Referenced By / Star Trek

Since its creation in 1966, Star Trek has become such an international cross-cultural phenomenon that it's almost a Stock Parody in itself. See our trope Where No Parody Has Gone Before for more details. If Star Trek is referenced in popular culture it will usually be one of the following things:

• The theme music.
• The Enterprise
• Someone saying Captain's log, then naming a specific date in the future, always while the spaceship flies through space.
• People dressed up as either Captain Kirk or Spock. Especially Spock is popular because the pointy ears are the most easily recognizable reference.
• People being beamed up or asking to be be beamed up by Scotty. See Beam Me Up, Scotty!.
• The Klingon language.
• The Vulcan salute.
• Lines like I'm a .... not a doctor, Highly illogical and Live long and prosper.
• References to one of the classic episodes from the original series.
• The obsessive and geeky fanhood (Trekkies, Treksters) who are depicted as either fanatics and/or virgins who still live with their mothers.
• Allusions, contrasts and confusions with Star Wars.

Anime & Manga

• Dragon Ball Z: In the Saiyan Saga, a group of news aircraft hover near the site of the upcoming battle to catch a glimpse of Vegeta and Nappa. One of the aircraft happens to be an exact reproduction of a shuttlecraft from the Enterprise-A right down to its registry number. The shout out is made even more hilarious by the fact that Nappa, in a show of ruthlessness, decides to blow it up, a reference to the Red Shirt trend, though in the English dub it was just a camera robot.
• The Electric Tale of Pikachu: Jean-Luc Pikachu from the manga series, complete with a Starfleet communicator◊!
• Gate: The manga version had Spock appear in the background as Lelei and Arpeggio prepare to duel.
• Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary: A Ferengi appears in Chapter 32, and Sisko and Garak appear at a table in the background of one panel. In chapter 36, there's a teacher named Picar-sensei who looks exactly like Jean-Luc. In another chapter, Hitomi and her father see a movie called Star Track with a ship identical to the Enterprise on the poster.
• The dub of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has this conversation near the end of "Catfight Club".
  Garterbelt: As the Good Lord says, "You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours."
  Brief: Actually, I think that's Spock.
• In the Pokémon the Series: Black & White episode, "A Restoration Confrontation: Part 2" Jessie, while wearing an eyepiece reminiscent of the Borg, says "resistance is futile".

Comic Books

• Men in Black, issue 2: Kay tells Jay the video game craze was a "computer simulated interstellar war". Jay says it sounds like a "bad Star Trek episode".
• Superboy (1994): Superboy meets a Wild Man named Kerk who he later learns is a Captain of the King's guard. He manages to ask "What-he sign on for a five year mission to boldly go where no man has gone before?" though his laughter but no one else present gets the reference.
• Wonder Woman (1942): When "Glitch" is trying to explain just what has been activated on the spaceship they're disarming to Steve Trevor he gives up and goes, "The main engines! Warp factor twelve Mr. Sulu!"
• Wonder Woman (1987): The taxi driver whose car Donna takes in issue 123 has several Star Trek pins in his cap, including one which says Beam Me Up, Scotty!.

