Trials and Tribble-ations is a masterwork. Star Trek’s penchant to self reference can make great things. But it can also make episodes like many of the Enterprise ones.
Keeping in mind DS9 itself opened on a direct TNG tie in, sprinkled TNG villains through the first season, then brought back every Klingon captain from TOS, and finally just went all in and edited everyone into a TOS episode so Dax could swoon over Spock’s eyes and Sisko could sneak Kirk’s autograph…
Every Trek show since the original has referenced the others like this. I think it’s good fun.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
buerviper@lemmy.world 1 day 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
rogermccoy@startrek.website 9 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.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
That’s right, I completely forgot about Worf, and also the O’Briens!
Sertou@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
And TNG has appearances from several TOS cast members; Deforest Kelly, James Doohan, Mark Leonard and Leonard Nimoy.