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[[Image:|250px|thumb|The Star Trek Logo]] Futurama, being a comedy science fiction TV show, is bound to make references to other science fiction works. One of the most famous science fiction franchise is the Star Trek series which is one the most referenced things in Futurama. Following is a complete list of connections between Futurama and Star Trek.

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Key:

• TOS : Star Trek: The Original Series
• TAS : Star Trek: The Animated Series
• TNG : Star Trek: The Next Generation
• DS9 : Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• VOY : Star Trek: Voyager
• ENT : Star Trek: Enterprise
• Film : Star Trek films
• Game : Games

Note: Most of the external links go to Memory Alpha, The Star Trek Wiki

Crew

There have been a number of people who work on both Star Trek and Futurama.

Voices

• Leonard Nimoy: He is best known for his role as Spock (Apperances, Director, Writer). He appeared as himself in "Space Pilot 3000", "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" and he cameos in Bender's Big Score (non-speaking).
• George Takei: He is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu (Apperances, Author). He has voiced himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" and Bender's Game.
• Nichelle Nichols: She is best known for her role as Uhura (Appearances, Author). She appeared as herself in "Anthology of Interest I" and "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
• Walter Koenig: He is best known for his role as Pavel Chekov (Appearances, Author, Writer). He appeared as himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
• William Shatner: He is best known for his role as James T. Kirk (Appearances, Other). He appeared as himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
• Jonathan Frakes: He is best known for his role as William T. Riker (Appearances, Director). He appeared as himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
• Bumper Robinson: Portrayed unamed Jem'Hadar teenager in "The Abandoned" (DS9). He voices Dwight Conrad in Futurama.
• Sarah Silverman: Portrayed Rain Robinson in episodes "Future's End" (VOY) and "Future's End, Part II" (VOY). She provided the voice of Michelle in Futurama.
• Stephen Hawking: He portrayed himself once and has been mentioned on Star Trek a few times. He voiced himself in "Anthology of Interest I" amd The Beast with a Billion Backs.
• Frank Welker: Provided voice of a screaming child Spock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Film), additional voices in the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Game) series, an "alien creature" in "Nothing Human" (VOY), voices in Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates (Game) and Star Trek: Starfleet Command II - Empires at War (Game). He has done many (namely Nibbler) voices for Futurama.

Other

• David A. Goodman: "Writer" for ENT. He got the job as a writer on ENT because of his writing for the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
• Tim Simonec: "Conductor" and "Principal Orchestrator" for 2009's Star Trek (Film). He has done some musical work on Futurama as well.

Star Trek in Futurama

Leonard "Spock" Nimoy

Star Trek has appeared in Futurama on many occasions:

Season 1

"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)

• In addition to the setting, part of the original concept for the show was that there would be a lot of advanced technology similar to that seen in Star Trek, but it would be constantly malfunctioning. The automatic doors at Applied Cryogenics resemble those in TOS; however, they malfunction when Fry remarks on this similarity.
• The introduction is reminiscent of Star Trek intros in TOS and TNG. "Space: The Final Frontier..." becomes "Space: It seems to go on and on forever...". It also has similar music and voice-over.
• Leonard Nimoy says that he no longer does the Vulcan salute, "Live Long and Prosper".
  • It is presumed in this episode it is simply because he has no hands, but the truth behind this statement is seen in the future episode, "Where No Fan Has Gone Before".
• The rows of jars containing heads, with the one jar containing Nimoy's head in front to greet people, is reminiscent of the episode "Return To Tomorrow" (TOS), where the alien minds were preserved in glowing spheres, with Sargon in the one sphere in front.

"The Series Has Landed" (1ACV02)

• We see that Cap'n Crunch is promoted to Admiral. In Star Trek (most noticably TNG) whenever we take a look into the "future", the Captains are always Admirals.

"I, Roommate" (1ACV03)

• A lady from the apartment next to Fry and Bender claims that Bender's thoughts are being transmitted to her cellphone. When she closes the phone, it beeps like the Communicator from Star Trek.

"Love's Labours Lost in Space" (1ACV04)

• TOS uniforms were made of velour.
• The Democratic Order of Planets (D.O.O.P.) has a military force composed of men in red uniforms, who are often utilized as cannon fodder.
• M5438 is based off various Non-corporeal species in Star Trek.
• Zapp confuses Poker with Chess (a Kirk analogy).
• Zapp Brannigan's character was inspired by Captain Kirk from Star Trek. To create the character, the writers imagined what it would be like if William Shatner himself, not James T. Kirk, were the captain of the Enterprise.
  • In the DVD commentary to this episode, Zapp was described as being "40% Kirk, 60% Shatner."
• There is the use of a Captain's log, complete with stardate.
• Brannigan's Law is the equivalent to Starfleet's Prime Directive.
• At the The Hip Joint, Fry meets a woman from the 21st century who asks if he remembers "when those cyborgs enslaved Humanity?" This is a reference to Star Trek: First Contact (Film), when the Borg attempt to assimilate Earth.

"Fear of a Bot Planet" (1ACV05)

"A Fishful of Dollars" (1ACV06)

"My Three Suns" (1ACV07)

"A Big Piece of Garbage" (1ACV08)

"Hell Is Other Robots" (1ACV09)

"A Flight to Remember" (1ACV10)

"Mars University" (1ACV11)

"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)

"Fry and the Slurm Factory" (1ACV13)

• A variant of Three-dimensional chess, Three-dimensional Scrabble, appears in this episode.

Season 2

"A Clone of My Own" (2ACV10)

• Captain Musky is a tribute to Christopher Pike.

Season 4

"The Farnsworth Parabox" (4ACV15)

• Universe 1 is similar to the Mirror universe in Star Trek.
  • Star Trek also has Alternate timelines and Parallel universes.

"Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (4ACV11)

This episode is almost entirely based on Star Trek which is why, due to amount of references, this section is dedicated to the one episode:

• A character created to replace James Doohan as Montgomery Scott in the cast was named Welshie. He (or more specifically, the actor who played him) was killed, dismembered, and vaporized by three separate blasts from a cloud creature named Melllvar. This is reference to the Redshirt.

Films

Bender's Big Score

The Beast with a Billion Backs

Bender's Game

Into the Wild Green Yonder

Video Game

Futurama (video game)

Comics

"Robot Robin Hood" (US#025)

Other

• DOOP is similar to the United Federation of Planets.
• The idea for Zapp's first officer, Kif Kroker, was based on the idea of Spock hating his captain, yet being dependant on him and doing his every whim.
• Flexo, Bender's "evil" twin, has a goatee like the mirror Spock.
• Star Trek sound effects are often used in the show.
• Stories about "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" appear in Star Trek Monthly issue 93 and Star Trek Monthly issue 105.
• "Whispers" (DS9) is the favorite Star Trek episode of David X. Cohen, who says he finds it has "a slightly Futurama-esque storyline."
• The Futurama exhibit, which Futurama was named after, was visited by Benny Russell while at the New York World's Fair in July 1940 in the novelization of the episode "Far Beyond the Stars" (DS9).

See also

• In popular culture for connections to Futurama other than in Star Trek.
  • Star Wars connections for connections to Futurama and Star Wars
  • Simpsons connections for connections to Futurama and The Simpsons.