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Since its original airing in 1966, Star Trek with spin-off series and movies has become part of (Western) pop culture. Highly recognizabile, Star Trek has been parodied, spoofed and referenced in television series, movies, comic books and other contexts. The references range from overt parody to use of recognized elements such as the vulcan salute or Klingons to more subtle references like use of sound effects or dialogue from the shows.In order to keep the this article reasonable small, large sections have been given articles of their own. Specifically, these are Futurama, South Park and The Simpsons.
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Apart from sometimes giving away plot details, the descriptions may also spoil the fun of discovering the references for oneself.
1 Spacecraft
The space shuttle Enterprise was originally to be named the Constitution. However, after a write-in campaign, the name was changed to Enterprise. It was to be the second space shuttle orbiter, but due to the cost of construction was never refitted for space travel.
1.2 VSS Enterprise
Virgin Galactic's first suborbital space tourism vehicle, based on the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOneThis article is about flights made by SpaceShipOne. For information on the design of SpaceShipOne, and on related projects and commercial ventures, see the separate article on Tier One. The Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne is an experimental air l design, will be called the VSS Enterprise. William ShatnerWilliam Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an actor and writer who was born in Montreal, Quebec. Shatner is most famous for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven plans to be one of the initial paying passengers.
2 Comic books
In issue #115 of Mad Magazine published in December of 1967 there was a strip by the name of Star Blecch, which is of course a parody of Star Trek. A colorized version of the strip is now available online.
3 Novels
3.1 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Philip K. DickPhilip Kindred Dick ( December 16 1928 March 2 1982), often known by his initials PKD or by the pen name Richard Phillips was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. Though hailed during his lifetime by peers such's novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman SaidFlow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a Philip K. Dick novel in which Jason Taverner, who is a Six (a genetically improved superhuman) as well as a singer and television star, lives in a future American police state. He wakes up one day into a world where portrays a dystopianThe term dystopia is often used to describe a fictional society, usually existing in a future time period, in which the condition of life is extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. In Post-Modern social criticism the same term is used to Earth, where a "Second Civil War" has placed the United States under a police stateA police state is a political condition where the government maintains strict control over society, particularly through suspension of civil rights and often with the use of a force of secret police. This implies that the control by the government contrad regime—a far cry from the optimistic future Star Trek portrays. With bleak irony, the characters describe swashbuckling science fiction films as "captain kirks".
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