Star Trek

Star Trek was a popular American television series of the 1960s that became a cultural icon of the late 20th century; it later spawned a long-running entertainment franchise that included movies and spin-off TV series into the 21st century. It featured, among other characters, Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy.

References

• The first time Bernice Summerfield watched Star Trek, she thought it was a documentary. (NA: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

• Star Trek had many avid followers, who felt thrilled at the debut of movies based on the series. (NA: Return of the Living Dad)

• The Doctor explained the chameleon circuit to Grace Holloway in terms of a "cloaking device", using a term closely associated with Star Trek (although in the context of Star Trek a cloaking device was used to turn space vehicles invisible, not change their appearance as was the theoretical function of the TARDIS' chameleon circuit). Rose Tyler introduced The Doctor around as Spock in Blitz-era London, much to his displeasure. She had earlier gently mocked The Doctor's predilection for technobabble "Spock stuff". (DW: The Empty Child) (DW: Doctor Who: The TV Movie)

• As a young science fiction fan, Izzy Sinclair, watched Star Trek to vicariously escape her unhappy home life. (DWM: Oblivion)

• Rose Tyler compared the Doctor to the Star Trek character Spock, a name Rose later gave as the Doctor's own when she introduced him to Jack Harkness; Harkness subsequently began calling him Mr. Spock until he was corrected. (DW: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances)

• A Time Lord, Marnal, going by the Human alias Marnal Gate, sold a script to Star Trek. Unhappy with the changes made to the script, however, he saw to it that he did not get credited for it. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

• When the Gorgon's followers trapped Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Maria Jackson, and Clyde Langer and Sarah's sonic lipstick was taken from her Clyde commented that they didn't need a "Star Trek gadget" to get out. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)

• When Clyde and Luke Smith were on Kudlak's ship Luke asked Clyde if he could use his mobile phone. One of the other captives told him that it would be useless in space unless he knew Captain Kirk's phone number. (SJA: Warriors of Kudlak)

• The The Doctor and Donna Noble once compared the sonic screwdriver to Star Trek's tricorder. Shortly afterwards, the Doctor adopted the soon after briefly adopted the aliases Doctor McCoy (the Doctor) and Captain Kirk (Donna). (BBC Audio: Pest Control)

Other information

• Destrii watched a spacecraft design closely resembling that of the fictional Enterprise (DWM: Oblivion)

Behind the scenes

• The novella The Doctor and the Enterprise by Jean Airey, initially published privately as a fanzine and then in a semi-professional edition in 1989 by Pioneer Books has the Fourth Doctor (by far the most well-known in the United States at the time) meeting the crew of the original Star Trek series. Many other amateur fan fiction crossovers between the two universes that have been written over the year.
• The Blue Angel parodies Star Trek, with Captain Robert B. Blandish of the Nepotist standing in for Captain Kirk of the Enterprise.
• A line cut from the script of The Empty Child would have had the Doctor reply to Rose saddling him with the "Mr. Spock" nickname, "I'd rather be Doctor Who than Star Trek".
• Over the years, a few actors have crossed over between the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises. Arguably the best known is Daphne Ashbrook (the Eighth Doctor's companion Grace Holloway) who had earlier played the character of Melora on the Deep Space Nine episode of the same name.
• Star Trek stars who were considered to contribute to the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie include Patrick Stewart (who was considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor and The Master, Stewart has stated in a recent interview that he might have been considered for the roles but he was never formally approached), Kate Mulgrew (who was considered for the role of Grace Holloway), Leonard Nimoy (who was considered to direct the movie) and Frank Welker (who was consdiered to voice several aliens had the TV Movie pilot been extended to a series)

External links

• Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki