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From time to time various popular culture references have appeared in Star Trek as in-jokes. These references, while mostly included in background displays, have also been in spoken dialogue.
The following articles contain references, or homages, to various popular culture media sources.
Numerous science fiction writers have been referenced or acknowledged throughout the series, including Isaac Asimov (Amasov), Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury (USS Bradbury, Bradbury-class), Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke's Disease, 2001: A Space Odyssey), Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon), Jules Verne (Verne), and H.G. Wells (Wells-class).
1941
- Production
2001: A Space Odyssey
- Crossover performers
- Production
- Douglas Trumbull, special effects
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Akira
- Akira-class
- Mentioned in okudagram of Treaty of Armens
Albedo Anthropomorphics
Alias
Production
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
In addition, the stories and their characters were also directly referenced a number of times. See Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
At the Mountains of Madness by H.Pm Lovecraft
Babylon 5
- See also: Babylon 5
Back to the Future
- Crossover performers
- Production
- Steve Gawley, model maker
- Michael M. Mills, make-up artist
- Ken Ralston, visual effects supervisor
- Andy Probert, concept artist
- Industrial Light & Magic, special visual effects
Batman
- Gotham City
- Gotham City Bats
- The title for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "In the Pale Moonlight".
- Crossover performers
- Ian Abercrombie (Birds of Prey)
- Michael Ansara (Batman: The Animated Series)
- Rene Auberjonois (Batman Forever, Super Friends, Justice League)
- Diedrich Bader
- Victor Brandt
- Clancy Brown
- Ray Buktenica (Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt)
- Melinda Clarke (Gotham)
- Joan Collins (Batman (1960's series))
- Jeffrey Combs (The New Batman Adventures, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Gotham)
- Robert Costanzo (Batman: The Animated Series)
- Yvonne Craig (Batman (1960's series))
- Brett Cullen (Gotham)
- Phyllis Douglas (Batman (1960's series))
- Larry Drake (Batman Beyond)
- John Glover (Batman: The Animated Series, Batman and Robin)
- Frank Gorshin (Batman (1960's series), Batman (1966 film))
- Bruce Greenwood
- Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises)
- James Horan
- Jim Jansen (Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt)
- Caroline Lagerfelt (Gotham)
- Jason Marsden (Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, Batman: Gotham Knight)
- Lee Meriwether (Batman (1960's series), Batman (1966 film), Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt)
- Dina Meyer (Birds of Prey)
- Lawrence Montaigne (Batman (1960's series))
- Diana Muldaur (Batman: The Animated Series)
- Julie Newmar (Batman (1960's series), Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt)
- Nolan North
- Ron Perlman (Batman: The Animated Series)
- Richard Poe (Gotham)
- Julia Rose (Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt)
- Todd Stashwick (Gotham)
- Joel Swetow (Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt)
- Keith Szarabajka (The Dark Knight)
- George Takei
- Malachi Throne (Batman (1960's series))
- David Warner (Batman: The Animated Series)
- Frank Welker
- Peter Weller
- Wil Wheaton
- Grace Lee Whitney (Batman (1960's series))
- William Windom (Batman: The Animated Series)
Battlestar Galactica
- Crossover performers
- Ed Begley, Jr. (classic)
- Bob Bralver (classic)
- John Colicos (classic)
- Bruce Davison (2003 reboot)
- John de Lancie (classic)
- Anthony De Longis (classic)
- Lance LeGault (classic)
- Richard Lynch (classic)
- George Murdock (classic)
- Brock Peters (classic)
- Michelle Forbes (2003 reboot)
- Mark Sheppard (2003 reboot)
- Dean Stockwell (2003 reboot)
- Kate Vernon (2003 reboot)
- Nana Visitor (2003 reboot)
- Rick Worthy (2003 reboot)
- Production
- Winrich Kolbe (classic)
- Ronald D. Moore (2003 reboot)
- Allan Kroeker (2003 reboot)
The Beatles
- USS Sutherland (dedication plaque)
- The title for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light".
