Star Trek parodies and pop culture references

Over the years, Star Treks position as a cultural icon has resulted in many parodies and pop culture references' of it on other television shows and movies. While some have been subtle tip-of-the-hat references, others have been complete copies, with the intention to reference Star Trek. Additionally, many small acknowledgments may not warrant inclusion, such as the use of the TOS transporter sound for various shrink rays, teleporters, etc. on SpongeBob SquarePants.

Hick Trek
Produced by ATOZ Films in the 1980s, this white-trash parody of played at conventions for years until a "Special Edition" version, with added effects, was released on video in 1999. In the film, the Redneck Federation Starship RSS Bovine battles spacefaring cats.

Internet
Video parodies and pop culture references that originated online. Web comics can be found under literature.

The Angry Video Game Nerd
In one of his online episodes, reviews several Star Trek games. The episode opens with a parody of The Original Series intro with a flying through space like the Enterprise and Alexander Courage's theme played on electric guitar. The Nerd, dressed for the occasion, reviews ' on the, Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator on the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision and ' on the NES. Features of the episode include the Nerd having a fight with a Klingon and meeting a Metron. As a reference to Project Genesis, The Nerd offered the Klingon a Sega Genesis.

The Nostalgia Critic
| To Boldly Flee was a special done to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Nostalgia Critic. The special consists of parodies of various Sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Metal Gear, Star Wars, and Battlefield Earth. It should also be noted that the ending to the Scooby Doo review was a parody of the series finale to The Next Generation. Doug Walker (the creator of Nostalgia Critic) called January 2012 Star Trek Month and reviewed all of the odd numbered films for the entire month.

Summer Splash
A Dr. Tran doll says "Beverly, can I see you in my ready room."

Google Calendar
Google Calendar uses stardates based upon the ideas of Andrew Main. Each day covers 5.00 stardates; 10,000 stardates (2,000 days) make up an "issue". Issue numbers are prefixed in brackets. TOS was issue [19], [0]0000 was January 4, 2162, (when he speculated the Federation was founded) and issue [-28] started in 2008.

Jandrew Edits
Jan Van Den Hemel and Andrew Hussie reedit clips from TNG with comedic results, as see at their web page. 

MA Men
A series of short comedy sketches by Funny Or Die spoofing the TV show Mad Men by transplanting it into present-day South Boston.

In MA Men 2, Campbell suggests that Leonard Nimoy should replace the late Michael Vale as the Dunkin Donuts spokesman while pointing at an autographed promotional photo of Spock and Kirk on the wall.

Stan Lee's World of Heroes
Stan Lee's World of Heroes is a YouTube channel founded by former Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee. An episode of the cartoon Bad Days, published April 8, 2013, parodied J. J. Abrams's. steps onto the bridge, only to be blinded by lens flares and switches them off. He is beamed down with, and a terrified redshirt by , who resembles Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead. While on the planet, Kirk sleeps with a grotesque gargantuan alien, angering her father. The struggling duo are beamed back aboard, where Kirk switches the lens flares back on, blinding the alien father so Spock may nerve pinch it.

Star Track
Star Track: Idomo, formerly Star Track: The Next Hesitation, is a web series that takes a satirical approach to expanding on the Star Trek universe. Produced in Montreal, Quebec, it is one of the only known Star Trek fan films to be produced regularly in Canada. Episodes are released at a rate of one per year.

Star Trek (France)
Comité de la Claque is a French group who began on the web. In, the channel France 4 TV broadcast their parody on the Comité du Ciné show, on January 27th before the start of prime time: Video of Comité du Ciné: Star Trek

Steam Trek
Steam Trek is an online parody of the original Star Trek. The premise is a conception of how the original Star Trek might have been produced by George Melies, a hundred years ago, at the dawn of silent films. The "distant future" is taken to be 1980, and the USS Isambard is steam-powered with coal fuel.

Stone Trek
Stone Trek is an online animated parody of the original Star Trek. The premise is basically Star Trek meshed with The Flintstones, featuring a 1960s styled laugh track, and Hanna-Barbera sound effects. The series follows the adventures of the crew of the USS Magnetize. The show keeps count of how many redshirts end up getting killed in the episodes. The show also parodied the plot of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, with the Magnetize having to save Queen Armadillo from the Fashion Police.

Star Truc(k)
Star Truc(k) is a French parody of the original Star Trek.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

 * In the episode "Card Wars" of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, the characters make frequent references to the Star Wars series, prompting Tristen Taylor to ask, "What's with all the Star Trek quotes?"

