Do other Sci-Fi Franchises Exist Within The Trek Universe?

[Dayton3]

We know for obvious reasons, the Star Trek franchise would not be a reality in the history of the Trek universe.

But what about other science fiction franchises?

Would you ever hear Starfleet personnel discussing the merits of Babylon-5 as opposed to new Battlestar: Galactica?

Or ever hear people at a Starbase debating whether X-Files was better than StarGate SG:1?

 

[Michael]

Or ever hear people at a Starbase debating whether X-Files was better than StarGate SG:1?

Is there even a contest?

Since they don't have television in the Trek future I guess they don't have television franchises.

But maybe Captain Proton had a few spin-offs and became a franchise.

 

[Kryton]

"Captain Proton" comes to mind. Not a "real" one, but it was sort of played as an homage to Trek fans to some degree.

 

[Rex Racer]

Lost, incredibly, is still ongoing in the 24th century. Admiral Pressman holds viewing parties each week.

 

[pookha]

part of niven known space due to tas "soft weapon"

 

[Dayton3]

Or ever hear people at a Starbase debating whether X-Files was better than StarGate SG:1?

Is there even a contest?

Since they don't have television in the Trek future I guess they don't have television franchises.

But maybe Captain Proton had a few spin-offs and became a franchise.

Every known television science fiction franchise also has a book series to go with it.

And we know they read books in the 24th century.

 

[Fist McStrongpunch]

Not sci-fi, but Sarah Silverman mentioned "Mission: Impossible" on Voyager.

 

[Geoff]

Every known television science fiction franchise also has a book series to go with it.

And we know they read books in the 24th century.

Even if we accept these premises as true (and I'm not sure that the first one is supported by evidence), it does not follow deductively that any books in the 24th century would be tie-ins to science-fiction franchises.

Having said that, we know that they watched the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still in the Enterprise episode "The Catwalk," so obviously some of the science fiction we enjoy in our own universe exists in the Trek universe as well. It seems reasonable to assume that some of the TV franchises would have existed as well.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

Point 1: People's taste in things change. Before superheroes one of the most popular forms of comic books were in the horror genre. I don't see many of those anymore.

Point 2: These old TV shows are nearly 300 years old. If you've ever read literature hundreds of years before the modern era you were probably either reading a classic or having to force yourself to do it for a class/lecture.

Point 3: Holodecks. Why watch archaic Babylon-5 episodes when you can be a person actively participating in B5's world? Sort of like the Radio drama to the TV drama sort of thing.

But, you never know. It's strange how long some things last.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

when I first read the thread title, I thought of X-Men, as there has been at least one book in which the two franchises seemed to be in the same universe, as the crew of TNG worked with the X-men.

After reading the thread i realized that it was about the idea of a sci fi universe that is talked about by the crew or some such thing. The first thing I thought of was that Archer said to Reed that he watches too much sci fi when Reed tried to grab a huge rifle as opposed to a handgun in "Fight or Flight," and I thought the line was extremely funny (exactly why Enterprise is far wittier than some of the other shows). Additionally, in "Shuttlepod One, Trip also discusses a cartoon he saw about two snails and a tutle, which was just as funny. I haven't seen the episode in a while, but my memory is telling that he also mentions Superman in that episode, or another one.
Though many Trek fans don't much like ENT overall, I think it was able to break the stringent rules of the franchise in terms of snappy, witty writing.

 

[erastus25]

I suppose Star Wars could exist. We never found out where Star Wars was relative to Earth and it did happen a "long time ago." Maybe Luke Skywalker was chilling on Hoth and bitchslapping Vader's ass in the outer reaches of the Beta Quadrant.

 

[Triskelion]

Star Trek is referenced numerous times in both Stargate shows.

General O'Neil asks for phasers. "The Other Guys" talk about dressing as Klingons & Vulcans for conventions, and mention Roddenberry by name. Shepherd tells McKay he won't be naming the new space ship "Enterprise". Not to mention the Gouauld-Trill knockoffs. Oh, but that gets into territory of outright creative theft!

 

[Michael]

Star Trek is referenced numerous times in both Stargate shows.

General O'Neil asks for phasers. "The Other Guys" talk about dressing as Klingons & Vulcans for conventions, and mention Roddenberry by name. Shepherd tells McKay he won't be naming the new space ship "Enterprise". Not to mention the Gouauld-Trill knockoffs. Oh, but that gets into territory of outright creative theft!

I think you missed the point of the OP.

 

[Navaros]

Of course they don't. That would be a conflict of interest.

 

[ToddPence]

In the new Hulk movie, Ed Norton's Bruce Banner can be seen catching an episode of the Bill Bixby series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father". What if Bruce had caught a rerun of Bixby's Hulk show instead? What would he have made of that?

 

[Kryton]

:gasp: Or "The Magician"?!?

 

[Michael]

What if Bruce had caught a rerun of Bixby's Hulk show instead? What would he have made of that?

Well, of course his first thought would be "Wow, their Hulk doesn't look fake!"

 

[Dane_Whitman]

The Twilight Zone was mentioned in the Enterprise episode Carbon Creek.

 

[Sean_McCormick]

I know this is scraping the border of "off topic", but i imediately thought of a visual pun that was one made in a convention intro video with the video starting with X-Wings and TIEs fighting wich then turned out to be a holographic flight simulator on the K-7 space station (with the Deadalus-class U.S.S. Roddenberry hovering nearby).

 

[Mistral]

I have read too many to remember which title but in one of the novels Sulu is watching an old movie in the archives and when Chekov asks about it the description is quite clearly Star Wars.