Blade Runner
- Crossover performers
- Janet Brady
- Diane Carter
- Joanna Cassidy
- Ann Chatterton
- Gilbert B. Combs
- Gary Epper
- James M. Halty
- Sharon Hesky
- Jeff Imada
- Beth Nufer
- George Sawaya
- Mike Washlake
- Michael Zurich
- Production
- Michael Backauskas, visual effects assistant editor
- Gary Combs, stunt coordinator
- Logan Frazee, special effects technician
- Terry D. Frazee, special floor effects supervisor
- Michael Kaplan, costume designer
- Syd Mead, visual futurist
- Douglas Trumbull, special photographic effects supervisor
- Hoyt Yeatman, visual displays: DQI
- Ryan Zuttermeister, associate visual effects producer: Lola visual effcts
Blakes 7
- Crossover performers
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- Banzai Institute
- Banzai Institute for Advanced Studies
- SS Buckaroo Banzai
- BBI-993
- Bhigbout Aen
- Buckaroo Bokai
- Dedication plaques of:
- Emi Linzordo
- Oh Kohnr
- Planet 10 (DIM-8)
- Planet 10 Shipping
- Planet Ten
- Strange Case of Mr. Cigars
- E.M. Rauch
- Whorfin-class
- John Whorfin
- Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
- Yoyodyne pulse fusion
- USS Whorfin
- Wor Feighn
- Crossover performers
- Jonathan Banks
- Raye Birk
- Clancy Brown
- Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
- Robert Ito
- Christopher Lloyd
- James Saito (deleted scenes)
- Vincent Schiavelli
- Kevin Sullivan
- Peter Weller
- Production
Furthermore, Oscillation Overthruster props can be spotted in a number of episodes.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- In "Far Beyond the Stars", an editorial note to Herbert Rossoff (Armin Shimerman) reads "no one would believe that a cheerleader could kill vampires". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
Calvin and Hobbes
Car 54, Where Are You?
Casablanca
Catch 22
- Daneeka
- McWatt
- I. McWatt
- I. Moodus
- I. Orr
- T. Snowdon
Cheers
Clavin, Malone, and Peterson
- Morn
- USS Clavin
- USS Malone
- USS Petersen
- Crossover performers
- Kirstie Alley
- Dietrich Bader
- Ted Danson (Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond)
- Peri Gilpin (Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond)
- Kelsey Grammer
- Christopher Lloyd
- John Mahoney (Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond)
- Bebe Neuwirth
- Brent Spiner
Colossus: The Forbin Project
- Crossover performers
Cloverfield
Production
Dick Tracy
- Crossover performers
- Hamilton Camp
- Seymour Cassel
- Robert Costanzo
- Walker Edmiston
- Mike Hagerty
- Chuck Hicks
- Ed McCready
- Colm Meaney
- Michael J. Pollard
- Bert Remsen
- John Schuck
- Paul Sorvino
- Ian Wolfe
- Production
- Doug Drexler, special character makeup
- Lou Elias, stunts
- Robert Herron, stunt double
- Kris Krosskove, assistant cameraman
Dirty Pair
- Egg, The
- Exocomp
- Kei
- Kei (person)
- Kei (Yu/Ri)
- Kei/Yuri factor
- Kei/Yuri Therapy Unit
- Keimium
- Keiyurium
- Operation Lovely Angel
- Yuri
- Yuri (person)
- Yuri (Kana)
- Yurium
- Mentioned in okudagram of Treaty of Armens as "The two cute girls with the big guns"
Disney
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Doctor Who
- See also: Doctor Who
The First Men in the Moon
Fold Zandura
The Steamrunner-class was named for an Alex Jaeger sketch of an USS Streamrunner (sic), which was in turn named for a song by Fold Zandura. See Steamrunner-class for more details.
Forbidden Planet
- Crossover performers
Gall Force
- Mentioned in okudagram of Treaty of Armens
Gilligan's Island
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Arthur Dent
- Dent Arthur Dent
- Douglas Adams
- Tricia McMillan
- Milliways
- Ford Prefect
- Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
- USS Heart of Gold
- Dentium
Honneamise (Oneamisu) No Tsubasa (The Wings of Honneamise)
Indiana Jones
- Crossover performers
- Production
- Ben Burtt, sound designer
- Industrial Light & Magic, special visual effects
James Bond
- Julian Bashir, Secret Agent holonovels
- Vodka martini, "stirred, not shaken"
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir" is basically a parody of the James Bond franchise.
In TOS: "I, Mudd", a busty female android (presumably played by Marlys Burdette), wearing a red dress, has the identification number "007" on her neckpiece, possibly an in-joke reference to the Bond films.