Films — Live-Action

• In The Air Up There, Jimmy makes a Vulcan salute to the two Winabi who find him and says, "Live long and prosper?"
• In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the license plate on the police cruiser Gwen uses to ram Electro reads 1701.
• Back to the Future: Learning that George is a sci-fi fan, Marty scares him into asking Lorraine to the Enchantment Under The Sea dance by posing as "Darth Vader, an extra-terrestrial from the planet Vulcan", making the Vulcan salute, too.
• In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted watch "Arena," featuring Kirk's Rock, shortly before they get thrown off the same rock.
• Boomerang (1992): When Marcus and Angela are having dinner at his place, they turn on the TV and find an episode of Star Trek on, which pleases Marcus, as he thinks Captain Kirk is the best white man on the planet.
• Brigsby Bear: Spencer wears a Star Trek shirt.
• The Cable Guy has a shout-out to the Original Series episode, "Amok Time," which is famous for Kirk and Spock being forced to fight to the death. In The Cable Guy, Chip drags Steven into the pit at Medieval Times so they can fight with real weapons. Chip even cuts a hole in Steven's shirt the same way Spock does to Kirk. He also “sings” the fight music.
• Crimson Tide: When XO Hunter has taken over the submarine Alabama, and he calls down to Vossler to get him to get more power from the sub, he compares himself to Kirk asking Scotty for more power from the Enterprise.
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: When Elliott says to his older brother that E.T. needs to get back to his space ship he asks: "Can't they just beam him up?"
• Galaxy Quest is a film length shoutout to the franchise and its fandom, especially TOS. The main characters are actors from a cancelled Star Trek type series, who get caught up in a real life adventure in space. References to characters and events ensue. The movie's pages list many of these. In-universe examples include:
  • Commander Commander Peter Quincy Taggart is The Kirk and even manages to get his shirt ripped, which is Lamp Shaded. ^note Played by Tim Allen
  • Dr. Lazarus is The Spock, serving as science officer. Like Mr. Spock he is alien, which affects his demeanor and actions, and can isolate him from the crew. ^note Played by Alan Rickman
  • Tawny Madison, the character, is a Uhura Expy, but in the story also winds up becoming The McCoy to round out the big three. ^note Played by Sigourney Weaver
  • The characters also include a Scotty in reverse, a Wesley Crusher Expy, and a Red Shirt aversion.
• Halloween: Michael Myers' iconic mask is a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
• Please Stand By is about a Star Trek fanfic writer's journey to submit her entry in a script-writing contest after she misses the deadline to mail it in.
• In Silent Fall, Tim recites "Space: The Final Frontier" at one point.
• Jeffrey from Snatched (2017) lists Klingon as one of the languages he speaks.
• Tracks from Where's Willie? has a Star Trek poster in his room.
• In Sweet Hostage, Leonard tries to shake hands with one of the townspeople, but instead he gives a Vulcan salute and says, "Live long and prosper, man." The man salutes Leonard's car again as he drives away.
• In The Terminal, the customs agent at JFK turns out to be a Trekkie ("She go to these conventions dressed as Yeoman Rand."), to the delight of the construction worker who has a crush on her. In a very Hilarious in Hindsight case, her portrayer, Zoe Saldaña, would eventually play Uhura.
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon has a few, possibly because Leonard Nimoy is voicing Sentinel Prime. Wheelie is seen watching "Amok Time" and noting "I've seen this one. This is the one where Spock goes nuts." and Bumblebee at a certain point uses the soundbite "I am and always shall be your friend" from Star Trek III.
• Bryan Singer is a Trekkie (he even cameos in Star Trek: Nemesis), so he included a couple of episodes in two X-Men films he directed. "The Naked Time" is seen on one of Hank's TV sets in X-Men: Days of Future Past, and "Who Mourns for Adonais?" is playing in the background when Ororo has a private conversation with Apocalypse.

Literature

• Animorphs:
  • The authors are Trek fans, and mention that some of the filler plots are based on episodes.
  • In #8, they take Ax to see a Star Trek movie (presumably Star Trek: First Contact, which was the most recent one when the book was published).
  • Derek, the Inuit boy they meet in #25, is a fan of Star Trek.
  • When Edriss first came to Earth, she intercepted human telecommunications and thought Star Trek was real, and that humans had FTL spaceships.
  • In #47, the kids meet a family of Trekkies out camping, who try to help them fight the Yeerks. It doesn't go well for them.
• Doctor Who Expanded Universe:
  • The Doctor Who New Adventures novel White Darkness has a brief reference to a planet called Rihannsu.
  • The NA The Left-Handed Hummingbird has the Doctor's companion Bernice, who is from the future, watch an episode of The Next Generation and initially think it's a documentary.
  • The Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel Invasion of the Cat-People has the Doctor give a list of Cat Folk that includes the Caitans and agents of the Aegis (Isis from "Assignment: Earth").
  • The Missing Adventures novel The Crystal Bucephalus has Turlough remembering a paper he read about the effect of plasma damage on the biosphere of Qo'noS. One of the planets the Bucephalus allows passage to is Risa, and the ornate Benifactor's Cubiculo is decorated with gold and latinum.
  • The illustration for the 1992 Doctor Who Magazine short story "Brief Encounter: The Useful Pile" clearly shows a then-current Starfleet uniform amid the outfits in the TARDIS wardrobe.
  • In fact, there are so many references that the Universe Concordance Ahistory actually devotes a sidebar to asking if Star Trek takes place in the Whoniverse, ultimately concluding that it doesn't, and speculating that instead, many planets may have been named by Trekkers.
• Asperger Adventures: In Of Mice and Aliens, Ben's grandma talks about the possibility of life on other planets. Ben jokes, "But there is life on other planets, Grandma. Star Trek visits them all the time."
• The Dresden Files: In Ghost Story Molly's command center in her mental defense system is the bridge from Star Trek: The Original Series, featuring the fight music and bridge lurches. The controls are manned by different Mollys in different-colored shirts (including a Red Shirt who immediately dies) representing facets of her personality as interpreted through the archetypes from the original series, complete with fights among the Freudian Trio.
• In The Heroes of Olympus book "The Lost Hero", Jason says that Leo is the son of Vulcan, referring to the Roman versuon of Hephestus. Leo responds that he doesn't even like Star Trek. Later in the conversation, someone calls Leo "Mr. Spock".
• One chapter of the future-set story, Rebel Planet, has a movie theatre playing some old 20th Century flick called "Star Trek".
• In There's More Than One Way Home, Val says, "Damn it, Jim, I'm a psychotherapist, not a real estate agent."
• In Experimental Film, Lois hears Clark reciting, "Stardate 24608.5. I am sending an away team down to the surface of planet Rigel Four, the Enterprise is filmed in Panavision."
• In The Someday Birds, Charlie lectures Jake about saying Trekkers instead of Trekkies.
• Erin DeLillo from The Nowhere Girls is obsessed with The Next Generation, which she watches every day after she finishes her homework and chores. She named both her golden retriever and her dead guinea pig Spot, after Data's cat, and aspires to be more like Data.
• Captain Underpants:
  • Melvin's pet hamster (later adopted by George and Harold) is named Sulu.
  • The villains of "The Origin of Captain Underpants" have a spaceship called the Starch Ship Enterprise.
• Robert from Stim uses a Voyager-themed bookmark. Chloe owns DVDs of Deep Space Nine and has the sound of the transporter as her ringtone.
• In The Tuning Station, Chris sarcastically calls Ted "Mr. Spock."
• Alastair from On the Spectrum is a fan of Star Trek tie-in novels, although he isn't allowed to watch TV. He builds the Enterprise out of Legos.
• Brandon from Cemetery Bird puts together a Star Trek puzzle.
• The Unadulterated Cat, in its entry on the "green whole-earthbox cat", says that if you meet a vegan, you should not give them the four-fingered V-sign and say "Live long and prosper".
• Seb from Haze is a Star Trek fan. He has six years of Star Trek magazines organized chronologically, and he has a Tuvok costume because he likes the Vulcans.
• In The Other Boy, Shane lists Star Trek as one of the inspirations for the graphic novel he's working on.
• In Rubbernecker, Patrick's classmate Scott, an aspiring plastic surgeon, tells the other medical students, 'You can call me Scotty, like in Star Trek.'
• Zack from A Mango-Shaped Space has dressed as Spock every Halloween since he was six. Now that he's eleven, he's outgrown most of the costume, so he just wears the ears.

