unlike Spock's rescue of Kirk and company in ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''.
59	* There's also a very involved storyline set on the planet Nimbus III, which somewhat redeems the planet for its appearance in the above film.

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