- Crossover performers
- Vijay Amritraj
- Ed Bishop
- Steven Berkoff
- Barbara Bouchet
- Bernie Casey
- Dick Crockett
- Walter Gotell
- Sid Haig
- Teri Hatcher (Tomorrow Never Dies)
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- Famke Janssen (GoldenEye)
- Marc Lawrence
- Pasha Lychnikoff (GoldenEye)
- John Rhys-Davies
- Vincent Schiavelli (Tomorrow Never Dies)
- Anthony Zerbe
The Jetsons
- Crossover performers
- Rene Auberjonois
- Michael Bell
- Earl Boen
- Hamilton Camp ("Turk Tarpit" in The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones)
- Barry Gordon
- Paul Eiding
- Kenneth Mars
- Frank Welker ("Orbity")
- William Windom
Jurassic Park
- Crossover performers
- Ian Abercrombie
- Laura Albert
- Chris Blackwood
- Robin Lynn Bonaccorsi
- Katy Boyer
- Billy Brown
- Jophery C. Brown
- Todd Bryant
- Bobby Burns
- David Cadiente
- Tory Christopher
- Danny Downey
- Chris Durand
- Jared S. Eddo
- Gary Epper
- Richard Epper
- Bruce French
- Mark Ginther
- Mark Harelik
- Marjean Holden
- James Horan
- Lisa Hoyle
- Tommy J. Huff
- Harry Hutchinson
- Harvey Jason
- Keii Johnston
- Steve Kelso
- Richard Kiley
- Wayne King, Jr.
- Dorian Kingi
- Henry Kingi, Sr.
- Diana R. Lupo
- Tom Lupo
- Jason Marsden
- J. Patrick McCormack
- Dustin Meier
- Rich Minga
- Tom Morga
- Hugh Aodh O'Brien
- Linda Park
- Manny Perry
- Charlie Picerni
- Chuck Picerni, Jr.
- Steve Picerni
- J.P. Romano
- Jimmy Romano
- Pat Romano
- R.A. Rondell
- Robin Sachs
- Jacqueline Schultz
- Geno Silva
- Lou Simon
- Brian Stewart
- Patricia Tallman
- Cameron Thor
- William Washington
- Gary J. Wayton
- Production
- Dean Gates, make-up lab
- Barbara Harris, voice casting/ ADR voice casting
- John T. Kretchmer, first assistant director
- Pat Romano, stunt coordinator
- Matt Winston, puppeteer
- Industrial Light & Magic, special visual effects and animation
Known Space
Looney Tunes
M*A*S*H
4077
M*A*S*H is an oft-referenced movie and show in Star Trek. Its unit number, 4077, was frequently used on viewscreens and computer readouts.
- Hawkeye
- Margaret Houlihan
- B.J. Hunnicutt
- USS James Fennimore Cooper
- Frances J. Mulcahey
- Kellye Nakahara
- Walter O'Reilley
- Benjamin Franklin Pierce
- Sherman T. Potter
- Charles E. Winchester
- 4077 references
- The topmost section of the cryonics satellite was labeled 4077 and Starbase 4077 was labeled on a star chart. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")
- An "Autonomic Functions Warning (4077)" is displayed on the medical computer. (TNG: "Shades of Gray")
- During the test of Timicin's device, a computer displays "Composite sensor analysis - 4077." The reference has special significance in this episode because guest star David Ogden Stiers was a regular on M*A*S*H for much of the series. (TNG: "Half a Life")
- The "Composite Sensor Analysis - 4077" graphic was re-used on a console in main engineering. (TNG: "Silicon Avatar")
- The anti-time subspace distortion that appeared in the Devron system had a distortion in the range of 4,077,000 millicochranes. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
- Scan Analysis 4077 is displayed on the computer display of the subspace divergence field. (VOY: "Deadlock")
- The Doctor analyzes Harry Kim's DNA, which is displayed on a monitor as Biomolecular Scan 4077. (VOY: "Favorite Son")
- Crossover performers
- Rene Auberjonois (movie)
- Rosalind Chao
- James Cromwell
- Sally Kellerman (movie)
- Johnny Haymer
- James Saito
- Rick Sawaya
- John Schuck (movie)
- Warren Stevens
- David Ogden Stiers
The Magnificent Seven
- Crossover performers
Magnum PI
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Crossover performers
- David Armstrong
- Cal Bolder
- Peter Brocco
- Roger C. Carmel
- Elisha Cook
- Dick Crockett
- Tom Curtis
- Noel De Souza
- James Doohan
- Robert Ellenstein
- Sharyn Hillyer
- Rex Holman
- John Hoyt
- David Hurst
- Jill Ireland
- Nancy Kovack
- Paul Lambert
- Theodore Marcuse
- William Marshall
- Dallas Mitchell
- Lawrence Montaigne
- Ricardo Montalban
- David Opatoshu
- Jack Palance
- Jack Perkins
- Madlyn Rhue
- Mark Richman
- Alfred Ryder
- George Sawaya
- Roy Sickner
Marx Brothers
Max Headroom
Crossover performers:
Men In Black
- The Division 6 referenced in "Workforce, Part II"
- Crossover performers
- Alice Eve (third movie)
- Clancy Brown (cartoon show)
- Jennifer Lien (cartoon show)
- Charles Napier (cartoon show)
- Carel Struycken (first movie)
- David Warner (cartoon show)
Metropolis
Muppets
- Crossover performers
My Neighbor Totoro
Mystery Science Theater 3000
National Lampoon's Animal House
- Worf's smashing of Geordi's lute in "Qpid" (episode title)
- Crossover performers
- Bruce McGill
- John Vernon, father of Kate Vernon
Nine Inch Nails
- Forrester-Trent Syndrome
Ranma Nibunnoichi (Ranma ½)
- Nanite component: Ranma ½ gyro block
- Mentioned in okudagram of Treaty of Armens
Red Dwarf
Ren and Stimpy
seaQuest DSV
Crossover Performers
Sherlock Holmes
Crossover Performers:
- F. Murray Abraham (US TV show Elementary)
- Emily Bergl (US TV show Elementary)
- Casey Biggs (US TV show Elementary)
- Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC TV show Sherlock)
- Olivia d'Abo (US TV show Elementary)
- Dominic Keating (made-for-TV movie Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes)
- William Sadler (US TV show Elementary)
- Faran Tahir (US TV show Elementary)
Crossover Production:
- Robert Hewitt Wolfe (co-executive producer, US TV show Elementary)
Frank Sinatra
- "His Way"
Snagglepuss
Star Wars
- See Star Wars.
The Three Stooges
Superman
- Crossover performers
- John Glover (Smallville)
- Clancy Brown
- Teri Hatcher (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)
- Frank Langella (Superman Returns)
- Production
- Industrial Light & Magic, special visual effects
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Crossover performers:
The Twilight Zone
In "Carbon Creek", Trip Tucker said "Sounds like an old episode of the Twilight Zone" in response to the Vulcans' crash-landing.
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, and George Takei have all appeared in Twilight Zone episodes. Also, Star Trek writers George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson, and Jerry Sohl were regular contributors to the series. TOS directors Robert Butler, Ralph Senensky, Robert Gist, and Tony Leader have also worked on The Twilight Zone.
- Crossover performers
- Stanley Adams
- John Anderson
- David Armstrong
- Barry Atwater
- Arthur Batanides
- Paul Baxley
- Bonnie Beecher
- Theodore Bikel
- Antoinette Bower
- Peter Brocco
- Anthony Call
- Seymour Cassel
- Paul Comi
- John Crawford
- James Daly
- James Doohan
- Lou Elias
- Bill Erwin
- John Fiedler
- Paul Fix
- Michael Forest
- James Gregory
- John Harmon
- Mariette Hartley
- Chuck Hicks
- Rex Holman
- Clegg Hoyt
- John Hoyt
- Sherry Jackson
- Don Keefer
- Ted Knight
- Paul Lambert
- Robert Lansing
- Joanne Linville
- Felix Locher
- Jon Lormer
- Celia Lovsky
- Ken Lynch
- Gene Lyons
- Theo Marcuse
- Joan Marshall
- Sarah Marshall
- Arlene Martel
- Nan Martin
- Oliver McGowan
- Joseph Mell
- Byron Morrow
- Bill Mumy
- George Murdock
- Julie Newmar
- Leonard Nimoy
- Susan Oliver
- David Opatoshu
- Frank Overton
- Michael Pataki
- Jack Perkins
- Vic Perrin
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Phillip Pine
- Thalmus Rasulala
- Peter Mark Richman
- Joseph Ruskin
- William Sargent
- William Schallert
- Charles Seel
- William Shatner
- Patricia Smith
- Abraham Sofaer
- Warren Stevens
- Dean Stockwell
- Liam Sullivan
- George Takei
- Harry Townes
- Garry Walberg
- Fritz Weaver
- William Windom
- Jason Wingreen
- Ian Wolfe
- Meg Wyllie
- Production
- Jerome Bixby, writer
- Robert Butler, director
- Robert Gist, director
- Murray Golden, associate producer
- Jerry Goldsmith, composer
- George Clayton Johnson, writer
- Tony Leader, director
- Richard Matheson, writer
- Ralph Senensky, director
- Jerry Sohl, writer
- Fred Steiner, composer
Urusei Yatsura
- SS Tomobiki
- SS Urusei Yatsura
- Anbo-jyutsu
- Mentioned in okudagram of Treaty of Armens
The War of the Worlds
The West Wing
- Celestial Navigation
- Charles Young
- Claudia Craig
- J. Bartlett
- J. Lyman
- L. McGarry
- Mister Willis of Ohio
- S. Seaborn
- T. Ziegler
When Worlds Collide
- Crossover performers
The X-Files
- Crossover performers