Live-Action TV

• The Big Bang Theory: The guys are great fans of most nerdy sci-fi shows, and Star Trek gets especially warm treatment. They love particularly Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: The Original Series. Those got referenced multiple times.
  • Wesley Crusher was Sheldon Cooper's favourite character because he identified with him. However, Whil Wheaton failed to appear at one convention, and Sheldon then swore to make him his mortal enemy. Wheaton plays a recurring antagonistic version of himself, Adam Westing it nicely, and he and Sheldon even managed to patch things up.
  • Sheldon wrote a Self-Insert Fic of TOS when he was a kid. Mr Spock travels in time and requests his presence aboard the Enterprise.
  • The guys attended a Renaissance fair, and Sheldon was very dissatisfied with its historical inaccuracy. He refused to attend other fairs, but the guys convinced him that he can go as a character from Star Trek who visited alternate-history Earth. He's dressed up as a Vulcan character.
  • Penny is no great fan of sci-fi, but she managed to pick it up from the guys. When she and Leonard are in an off phase of their on/off relationship and she needs to sleep in his bed in a hotel, she explains to him that "her shields are up" and that nothing is going to happen. She later reconsiders her decision and invites him to her "neutral zone", referring respectively to the ship's protection from attacks and a result of wars between the Federation and other powers.
  • When Sheldon wants to start a new social group of friends, he invites Mr. Le Var Burton who played Geordi La Forge on the Next Gen through Twitter. He indeed does appear, but they don't notice him and because the party has turned a bit wild, he quickly leaves.
  • Sheldon ordered a cardboard cutout of Mr Spock, but was disappointed because he got Zachary Quinto from the reboot movies instead of Leonard Nimoy.
  • Leonard and Sheldon both have Spock as a collectible action figure, and Penny gave guys vintage time machine toy that fits it perfectly. Sheldon dreamed about Spock, which was voiced by Leonard Nimoy.
  • When Leonard Nimoy ate at her restaurant, Penny got his autograph for Sheldon. When she apologized for the smudge when Nimoy used the napkin to wipe his face, Sheldon was ecstatic that he possessed the DNA of Leonard Nimoy.
  • Sheldon seems to have Recurring Dreams about reptilian humanoid monsters from TOS.
  • When Leonard, Sheldon, Raj and Howard go to a comic con, they dress up as characters from TNG. Leonard is Captain Picard, Sheldon Mr Data, Raj a Klingon warrior and Howard is a Borg. They looked absolutely awesome. On the road, their car got stolen when they stopped to take pictures at Kirk's Rock.
  • Sheldon's girlfriend Amy once casually said to Penny that the guys were watching Star Wars. Penny corrected her that no-no-no, they were watching Star Trek and that they all get uneasy if those two are mixed up. Amy asks what the difference is. Penny gets uneasy herself and exclaims: "There is absolutely no difference."
  • Amy tried to trick Sheldon into becoming more intimate with her by invoking his favourite memories. Even though she has no fondness for the franchise herself, she dressed up as a Vulcan doctor and was examining Sheldon who played a Federation officer. He couldn't resist...
  • When Amy and Sheldon had an argument, he brought her TNG DVDs. He started describing to her the plots of the first episodes through a door and when she was silent, he was content and gladly remarked: "She's hooked." She wasn't. She was still angry with him.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Homecoming" there's a geek in-joke in Cordelia stating she knows the "Vulcan Death Grip" (confusing it with the Vulcan Nerve Pinch). As any Trekkie knows from the TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident", there's no such thing.
• Doctor Who
  • In "The Empty Child", Rose asks the Doctor to "give it some Spock" when she tires of the Doctor not scanning for alien tech. After still not telling her his name, Rose refers to the Doctor as "Mr. Spock".
  • In "Closing Time", Craig compares being teleported to being all Star Trek and "beam me up".
• Freaks and Geeks: The "geeks" - Bill, Neil and Sam - are all big fans of the show, and Neil occasionally does impressions of Captain Kirk.
• Gilmore Girls:
  • Lorelai wanted to keep her relationship with one of her boyfriends secret from her parents. He disagreed and compared it to a cloaking device and said that it has always been controversial and never worked well for the Federation. Lorelai found it amusing and commented that it's cool to be dating a Trekkie. She was however rather snarky, her taste in TV shows and movies being a bit different.
  • One of the Cloud Cuckoolander inhabitants of Stars Hollow is called Kirk. He once compared himself with Captain Kirk.
• Leverage:
  • In "The Cross my Heart Job", Hardison, undercover as a tower operator, uses the callsign "Leverage Airlines 1701" when radioing the team's walkie-talkies. In the same episode, Eliot gets Hardison's attention by paging "Kirk Picard" in "The Cross My Heart Job."
  • Also in that episode, Hardison calls the improvised computer system he's forced to use "stone knives and bearskins", referencing Spock's complaint about 1930 electronics tech in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever".