Back to the Future: The Game
Episode 1 of Back to the Future: The Game has Marty pretending to be from the patent office in order to get a younger version of Emmett Brown (resident of 1931) to build a rocket drill. He threatens to award the patent to a Dr. McCoy if Emmett doesn't produce immediate results. The game also features voice work from Christopher Lloyd (reprising his role as the older Emmett Brown) and Roger Jackson. Coincidentally, the elder Doc Brown during his stay in 1931, takes the alias Carl Sagan.

Final Fantasy games
The first airship the player acquires in the video games Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy IV is called Enterprise.

Mass Effect
In one confrontation, Commander Shepard tells a Krogan soldier that the ruins they're in are collapsing around them and will kill them all. The Krogan responds, "Yes! Exhilirating, isn't it?", a direct reference to Kruge's response to Kirk's similar concern in.

Also, the game featured Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman, and Carolyn Seymour in various roles. Michael Dorn lends his voice to Mass Effect 2 as a Krogan, a species with a warrior mentality similar to Klingons.

Engineer Adams may be a nod to Star Trek. In The Original Series episode, Dr. Tristan Adams runs the Tantalus Penal Colony. Here, Adams oversees the Normandy's experimental Tantalus Drive Core.

Coincidentally, the commanding officer at the beginning of the game is named David Anderson.

In Mass Effect 2, when Commander Shepard visits a bar in the Citadel, his response to an alien drink served is "This is... it's green?". Similar lines are said about beverages in the episodes "By Any Other Name" and "Relics".

Being a Scottish engineer, Kenneth Donnelly on the Normandy SR-2 is commonly thought to be a reference to Montgomery Scott.

Both Mordin Solus, the Salarian scientist on board Normandy SR-2, and Data are humorously portrayed as enjoying, as well as singing, songs by the British composers Gilbert and Sullivan.

Mortal Kombat games
In , Captain Marvel tells Superman, Deathstroke the Terminator and the Joker that their enemy is called Dark Kahn. Joker replies with a Kirk-like "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" with appropriate echoes. When Joker is finished, Deathstroke promptly tells him to shut up.

Quest for Glory 2
In the  introduction, the Enterprise-D is clearly seen in the sky and warps away seconds later.

Rogue Galaxy
A late chapter in the PS2 game  is entitled "All Good Things..."

Secret of Monkey Island
The lookout character says "Hey, I'm a lookout, not a bodyguard."

Spongebob games
In the PS2 game Spongebob: the Battle for Bikini Bottom, the mermalair level's boss is named Prawn. Dialogue with Mermaidman and Prawn leads Mermaidman to drop to his knees and yell, "PRAAAAAAAAAAAWN!!!" and is even true to the angle from the movie.

Starcraft
A possible unit conversation for a Terran medic is "state the nature of your medical emergency". In one of the humorous taunts, the medic can say "He's dead, Jim".

Star Fox 64
The boss of the Sector X area makes continual references to the whereabouts of its creator, not unlike V'Ger in.

Star Fox Assault
The Aparoids are on obvious homage to the Borg, as they assimilate people, ships, and technology.

Star Wars games
A side quest in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is called "The Trouble with Gizka", a possible reference to (the gizka share the tribbles' considerable ability of rapid reproduction). The game also shares many aesthetical similarities to Star Trek and other non-Star Wars sci-fi.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
The eight level of (the ninth in the  platform version) is titled: Starbase: Where No Turtle Has Gone Before. The level is set in the future (the year 2100) and features enemies using transporters.

Unreal games
In Unreal 2: The Awakening, Aida is stated to be a master of three-dimensional chess. A board identical to those seen in Star Trek is present in her quarters.

World of Warcraft
The various teleporter operators in WoW are named after Star Trek engineers: "Scooty" (Scotty), "Jhordy Lapforge" (Geordi La Forge), and "Smiles O'Byron" (Miles O'Brien, or possibly his mirror counterpart "$𝜇$")

Other parodies and references

 * Former  co-stars, , and recorded audio commentary tracks mocking , , and . The commentaries were made available as an Internet-only download through Nelson's  service. More recently, they released a track for.


 * Stand up comics have also been known to reference Star Trek as part of their acts. Bill Bailey has pointed out how his microphone makes him look like a Klingon motivational speaker, and Eddie Izzard has a routine of how the crew of the Enterprise could defeat enemies with different phaser settings. Two such examples are the "depression", and "I've left the oven on" settings.


 * At the on 30 October 2010,  used the imaginary threat of "corbomite" in bottled water to illustrate how media figures (personified by ) create and magnify fears in the public. "You just got scared by something that is not real," Stewart said.  After explaining the reference to, Stewart and Colbert briefly discussed Uhura's incongruous uniform in that episode.


 * The Google Doodle of September 7, 2012 was an interactive homage to Star Trek: The Original Series. By continually clicking on it, the viewer could watch "Kirk" and a redshirt reenact.


 * The following day, unveiled a parody of the Enterprise as their Daily Twist.


 * In 2010, Takayuki Hoshino and Shinji Matsui of the Himeji Institute of Technology created a 8.8-micrometer-long USS Enterprisereplica.

"I'm a doctor, not a..."
Dr. Leonard McCoy's signature phrase "I'm a doctor, not a..." occurs in several parodies and homages to Star Trek:
 * Dr. McCoy (as played by Dan Aykroyd): "I'm a doctor, not a tailor, dammit." ("The Last Voyage of the Enterprise")
 * Dr. McCoy (as played by Phil Hartman in response to William Shatner (as Kirk) stating someone needs medical attention): "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a - oh, sure!" ("Star Trek V: The Restaurant Enterprise")
 * Doctor Cottle: "I'm a doctor, not a Viper pilot!" ()
 * Tolin Dorden: "I'm a medic, not a soldier!" ()
 * DeForest Kelley: "I'm not a doctor, I'm a convicted murderer." ()
 * DeForest Kelley: "How should I know? I'm an actor, not a doctor." (a commercial for )
 * Star Trek t-shirt: "Dammit Jim, I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV"
 * Dr. Helena Russell: "I'm a doctor, John, not a miracle worker!" ()
 * : "I'm a doctor, not a forklift." ()
 * : "Dammit master, I am an assassin droid, not a dictionary!" ()
 * Todo 360: "I am a techno-service droid, not a butler droid!" ()
 * Ace Ventura: "For God sake, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a pool man." ()
 * Malaka: "Damnit man, I'm a doctor, not an English teacher!" (Dragonball Abridged; episode 12)
 * Dr. : "I'm a medical doctor, not a bloody fighter pilot!" ()
 * Dr. Doppler: "Dang it, Jim, I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor." ()
 * : "Dammit, Jim, I'm a black boy from Philly, not a doctor!" ()
 * Zoolander's father: "Damnit, Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film or television actor." ()
 * McCoy: "Forget it. I'm a doctor, not a patsy." ()
 * William Shatner: "Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a... oh!" (Saturday Night Live)
 * Leotard Buns McCorduroy: "Dammit Gym, I'm a doctor not a... on my way sir!" Sev Trek currently available at Star Trek Minutiae
 * : "Sker', I'm a wizard, not an engineer!" ()
 * On the TV series , Principal Brandywine uses lines that follow the pattern of, "This is school [or name of a school-related object or place], not a/an/the [event, time, place or object unrelated to school]!", or "You're a middle school student, not [a famous person who does what the student is doing]!", or "I'm a middle school principal, not a doctor [or other jobs outside school]!"
 * An elderly man, when inquired about potions: "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker. Ask someone else!" ()
 * Marvin (the manic depressive robot in the motion picture of Douglas Adams' ) after being told to "freeze", states: "I'm a robot, not a refrigerator."
 * In the animated TV series  episode 7, "Storm", a mutant with weather altering powers,says "I'm a weather witch, not a snowplough!"
 * Stranded with four others on a deserted planet in "a Donner party situation," McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a–" then is interrupted by the others saying "–a cannibal, yes, we know, we know." McCoy then lowers his head and asks himself, "Am I really that predictable?" ()
 * At one point in the Wii video game , surgeon Valerie Blaylock says "We're doctors, not diplomats!"
 * In Spiderman 3, when asked about the mysterious black substance shown him, Peter Parker's science professor remarks, "What do you want me to do? I'm a physicist, not a biologist."
 * On the television series  episode 11 Dr. Jacob Hood, trapped with his handler in a freezer remarks, "I'm a scientist not, shoot the door".
 * Dr. McCoy (voiced by Frank Welker): "Darn it Yakko, I'm a doctor not a magician." ()
 * Robot running soda fountain: "I am a robot, not a miracle worker." ()
 * Miss Tutweiller: "I am an educator, not a warden!" ()
 * Dr. Valsh, in response to Phil Wenneck's request for directions: "I'm a doctor, not a tour guide." ('')
 * Fred: "I'm not a resistance fighter, I'm a doctor." ()
 * Taran: "I'm a warrior, not a pig keeper." ()
 * Tailor "I'm a clothier, not a doctor." ()
 * Jean Valjean: "This is a factory, not a circus!"" ()
 * Ambassador Dennis Crocker: "Damn it, I'm an ambassador, not a doctor!" ()
 * In a sketch depicting every episode of Star Trek, by comedy group the Frantics, McCoy says, "I'm a doctor, not a physician."