• buerviper@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They also just introduced one of the main characters of TNG in season 4, even referencing a TNG movie. It is wild to assume Star Trek was never self-referential lol

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      23 hours ago

      Voyager referenced or included TOS and TNG characters in at least eight episodes of season 3.

      • “Flashback” was the big Sulu/Rand/Kang 30th anniversary tribute
      • “Death Wish” had Q and Riker
      • In “Alliances” Tuvok talks about Spock and recaps the events of Undiscovered Country
      • McCoy was mentioned in “Lifesigns”
      • Data was mentioned in “Prototype”
      • Sulu was mentioned in “Tattoo”
      • Picard and Moriarty were mentioned in “Alter Ego”
      • Picard was mentioned again in “Scorpion”

      That’s basically a third of the season, assuming I didn’t forget any. And that’s not even counting things like the mention of Wolf 359 in “Unity” or the koon-ut-kal-if-fee in “Blood Fever”.

      And that’s from the show that went out of their way to make it hard to use existing concepts.