  • In "The Order 23 Job", Hardison sets up a system with Eliot of referencing the odd-numbered Star Trek movies when things are going well and the even-numbered ones when things are going poorly. When the job inevitably goes sideways, Hardison has the hospital PA page "Dr. Ralph O. Khan."
  • Just before he blows Lucille 1 up, Hardison tells her that "I have been, and always shall be, your friend.
  • In "The First Contact Job", Eliot's pseudonym is Willie Riker, which the mark fails to recognize despite having a Will Riker action figure on his desk. According to Word of God, these were unintentional Actor Allusions, since the references were written into the episode before Jonathan Frakes was attached to direct it.
  • The Tie-In Novel The Con Job has a scene where Hardison and Parker go to a VIP party with the cast of TNG. Also there is Chaos, played on the show by Wil Wheaton (who apparently also exists in the Leverage universe).
• Leverage: Redemption:
  • Hardison refers to the team's re-recruitment of Sophie as "Getting the gang back together, like Star Trek," while giving Mariner's backwards Vulcan salutes. Eliot joins in by referencing the Star Trek Movie Curse:
    Eliot: Even numbers only, baby... I can't believe I know that.
  • "The Double-Edged Sword Job" reveals that in the time gap between two series, Parker and Eliot have learned Klingon. Parker (presumably) because she was dating Hardison, and Eliot because Hardison bet him that he couldn't. Breanna isn't fully sure if Hardison really "lost" that bet.
• Mad Men: In the fifth season episode "Christmas Waltz", Paul, who has quit advertising and joined Hare Krishna, tells Harry he's become a fan of Star Trek and has written a script for the show. Harry tells him to go to L.A. and pitch it, though it's less because he likes the script and more because he wants Paul to get out of Hare Krishna.
• Quark: A short-lived series that contained many Star Trek references, including a reference to the TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", with the main characters being the crew of a garbage scow. ^note  In that episode a Klingon tries to incite Scotty to start a fight by first calling the Enterprise a garbage scow, and then going further.
• Red Dwarf:
  • "Waiting for God": Lister figures out that a mysterious space pod is originally from Earth by deciphering the damaged writing on its nameplate, in a spoof of the scene in The Motion Picture where Kirk figures out that a mysterious space probe is originally from Earth by deciphering the damaged writing on its nameplate.
  • "The Last Day": Kryten, when querying about the human value of friendship is put down by a hungover Lister by saying "Don't give me that Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning".
  • The Space Corps uniforms seen in “Trojan” are very similar to those used in Star Trek films VIII to X and the later seasons of Deep Space Nine.
• Spitting Image: Leonard Nimoy was featured as a puppet in the series, frequently trying to be taken seriously as an actor, but always blowing it by making in character references to Spock.
• The Belgian 1989 comedy series Lava has a recurring segment named Wally In Space, featuring Flemish crooner Eddy Wally on board of a space ship in an obvious parody of Star Trek: The Original Series. Herr Seele was even dressed like Spock, down to the pointy ears.
• The "Pigs in Space" sketches from The Muppet Show. The ship is called the Swinetrek, and the opening theme is a direct spoof of the Star Trek theme.
  • For Muppets Tonight, the sketch gets updated to "Deep Dish Nine: the Next Generation of Pigs in Space."
  • For Sesame Street, they did a skit called Spaceship Surprise. The opening theme is also a direct spoof of the Star Trek theme. 3 Skits were made (The Planet Ch, The Planet Tr, and The Planet Sh). In 1991, A new installment was made as Spaceship Surprise: The Next Generation. And the only skit was The Planet H.
  • Patrick Stewart guessed star in a Sesame Street skit with Count Von Count where the number won't go into the right spot. And Patrick Stewart shouts "MAKE IT SO, NUMBER 1!" And number 1 went into the right spot.
• In The Good Doctor episode "Zero Point Three Percent," Shaun tells a patient, "Young bones tend to heal very well." The patient jokes, "Young Bones? Isn't that a Star Trek: Origins graphic novel?"
• NCIS:
  • One suspect-of-the-week is dressed as a Klingon and even insults Gibbs in Klingonese, which McGee translates.
  • "All Hands" is basically one big Shout-Out to Star Trek, starting with the action taking place on a research ship named Stargazer, which Parker and McGee recognize from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The navy commander giving them the briefing has to remind them to focus on the Stargazer down on Earth.
• The 2point4 Children episode "Beam Me Up, Scotty" introduces Ben's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Jake Klinger, a Trekker and general SF geek known in the plumbing trade as Jake the Klingon. His Faking the Dead funeral is Star Trek themed, with everyone having to go in costume. Bill thinks she can wear a white coat and be Dr Crusher, but Ben tells her "That's Next Generation! Original Series only!" Other costume highlights include Ben's vertically-challenged apprentice Christine attending as a very angry Tribble.

Music

• "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" by The Beastie Boys from Paul's Boutique references Captain Kirk:
  And you'll be pullin' a train like you're Captain Kirk
• Captain Kirk is mentioned in Nena's song "99 Luftballons", in both original and English versions, as who the fighter pilots imagine themselves as.
• In the music video fro the Ninja Sex Party song "6969", Danny is seen using a holodeck-like room for virtual sexytimes.
• Tears for Fears: The song "Power" has the verse "Phasers switched and set to stun".
• "Weird Al" Yankovic: In "White & Nerdy", the protagonist claims to be fluent in "both Java, as well as Klingon" and admits that "the only question I ever thought was hard / was 'do I like Kirk or I like Picard?'"

Newspaper Comics

• Bloom County: Cutter John, Opus, and the others occasionally pretend to be members of the Enterprise, with Cutter John as Captain Kirk.
• The Far Side has Scotty in Hell.
  "Satan! Satan!...It's the main megafurnace! She's losin' power and the temperature is droppin' fast! I'm not sure I can hold her!"
• FoxTrot: Jason is a fan of all things sci-fi, including Trek. Roger has also mentioned getting "one of those flip-top jobbies that Captain Kirk uses", implying it'll take until the 23rd century for his phone contract to expire.
  • In the summer camp arc, Jason and Marcus's project is a miniature warp drive. We never get to see it in action though, since they accidentally sabotage their own project when trying to sabotage Eileen and Phoebe's.
  • Jason and Paige once fought over the remote since Star Trek: Voyager and Melrose Place were on at the same time.
  • Jason once memorized the Klingon dictionary, and sings Klingon in the shower.
  • Jason puts his gingerbread men in red shirts so they'll be eaten.
  • He dressed as Picard for St. Patrick's Day.
• In Peanuts, Snoopy once imagined himself as the captain of the Enterprise.

Pinball

• One mode in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Stern) is named "The Wrath of Krang".

Video Games

• Civilization: Beyond Earth:
  • In Suzanne Fielding's introduction interview, she makes reference to "Musk, Branson and Cochrane".
  • Along those lines, one of the available structures is called the Holosuite.
  • The achievement for purchasing 1000 tiles is "Rules of Acquisition".
  • The achievement for winning a Domination Victory? "Resistance is Futile".
  • The achievement for buying every Virtue in the Prosperity Tree is "Live Long and Prosper".
  • The achievement for buying every Virtue in the Knowledge Tree is "Logic is the beginning of wisdom".
  • The achievement for winning one game on every map size and type is "United Federation of Planets".
• The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark: Stan, one of the inhabitants at the retirement home, used to play a Red Shirt in the classic science fiction series SpaceHop, with the catch phrase "Grow Old And Be Content."
• Gone Home: A book called "Killing of JFK: A Theory" can be found with "Harcourt Fenton Books" written its back, named after the character from Star Trek.
• In Infinite Craft, "Star Trek" is a possible crafting recipe.
• In The Simpsons Hit & Run, one of Comic Book Guy's quotes if he hits the car is "KHAAAAAN!"
• Star Control's Earthling Cruiser takes a lot of design notes from the Enterprise, the VUX Intruder is based on the Klingon D-7, and in the sequel, you have the option of choosing "The United Federation of Worlds" as the name of your new interplanetary organization in the sequel.

Web Animation

• Ramshackle: As Maggot returns to the heavens, he tells his friends to “live long and prosper.”

Webcomics

• Schlock Mercenary
  • Shep's visor resembles Geordi's from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • The general uniforms for the Mallcop Command arc are effectively Next Generation command uniforms with the colors reversed.
• The crew of the Excalibur in the space arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space are loosely based on the Original Series Enterprise crew, especially the core Power Trio (Paul Gadzikowski has said he got a handle on Guenevere's personality in particular when he started writing her as a Gender Flipped McCoy). In addition, the space arc version of the Roman envoy is the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise incident", and there's a Whole-Plot Reference to "Space Seed" with the Lady of the Lake as Maria McGivers and Bran the Blessed as Khan.
• Susan in El Goonish Shive is a Trekker. She's responsible for the video store she works at keeping the odd-numbered movies seperate from the even ones; she's worn both an ST:TNG t-shirt and a top that resembles a Next Gen era uniform; she's cosplayed in a full Next Gen uniform on a couple of occasions (although only one is definitely canon); her "Logic Angel" is a Vulcan; and one of the fantasy panels in the Q&A about time travel has her as Spock in The Voyage Home.
• How to be a Werewolf: Eli describes Vincent's taciturn personality with a quick comparison to Spock the first time he describes him to Marisa and Marin. Later Vincent lends Eli Star Trek pajama pants.
• Helen's "logic angel" (or left brain) in Narbonic is also a Vulcan. Dave's is a Borg.

Web Video

• Yogscast
  • Lewis Brindley's Minecraft avatar was initially Commander Riker, with his character in Shadow of Israphel often referred to as a "spaceman". His face, though not his outfit still has the likeness of Riker as of July 2014, though around 2012, the Starfleet uniform was removed.
  • Lewis and Simon Lane's review of Star Trek Online:
    • "Is your character actually called Shatner?" "Yup. Yes..." "And you made him look like William Shatner?" "That was the idea, yeah..."
    • Simon ^note who was actually born in 1978 claims to have watched it "since it was out in the 1950s [sic]."
    • Simon does, in Lewis' words, "a mean Janeway impression". Simon chips in before starting that "it's pretty bad". It consists of a lot of "Chakotays", (after the USS Voyager's first officer under Janeway).
    • Simon, still doing his Janeway voice: "Ensign Kim! Redirect all shield power to main thrusters!"
    • Simon says that Lewis thought the Native American first officer Chakotay was an alien because he had "weird shit on his face", when it was actually a tribal tattoo. Lewis elaborates, saying, "I thought that was a general thing that they've always done in Star Trek. Y'know, odd stuff on your face means you're an alien." and had his mind blown when Chakotay was "just an ordinary bloke".
    • "You've passed all of your exams, your captain, starship captain exams. You've done all that, all your training. And now, you're ready to go; you've been given a ship, and you're off looking for adventure; looking for green-skinned women to teach 'what this thing called kissing' is." (shortly after) "It's a lady! ^note An alien science officer, not a native. Teach her what kissing is! Is that the quest? 'Accept'."
    • After learning that Lewis is fighting the Gorn, Simon, mixing Kirk's Rock in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena" with Kirk's Rock, says "Are you gonna have to beam down to the planet, and fight a Gorn one-on-one, in a quarry?"
    • Simon mentions the "power fist" as "when Kirk links his fingers of his hands together, and he uses them as a vicious, blunt object to bash people with. Usually he just hits them in the shoulder, or the back, or sometimes the kidneys. He never hits them in the face with it. I mean, that would make too much sense." He calls the power fist "such a bad move, that it's an unmove". He refers to the power fist again in the Minecraft Star Trek custom map playthrough.
    • Simon mentions Spock's nerve grip and McCoy's hypospray that could easily knock Spock out "when Spock goes nuts" and that because of those two, "Kirk needed his own knockout move", which he calls "fight[ing] like someone's granddad, basically".
    • Lewis suspects that diverting power to shields manually in the game is accurate to the show.
    • Simon calls Captain Shatner having an all-female crew a sexual harassment lawsuit "waiting to happen".
    • When Lewis begins his away mission, Simon almost immediately asks if anyone's wearing a Red Shirt.
    • "See, what the Gorn have done, they've made a mistake: they didn't set their phasers to kill, so they're not killing any of you."
    • Simon notes that instead of a grenade like in Online, in the TV shows, "if they wanted to have the effect of throwing a grenade, what they would to is set their phasers to, like, overcharge or something? And then they would throw the phasers and it would blow up."
    • "Would you like to have an Orion slave girl?" "Who wouldn't, man? Who wouldn't?"
    • Simon mentions how in The Original Series, whenever a pretty girl appears, "stupid music" would play, accompanied with "Soft Focus" on her, and it would often turn out in these kinds of plots she's "an alien, she's actually, like, hideous, or really evil or something", or, as Lewis says, "she's actually, like, a really old woman who they've, like, transformed into, like a young one to, like, trick [Kirk]." "And Kirk's been doing all sorts of stuff with this woman, without realising it was someone's nan."
    • "Meanwhile, at the same time [as the above], Spock, for some reason, he's troubled, and his emotions are coming out, 'cause this used to happen all the time. And Spock's going a bit apeshit."
    • Simon mentions one episode where "for some reason, all of the water on the ship had turned into, like, alcohol" and that none of the crew understood the concept of being drunk and "sobbing on people's shoulders" and how McCoy, one of the only people who drinks real alcohol, is the only one able to figure out what's happening.
    • Simon attempts a Kirk impression with William Shatner's well-known, dramatic, pauses, then goes onto Janeway again ("Chakotay, I need a shag."), then Picard. ("Engage. Make it so. Number One, I need a shag.")
    • "It's not looking good for, er, what's the name of your ship?" "USS Enterprise." "Fuck off! Seriously?"
    • Lewis points out there's always something "new" in every Star Trek episode, none of which was present in Star Trek Online, which was just linear shooting. "Some weird virus that takes over people's brains, something that swaps their bodies over, or y'know, something that turns them blue and they start dying and they have to go to some place to get some weird crystal from some fucking cave..."
  • Lewis and Simon recorded a custom Minecraft map, with their skins altered to make Simon movie era-Kirk and Lewis movie-era Spock (complete with "amazing hairpiece"), based on the Enterprise-A. Among the references from the custom map itself, there's also,
    • The episode begins "Yogscast log: Stardate 2011" in Kirk-ish.
    • Simon delivers an inflection of "Spock!" recognisable as Kirk's several times.
    • Lewis says "Fascinating".
    • While wondering how to make a route to the Enterprise recreation, Simon suspects that he "CAAAAAN!", similar to Kirk's Big Word Shout of "KHAAAN!" in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
    • Simon points out the first Enterprise doesn't have an "A" in it, while the one in the map does.
    • Simon acknowledges that him and Lewis being stuck inside one another is essentially Star Trek Slash Fic.
    • "I think there's a breach in the warp core." "Oh, god, a warp core breach!" And later on, "That's a serious breach of warp core stability."
    • Lewis notes there's "always" a warp core breach in Star Trek.
    • Simon imitates the red alert noise.
    • Lewis makes a crude version of the USS Enterpise in StarMade.
    • "Lots of stuff went on in the cargo bay. Stuff always got stolen from it..."
    • While hearing a strange zombie noise without a clear source, Lewis notes it's like an actual episode of Star Trek. Simon wonders if it's Chekov.
    • Simon name-checks the rear nacelles.
    • Simon, upon discovering Kirk's quarters has a triple bed, imitates one of Kirk's alien love interests on the show: "What is this Earth thing you call...kissing?" Simon later says he'll teach an "alien" spider the ways of kissing.
    • Simon makes the common joke that the Enterprise has only one toilet, wherever it is.
    • Lewis notes that the chief surgeon's office would be McCoy's "hangout".
    • Lewis notes the seating locations of "Zulu" [sic] and Uhura on the bridge.
    • While fighting a spider on the top of the Enterprise, Simon points out that the half-Vulcan Spock's supposed to be much stronger than a human.
    • Lewis asks Simon to come up with a "Star Trek way" to defeat the spider. Simon responds, "We need a giant glass and a piece of cardboard!"
    • In the transporter room, Simon says "Two to beam down," and imitates the teleportation noise.
    • While Lewis fails to give Simon a high-five in Minecraft and instead hitting Simon, Lewis ends up fighting Simon. Lewis responds, "This is like a Spock-Kirk battle. They'd always have 'em in every episode." Simon says, "You've [Spock] gone mad for some reason, 'cause that just always seems to happen..."
    • "'Transporter buffer maintenance'. Oh, god, this is in case someone's pattern got trapped in [...] the buffer. The pattern buffer. [...] Scotty has to come round here and fiddle about with stuff, until it, sort of, the pattern comes back..."
    • Simon asks Lewis if he was cryogenically frozen, awoken, and the Star Trek future was real, "do you think you would go into Starfleet, you'd join the academy, you'd be like Wesley Crusher, wearing a little grey uniform with a rainbow on, what if you were in the same class as a young Janeway?" followed by his Janeway impression once again.
• Medlife Crisis briefly chastises Data in Doctor Explains Challenges of Colonising a New Planet - Science of The Expanse Part 2 for worrying only about whether or not the air is breathable on newly discovered planets, rather than being concerned with any parasites or other things which might be in the air that could be detrimental to the biological members of the crew.
• "Shields Up", an episode of Sips's Garry's Mod Murder!'' series, is obviously a reference to Star Trek. The thumbnail clearly shows Jean-Luc Picard as well.
• Linkara from Atop the Fourth Wall is a huge Trekkie, who has even reviewed many of the show's comics. One Running Gag is playing the battle theme from The Original Series over fight sequences.
• The final scene of Suburban Knights is a direct shoutout to the final scene of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and To Boldly Flee is a Whole-Plot Reference to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Western Animation

