Star Trek

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For discussion of the Star Trek franchise from a real world perspective, see Star Trek (franchise).

Star Trek was a popular American science fiction television series of the 1960s, which spawned a long-standing entertainment franchise that included motion pictures and additional TV series lasting into the 21st century. It featured, among other characters, Mr. Spock, Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy. Star Trek had many avid followers, who felt thrilled at the debut of movies based on the series beginning in the late 1970s. (NA: Return of the Living Dad)

The Star Trek franchise faded out of public consciousness within a few centuries. 26th century native Bernice Summerfield thought it was a documentary when she first saw it, and 51st century native Jack Harkness was unfamiliar with the name "Spock" (DW: The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances).

Overview

Minor mentions and references

• 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 cloaking devices were used to make things invisible as opposed to merely changing their appearance, as was the theoretical function of the TARDIS' chameleon circuit). (DW: Doctor Who)
• 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 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)
• At one point, Clyde describes Luke as being "all science and logic and Spocky stuff like that". (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
• In "Fear Her," The Doctor teaches Chloe the Vulcan Salute, famously used by Spock and various characters in Star Trek. Donna would later use the Vulcan Salute to operate the door opening mechanism on the Sontaran battleship. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky).
• The Doctor and Donna Noble once compared the sonic screwdriver to Star Trek's tricorder. Shortly afterwards, the Doctor and Donna, briefly adopted the aliases Doctor McCoy and Captain Kirk, respectively. (BBC Audio: Pest Control)
• The Doctor once wore a space helmet that bore the ship registry NCC-1701-D, the registry of the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a spin-off from the original series. (WC: Shada)

Behind the Scenes

Metafictional references

• Destrii watched a spacecraft design closely resembling that of the fictional Enterprise (DWM: Oblivion)
• The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, Captain Robert B. Blandish of the Federation starship Nepotist clearly parodies Captain Kirk.

See also

• See Star Trek (franchise) for a general discussion of the actual Star Trek franchise.
• The Doctor and the Enterprise