Star Trek

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 right shoulder patch on Ace's jacket was a NASA mission patch for the Approach and Landing Tests of the Space Shuttle Enterprise, which was named after Star Trek's famous starship.
• 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 (due to the configuration of Sontaran hands being similar). (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)
• In 2050 a spacecraft known as the NX-2000 which shared its name with the Starship Registry of the U.S.S. Excelsior began flight tests.(K9TV: The Bounty Hunter)
• In the K9 episode Jaws of Orthrus, a CCPC states "Resistance is Futile" to Darius Pike, as catchphrase used by the Borg.
• In the episode The Time of Angels, River Song mentions that the Byzantium has gone to warp and in Flesh and Stone, the Doctor calls the Byzantium a Galaxy class ship, both possible references to Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation respectively.
• In The Lodger, the Doctor's greeting to the autopilot hologram includes the line "please state the nature of the emergency", very similar to the line spoken by the Emergency Medical Hologram ("Please state the nature of the medical emergency") in Star Trek: Voyager when he is activated.
• In The Pandorica Opens, a Cyberman states "You will be assimilated" to Amy Pond, which is another catchphrase used by the Borg, who in turn resemble the original Cybermen.

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.
• BFA: Bang-Bang-A-Boom! is a pastiche of Star Trek and its associated tropes and storytelling styles.

See also

• See Star Trek (franchise) for a general discussion of the actual Star Trek franchise.
• The Doctor and the Enterprise, a famous non-canonical crossover between the two franchises.