• 3-2-1 Penguins!
  • In "The Amazing Carnival of Complaining", Zidgel says, "All right, crew, remember where we parked, Section P-3."
  • In "The Doom Funnel Rescue", the red alert sound affect goes off when the crew encounters a doom funnel.
    • Midgel mentions that the Rockhopper reached a speed of Warp 10 thanks to B.I.N.G.
    • When Professor Wordsworth boards the Rockhopper, the doors make the same sound as the doors from the original series of Star Trek when they open.
  • In "I Scream, You Scream", Zidgel says, "Make it so!", pointing included.
  • "Lazy Daze" features a planet called Rigel 13.
  • In "Between an Asteroid and a Hard Place", Jason makes fun of Michelle by saying that the Penguins are calling them to a mission to search for her brain. It seems like he has some knowledge of Spock's Brain.
  • When Zidgel greets the cow captain in "In the Big House", he does the Vulcan salute.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Marge vs. the Monorail", Leonard Nimoy was special guest voice. In the end he says: "My work is done here." To which Barney asks: "Whaddaya mean, "your work is done"? You didn't do anything." To which Nimoy chuckles knowingly and replies: "Didn't I?", then dissolves into thin air in parody of the beaming scenes in Star Trek.
  • In "Deep Space Homer", Homer and Barney train to become an astronaut. One part of their training apparently involves battling each other in an arena, which is a reference to the Star Trek episode Amok Time.
  • Half of Comic Book Guy's dialogue, costumes and posters in his shop are references to Star Trek.
  • The beginning of "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" has Bart, Lisa and Grampa watching a fictional sequel film titled Star Trek XII: So Very Tired featuring the original cast as elderly versions of themselves (done as a Take That! to how much older they looked in the most recent film at the time.)
• Futurama
  • Zapp Brannigan is something of a hybrid of Kirk and his actor, William Shatner.
  • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is a reunion of all the Star Trek: The Original Series cast members apart from James Doohan and DeForest Kelley (though Kelley appears in the episode unvoiced). The episode implies that in the far future Star Trek has gained such a huge fanbase that it turned into a world religion and the government was forced to ban everything that reminded of the show.
• Justice League Unlimited:
  • In "The Greatest Story Never Told", when a group of heroes are about to beam down to Earth, Booster Gold excitedly says, "Energize!" The technician calls him a doofus.
  • In the third season episode "Dead Reckoning", Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman, who's been temporarily possessed by Deadman, beam down from their headquarters to Africa to help Solivar stop Grodd from attacking Gorilla City. When they end up in the desert, Deadman comments, "You know, when those guys beam down on that TV show, they never miss."
• South Park
  • Members of the Enterprise crew are seen in "Imaginationland".
  • "City on the Edge of Forever": Besides using the title of an episode from the original series, a kid in a Red Shirt, complete with Federation insignia, falls victim to an unseen monster.
• Dexter's Laboratory: The episode "Star Check Unconventional" has Dexter and his friends going to attend a Star Check convention, but accidentally wander into a doll convention instead, encountering ugly patrons who look suspiciously like Klingons.
• In the Yogi's Treasure Hunt episode "Yogi Bear on the Air", Ranger Smith pilots a spacecraft that spoofs the Enterprise.
• In the Rugrats (1991) episode, "The Odd Couple", Chuckie's favorite Show Within a Show is revealed to be "Space Trek Babies", which Tommy absolutely cannot stand.
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • The short, "Duck Trek" from the episode, "Cinemaniacs!" is a parody of the film, with Plucky Duck as Captain Jim Quirk, Hamton J. Pig as Spork, and Furrball (in a rare speaking appearance) as Dr. Furr.
  • In the episode, "Kon Ducki", Plucky imitates Captain Kirk, until he realizes he was reading the wrong script.
• Hercules: The Animated Series: The episode "Hercules and the Golden Fleece" has William Shatner as Jason, captain of the Argo. In the end, the Argo, powered by the Golden Fleece, flies over the sky and goes into "Warp Speed".
• On the first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Leonardo watches Space Heroes, a show that spoofs Star Trek: The Animated Series.
• There are so many on Phineas and Ferb, the show's wiki compiled a list. Some highlights:
  • "Ready for the Bettys": Phineas uses Kirk's broken cadence, saying, "Ferb...can you give me...any...more...power?"
  • "Nerds of a Feather": of the Space Adventure film series call themselves "Spekkies", and the Star Trek Movie Curse is referenced when an especially pedantic geek declares his favorite film to be more original than "every even numbered Space Adventure film combined".
• In Tamagotchi Video Adventures, Mametchi's contribution to Cosmotchi's museum is a glove from the planet Vulcan. The glove is even seen making the Vulcan hand salute.
• Rocko's Modern Life: In "Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic", the vacuum's power is so strong, that it sucks up the Starship Enterprise (as a Captain Kirk-expy even comments on the situation as they are).