Star Trek

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, featuring among other characters, Spock, Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy. A Time Lord, Marnal, going by the human alias Marnal Gate, also sold a script to Star Trek, but unhappy with the changes made, he saw to it that he did not get credited for it. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

It later spawned a long-standing entertainment franchise that included motion pictures and additional TV series lasting into the 21st century. There were many avid fans who were thrilled by the debuts of movies based on the series beginning in the late 1970s. (NA: Return of the Living Dad)

Izzy Sinclair, a companion of the Eighth Doctor, watched Star Trek to vicariously escape her unhappy home life. (DWM: Oblivion) She frequently watched Star Trek: The Next Generation on VHS. (BFA: Izzy's Story) Indeed, her comment upon entering the TARDIS for the first time was to say, "Not exactly the Starship Enterprise, is it?" (DWM: Endgame)

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).

Specific Mentions

• Rose Tyler compared the Ninth 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)
• 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 described Luke as being "all science and logic and Spocky stuff like that". (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
• The Tenth Doctor taught Chloe Webber the Vulcan Salute, famously used by Spock and various characters in Star Trek. (DW: Fear Her)
• The Tenth 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. (NSA: Pest Control)
• In 1969, when Joy encountered a Silent in the White House, she thought it was someone wearing a Star Trek mask. (DW: The Impossible Astronaut)
• An image of a popular girl asked Howie Spragg what "loser" is in Klingon. (DW: The God Complex)
• Craig Owens compared the Cybermen's teleporter to something out of Star Trek, mentioning the phrase "Beam me up". (DW: Closing Time)
• Alan Jackson noted how unrefined using vinegar was against the Slitheen, when compared to phasers and photon torpedoes. (SJA: The Lost Boy)

Metafictional references

• The Eighth 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). (DW: Doctor Who)
  • Sometime later the Eleventh Doctor activated a TARDIS feature that he also referred to as a Cloaking Device, which did make the TARDIS invisible. (DW:The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon)
• Destrii watched a spacecraft design closely resembling that of the fictional Enterprise. (DWM: Oblivion)
• The Eighth Doctor once wore a space helmet that bore the ship registry NCC-1701-D, the registry of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, a spin-off from the original series. (WC: Shada)
• In PDA: 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.
• The space liner in DW: A Christmas Carol was designed to parody several aspects of Star Trek. The bridge design mimicked the clean white surfaces of the 2009 revival film, along with the use of lens flares. The ship itself is referred to as a Galaxy class vessel, the same class of ship as the Enterprise D in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and one of the crewmen is a black male who wears an odd piece of eyewear, similar to the Next Generation character, Geordi LaForge.
• The Teselecta bridge is also of a similar Star Trek style design. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)
• In 2050, a spacecraft known as the NX-2000 which shared its name with the Starship Registry of the USS Excelsior began flight tests. (K9TV: The Bounty Hunter)
• In K9TV: Jaws of Orthrus, a CCPC states "Resistance is Futile" to Darius Pike, a catchphrase used by the Borg.
• In DW: The Time of Angels, River Song mentions that the Byzantium has gone to warp, a possible reference to Star Trek. In Flesh and Stone, the Doctor calls the Byzantium a Galaxy class ship, most likely a reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• In DW: The Lodger, the Eleventh 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, also called The Doctor, ("Please state the nature of the medical emergency") in Star Trek: Voyager when he is activated.
• In DW: 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.
• In DW: Doctor Who, after the scene where Eighth Doctor has regenerated and he shouts out "WHO... AM... I?!" as the regeneration results in amnesia, the following scene opens with a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It should be an interesting fact that both franchises have been filmed in San Francisco. In Star Trek, San Francisco is where Starfleet Headquarters is based.

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.